Donna: There are still some Genweb pages out there, but a lot have been moved to keep Ancestry from charging for the information down the road. I don't know all that have moved, but the Cooper County, Missouri Gen Web page has moved. I don't have the address at my fingertips, but if anyone wants it just e-mail me with COOPER COUNTY WEB SITE in the subject so I don't lose it in all the spam I get and I will respond. Lee Ripp. ----- Original Message ----- From: "D. Hinson" <dhinson@suddenlink.net> To: <BOWER-L@rootsweb.com>; <BOWERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:48 AM Subject: [BOWER] US GenWeb > Sorry folks...here's the home page: http://www.usgenweb.org/ > > GenWeb doesn't appear dead as elections will be held in July. When > you > go to the elections page, it's clearly now hosted by Rootsweb on > Ancestry. There still appears to be a lot of info on the state > pages > and I know over the last year or two, I've forgotten about them and > not > had time to revisit them till now.....while I'm indoors (thankfully > in > the A/C) during our mid-95 degree dog days of summer. Hopefully you > will find something new on the pages to help you in your search. > > Donna > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BOWER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Thanks Leola. It's sad as so many volunteered their time to make genealogical information available free online. I know it costs money to maintain computers but not as much as Ancestry charges for subscriptions. When I've done searches on Ancestry at my local library, I have often been frustrated that advanced searches haven't worked very well to filter just what I want. I asked the librarian who says it's the same for her. Sometimes I think they want to make your search take longer so you subscribe longer. I like Heritage Quest for census records much better but they do not have indexes for a couple of the censuses. For those, you can do a search at the library on Ancestry, get the reel number, page number, etc., and then from home, go to Heritage Quest and pull up the record and print at home......if your local library allows access from home which ours does. Many states have set up a share program but you have to ask your librarian about it and get the web address and the password. In TX, it's called TexShare. It allows you to access various databases from home including Heritage Quest which includes census, Persi, books, and I believe Rev. War indexes. Wish they had more! But just that's a help. I suggest people ask their librarians about the shared databases as the library certainly didn't tell us about it when we moved back to TX and got our new library cards. We found out from the local Gen. Society. People can check out their local library's website as well as see if they list any kind of genealogical databases accessible from home. Leola Ripperger wrote: > Donna: There are still some Genweb pages out there, but a lot have > been moved to keep Ancestry from charging for the information down the > road. I don't know all that have moved, but the Cooper County, > Missouri Gen Web page has moved. I don't have the address at my > fingertips, but if anyone wants it just e-mail me with COOPER COUNTY > WEB SITE in the subject so I don't lose it in all the spam I get and I > will respond. > > Lee Ripp. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "D. Hinson" <dhinson@suddenlink.net> > To: <BOWER-L@rootsweb.com>; <BOWERS-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 25, 2008 8:48 AM > Subject: [BOWER] US GenWeb > > > >> Sorry folks...here's the home page: http://www.usgenweb.org/ >> >> GenWeb doesn't appear dead as elections will be held in July. When >> you >> go to the elections page, it's clearly now hosted by Rootsweb on >> Ancestry. There still appears to be a lot of info on the state >> pages >> and I know over the last year or two, I've forgotten about them and >> not >> had time to revisit them till now.....while I'm indoors (thankfully >> in >> the A/C) during our mid-95 degree dog days of summer. Hopefully you >> will find something new on the pages to help you in your search. >> >> Donna >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> BOWER-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BOWERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >