The complaints regarding garbage data at Ancestry and 'paying' for data provided to Ancestry are valid. Two points: 1) As with ALL data, whether it comes from your cousin Mary or the Ancestry website, evaluating the source is ESSENTIAL. Your cousin Mary may have provided some of the garbage you find on Ancestry. I NEVER accept Ancestry data unless it is sourced and I feel the source is valid. Same goes for data from my cousins. 2) Yes, we have all spent decades accumulating our family history data and it's 'JUST NOT FAIR' that Ancestry charges for it. Ancestry is a business, not a philanthropy. They provide a valuable service, albeit not a perfect service. It costs Ancestry to maintain a HUGE amount of data (yes, some of it is garbage) and make it available and accessible to the public. They have to pay for services and people to support their operation. I personally am delighted that there is a repository for my data that will probably outlast my neural network by centuries. Regards, JB 'Immortality first, everything else can wait!' Corwyn Prater