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It ought to be illegal to just shutdown and erase without giving public data like this to a historical organization.
by bitJericho 12y ago
It ought to be illegal to just shutdown and erase without giving public data like this to a historical organization.
- pbhjpbhj 12y agoI'm not sure about that: the converse is closer to the truth now due to copyright law, giving people's private family correspondence and data to historical organisations without the families say so seems as wrong as wiping the data. Ancestry could have kept the data archived and offered it up for download to their users for a payment - their whole raison d'etre is supposed to be preserving family history after all. It would be interesting to know why they shutdown the service, presumably not making enough profit, whether anything replaced it?