the_verminator@comcast.net wrote: > mels...@aragorn.rgmhome.net (Robert Melson) wrote: > > > Please 'scuse the multi-post .. thought it the best way > > to get this out to "my" groups. > > > > Interesting article here: > > > > http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/03/rootsweb-to-be... > > > > See also: http://blogs.rootsweb.com/newsroom > > > > RootsWeb to be Moved to Ancestry.com. > > > > As a more-or-less skeptic, I wonder when the other shoe will drop > > and RW will be either terminated or become a for-a-fee service, > > despite Sullivan's claims to the contrary.. > > > > Suspicious Ol' Bob > > I believe what will happen is at some point all RootsWeb will be > frozen and no new input allowed and then it will be treated as any > other Ancestry on-line database (i.e. Read Only). > >>From that point on all RootsWeb functions (mailinglists, SSDI, > USGENWEB, etc.) would be done on Ancestry rather than RootsWeb. > > "the_verminator@comcast.net" <the_verminator@comcast.net> you guys make me laugh I have had time to sleep and think about this what is going on is a Web 2 site (all the new family trees, photos , sound bites on ancestry.com By making rootsweb.ancestry.com a subdomain the hits will be added to the ancestry score and enable TGN to chareg a higher price for advertising ============================================ the genealogy on line market is becoming saturated and new competitors have opened a price and quality war with ancestry when ready the freebie newfamilysearch will dominate they are busy keying in new census indexes right now for example and scanning all the film in the granite mountain I think ancestry will find its future profits in advertising and web shopping rather than subscriptions ========================= It well may become a freebie like google (mail web pages grousp) or AOL bring your own connection AOL is very much dominated by advertising too I joined aol.co.uk as a ISP but often was roaming and logged on from other systems I was an early adopter of TalkTalk and changed my ISP and telephony to them later aol.co.uk connections was sold to TalkTalk All UK ISP are basically using the local copper of the national telephone network - either rebadged or with their own server and glass fibre backbone (except the cable TV companies but that package is more expensive as a whole) When new familysearch is launched TGN may well be purely financed by advertising RootsWeb will continue to be a valuable site and so preserved more or less as is still running on Apache on Red Hat Linux Hugh W -- For genealogy and help with family and local history in Bristol and district http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Brycgstow/ http://snaps4.blogspot.com/ photographs and walks GENEALOGE http://hughw36.blogspot.com/ MAIN BLOG Hugh Watkins <hugh.watkins@gmail.com>