Folks, The following are portions on an email from Dr. Brian Leverich, an owner of Rootsweb, that concerns the problems they have been experiencing with the Rootsweb search engines. Apparently the Genseeker search engine server failed and they are know in the process of replacing it. However, the reason I resent portions of his email to the list is the information he provided in section b of the 2nd paragraph, ie, "to bring a *huge* (almost on the scale of the Salt Lake City's Family History Library) amount of genealogical data online." I don't know what the "business arrangement" is or what databases they might be 'tapping' into, but knowing these guys at Rootsweb, it will be something else and you will be HAPPY..HAPPY..HAPPY !! Keep your fingers crossed.......... Dave ================================================ >We haven't sorted out why the old server failed yet, but two days >ago we received a new server that we can allocate to SEEKER. > >The staff are going nuts because (a) we're just having a new DS-3 >wire installed (that's more than *4* times more bandwidth than we >have now) and (b) we're working on a business arrangement that could >allow us to bring a *huge* (almost on the scale of the Salt Lake >City's Family History Library) amount of genealogical data online. > >Anyway, we're spread *really* thin right now but we'll have SEEKER >back online as soon as possible. Sorry about the delay, B. > > >-- >Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L >RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/ >P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com > > >============================== >Search the Social Security Death Index online for FREE! >http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ >The most powerful SSDI search engine on the Internet! >