> 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 -- 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>

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. SOB -- Robert G. Melson | Rio Grande MicroSolutions | El Paso, Texas ----- Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it. -- Henry Ford melsonr@aragorn.rgmhome.net (Robert Melson)