Friday, February 18, 2011
Genealogy Websites are thieves!!
Hey I'm back again. This time I am going to rant about all those so called genealogy websites all over the internet. Most of them, if not all of them are pretty much useless. The companies maintaining them are nothing short of thieves and charlatans. I mean think about it. It's your family history/genealogy/ancestry and they are making you pay for what is already yours and access to it. The worse part is once you do have access to your own information, after paying for it of course, most of it if not all of what you find there is useless, incorrect or simply irrelevent.Then there is the fact that these same companies will further charge you for every single little tiny even minute piece of information and bleed you dry with useless subscriptions.Here is the other thing, for all the money you pay out to these companies for your research you can't even get decent support from them.They leave you to troubleshoot your own issues either alone or they will refer you to those useless user forums or some unintelligent support person on a phone line, which most of the time, turns out to be some housewife living in the North Pole just trying to make a few extra dollars a month to pay the rent, or some overseas dimwitted college student in Bangladesh/ India who can't even speak English clearly and knows absolutely nothing about American ancestry, particulary yours!! Ancestry.com and Genealogy.com are two of the worst websites besides rootsweb.com. These companies will also take your information, your research and family tree etc and sell it to their other advertisers. I mean really, enough is enough already, it is my family history and I should NOT have to pay for it. It is mine and my family's and it belongs to us.I do not want strangers profitting from my ancestry/history. It is one thing to share it, free of charge to whomever I think is worthy of it but for some greedy company/people to profit I simply disapprove of it. My ancestry is NOT FOR SALE.Anyone who is working diligently to gather their own ancestry/history should never pay some company for information that is already theirs. It belongs to you the individual and your family, dead or alive. It is up to people like you and me to end this thievery and protect what is ours.We are the ones who should choose whether or not these companies profit from any and all information pertaining to our ancestry. They afterall do not do the work, we do as the descendents of our ancestors.I am hoping that someday everyone who loves their family history and ancestry will think this way and decide enough is is enough and come up with a better way of researching and collecting and sharing their own genealogy in a non - profit way. We as human beings are supposed to honor our ancestors and this is a great way to do that and show a little respect to them. Give it some thought folks!!!
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