Very clear you do NOT understand the role of the ads. These ads are NOT what requires you to do it. Next time you visit, you will see complete different sets of ads and that one you complained the loudest about will not even be there. Rootsweb will tell you they do it too. Worldconnect which is part of Rootsweb has the ads and they don't require you to click on them, either. The home page of Rootsweb even have same Google ads, too. They do NOT require you to click on these ads. There is absolute NOTHING requiring you to click on those small Google ads! Those little ads are even all over on Ancestry.com, the OWNER of Rootsweb. This has been going on for over 7 years now. It's everywhere! Even your favorite online newspaper has them. These little ads are backed by big companies willing to pay $$ to place them. Nothing is required from you to do it. The money from them go to help keep this site FREE access to all. and based on your complaint, you will have to BAN Rootsweb/Ancestry.com mailing lists, ban Footnote.com, ban findagrave.com, ban WorldVitalRecords.com - all because of the little Google ads FROM YOUR BOX. PS, Rootsweb staff (in fact it is same staff as Ancestry.com) already visited these sites and many other sites and APPROVED and allowed for mere announcements in the interest of the genealogy. David Samuelsen Daniel David Lewis Frommherz (1) wrote: > As the admin for several lists. I am deeply disappointed in the > contents of this email. It says free death search of ancestor but what > you get is a required registration of $29.95 cheaper than a Private > Detective it says. What a load why is this allowed on the Rootsweb.com > list. I am sending a complaint to Rootsweb.com immediately this type of > thing isn't in keeping with what Rootsweb.com is all about. > > RE: To Rootsweb.com Help Desk and the Admin of Cattaraugus County: > > On the list for Cattaraugus County tonight I opened a message from > Sampubco that indicated searches of Cemeteries. In the bottom left > corner is an advertisement for death searches it says free but it is not > free it requires at minimum of $29.95 to get any information beyond the > name and even that is ambiguous. there is nothing on their search page > that would even indicate if this person was actually found. This is a > complaint also being filed with the Admin of Cattaraugus County, New > York. I can tell you folks on this list that as the admin of several > lists if Sampubco had tried this it would be considered SPAM and I would > delete it and mark them Persona Non Grata forever. > > Daniel