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Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!

Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!

Posted: 2 Aug 2015 1:17AM GMT
Classification: Query
Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!

Think I paid $20 for all those months just to have those census and other records images I spent a lot of time searching for pulled from my family tree because I failed to continue to pay a monthly tithe of $20?!!

So next time I join 1st order of business will be to save all those images to disk.

Come on, what an insult to Ancestry.com customers. The LDS will overtake the Ancestry.com business if they don't part their excessively greedy ways.

Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!

Posted: 2 Aug 2015 1:25AM GMT
Classification: Query
Your subscription payment was what granted you access to the database images.
It was all in the TOS you agreed to. It is no insult at all to anyone.

Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!

Posted: 2 Aug 2015 2:28AM GMT
Classification: Query
And just in case you are wondering, that is not part of New Ancestry. Also when the images are downloaded to Family Tree Maker they don't go away when your subscription lapses.

Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!

Posted: 2 Aug 2015 2:43AM GMT
Classification: Query
Wrong, because the images are stored in the files. Next.

Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!

Posted: 2 Aug 2015 2:44AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 2 Aug 2015 2:46AM GMT
Yes, as I just explained to the previous poster. It's that type of greed that undoes businesses.

I will access the images in my FTM offline tree.

So much for their 'community', uh, they do all the taking and we just give what everyone else is looking for.

Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!

Posted: 2 Aug 2015 2:58AM GMT
Classification: Query
"stored in files"

What do you mean? Did you download the record? - requires an active decision to "save this to your computer." Otherwise all you have done is save a link to a subscription site. When your subscription ends, you do not have access.

Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!

Posted: 2 Aug 2015 3:10AM GMT
Classification: Query
Save your images to your computer is the only way you will have access to them after you are not subscribed to Ancestry. You can save them to files on your computer, if that's what you mean. Otherwise once you are unsubbed, the images are not viewable to you or anyone not subscribed when visiting your tree.

Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!

Posted: 2 Aug 2015 3:18AM GMT
Classification: Query
Hello! I meant you could see them in FTM, not that you could see them online if you had them in FTM.

Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!

Posted: 2 Aug 2015 3:18AM GMT
Classification: Query

They are embedded in my FTM file as much the same way as you'd embed a private photograph. Haven't you used FTM? You must to now what you stated. Those files can be used in other ways outside of a FTM file you know.

Those programmers can easily distinguish between one's own tree and other users' trees for non-subscribers.

That type of business decision is doubtless why many people make their research private when done with it. Why reward Ancestry.com with your work when they won't let you view your own information online unless you pay a subscription.

Re: Why are Census Images I've had long attached to People now requiring subscription to view?!

Posted: 2 Aug 2015 3:20AM GMT
Classification: Query
Thank you. That is a bad business decision by Broderbund or Ancestry or whoever they are now but that's their decision. Automating and OCR is getting better not worse.
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