If your tree was created on ancestry, you should be able to notify them that you're changing your e-mail address and find out how to change it on your account. The trees I had the problem with were created on rootsweb World Connect about 10 years ago so it may not be an issue on ancestry if you have a subscription with them . I would never give up the opportunity to have high speed internet over dial up just to be able to get into an online tree. A new tree can always be created. I would rather put mine on tribalpages.com (free) where I have full control over my website than on ancestry anyway plus you get so much more on your website than anywhere else. I'd never Debbie Carder Mayes http://allencogenealogysociety.homestead.com/Main.html www.tribalpages.com/tribes/deb6102 www.tribalpages.com/tribes/dac6102 www.rootsweb.com/~ohallen/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary & Herman Kiser" <marypete4284@msn.com> To: <ohmiami@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 7:15 AM Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] OHMIAMI Digest, Vol 3, Issue 46 > Boy am I ever glad I read this latest email. I was/am in the process of > changing my email address due to going high speed. Now I read that I > won't be able to access my trees on ancestry. Now I don't know what to > do. > > I have went out to the LDS website. How are you supposed to know WHICH > information to order in on an ancestor? > ----- Original Message ----- > From: ohmiami-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:ohmiami-request@rootsweb.com> > To: ohmiami@rootsweb.com<mailto:ohmiami@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 3:01 AM > Subject: OHMIAMI Digest, Vol 3, Issue 46 > > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Genealogy research sites. (Debbie Carder) > 2. Re: Ancestry charges for almost everything (Will) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 01:08:42 -0500 > From: "Debbie Carder" <dcarder2@woh.rr.com<mailto:dcarder2@woh.rr.com>> > Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Genealogy research sites. > To: <ohmiami@rootsweb.com<mailto:ohmiami@rootsweb.com>> > Message-ID: > <02f801c86e06$e26295f0$6501a8c0@Debbie<mailto:02f801c86e06$e26295f0$6501a8c0@Debbie>> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > I don't put my info on ancestry or rootsweb anymore because if you change > your e-mail address or password, you can't get into your pages to edit > and > correct them. I learned that long before ancestry owned rootsweb. But > for research, especially the censuses and newspapers, ancestry is the > best. > When I was a "newbie", I posted my genealogy on rootsweb and hadn't > documented all of it yet. Later, as I gained experience, I knew that I > had > a lot of errors in it and I had a new e-mail address and couldn't get in > to > correct my pages. I contacted rootsweb and told them the situation and > their attitude was "tough luck" and nothing has ever been done. > I can always tell when I look at others' pages who got their information > out > of my old tree and I cringe when I see the incorrect info. I don't want > to > mislead anyone but can't get it changed. When possible, I e-mail the > person > or put a post em with the correction. > My suggestion, though, is this. If you want to put your info online, > then > put it on tribalpages. Their websites are beautiful and have great > features > and are free and very simple to do and if you don't want just anyone > looking > at them, you can set them so that others have to get a password from you, > although, I prefer that anyone researching my families be able to assess > my > site. The wonderful thing is, though, in addition to having an extremely > nice website is that you can go in and edit, correct, add, delete, or > change > your information anytime. You are in complete control. > If you want to see a couple of tribalpages websites or get your own, look > below my name for mine. > Debbie Carder Mayes > > > http://allencogenealogysociety.homestead.com/Main.html<http://allencogenealogysociety.homestead.com/Main.html> > > > www.tribalpages.com/tribes/deb6102<http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/deb6102> > > > www.tribalpages.com/tribes/dac6102<http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/dac6102> > > www.rootsweb.com/~ohallen/<http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohallen/> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "jeanne hime" <jkh1952@yahoo.com<mailto:jkh1952@yahoo.com>> > To: <ohmiami@rootsweb.com<mailto:ohmiami@rootsweb.com>> > Sent: Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:32 AM > Subject: [OHMIAMI] Genealogy research sites. > > > > Hi, I use family search and ancestry.com. I have gotten alot of free > > information from these sites and others. I have never subscribed to one > of > > these sites. If I want more information I use the library that I > support > > in my community or I go to a local historical society library or > museum. > > They are very gracious and open to sharing. If I want to register my > > ancestors as a first family in that county, I join that society; I at > > least try to leave a small donation to support their efforts. I use a > PAF > > file to organize and manage my family information. I downloaded this > PAF > > file for free from familysearch. I back up my file on a disc regularly > to > > protect my work from any difficulties with my computer. Volunteers > staff > > alot of these local institutions. Alot of the information on genealogy > was > > done by these tireless people long before I became interested in > genealogy > > and I am sincerely grateful to them for preserving my heritage. I agree > > that the LDS websites can seem like a > > juggernaut but I saw on a program on TV that they have information on > > millions of names. It must be very costly to gather and preserve all of > > that information. To manage it and make it available to everyone in so > > many ways seems like an impossible task. I have not put any information > > out there yet but I will when I am more confident in my own > information. I > > know that I will be responsible for the content and I don't want to > make > > any mistakes. I know that people will look at my file and possibly > contact > > me with new information, possible corrections or questions. This can > only > > make my information more accurate and complete. With such a wide > audience > > who knows what connections I might make. Each of us is an individual. > Its > > no big deal, do it however it suits you. Just have fun. Jeanne > > > > June London <londonjaws@modempool.com<mailto:londonjaws@modempool.com>> > wrote: This is very true. My > > computer crashed a few years back and I lost my > > genealogy information. I tried to get them to give me it and they said > > only > > with a subscription !! I said I gave it for free and they said thank > you > > and you need a subscription.. > > June > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Linda H. Gutierrez" > > > > To: > > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:15 PM > > Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Ancestry charges for almost everything > > > > > >> News to me.... > >> > >> What sites would those be and WHERE on Ancestry is the information > >> housed? > >> > >> Linda > >> in Costa Rica > >> Monroe County, NY Records and Family Genealogy > >> > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/> > >> Monroe County, NY History > >> > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/<http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/> > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: Gwamma38@aol.com<mailto:Gwamma38@aol.com> > >> To: ohmiami@rootsweb.com<mailto:ohmiami@rootsweb.com> > >> Sent: 12 February, 2008 5:58 PM > >> Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Ancestry charges for almost everything > >> > >> > >> > >> In a message dated 12-Feb-08 3:47:35 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, > >> lilacarlhg@amnet.co.cr<mailto:lilacarlhg@amnet.co.cr> writes: > >> > >> >Ancestry does not USE anyone's research. They offer server space for > >> anyone who wants to put it >there. They do nothing to it, the only > >> changes made > >> are those the contributor makes themselves. >The only one to own the > >> information is the contributor. Ancestry has no claim to it. > >> > >> > >> > >> Ancestry DOES charge us to view our own research.....They have > absorbed > >> sites that were holding our info in a free site. That is what has > gotten > >> me angry > >> with them. > >> > >> > >> > >> **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the > Grammy > >> Awards. Go to AOL Music. > >> > (http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565<http://music.aol.com/grammys?NCID=aolcmp00300000002565>) > >> tdn-net.com/genealogy > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com> with > the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >> tdn-net.com/genealogy > >> ------------------------------- > >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > >> OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com> with > the word 'unsubscribe' without the > >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > tdn-net.com/genealogy > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com> with > the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > > > > > --------------------------------- > > Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try > it > > now. > > tdn-net.com/genealogy > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com<mailto:OHMIAMI-request@rootsweb.com> with > the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------ > > Message: 2 > Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 23:49:06 -0800 > From: "Will" <willma@sprynet.com<mailto:willma@sprynet.com>> > Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Ancestry charges for almost everything > To: <ohmiami@rootsweb.com<mailto:ohmiami@rootsweb.com>> > Message-ID: > <0c7501c86e14$e9f72a70$5f30f204@D7V69051<mailto:0c7501c86e14$e9f72a70$5f30f204@D7V69051>> > Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; > reply-type=original > > Not all of them are still in Roots, Some of the ones I seen there in > Roots of my > families are gone since Ancestry got into it. THey told those who > wanted to > remove their info to do it. Otherwise it would als0 be Ancestry's. > willma@sprynet.com<mailto:willma@sprynet.com> > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Debbie Carder" <dcarder2@woh.rr.com<mailto:dcarder2@woh.rr.com>> > To: <ohmiami@rootsweb.com<mailto:ohmiami@rootsweb.com>> > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 9:30 PM > Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Ancestry charges for almost everything > > > > They purchased rootsweb and those trees are on ancestry but those trees > are > > still on rootsweb free. > > Debbie Carder Mayes > > > > > http://allencogenealogysociety.homestead.com/Main.html<http://allencogenealogysociety.homestead.com/Main.html> > > > > > www.tribalpages.com/tribes/deb6102<http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/deb6102> > > > > > www.tribalpages.com/tribes/dac6102<http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/dac6102> > > > > www.rootsweb.com/~ohallen/<http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohallen/> > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Linda H. Gutierrez" > <lilacarlhg@amnet.co.cr<mailto:lilacarlhg@amnet.co.cr>> > > To: <ohmiami@rootsweb.com<mailto:ohmiami@rootsweb.com>> > > Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2008 7:15 PM > > Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Ancestry charges for almost everything > > > > > >> News to me.... > >> > >> What sites would those be and WHERE on Ancestry is the information > housed? > >> > >> Linda > >> in Costa Rica > >> Monroe County, NY Records and Family Genealogy > >> > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/> > >> Monroe County, NY History > >> > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/<http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/> > >> > >> ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: Gwamma38@aol.com<mailto:Gwamma38@aol.com> > >> To: ohmiami@rootsweb.com<mailto:ohmiami@rootsweb.com> > >> Sent: 12 February, 2008 5:58 PM > >> Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Ancestry charges for almost everything > >> > >> > >> > >> In a message dated 12-Feb-08 3:47:35 P.M. Pacific Standard Time, > >> lilacarlhg@amnet.co.cr<mailto:lilacarlhg@amnet.co.cr> writes: > >> > >> >Ancestry does not USE anyone's research. They offer server space > for > >> anyone who wants to put it >there. They do nothing to it, the only > >> changes made > >> are those the contributor makes themselves. >The only one to own > the > >> information is the contributor. Ancestry has no claim to it. > >> > >> > >> > >> Ancestry DOES charge us to view our own research.....They have > absorbed > >> sites that were holding our info in a free site. That is what has > gotten > >> me angry > >> with them. > >> > >> > >> > >> **************The year's hottest artists on the red carpet at the > Grammy > >> Awards. 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