I subscribe to ancestry.com because it is useful ... not because I love it. Their business tactics are offensive and questionable. For a sampling of the opinions of offended subscribers and suggestions of how to deal with ancestry.com, link to http://p218.ezboard.com/fgensuckfrm1 -----Original Message----- From: maltt@juno.com [mailto:maltt@juno.com] Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 19:17 PM To: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SC] Getting Ancestry.Com to change the info!! Oh, on occasions Ancestry.com from the correct, as I submitted it, to the incorrect. My cousin, his third wife, was completely omitted. In her stead was the wife of another man, the woman having been dead for many years and laid to rest in GA. Her true husband had died ca 1854 at Black Hawk, Carroll County, MS. Of course, I haven't accomplished too much but I stay on Ancestry.com's case about the many errors they are publishing for the truth. If this isn't changed, our descendants are going to have a harder time than we in tracing their trees due to the privacy laws that many states are implementing. Alabama is one that requires that a man or woman be deceased for 125 years, beginning with their birth year, before birth and death certificates may be issued to anyone outside of the immediate family or to an attorney who is acting on their behalf. Because of this, I think it's time for many people to complain, even go so far as to boycott their site until some corrections are made. It's my personal opinion that they should require documentation for a person before posting his/her data. Speaking of old, out of date e-mail addresses, it has reached the point on a number of families that I can identify the submitter without seeing his or her name. And, if you should send a message to the one who posted the incorrect data, they never receive it. Ancentry.com simply says that their transmission isn't working at that time. I have also requested that a copy of each message I have attempted to send to be sent to me. To date, I haven't received a single one. Other sites are not much better. Check at the bottom of the page and you will discover that the "different" site is being supported by Ancestry.com. This gives them the right to go into the other sites to collect whatever data the other might have in order to add it to their own. I haven't really found an independent site that isn't in co-operation with Ancestry.com. With them my name is MUD and I am frequently denied access to data that I have previously seen and know it is there; however, their report to me is that they have nothing for that family. Try some of my tactics to see what your results will be. mbm ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== SCRoots Forum http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~scroots/ ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > > From: maltt@juno.com > Date: 2005/11/12 Sat PM 07:17:29 EST > To: SCROOTS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [SC] Getting Ancestry.Com to change the info!! > > Oh, on occasions Ancestry.com from the correct, as I submitted it, to the > incorrect. My cousin, his third wife, was completely omitted. In her > stead was the wife of another man, the woman having been dead for many > years and laid to rest in GA. Her true husband had died ca 1854 at Black > Hawk, Carroll County, MS. > > Of course, I haven't accomplished too much but I stay on Ancestry.com's > case about the many errors they are publishing for the truth. If this > isn't changed, our descendants are going to have a harder time than we in > tracing their trees due to the privacy laws that many states are > implementing. Alabama is one that requires that a man or woman be > deceased for 125 years, beginning with their birth year, before birth and > death certificates may be issued to anyone outside of the immediate > family or to an attorney who is acting on their behalf. > > Because of this, I think it's time for many people to complain, even go > so far as to boycott their site until some corrections are made. It's my > personal opinion that they should require documentation for a person > before posting his/her data. > > Speaking of old, out of date e-mail addresses, it has reached the point > on a number of families that I can identify the submitter without seeing > his or her name. And, if you should send a message to the one who posted > the incorrect data, they never receive it. Ancentry.com simply says that > their transmission isn't working at that time. I have also requested that > a copy of each message I have attempted to send to be sent to me. To > date, I haven't received a single one. > > Other sites are not much better. Check at the bottom of the page and you > will discover that the "different" site is being supported by > Ancestry.com. This gives them the right to go into the other sites to > collect whatever data the other might have in order to add it to their > own. I haven't really found an independent site that isn't in > co-operation with Ancestry.com. > > With them my name is MUD and I am frequently denied access to data that I > have previously seen and know it is there; however, their report to me is > that they have nothing for that family. > > Try some of my tactics to see what your results will be. > > mbm > > > ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== > SCRoots Forum > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~scroots/ > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx > >