Ancestry/Genealogy

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program and then I stopped. That program is out of date so I bought a newer version of the familytreemaker program. Now I have to transfer the information from the old program to the new one and I don‘t know if it will work. Plus if I do finish it and disseminate it to 200 family somebody will give all the information to ancestry.com. Then future & present generations will then have to pay for it in bits and pieces. So the family files will become something to be bought and sold when the information and love has always been shared freely. If I don‘t finish it this will not happen on my watch. Simply put, I feel I could be responsible for a mess that once done would continue on for eternity. Once you buy the familytreemaker program, and upload the information I organized and scribed, ancestry.com will pop up on your screen and ask innocuously if you want to share your information with others. A simple yes will hand it all over to ancestry.com and they then sell the information. Fifty people in my family could choose yes. And what a nightmare that would be for relatives because the family tree is huge with lots of documents and pictures. I suppose I should do some research as to what will actually happen and then look for advice from family. On the plus side family members who are not in direct contact with us would be able to pay to get information at ancestry.com