Who made it possible for RootsWeb to double the number of genealogy mailing lists in just the past year, so genealogists now have access to almost 5,000 lists through which they exchange about 120,000,000 messages each month? Who made it possible for genealogists to connect with 568,617 families being researched by more than 85,000 fellow genealogists through the RootsWeb Surname List? Who made it possible for the USGenWeb Archives and other projects to bring more than a gigabyte of data (that's the equivalent of more than 10,000,000 vital records) online, data that genealogists access more than 1,000,000 times each month? And who made it possible for all these resources to be made freely, yes FREELY, accessible to all genealogists? YOU DID. And you can make all these resources and new tools, like census records, city directories, and other genealogical resources available FREELY to genealogists this year. For less than cost of mailing just a few letters each month. By contributing $50 or more to RootsWeb last year, you helped make all of that possible. On behalf of the genealogical community we would like to thank you for your support, and we hope that you stay with us for another year and support our commitment to keep genealogical data free on the Internet. This year, with your support, RootsWeb intends to continue adding new free resources for all genealogists and new tools and benefits specifically for our contributors. What we achieve will be governed by how many folks choose to support RootsWeb, but this year we hope to make significant progress in bringing new resources online like: o US Census records o British birth/death/marriage records o City directories o County histories Your support is critical to our progress! Please consider renewing your contribution. To do so, you can use RootsWeb's secure server to renew over the Web by visiting: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html Or you can mail your contribution to RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative P.O. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222 AN IMPORTANT NOTE: Because e-mail addresses change and because RootsWeb has never had the resources to develop a formal membership database, it is possible that you received this note but you already had renewed. If that has happened, please accept our sincere apologies and drop us a note at <sponsors@rootsweb.com>. We'll be happy to correct our records. Also, very recent contributions aren't yet logged in. If you've recently contributed, but received this letter, and haven't received an acknowledgement, please be patient. Though if you don't hear anything within a week or two, write and ask "What happened!?!" And thank you again for your support! - Brian Leverich, Karen Isaacson, and the staff and volunteers at RootsWeb, and Ann Maloney Five Civilized Tribes research list administrator