<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<TITLE>Message</TITLE>
<STYLE>body{font-family: Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt;background-color: #ffffff;color: black;}</STYLE>
<STYLE></STYLE>
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16414" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
<BODY>
<DIV><SPAN class=671435116-18032007><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2>Paulette</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671435116-18032007><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671435116-18032007><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>No,
Ancestry.com is not "part" of the LDS church. Although, if memory serves me
right, the founders of the company were members of the church, and maybe some
are now. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671435116-18032007><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671435116-18032007><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>And, of course,
you are not paying to see public records, per se, you are paying for the luxury
of not traveling to the courthouse in Lancaster, Garrard County, Kentucky, or
the archives in Salem, Oregon, or the NARA in Seattle. </FONT></SPAN><SPAN
class=671435116-18032007><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>Not to mention, of course,
some folks cannot travel anyway. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671435116-18032007><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671435116-18032007><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>Of course, if you
were to do that traveling, you would also have to pay for the copying costs of
the records, and the time to have them copied (assuming the copier isn't broken
down) and hope you are in a place where the copier makes decent, digitized
copies. . . .</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671435116-18032007><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671435116-18032007><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>I agree this may
seem expensive, but not if you have done it the "old" way. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671435116-18032007><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671435116-18032007><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>Of course, all
the computer searching in the world doesn't meet all of our genealogical needs,
and there is nothing like holding in your hand the marriage bond for your
4great-grandparents, but for most of what we do, it at least gives us leads to
follow up, and at a very reasonable cost, considering.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671435116-18032007><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671435116-18032007><FONT color=#0000ff size=2>Pat (in
Tucson)</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671435116-18032007><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=671435116-18032007><FONT color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
<DIV></DIV>
<DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=left><FONT
face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
[mailto:or-roots-admin@sosinet.sos.state.or.us] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Paulette<BR><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, March 18, 2007 00:40<BR><B>To:</B>
or-roots@www.sos.state.or.us<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: [or-roots] Discontinued
Ancestry.com Access to the Family History Centers<BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV id=compText>I have always wondered about the ancestry.com services -
while they are fascinating,and the full access is pretty amazing as far as
what I have seen of it, it all seems so expensive, so I use my public library
for access. Isn't ancestry.com part of the LDS Church? I know they put a lot
of money into digitizing all those public records around the USA and the
world, but do they get federal tax breaks for being a church? It seems a
little bit confusing to me if that is so, that they can then charge so much to
allow people to view data from public records. Perhaps I just do not
understand the whole story behind ancestry.com.<BR><BR>Paulette<BR><BR><BR>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 0px; BORDER-LEFT: rgb(0,0,255) 2px solid">-----Original
Message----- <BR>From: Robert Gust <RGUST@NETINS.NET><BR>Sent: Mar 17, 2007
12:14 PM <BR>To: or-roots@www.sos.state.or.us, or-roots@www.sos.state.or.us
<BR>Subject: Re: [or-roots] Discontinued Ancestry.com Access to the Family
History Centers <BR><BR><ZZZHTML><ZZZHEAD><ZZZMETA http-equiv="Content-Type"
content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"><ZZZMETA
content="MSHTML 6.00.2900.2912" name="GENERATOR"></ZZZMETA><ZZZBODY
id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: rgb(0,0,0); FONT-FAMILY: Arial"
bottommargin="7" bgcolor="#ffffff" leftmargin="7" topmargin="7"
rightmargin="7"></ZZZBODY></ZZZMETA></ZZZHEAD></ZZZHTML></RGUST@NETINS.NET>
<DIV>
<P style="WIDTH: 600px"><A style="COLOR: rgb(0,0,255)"
href="http://genealogyblog.com/family-history-library/discontinued-ancestrycom-access-to-the-family-history-centers-5875">Discontinued
<B>Ancestry</B>.com Access to the Family History Centers</A><BR><FONT
size=-1><FONT color=#666666>By Leland Meitzler </FONT><BR>I think the notice
says it all… To: Family History Center Directors in English
Language Areas From: Worldwide Support Date: March 16, 2007 Re: Discontinued
Access to <B>Ancestry</B>.com Databases For many years, <B>Ancestry</B>.com
has provided <B>...</B><BR><FONT color=green><A
title=http://genealogyblog.com style="COLOR: green"
href="http://genealogyblog.com">Genealogy Blog - http://genealogyblog.com
</A></FONT></FONT></P></DIV>
<DIV> This takes place on April 1 2007.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>If I lose the link just Google it.</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><PRE>________________________________________
PeoplePC Online
A better way to Internet
http://www.peoplepc.com</PRE>_______________________________________________
or-roots mailing list or-roots@sosinet.sos.state.or.us
http://sosinet.sos.state.or.us/mailman/listinfo/or-roots
</BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>