To my knowledge, there are three types of trees on Ancestry: free, public, and private.
The public and private tree are established only by paid subscribers and can be viewed only by paid subscribers. All paid subscribers can view and search through any other public tree but trees that are established as private are not viewable by other subscribers without special provisions established and granted by the tree owner. So the word public means public within the entire world of paid subscribers. The word private means private within the small, limited world of the owner of the tree and whomever is granted access by the owner. Free means no money is involved but owner of the tree and viewers of the tree must each establish their own free Ancestry account. Here is the info taken directly from Ancestry's web page(s): About Public Member Trees This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can be viewed by all Ancestry subscribers. (underscored added) About Private Member Trees This database contains family trees submitted to Ancestry by users who have indicated that their tree can only be viewed by Ancestry members to whom they have granted permission to see their tree. So while, Henry Peterson has given the link for creating a "free account", be aware that anyone you invite to view your free tree will also have to establish an Ancestry account (name, password, and email address). But many relatives may balk at the idea of creating another identity on the Internet. Besides, once a person creates such a free account, Ancestry will begin the onslaught of emails inviting the new enrollee to join as a paid subscriber. To make matters worse, while a “free tree” owner can search other “public” trees, he won’t be able to view any data unless he pays for a subscription. I have yet to find any other “free” tree data in a search so I believe that Ancestry excludes free trees from searches (but apparently they are included in searches made by paid subscribers). When I uploaded my file a few years ago, I'm not sure if Legacy was aware of this "Gotcha" when they had that feature to "Upload Tree to Ancestry" enabled in their program. As someone else has already posted, the easiest way to get your tree on the internet is to use Ancestry’s free cousin web site, WorldConnect/Rootsweb which is fully searchable and free to everyone. Brian in CA -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Elizabeth Lindsay Sent: Tuesday, January 3, 2017 5:29 AM To: 'Legacy User Group' Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Copying Sources from FamilySearch.org to Legacy and Ancestry.com Hi, As far as I am aware, you need to register by setting up a user name, and then you should be able to see any public trees, but you do not have access to sources or to do research. You do not have to provide any financial information or credit card information. I have given invitation to many people over the years and, only recently, I had one person who had problems accessing my public ancestry tree. Elizabeth -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [ <mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Henry T. Peterson Jr. Sent: Tuesday, 3 January 2017 8:48 PM To: 'Legacy User Group' < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Copying Sources from FamilySearch.org to Legacy and Ancestry.com Brian and Bill There is a free account option. <https://secure.ancestry.com/Register?oldPath=/register/guestregistration.aspx> https://secure.ancestry.com/Register?oldPath=/register/guestregistration.aspx But, I don't know if you can view public trees. I know that MOST of the searches and all of the "Hinting" is off limits until you begin to pay. Regards Henry -----Original Message----- From: LegacyUserGroup [ <mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Brian Kelly Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2017 6:28 AM To: Legacy User Group < <mailto:[email protected]> [email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Copying Sources from FamilySearch.org to Legacy and Ancestry.com I do not have an account with Ancestry.com. Using the link you provided I got a "Sign In to Ancestry" screen instead of viewing the person. On that basis it looks like Ancestry will not let anyone without an account view public trees. I did not bother going beyond that to see if there is a Free account option. Brian Kelly On 02-Jan-17 6:44 PM, William Boswell wrote: > Sorry. I meant to send this to Leonard only. Then again somebody else might > want to see if they can access a public tree without a subscription. > > Bill Boswell > > From: William Boswell [ <mailto:[email protected]> mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, January 2, 2017 6:43 PM > To: 'Legacy User Group' < <mailto:[email protected]> > [email protected]> > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Copying Sources from FamilySearch.org to > Legacy and Ancestry.com > > Leonard: > > Do a search for Jezebel Boswell who was born around 1869 in Maryland. She is > not attached to anyone. The name of my tree is “Boswell Full 2016” in case > you find any other trees that have Jezebel Boswell. > > Here’s a link, but I don’t know if it will work: > <http://person.ancestry.com/tree/85597361/person/250054206328/facts> > http://person.ancestry.com/tree/85597361/person/250054206328/facts > > Bill Boswell --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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