From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Sat Aug 19 03:40:53 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7J9erjb025217; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:40:53 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7J9epCP001787 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:40:52 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k7J70vFI018485 for ; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:00:57 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k7J70vpS018484 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Sat, 19 Aug 2006 03:00:57 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k7ILqYFI017526 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:52:34 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k7J0WFQa019945 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:32:15 -0600 X-Envelope-From: dianmah@juno.com Fri Aug 18 18:32:14 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k7J0WEjb019925 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:32:14 -0600 Received: from m23.lax.untd.com (m23.lax.untd.com [64.136.30.86]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with SMTP id k7J0WB2T012036 for ; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 18:32:13 -0600 Received: from m23.lax.untd.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by m23.lax.untd.com with SMTP id AABCQNY9VATTZVZJ for (sender ); Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:31:47 -0700 (PDT) X-UNTD-OriginStamp: wmVxicAX/NvkiQqWZS0UuPqStyZUTIBieCyHBBzgC2TyXwyvTNmCWw== Received: (from dianmah@juno.com) by m23.lax.untd.com (jqueuemail) id LX4LGVEM; Fri, 18 Aug 2006 17:31:19 PDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Date: Fri, 18 Aug 2006 19:29:42 -0500 Message-ID: <20060818.192943.1136.1.dianmah@juno.com> X-Mailer: Juno 5.0.33 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Juno-Line-Breaks: 8-6,7-16,27-28,38-39,46-47,48-32767 From: Dian Mahaney X-ContentStamp: 12:6:3904265703 X-MAIL-INFO: 2fa499d0999924b494a4d4dd4da5e19590b08df175ed208df1 X-UNTD-Peer-Info: 127.0.0.1|localhost|m23.lax.untd.com|dianmah@juno.com X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: Family Tree Hello listers, Question- Could someone give me a good reason why anyone would put their |family tree on |Ancestry and than not grant permission not to have open for view. Possible Answer- I belive you are referring to a new feature at Ancestry.com called "Personal Member Tree". This is in addition to Ancestry World Tree and the One World Tree. You can create a family tree manually or upload your GEDCOM, and as I understand it you can then attach a link to records you find in the Ancsetry database that document your tree. This feature is your own personal database. It is your choice if you wish to share it with others. I have seen one of these Personal Member Trees listed. It works like an index. You don't see the information, but there is a link for contacting the "owner" of this tree. This was not a family I am working on so I did not try it. I don't know if this feature is "viewable" people who do not subscribe to Ancestry. Another point, Ancestry does not charge for viewing Ancestry World Tree, It is essentially the same as RootsWeb trees. Ancestry charges for accessing their various databases. Unless all of the people who work there are volunteers, all of their equipment, building and overhead such as electricity are donated, I don't know why anyone would expect Ancestry to be free. I think it is enough that they sponsor Rootsweb, which includes what it takes to keep this list going. If one wants more free information on the Internet then submit something to Rootsweb. Like Tombstone transcriptions, or records from city hall or the county courthouse where you live. Regarding to comments about the errors in Internet family trees. These are not the fault of the sponsors of the web sites, but the individuals who submit the trees. Don't shoot the messenger. I know contacting the submitters and convincing them to change their information is very difficult. I've tried, it doesn't work too well. So put mine online with explanations as to how I interpreted the records and arrived at my conclusions. Dian