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From: "Beverly Edds" <>
Subject: [ARGARLAN] HELP!
Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 23:30:13 -0400

I'm sorry, I know this may be offtopic (though it does relate directly to
both genealogy and our research), but this came to me on another list, and I
know it's probably old news, but what REALLY has me concerned here is the
part at the bottom from the MyFamily.com website. Can anyone help explain
this, please? I have information there and can't afford the price, does that
mean my pictures and stuff I have posted there will belong to them?
BVE

----- Original Message -----

>Important Notice About Your MyFamily.com Website

>All free websites must be upgraded to paid websites before June 23.

<SNIP>

>Still have questions?

>Does every member of a family website need to pay?
>No. Only one person needs to pay for the website in order for all other
>website members >to enjoy the same benefits.

>What will happen if my website is not paid for before June 23?
>After June 23, the content on your unpaid websites will become
>inaccessible. You will >still be able to log on to MyFamily.com and locate
>your website, but you will not be >able to view photos, news items or other
>content until the website is upgraded.

>If this is the case, then what does this mean that is posted at their
>"Terms and Conditions" site?

<SNIP>

>User Provided Content

>Portions of the Service will contain user provided content, to which >you
>may contribute appropriate content. For this content, >MyFamily.com, Inc.
>is a distributor only. By submitting content to >MyFamily.com, you grant
>MyFamily.com, Inc., the corporate host of the >Service, a limited license
>to use, host, distribute and allow hosting >and distribution on co-branded
>Services of the content. You should >submit only content which belongs to
>you and will not violate the >property or other rights of other people or
>organizations.
<END MYFAMILY.COM>

>And from a GenWeb list forward

<SNIP>
>If you carefully read what I posted you will see that I was speaking >about
>the current relationship between USGenWeb and RootsWeb (that is >NOW owned
>by the same company that owns MyFamily and Ancestry.com) in >general.

>If you look at their business trends -- from free to paid, it is not
> >entirely impossible to predict that Rootsweb COULD go to a paid >service.
> This is conjecture, but not a pipe dream.

>DO you have insider knowledge, that would assure us that this would never
>happen? I'm not trying >to create panic -- it hasn't happened. My
>marketing crystal ball tells me it could happen, and it would >be nice if
>there could be some proactive work to prevent it.

<END>

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