I joined a local Genealogical Society in 1989 to get access to their library. Allowed myself to get more involved in 1995 as their "computer guy". Next think you know it's Treasurer, Vice President, President and now back to Treasurer again. The current President has his Ancestry.com account loaded on a couple Society's computers. Looks like most people use it for census records access. Although the library has census records on film and CD's. I've always been too cheap to pay the subscription fee. Was able to find more data then I can deal with for free. The rootsweb.com site is still free. Ancestry is the main sponsor of rootsweb. So while rootsweb is free, ancestry users who pay, can find them selves directed to rootsweb during a search. I too was feeling it was not right for people to pay for my info thru Ancestry, when I had it posted at rootsweb for free. So I pulled my 30,000 names. Not that it did any good, as so many copied my data when it was posted. It's like I have many mirror sites now.
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