Comments on: Fold3 – Genealogy for Profit Website & Ancestry.com SUBSCRPTIONS http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/fold3-genealogy-for-profit-website-ancestry-com-subscrptions/ A Muse-ing Sun, 12 May 2013 22:56:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: chasingrabbits. http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/fold3-genealogy-for-profit-website-ancestry-com-subscrptions/#comment-1384 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 17:48:03 +0000 http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/?p=1671#comment-1384 I totally agree with everything that has been said. My biggest complain with ancestry is the cost of the deluxe package. $300 is a bit steep, especially for those of us that are on a fixed income and cannot afford such cost. I have been a member of Ancestry for 12 years but if the price continues to go up, I won’t be a member much longer. Thanks for your input.

]]> By: Baronial http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/fold3-genealogy-for-profit-website-ancestry-com-subscrptions/#comment-1156 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:40:22 +0000 http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/?p=1671#comment-1156 For Ancestry to charge its outrageous annual fees of $300± then reduce its service to spin off additional cost branches is downright immoral – gives Mormons and Ancestry a foul odor. Ancestry’s cost should reduce at least in proportion to its reduced service. As much as I like it, frankly I just won’t be able to afford it any more.

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Baronial,
Thanks for writing to the blog. Welcome! My complaint is not quite what you mention. Mine is that Ancestry has purchased Fold3 (formerly Footnote) and includes Fold3 data in Ancestry indexes. I have the World Deluxe subscriptions which should give me full access and yet when I access something in the indexes and it is from FOLD3 I cannot see the image!??!

Since I have that full access, I think that Ancestry should show me the image (or remove the item from their index). They now have recently added ‘Web Content’ and their indexes will take you off-site for these, that too would be ok, although I do NOT think that Ancestry should refer us to PAID genealogy websites.

–Stanczyk

]]> By: C. Michael Eliasz-Solomon http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/fold3-genealogy-for-profit-website-ancestry-com-subscrptions/#comment-915 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 11:28:16 +0000 http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/?p=1671#comment-915 Jolynn,
Welcome to blog and thanks for writing. I think Ancestry.com can make this a positive. Here is how:

    Give Ancestry.com users free access to Fold3.com data that Ancestry shows in their indexes (at least for World Deluxe users)
    Give Fold3.com users free access to Ancestry military data (of course it needs to be in Fold3 indexes).

At the least Ancestry needs to give free access to Immigration and City Directories in Fold3.com.

Under no circumstance should Ancestry reduce the number of database or records in Ancestry.com!

]]> By: Jolynn Winland http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/2011/11/08/fold3-genealogy-for-profit-website-ancestry-com-subscrptions/#comment-914 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 01:55:57 +0000 http://mikeeliasz.wordpress.com/?p=1671#comment-914 Thank you for validating everything I just sent off in an e-mail to Ancestry! I even used the phrase “shell game”! I am SO upset and feel SO betrayed by a company that I have loved and trusted for over a decade. I have been buying the World Deluxe subscription for 5 years now, but am seriously considering not doing that after it runs out. And I also contributed to the World Archives project.

I’m glad I’m not the only one that has a bad taste in their mouth from this.

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