This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------2280B6B1E49 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit -- -=CHESKA=- E-mail address: cheska@ix.netcom.com Web site: <http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/6630/> Sponsor: BADGLEY, CLAYTON, COOPER, & MILLS surname lists List Manager: QUAKER-ROOTS discussion list RootsWeb: Dedicated to Keeping Access to Online Genealogy Free http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html --------------2280B6B1E49 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <RootsWeb-Announce-request@rootsweb.com> Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com ([63.92.80.125]) by mail06.dfw.mindspring.net (Mindspring/Netcom Mail Service) with ESMTP id sl1cig.ppm.33qs88a Wed, 21 Jun 2000 08:17:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e5LCBKA29052; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 05:11:20 -0700 Resent-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 05:10:49 -0700 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 05:07:26 -0700 Message-Id: <200006211207.FAA14075@bw-10.rootsweb.com> To: RootsWeb-Announce@rootsweb.com From: RootsWeb-Announce@rootsweb.com Subject: Good News, Bad News, Good News: The Merger of RootsWeb and MyFamily.com Resent-Message-ID: <_YgytD.A.FDH.JDLU5@lists6.rootsweb.com> Resent-From: RootsWeb-Announce@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <RootsWeb-Announce@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/3 X-Loop: RootsWeb-Announce@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: RootsWeb-Announce-request@rootsweb.com Good News, Bad News, Good News: RootsWeb and MyFamily.com Merger Good news: You, our contributors, with your financial support, have helped create at RootsWeb one of the largest and most popular sites on the Internet. In May, we had over 149 million page views (according to Nielsen NetRatings combined home and work statistics), sent over 155 million e-mails, and handled over two million downloads of files from the various archives hosted at RootsWeb. Everyone, take a bow! This is an incredible community of genealogists, and the advances we're all making in our research due to the sharing that occurs here is unprecedented. Bad news: The more popular RootsWeb becomes, the more costly it is to simply stay alive and online. Even with your generous support, expenses continue to exceed revenue. We ran up a truly scary loss last year. Without outside help, it's not clear how long we'd be able to go on like this. Good news: MyFamily.com (you may know them better as Ancestry.com) recognizes the importance of the genealogical community that has grown here at RootsWeb, and wants that community to continue to thrive. They're excited to provide the financial stability we need to ensure RootsWeb will be around for years to come. Brian and I are pleased by Ancestry.com's coming involvement with RootsWeb. Now we can all focus on helping each other on the mailing lists and message boards, uploading our GEDCOMs,