This is my first time to post on this discussion. I went through 149 pieces of e-mail that contained a lot of discussion that seemed to provide some valid questions to be answered but it would seem to me that most of that should be discussed once a tentative decision was made about moving the National Site and before actually moving it so that SC's and CC's could decided what direction they needed to take. There are several areas of concern to me as the GAGENWeb Peach County Coordinator: First, I inherited a site and have spent many hours working on that site to make it more functional. I did post a copyright notice in my name only because the SC said to do it when updating the e-mail links. Actually all the material on the site was not my contribution and I do not think I own it. If I have to leave the site the new CC will have all the code and work I put into it because that is what I want to happen. Second, when I first started doing Genealogy Research I became very stymied because Ancestry seemed to own virtually all the databases. At that time I was not aware of USGENWeb and it sites. I ended up having to pay a month's subscription to Ancestry and when it was over did not renew it. I live off a Social Security check and could not afford to buy my own site. Which leads me to number Three: After my experiences starting out in Genealogy I absolutely think that we need to move everything off rootsweb (national, state, and county) and find something not associated with Ancestry. I really think that move followed by publicity about it would bring more _/*new researchers online*/_ because they would not have to pay for it. Finally, while I admit Google is a big conglomerate, has anyone thought about approaching them with this kind of idea??? Sure we might have some ads when they look us up but what they offer is for free!!! Free search!!!!! I would almost bet they would take us up on it and establish a new Genealogy Portion as a part of Google. Joe Borderieux Peach County Coordinator