To all. There is lots of talk within the CC circles all over the nation (CC meaning County Coordinators) Some sites have been moved off of the rootsweb site by the CC's because of the buy-out of rootsweb by Ancestry. Ancestry is forcing the CC's to place banners on each page of their web site for Ancestry and the possibility of Ancestry taking from our sites for their gain. I myself am in a crossroads on what to do. I do not want what has been given in good faith to a free website to anyone who wants to research and moving to a website that will cost and keeping the information free to anyone. There is talk at this point of trying to find another server who will host the GenWeb community but it does not look good at this time. So hope all will bear with all the county CC's until this is all over. The problem with moving to some of the free web servers is the band width which is regulated such as GeoCities/Yahoo and some of the others. Another words when your bandwidth has been used up for a time frame no one is allowed into the site until that time frame expires, which sometimes is up to a week. So much for that idea. Some sites have been lucky enough to get into their library and use their server some are not so fortunate to be able to do that. Trying to keep the information on the web site free is becoming difficult. Too many are buying up the little guys and making a profit off of other people's work. Well, now I am just rambling so will conclude for now that I am looking at other aspects to keep the work that has been done so far free to all to research. ****************************************************************************** ************ Sharon Gill Vanden Bossche _Home Page_ (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~familygenealogy03/index.htm) _E-mail_ (http://SharonV45@aol.com/) : Visit - _Honoring my Family Veteran's_ (http://www.freewebs.com/sharonv45/index.htm) Hostess of ST. JOSEPH County, IN web sites at: _Rootsweb_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~instjose/) _Yahoo_ (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/StJosephCo_Indiana/) Take a look at our Rootsweb site it is really great - people have generously contributed, to make researching St. Joseph County, a "GREAT" place to visit and research. Also take a look at the _Wood Lake Scout Reservation's 50th Anniversary_ (http://www.rootsweb.com/~instjose/scouting/woodlake50.htm) Web Site **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001)