[email protected] wrote: > I totally agree, researchers submit their findings to help other > people, not for some company to make money off of all their hard work. Ancestry.com isn't selling ANY data - what they're offering for a fee is access to a new search engine on their site. OneWorldTree has the ability to string together info from multiple Ancestry databases, including the family trees submitted by users, and display the results on one page called a "Person Page." Read the description here: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/trees/owt/ You can also read an "official" statement from MyFamily.com (parent company of Ancestry.com) here: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/listowners/2004-05/1083868229 Regards, Marie