Below is a response to the message I posted yesterday about Ancestry's One World Tree. The way I read and understood the information page was what I posted yesterday. If I was incorrect my apologies. Linda homepage: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas MarionCoAR: http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion/ TulsaCoOK: http://www.rootsweb.com/~oktulsa2 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Myra Vanderpool Gormley" <myravgormley@earthlink.net> To: <OKMUSKOG-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 6:34 PM Subject: Re: [OKMUSKOG] Ancestry to begin charging for One World Tree | Let's set the record straight, Family Trees you submit to RootsWeb's | WorldConnect and/or Ancestry World Tree continue to be free for anyone to | access and search just as they always have been. NOTHING has changed as to | your use of WorldConnect/AWT's combined database. | | The new program that has recently come along is One World Tree (OWT), which | is a new advanced subscription search feature ( it's a tool) that matches | data found in the free trees and some of the pay databases and census | records found at Ancestry, and stitches it into a finished product to cut | out the work of searching and matching data for the subscriber. What the | subscriber to OWT is paying for is the convenience of having the searching | and matching done for him....not for accessing or searching the free family | trees housed on their site. | | Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG | | | ----- Original Message ----- | From: "Linda Haas Davenport" <lhaasdav@cox.net> | To: <OKMUSKOG-L@rootsweb.com> | Sent: Monday, May 03, 2004 4:10 PM | Subject: [OKMUSKOG] Ancestry to begin charging for One World Tree | | | > If you have submitted a family tree to Ancestry.com's OneWorldTree site, | you need to be aware of a change about to be implemented by Ancestry. | > | > Family Trees uploaded to the OneWorldTree site, which have been free | heretofore, will be moved into a subscription data base. After approximately | May 21st this data base will no longer be accessible for free. Ancestry will | be begin offering OneWorldTree Preview at $49.95 for 14 months for access to | these donated trees. | > | > If you'd prefer that your information not be sold, there is a link below | which will take you to a set of instructions on opting out by deleting your | tree. | > | > Go first here: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/trees/owt/ | > When you arrive at the page - look for the link toward the top "What's a | preview?" | > Read the information and then click on "View our checklist" (which appears | on #3). | > On the page is a statement that says "If for any reason you do not want | your tree to be part of the new OneWorldTree service, you must delete it | from the Ancestry World Tree database by tentatively May 21, 2004." | > Click on the link "Deleting a tree you submitted" | > The resulting page gives instructions on how to delete your tree. | > | > Feel free to pass this along to other lists. | > | > Linda | > homepage: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas | > MarionCoAR: http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion/ | > TulsaCoOK: http://www.rootsweb.com/~oktulsa2 | > | > | > | > | > | > ==== OKMUSKOG Mailing List ==== | > NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, | political | > announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, | > etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for | removal. | > Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett | kathleenburnett@earthlink.net | > Oklahoma Cemeteries Volunteer Website | http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcemete/okcem.htm | > | > ============================== | > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration | > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. | > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid= 1237 | > | | | ==== OKMUSKOG Mailing List ==== | NOTICE: Posting of virus warnings, test messages, chain letters, political | announcements, current events, items for sale, personal messages, flames, | etc. (in other words - spam) is NOT ALLOWED and will be grounds for removal. | Consideration for exceptions, contact Kathleen Burnett kathleenburnett@earthlink.net | Oklahoma Cemeteries Volunteer Website http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcemete/okcem.htm | | ============================== | Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration | Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. | http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid= 1237 |