This is very interesting. What about the family trees on World Connect at Rootsweb.com. Does Ancestry claim ownership to those as well? They claim this information would not be sold and that we have total control over our data. Their MyFamily.com websites used to be free, but when they began charging for this service, I cancelled all my accounts with them. I refuse to subscribe to Ancestry.com. A lot of the information they charge for can be found elsewhere on the internet for free including census records. Vanessa Message Board Post: Hi everybody, I've just learned that Ancestry.com will soon be selling subscriptions to the Family Tree database. Some of you have contributed trees to the Ancestry site in hopes it will further the cause of free family research. By June, that will no longer be the case. I sent the following message to my lists today. If you have a tree on the Ancestry site, you may want to consider your options. It's a bit disheartening, but not unexpected. 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/ ==== TXFALLS Mailing List ==== If you wish to unsubscribe from the Falls Co., TX list, send only the word UNSUBSCRIBE to TXFALLS-l-request@rootsweb.com or if you are on the Digest List to TXFALLS-d-request@rootsweb.com The Falls Co., TX Webpage is located at http://www.rootsweb.com/~txfalls/ ============================== Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237