At the risk of being objectionable I thought I would share this message from ancestry with the list. > You have been selected to receive a FREE 14-day Trial of Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=685&sourceid=982 > O.K. - I think, I'll look at it again for 14 days and decide whether or not to sign up for a year or whatever. So I start filling out the form; everything was going great until I got to the part where it asks how I will want to pay if I decide to sign on. Guess what, the only acceptable choice is a credit card number! No place to put "personal check" "money order" or anything else. You either give them your cred card number or seems there is no "free trial." Last week I was at the LDS branch library here. The main topic of conversation I heard was about the fact that one of the volunteers there had ordered some books from ancestry about six months ago and had yet to receive the books. Seems one was on back order so ancestry has waited all this time to get the book; won't mail the book they do have and refund the difference; and wanted another check for the amount of the book they do have. For some unknown reason the lady decided to risk it. So now Ancestry has TWO of her checks and she still has NO books. Give them my credit card number? I don't think so!!! Sure makes me miss the "good old days" when Rootsweb the best free source of genealogy information on the internet and was not associated with ancestry.com! Here's what I just replied to their email: > I filled out all the required boxes until I got to how I would want to pay if I decided to continue my membership at the end of the trial period. There was NO place to mark that I would pay by personal check. WHY would you send this crap; (as spam it seems) and then require someone to enter their credit card number "just in case" they decided to continue subscribing?? That just may be the most low-down, impolite, unethical thing I've seen yet from ancestry. You have no idea how sorry I am that you bought rootsweb!!! A LOT of serious genealogists feel that way. Perhaps, some day, we will be able to do something about it!!! > > Please do not bother to send me your "FREE" offers if giving you my credit card number is required. Linnie