Listmembers,
Please do not pay attention to the rumors concerning the Ancestry World
Tree access. This (below) is a response posted to RootsWeb listowners (by
the listowner of that list, who is also on RootsWeb Helpdesk). It is
forwarded with her permission.
Before spreading rumors on the net, PLEASE _at least_ verify their
accuracy, just as you would offline!
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Ancestry is *not* charging for access to trees or selling trees: access will
remain free from both the RootsWeb and Ancestry side as it has always been.
What Ancestry is offering for an extra charge is access to a special search
engine to search the trees for you. Folks can still search the trees
manually or browse the trees for free the same way they always have.
Think of it as a research assistant: you can hire someone to help you look
for your ancestors, or you can research yourself for free. Hiring a human
research assistant doesn't sell them the data being researched, or change
the rules so that only they are allowed to look.
That's essentially what it is, except that it's computerized, not human.
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Carol C-H <cch(a)netdoor.com>
<carolch(a)bellsouth.net>
http://www2.netdoor.com/~cch/