Lacie's Genealogy Blog

 If you haven’t heard already, Ancestry has made some changes to its Terms and Conditions. Essentially, the changes say that Ancestry has a license to use the media that we upload to our family trees  for marketing, advertisements, and other uses . Please read Judy Russell's blog posts entitled Ancestry Retreats and One big Change at Ancestry .  Here is my view on the situation: 1. I have multiple trees on Ancestry. Some are for cousins' matches, one with photos, and another without photos.  The photos that I have uploaded to Ancestry are on my private tree. 2 .   I am still on the fence about whether or not I should delete my photos.  I stopped uploading media because I found out that once you "delete" it from your tree, those who attached it to their tree, it is still there. 3. I think the main issue for me is that they can use photos of living people. Though I don't think Ancestry would use the photo if they knew the person(s) in the photo we...

Last week on Friday, I watched a video on the Genealogy TV channel about Ancestry's Updates featuring Crista Cowan-The Barefoot Genealogist.  One thing that she mentioned is the WWII Young Men's Draft cards.   "We entered into a collaboration with the National Archives about six and a half years ago. To all get their Young Men's Draft cards digitized, indexed, put online. FamilySearch collaborated with us on that. So, I think something like 300,000 volunteers helped indexed these records. And as of this week, they are finished. They are all online. " - Crista Cowan Before I go any further into this topic, I want to say thank you to the volunteers for taking the time to index these records. After that, I immediately searched for my paternal grandfather, Fletcher Pearson. Then I found him. I was about to make another amazing discovery. I searched for my paternal great-grandfather, Anthony T Armstead. There I discovered what his middle name...