so now we wait and see what else developes???? alice
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.