Then there is what used to be Broderbund (Family Tree Maker). Submit your
family tree and then have it sold back to you and many others on CDs. When
you first load the program you keep get messages to download your tree. If
you were like me when I was a newbie, I hit the download button not knowing
the implications. Now my first tree is available for purchase on CD errors
and all. And there is no support.
Ancestry MAY HAVE changed policies (it has been a pay service since I
started doing genealogy two years ago so I can't speak to what it was
before), but when a company is sold you can't guarantee that previous
policies & procedures will be followed.
You can still access the "tree" information for free. The tree info has
always been free. I don't understand what the grousing is about. You
resent having to pay for all of the effort they have done in putting *other*
types of databases on-line? But you don't grouse about having to pay to
rent LDS microfilm? I see no difference.
Momma always told me there is no such thing as a free lunch, but there are
still people who expect something for nothing.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Scott and Aliceann Carlton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 5:36 PM
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.com Cost
> Star...
>
> I didn't mean to open any of the proverbial cans of worms here, nor do I
> wish to get into a debate as to what constitutes expensive, "cheap," good
> value, etc. The point I thought I raised, and now DO raise, is that I am
> very much put-off by Ancestry.com's approach here. Enter the arena as a
> free site, tell folk you'll stay that way, invite them to submit their
> family information and their databases to share with like-minded folk and
> then start to charge for it. You are absolutely right, of course, "you
> don't need to use or pay if you don't want." And that IS the point.
>
> Sorry to have ruffled any feathers...
> Scott Carlton
>
> OM
> From: Star
> Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2001 12:42 PM
> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Ancestry.com Cost
>
>
> Another 2 cents worth. It would cost a lot more to travel to just ONE
place
> where the original record would be available IF you could find it. We all
> have more than one we need so it is realllly
> cheap from that basis besides being much more convenient. Of course you
> don't need to use or pay if you don't want.
> Star
>
>
>
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