Comments on Creative Gene: Greedy Ancestry.com Stabs Friends In The Back

They really do suck. I paid them their hose-bag ma...

2008-03-22T16:47:00.000-04:00

They really do suck. I paid them their hose-bag maximum fee which is something like $170 a year for US records and in the middle of my subscription period they changed the rules. Records that were accessible at the beginning of my subscription were no longer available, unless I subscribed to some new plan they had, and I could not get a refund for my existing plan. These people are criminals and white collar frauds masquerading as friendly family historians.

Jasia:Love your idea and particularly like the fac...

2007-08-29T14:48:00.000-04:00

Jasia:

Love your idea and particularly like the fact you have made it an image rather than text.

I agree with my entire community regarding this issue and have posted how this would play out in my neighborhood.

The only customers Ancestry has are genealogists, family historians and the corporate accounts we frequent (local library). They obviously do not understand, or care to understand our community.

Just because you can doesn't mean you should. http://footnotemaven.blogspot.com/2007/08/just-because-you-can-doesnt-mean-you.html

fM

Jasia, I'm so used to being able to include a hype...

2007-08-29T13:47:00.000-04:00

Jasia, I'm so used to being able to include a hyperlink in body of the comment that I did so in my message there. That might've thrown the comment into a moderation or reject queue (in all things, take the technical explanation first).

I'm bummed that I didn't copy my comment before pressing POST, though.

Actually, since I pay for my blog provider, they h...

2007-08-29T13:27:00.000-04:00

Actually, since I pay for my blog provider, they helped me to place a robots.txt file that will prevent future caching by Ancestry.com

The down side is that Ancestry.com as of today is still using the cache of my blog from around October of last year to its creation in March of that year.

The only consolation I have is that generally their so called "search engine" sucks.

Janice

Janice I personally think the idea of using a blan...

2007-08-29T11:19:00.000-04:00

Janice I personally think the idea of using a blantant statement on our blogs is the best way to protect ourselves. Ancestry may sill send their bots out and steal our content for caching on their site but we'll give them a dose of bad PR for their trouble. The court of public opinion is a mighty powerful thing.

Jasia,I thoroughly enjoyed your article (and the t...

2007-08-29T09:23:00.000-04:00

Jasia,

I thoroughly enjoyed your article (and the title of it). I agree with you, having a strong disclaimer at the top (which mine has now) SHOULD make them think twice about caching my blog in the future, HOWEVER since they weren't using their gray matter in the first place, they could repeat their sad behavior. At least this time I will have the satisfaction of knowing I've pointed out their discretions.

Janice

Thanks for commenting Jessica. I enjoyed your arti...

2007-08-29T08:15:00.000-04:00

Thanks for commenting Jessica. I enjoyed your article.

Hmmm... Susan I can't find your comment on Ancestr...

2007-08-29T08:11:00.000-04:00

Hmmm... Susan I can't find your comment on Ancestry's blog. I wonder why?

Hi Jasia,I've also posted my opinion too:http://je...

2007-08-29T01:02:00.000-04:00

Hi Jasia,

I've also posted my opinion too:

http://jessicagenejournal.blogspot.com/2007/08/my-two-cents-on-ancestrys-internet.html

They have a blog? who knew? Just went and posted t...

2007-08-28T23:51:00.000-04:00

They have a blog? who knew? Just went and posted there. Invited them to have a conversation with us. In our place, on our sites, in our comment areas, using their real names. Don't force the conversation to happen on their site in their blog.

Use their blog to prominently link to the sites where this conversation is ongoing.

Glad you liked and used and gave linklove to my parody. Had fun making it today!