Following is from the RootsWeb Review NEWS AND NOTES FROM ROOTSWEB ROOTSWEB IN OCTOBER -- 61 million hits and 117 million e-mails! Need we say it? RootsWeb has continued to grow. While we are more than pleased by our growth, it is forcing us to upgrade our servers and increase our bandwidth, which in turn severely strains our limited financial resources. If you would like to help RootsWeb grow, please consider becoming a RootsWeb Member or Sponsor. Information about how to do that follows the statistics. Here are the detailed statistics on our October 1998 operations: o 3,264 independently-authored Web sites hosted by RootsWeb. o 61,205,731 total Web hits, of which - 16,107,975 were HTML pages; - 9,252,813 were cgi-bin database searches and such; and - 35,844,943 were graphics (GIFs, JPEGs, etc.). o 1,223,214 file downloads from the USGenWeb Archives and the ROOTS-L Library. o 4,686 independently-operated mailing lists hosted by RootsWeb. o 117,570,146 pieces of e-mail shipped to our mailing lists. RootsWeb is supported primarily by users like you -- your contributions keep us alive. If you would like to become a RootsWeb Member or Sponsor (the cost is very modest) please visit: <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html>. Support from the Internet genealogical community is crucial to RootsWeb's operation. Contributions that we can employ to upgrade our servers are essential for us to be able to continue bringing more genealogical Web sites and mailing lists online. Thanks to Palladium Interactive <http://www.palladium.net/>, publishers of the superb Ultimate Family Tree software <http://www.uftree.com>, for its generous support of RootsWeb. And thanks to everyone who participates in RootsWeb. Clearly folks are continuing to exchange a great deal of information. Leon Rowland Moore 3924 Able LN Alexander, AR 72002-9404 501 847-4558 [email protected]