I am sending this to all of you just in case this is true and you have pages
posted on the
Ancestry.com Family Tree site. You might want to check this
out if you do not want your database being sold. I know some of you have
your information posted and may not want it sold. If this is true it is a
sad situation.
Patricia
----- Original Message -----
From: <Murtcat(a)aol.com>
To: <HCPD-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 7:16 AM
Subject: [HCPD]
Ancestry.com
This was just forwarded to me. Don't know how true it is or if
it is up
to
date.
Rita
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.
Nancy
P.S. Thanks to Jane on the MyFamily Carolina Cousins site
for sharing this link.
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/
Since this will be of no interest to the folks on the list who don't
have
trees at Ancestry, please direct any discussion or questions to me
at:
MCLEOD-admin(a)rootsweb.com
Nancy, List Admin.
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