Robert Melson wrote: > Hugh Watkins <hugh.watkins@gmail.com> writes: > > > > 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.html > > > > > > 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 > > > > silly old BOB > > > > my own > > http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Ednkcen/index.html > > > > is now also > > http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/%7Ednkcen/index.html > > and the old links all work by redirects > > > > Hugh W > > 'Scuse me, Hugh, but that's NOW. Have you thought about, say, 6 > months or a year from now? I am not saying anything WILL happen, > only wondering if it MIGHT, and I wouldn't be at all surprised. > Unlike certain unnamed parties, I have no faith in the kindness and > generosity of Ancestry OR their parent corporation, who're in this > for the money and not because they're altruists. show me your own websites on rootsweb I have at least ten thousand pages including world connect if "they" can make money out of my humble efforts, good luck to them because they will enable my work to survive my own death Huh 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>