From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon May 8 12:40:35 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 k48IeZjb020700; Mon, 8 May 2006 12:40:35 -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 k48Ie7Q7015674 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 12:40:07 -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 k48G6BFI019521 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 12:06:11 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k48G6B8i019520 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 8 May 2006 12:06:11 -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 k48DwuFI019223 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 09:58:57 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k48GWXhg028312 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 8 May 2006 10:32:33 -0600 X-Envelope-From: MaeMay510@aol.com Mon May 8 10:32:33 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 k48GWXjb028301 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 10:32:33 -0600 Received: from imo-m14.mx.aol.com (imo-m14.mx.aol.com [64.12.138.204]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k48GWTdg026446 for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 10:32:30 -0600 Received: from MaeMay510@aol.com by imo-m14.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id e.2d6.7795161 (32914) for ; Mon, 8 May 2006 12:32:23 -0400 (EDT) From: MaeMay510@aol.com Message-ID: <2d6.7795161.3190cc97@aol.com> Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 12:32:23 EDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 Security Edition for Windows sub 5301 X-Spam-Flag: NO 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] private files online In a message dated 5/8/2006 10:01:18 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com writes: At some later point, Ancestry's parent company bought genealogy.com. Ancestry does not have those sort of terms, not back then, not now, but they did acquire access to that material which had the "anything we want to do with this, we can" sort of terms, and so chose to add it to the trees. Not necessarily something I'd have done, but not a violation of the terms under which the files were submitted, at all. Before internet became popular, we had FIDO. Broderbund contacted genealogists on the free bulletin board and asked us to donate our material. We would then be given 10 dollars off on the CD that held our data. Like DUH! They were up front about the whole deal. We give, they sell back. . What was even worse, some questioned their own material as undocumented, incomplete, even error ridden, but Broderbund said we could submit new material as we found it Not to replace what was already on the CDs, but as a new file to go on another CD, which we could then buy. DUH! Broderbund was purchased by a company that sold the data to another company and I supposed Ancestry.com is the current owner. The terms, as I understand it, never changed. We give, they sell. I am using the family data bases on Ancestry.com, but only as a guide to proving the accuracy I find in censuses and other sources. If the information proves out as given, then I feel comfortable listing it as a source along with the other documentation I find. Shirley Maynard Hampton, VA