Thank you for forwarding this information. I've never submitted any info to Ancestry.com because I've never thought my info is actually complete. Additionally, I've seen some real mistakes on the work that has been submitted so I just steered clear. I do subscribe to other services, which by the way are actually produced by or for Ancestry, by paid workers. I have read the submission agreement. I have no quarrel with submitters not getting any monetary compensation. If you opt to SHARE with other researchers, then SHARE it must be. That leads to the other problem, Ancestry taking the accumulated data, for which it paid essentially nothing, offering it for sale and pocketing the profit. The material will no doubt be copyrighted. Then, you might not be able to use any of that material on your own website or any in publication/article you might author. I dare say, very few of you have read the Millenium copyright law. It is another example of a special interest group moving a law through Congress, with little or no attention paid by the general citizenry. Of course, part of that special interest group decides what gets publicity and what does not. So, it went quietly through. Read it, you won't like it. I have no problem with free enterprise and encourage it. I do have a problem with people, either knowingly or unknowlingly giving away their intellectual property to be copyrighted (and thus restricted ) to any enterprise, without the counsel of a lawyer who specializes in intellectual property. Do I think anyone will be sued by Ancestry? Probably not, unless you actually publish and sell anything you've previously "shared" with Ancestry. But, legal advice does not come cheap and I am not a lawyer. I have however had reason to seriously examine the Millenium copyright law. (Family businesses can't use the family surname, unless we want to hire some of those lawyers to deal with the ones employed by a certain computer company, who will assert a violation. It is a toss up who wins, but if we lose . . . ) Just guessing, but seems like 98% of us are just hobby genealogists. Even so, I hope enough people opt to keep their material out of the proposed sale of One World Tree to make Ancestry reconsider its plans. K Dell Jerry W. Murphy wrote: >The following message may be of interest to some of you. > >Jerry W. Murphy >[email protected] >Jerry's Homepage: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~jwmurphy/ >Rootsweb List Administrator: ALFRANKL-L, TNHARDIN-L, TNWASHIN-L, TNWAYNE-L >BRATTON-L, CAVENDER-L, COCHRAN-L, HAFLEY-L, PATTERSON-L, SOWERBY-L >Wayne County, Tennessee Co-County Coordinator: http://www.netease.net/wayne >Wayne County Computer Club: http://www.netease.net/waccc > > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tim Stowell" <[email protected]> >To: <[email protected]> >Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 12:13 AM >Subject: TN-ALL from a county list > > > > >>If you have submitted a family tree to Ancestry.com, you should know of >>the change about to be implemented by them. The Family Trees that have >> >> >been > > >>donated to Ancestry for free distribution to other researchers are about >>to be sold by subscription: the OneWorldTree Preview cost will be $49.95 >> >> >for > > >>14 months. If you'd prefer that your information was not sold, there is a >>link below which will take you to a set of instructions on opting out by >>deleting your tree. >> >>After clicking on the link and arriving at the page, click on "What's a >>preview?" near the top of the page. >>Read thoroughly and then click on "View our checklist" (which appears on >>#3). >> >>Among other things, you will see the following sentence: >> "If for any reason you do not want your tree to be part of the new >> OneWorldTree service, you must delete it from the Ancestry World >> Tree database by tentatively May 21, 2004." >> >>This is the link: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/trees/owt/ >> >> >> >>-This is a USGenNet Safe-Site Mailing List - http://USGenNet.Org/ >> >> >> > > >==== TNHARDIN Mailing List ==== >Visit the Hardin County, Tennessee Genealogy and History Page at >http://www.tngenweb.org/hardin/ > > > >