The best way for ANY genealogist to safeguard their information in case of a computer crash or other tragedy IS TO BACK IT UP! Buy an external hard drive, use CD's, DVD's or thumbnail drive or look into the online services that offer space to back-up all of your files. Linda in Costa Rica Monroe County, NY Records and Family Genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/ Monroe County, NY History http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/ ----- Original Message ----- From: RAY FRIESS To: ohmiami@rootsweb.com Sent: 13 February, 2008 9:05 AM Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Ancestry charges for almost everything If someone has no problem with giving their hard work to a company and letting them make money off of it, and having to maybe pay to retrieve your own information if you have a crash, then all the more power to you. Most people find it objectionable and arrogant. That's the only point I'm trying to make... Now .. back to the research. > From: lilacarlhg@amnet.co.cr> To: ohmiami@rootsweb.com> Date: Wed, 13 Feb 2008 08:59:12 -0600> Subject: Re: [OHMIAMI] Ancestry charges for almost everything> > That is an excellent point, Debbie. We can all search at RootsWeb for free and it is a part of Ancestry.com. What's more, they host this and all other mailing lists and offer free websites - the GenWeb sites, FreePages. So even though they charge for their main website, they also give back a lot to the genealogical community.> > Linda> in Costa Rica> Monroe County, NY Records and Family Genealogy> http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/> Monroe County, NY History> http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~monroenys/> > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Debbie Carder > To: ohmiami@rootsweb.com > Sent: 12 February, 2008 11:30 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 Ca! rder Mayes> > http://allencogenealogysociety.homestead.com/Main.html> > www.tribalpages.com/tribes/deb6102> > www.tribalpages.com/tribes/dac6102> > www.rootsweb.com/~ohallen/