RULES: 1. CHECK YOUR SOURCES 2. If it sounds too good to be true - see Rule No. 1. 3. If it doesn't make sense - see Rule No. 1. 4. If you trust the person providing the data - see Rule No. 1. 5. If you don't trust the person providing the data - see Rule No. 1. Ancestry is a business. Merging and linking the data they have is a smart business move. Many unsuspecting individuals will fork over their credit card number to get the garbage that has been 'donated.' When they decide not to renew they will spend months trying to stop their subscriptions and credit card charges. Many of the trees submitted to Ancestry have glaring errors and no documentation noted, merged families, and children that do not exist. The same is true of the Morman Church records (IGI, and Ancestral files). This new subscription service will make it harder than ever to educate people to CHECK SOURCES (see Rule No. 1). The really scary part is--some individuals will find a tree that shows that their great-grand someone is a descendant of a President, King, famous or infamous individual and take it as "Gospel" (see rule no. 1) MyFamily.Com (parent of Ancestry) also owns FamilyTreeMaker and Rootsweb. How long will it be before the mailing list becomes a paid subscription? Rootsweb also provides "FREE" space for the, volunteer-not for profit, USGENWEB project. MyFamily.Com has some really smart marketing managers - they got suckers like you and I to do the research, transcribe records, and now they can legally steal it and resell it. Janice Pate Please respect the privacy of other people; do not submit information on living individuals without their permission. _________________________________________________________________ Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963
Yea and Hooray Janice!!!! Meredith ----- Original Message ----- From: "Janice Pate" <pate_news@hotmail.com> To: <PATE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 05, 2004 7:53 AM Subject: [PATE GENEALOGY] Ancestry's One World Family Tree Project > RULES: > 1. CHECK YOUR SOURCES > 2. If it sounds too good to be true - see Rule No. 1. > 3. If it doesn't make sense - see Rule No. 1. > 4. If you trust the person providing the data - see Rule No. 1. > 5. If you don't trust the person providing the data - see Rule No. 1. > > > Ancestry is a business. Merging and linking the data they have is a smart > business move. Many unsuspecting individuals will fork over their credit > card number to get the garbage that has been 'donated.' When they decide > not to renew they will spend months trying to stop their subscriptions and > credit card charges. > > Many of the trees submitted to Ancestry have glaring errors and no > documentation noted, merged families, and children that do not exist. The > same is true of the Morman Church records (IGI, and Ancestral files). This > new subscription service will make it harder than ever to educate people to > CHECK SOURCES (see Rule No. 1). > > The really scary part is--some individuals will find a tree that shows that > their great-grand someone is a descendant of a President, King, famous or > infamous individual and take it as "Gospel" (see rule no. 1) > > MyFamily.Com (parent of Ancestry) also owns FamilyTreeMaker and Rootsweb. > How long will it be before the mailing list becomes a paid subscription? > Rootsweb also provides "FREE" space for the, volunteer-not for profit, > USGENWEB project. > > MyFamily.Com has some really smart marketing managers - they got suckers > like you and I to do the research, transcribe records, and now they can > legally steal it and resell it. > > > > Janice Pate > > > > Please respect the privacy of other people; do not submit information on > living individuals without their permission. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Is your PC infected? Get a FREE online computer virus scan from McAfee® > Security. http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=3963 >