The Sky is Falling, Or Is It? #Ancestry TOS Challenges

 Strategies for overcoming challenges posed by Ancestry's August 2021 TOS changes

DearREADERS,
Regarding Ancestry's new Terms of Service dated 3 Aug 2021, and the overnight "clarification" from Ancestry Corporate, DearMYRTLE and Cousin Russ have devised strategies for the following users.

• Users of Ancestry Member Trees (AMT) only
• Users with a desktop genealogy software, that does not sync to AMTs
• Users of RootsMagic desktop software that can TreeShare to/from AMTs
• Users of Family Tree Maker 2019 desktop software that can FamilySync to/from AMTs

We've been working almost non-stop to create step-by-step strategies to ensure our personal media files will not be used by Ancestry in perpetuity and irrevocably.

This is a tough subject, and not to be taken lightly. We want the beginning genealogist to feel secure with the options we propose.

• Ancestry is a library of not a storage facility.
• Researchers don't leave their research notes at the library, they keep them close at hand.
• Do not use a GEDCOM download from Ancestry.com as it currently has no option to include media files.

LINKS WE MENTION

• Judy G. Russell, “One big change at Ancestry,” The Legal Genealogist  (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 4 Aug 2021). 
• Judy G. Russell, “Ancestry retreats,” The Legal Genealogist (https://www.legalgenealogist.com/blog : posted 6 Aug 2021).
• Ancestry’s “Making Our Terms and Conditions Clearer – Modifications to our August 2021 Update” https://www.ancestry.com/corporate/blog/making-our-terms-and-conditions-clearer-modifications-our-august-2021-update
• DearMYRTLE’s RootsMagic 7, My Personal Media Files & Ancestry's TOS Changes https://youtu.be/ZNYrEWzDjvI
• Cousin Russ’s FTM2019 - Remove Media files from an Ancestry Member Tree https://ftmuser.blogspot.com/2021/08/ftm2019-remove-media-files-from.html
• Cousin Russ's FTM2019 - Remove Person Notes from AMT https://ftmuser.blogspot.com/2021/08/ftm2019-remove-person-notes-from-amt.html

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