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Subject: RE: [NCBERTIE] Ancestry to begin charging for One World Tree
Date: Tue, 4 May 2004 11:03:09 -0500
In-Reply-To: <017d01c431e5$64fe8490$6401a8c0@KathysDesktop>
Dear list,
This is not true.
You access Ancestry's "World Tree" database through rootsweb all the time
and the trees you submit to rootsweb are included in the "World Tree"
database.
Best explanation of what is going on -- copied from another list.
The way I read it in
> http://www.ancestry.com/trees/awt/getting_started.htm, Ancestry.com
> does not plan to start charging for access to data that you could
> access before for free, namely, trees uploaded by people like us to a
> data base called Ancestry World Tree.
>
> The new One World Tree, a different product, uses proprietary
> Ancestry.com software to find common people and branches in different
> people's trees and stitch them together to form larger trees. The
> result is a data base that contains connections that the submitters
> of the individual trees had not included, and probably did not even
> know about.
>
> I think it makes sense for Ancestry.com to charge for access to One
> World Tree. (the newly stitched together trees) If their software
>works well, and if many trees are
> successfully linked, then they will have added significant value to
> the information that people provided them for free.
-----Original Message-----
From: KHarrison [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, May 04, 2004 9:38 AM
To:
Subject: [NCBERTIE] Ancestry to begin charging for One World Tree
Subject: Ancestry to begin charging for One World Tree
This has been sent out and so I am passing it on to you.
Kathy
> If you have submitted a family tree to Ancestry.com's OneWorldTree site,
you
> need to be aware of a change about to be implemented by Ancestry.
>
> Family Trees uploaded to the OneWorldTree site, which have been free
> heretofore, will be moved into a subscription data base. After
approximately May 21st
> this data base will no longer be accessible for free. Ancestry will be
begin
> offering OneWorldTree Preview at $49.95 for 14 months for access to these
> donated trees.
>
> If you'd prefer that your information not be sold, there is a link below
> which will take you to a set of instructions on opting out by deleting
your tree.
>
> Go first here: http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/trees/owt/
> When you arrive at the page - look for the link toward the top "What's a
> preview?"
> Read the information and then click on "View our checklist" (which appears
on
> #3).
> On the page is a statement that says "If for any reason you do not want
your
> tree to be part of the new OneWorldTree service, you must delete it from
the
> Ancestry World Tree database by tentatively May 21, 2004."
> Click on the link "Deleting a tree you submitted"
> The resulting page gives instructions on how to delete your tree.
>
> Feel free to pass this along to other lists.
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