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    1. [ILMCLEAN-L] Fwd: Free Access Ancestry.com
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    3. >From: "Ancestry Daily News" <[email protected]> >To: Ancestry Daily News <[email protected]> >Subject: SPECIAL EDITION: Free Access >Date: Fri, 8 Dec 2000 11:27:57 -0800 > >Ancestry Daily News--Special Edition >http://www.ancestry.com/DailyNews >Brought to you by the publishers of >"The Source" and "Ancestry" Magazine >http://www.ancestry.com >========================================================== >Please do not reply to this message. >For contact information, please see the bottom of the message. >========================================================== >8 December 2000 > >SPECIAL EDITION > >----- Free Access to All Ancestry.com Subscriber Databases >through December 21 > >============================================================ >FREE ACCESS TO ALL ANCESTRY.COM SUBSCRIBER DATABASES >============================================================ >Here's the opportunity you've been waiting for! Ancestry.com is >offering free access to all of its databases through >December 21. This is your chance to see why more than 270,000 >researchers have chosen to subscribe to Ancestry.com in their quest >to discover their family's history. > >Included in the offer is access to the images of original census >records that Ancestry.com recently began posting. These top-quality >images represent a more true-to-life depiction of the records and are >in most cases better than the original in readability. > >Ancestry.com's Images Online are scanned in 256 shades of gray to >allow for variations in tone, as opposed to the less expensive method >of bi-tonal technologies used by competitors. The entire set of U.S. >Federal Censuses is expected to be online by spring 2001. A year's >access to these images will only cost current Ancestry.com members an >additional $39.95, as opposed to competitive offerings that in recent >interviews quoted impending subscription costs at as much as $99! > >In other words, for $99.90 ($59.95 regular subscription + $39.95 >Images Online subscription)--which is the price competitors are >charging for census only--Ancestry.com members will get access to the >census Images Online in better form, plus access to all of >Ancestry.com's other offerings. These offerings include such landmark >databases as the "PERiodical Source Index (PERSI)," the Biography and >Genealogical Master Index (BGMI), the American Genealogical- >Biographical Index (AGBI), the 1890 Census Reconstruction Project, >the Civil War Research Database, and Slave Narratives, just to name a >few. > >But that's not all. Ancestry.com has been adding databases at a >record-breaking pace and is on target to have more than 1 BILLION >records online by the end of the year. > >Recent additions include: > >--- "The Great Migration Begins: Immigrants to New England, 1620-33" >(see a sample entry at: >http://www.ancestry.com/library/view/news/articles/2071.asp) >--- The New York City police census of 1890 >--- 1910 Miracode indexes for Kentucky, Pennsylvania, and Virginia >--- Statewide vital records indexes for a growing number of states >--- New York's naturalization petition index of 1907-24 >--- Iowa cemeteries >--- And much more! > >Now for a limited time, new members of Ancestry.com will get $10 off >the price of an annual data subscription, giving you a year's access >to the No. 1 genealogical site on the Internet for only $49.95. And >as an added bonus, we'll include a FREE Ancestry Reference Library >CD-ROM (a $49.95 value itself!), which includes 15 genealogy >reference books to help you research like a pro! > >We're confident that once you have gotten a taste, you won't want to >be without continuous access to our site! > >Sign up for free access today at: >http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/freeaccess.htm?sourcecode=674 > >============================================================ > >Keep in touch with your family and share information and data with a >FREE MyFamily.com site. Sign up now for your site at: >http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?id=ancnewsfooter >__________________________________________________________________ > >Search Ancestry's World Tree--the largest, free database of family >files available on the Internet! Add your family tree today! >http://www.ancestry.com/awt > >============================================================ >Best Wishes, >Juliana Smith, Editor, Ancestry Daily News >Megan Vandre, Associate Editor >Please feel free to circulate this newsletter to other genealogy >enthusiasts! We hope that you will also credit the Daily News >(http://www.ancestry.com/dailynews/) as the source. To subscribe to >this newsletter, visit http://www.ancestry.com and type your e-mail >address in the box provided, or send an e-mail message to: >mailto:[email protected] with the word >"subscribe" in the subject line. For comments or submissions to the >Daily News, e-mail: mailto:[email protected] The editorial >staff regrets that it cannot respond to every e-mail or assist with >personal research, but it will periodically feature letters to the >editor in the Daily News. Ancestry.com reserves the right to edit for >content and clarity. >____________________________________________________________________ > >Ancestry >http://www.ancestry.com >Sales: 1-800-ANCESTRY >Customer Solutions: 801-431-5220 >Fax: (801) 426-3501 >E-mail: mailto:[email protected] >============================================================ >____________________________________________________________ >To unsubscribe, mailto:[email protected] or if the email >address is not clickable, simply copy the text to the right of >the 'mailto:' command and paste it into your email application and >hit send. You will be taken off the list immediately. Thank you! > > _____________________________________________________________________________________ Get more from the Web. FREE MSN Explorer download : http://explorer.msn.com

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