I am a Richardson researcher like you. I was just adding to your statement: "I also found out that since I uploaded it to Rootsweb, it is showing in the Trees on Ancestry.com." Ancestry.com gleans information from the free sites on the internet. They have some of my research on their site that was taken from early queries. Fortunately, some of it is not correct. I also do not put my family research on any site unless I have to. I usually write directly to the person who requested information. Sorry to have bothered you. Nora

I wouldn't be too hard on Ancestry, after all they own and operate Rootsweb.com In my opinion Rootsweb is the most useful genealogy website on the web and it's totally free! If Ancestry makes any money on the data from Rootsweb, I doubt it approaches the cost to maintain hardware, purchase bandwidth, and pay the employees that keep Rootsweb running. Just my 2 cents.. I am not an employee nor a current subscriber to Ancestry but I do appreciate the great free service that they provide via Rootsweb.com NBActon@aol.com wrote: > I am a Richardson researcher like you. I was just adding to your > statement: "I also found out that since I uploaded it to Rootsweb, it > is showing in the Trees on Ancestry.com." > > Ancestry.com gleans information from the free sites on the internet. > They have some of my research on their site that was taken from early > queries. Fortunately, some of it is not correct. > > I also do not put my family research on any site unless I have to. I > usually write directly to the person who requested information. > > Sorry to have bothered you. > Nora > > > ==== RICHARDSON Mailing List ==== > To use the Richardson Query Board: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.richardson > To review Archived messages: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/RICHARDSON-L

On 02/06/2006 Bert Pittman wrote: > I also do not put my family research on any site unless I have to. Because I have my genealogy on a web site I have found many "lost" relatives. In one case I was contacted by a lady asking about my step mother. I passed along the information from her to my step mother and the lady happened to be a niece that had lost contact with the family back in the early fifties. Quite a reunion. In another case, I had a favorite teacher, didn't we all, in the first grade. Mom had kept some old newspaper articles and such about her in my baby book. I found this material and posted it on my website. A few months later I was contacted by a nice lady. She just couldn't thank me enough for what I had done. My old teacher had been an aunt she never met and had no information on, other than name. Now she had a story to tell. I feel that it is important to get the information out there. Be sure to not post very sensitive information, but do post a tree. Others will find you and add to your information, or you may add to someone else's. That's how family tree's grow. -- (o:]>*HUGGLES*<[:o) Billie Walsh The three best words in the English Language: "I LOVE YOU" Pass then on!