Genealogy Chat

Lets hope everyone rejoins who has taken themselves off. I have had a really good lead from this site. I have never had any problems with it. Thanks. Lynda

Ancestral Villages is OK Honest! My husband created the site last year as a result of an idea we had about who was in the village when our ancestors where there. We put together the terms and conditions by studying all the similar sites-(mainly the big players) as we have no finance to employ a legal team. It is run from our study in Norfolk UK by ...ME and we have hundreds of genealogy questions a week (mainly from older people) which I attempt to answer(for free!) using all the sites spookily enough listed here on this tips board. We have limited google advertising as we can not afford anything else at the moment. Our idea was to get it up and running and then when we've established a fair number of villages we were going to get small businesses of that particular village to do a google adword type advert to the right hand side of the page.eg Basketmakers of Haytown, B&B in Maidstone etc. We are going to charge a nominal amount say a fiver for 6 months worth of ads coming up when people view the village page. We've already worked out a way that we can make it for small village businesses only. We've spent out alot of money with no returns and I've worked very hard on this site to get it up and running so I was mortified to see all your comments! We DO NOT hand on any emails addresses to ANYONE so the spam that you are receiving is nothing to do with our site. We are very aware of the data protection act in the UK and adhere to it scrupulously. When my Husband can take a week off work he will be updating the site so that editing will be easier and all the niggly problems will be ironed out. We always intended to get professional advice on the Terms and Conditions before the advertising started. Please Please don't abandoned our site now - it's just starting to take off! Cally Keohane