From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   On Thu, 26 Mar 2020 at 12:15:29, knuttle    
   wrote:   
   >On 3/26/2020 10:20 AM, Geoff wrote:   
   []   
   >> It seems that if it is useful, then they remove it to add something   
      
   (Or just remove it.)   
      
   >>else. Does anyone else feel that Ancestry is moving away from its   
   >>original concept of genealogy, i.e. searching and recording?   
   []   
   >SO:  Now I will have to archive my messages on my computer, like I do   
   >for all documents I need from Ancestry to support my research.   
   >   
   I use Ancestry for access to the records they have exclusive control of,   
   and to search. And for DNA matching.   
      
   I don't store _anything_ there - I don't trust them to keep anything, so   
   like you I download anything useful I find there, to my own computer   
   (and back that up from time to time). I have uploaded GeDCom files to   
   them; the first time I did accept lots of their hints and similar, so   
   the people in that tree have lots of records, other people's links, and   
   so on linked to them - but then, when I uploaded a more recent GeDCom,   
   they offered no way to transfer all the links over from the old to the   
   new tree. (Well, they suggested I moved them manually. For >1k people,   
   most with many links. No thanks.)   
      
   As I say, I use Ancestry for things for which I have no other option.   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
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