Hello Lincoln County researchers At the bottom of this email is an announcement Diana and I received this morning from the folks who run rootsweb.com. Rootsweb.com is a company that offers webspace and email lists to genealogists all over God's green earth. Most of the USGenWeb county pages are on rootsweb.com. None of the Lincoln County KSGenWeb pages are but we do operate the email list through their service. We're not sure what the merger of rootsweb.com with myfamily.com signifies to this list. Diana and I have run this list for a couple years at least. As administrators of the list we have helped some of you log in and off. We have also done our best to enter as many names as possible of people we have entered on the Lincoln County KSGenWeb page to ensure the presence of these names in the rootsweb.com archives for others to search... thus killing two birds with one stone (i.e. Lincoln COunty surnames can be searched at both the main KSGenWeb site on skyways.lib as well as at rootsweb.com) Diana and I will not be signing up to join myfamily.com. We have no interest in doing so. If this means the Lincoln County email list administration will be given to someone else that's no big deal... we hope. HOpefully the move of rootsweb.com to myfamily.com will be an easy one with no problems. But we thought we'd share the announcement with all of you just so you'd know what's coming down the pike. Happy hunting! Bill and Diana - -------------------------------- Here is the message Diana and I received: Resent-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 05:09:25 -0700 Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 05:06:02 -0700 Message-Id: <200006211206.FAA14067@bw-10.rootsweb.com> To: RootsWeb-Announce@rootsweb.com From: RootsWeb-Announce@rootsweb.com Subject: Good News, Bad News, Good News: The Merger of RootsWeb and MyFamily.com Resent-Message-ID: <27Zdj.A.76G.1BLU5@lists6.rootsweb.com> Resent-From: RootsWeb-Announce@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <RootsWeb-Announce@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/2 X-Loop: RootsWeb-Announce@rootsweb.com Precedence: list Resent-Sender: RootsWeb-Announce-request@rootsweb.com X-UIDL: f3a436daf67bcbe05897f0178c0aea92 Good News, Bad News, Good News: The Merger of RootsWeb and MyFamily.com Good news: You, our list and board administrators, have played a very special role in making RootsWeb one of the largest and most popular sites on the Internet. In May, we had over 149 million page views (according to Nielsen NetRatings combined home and work statistics), sent over 155 million e-mails, and handled over two million downloads of files from the various archives hosted at RootsWeb. Everyone, take a bow! This is an incredible community of genealogists, and the advances we're all making in our research due to the sharing that occurs here is unprecedented. Without you, it couldn't have happened. Bad news: The more popular RootsWeb becomes, the more costly it is to simply stay alive and online. Expenses continue to exceed revenue. We ran up a truly scary loss last year. Without outside help, it's not clear how long we'd be able to go on like this. Good news: MyFamily.com (you may know them better as Ancestry.com) recognizes the importance of the genealogical community that has grown here at RootsWeb, and wants that community to continue to thrive. They're excited to provide the financial stability we need to ensure RootsWeb will be around for years to come. Brian and I are pleased by Ancestry.com's coming involvement with RootsWeb. Now we can all focus on helping each other on the mailing lists and message boards, uploading our GEDCOMs, and building Web pages to share our research. Better news: As a special thank you for the hard work you do, Ancestry.com is making the following offer: As a RootsWeb mailing list or board adminstrator, you are invited to visit Ancestry.com today and sign up for a FREE THREE MONTH SUBSCRIPTION with no obligation. You'll gain full access to all 600 million names in more than 2,500 databases. Go to the following address to begin your free subscription now: http://ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrialx.asp?sourcecode=G11BB <http://ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrialx.asp?sourcecode=G11BB> If you are already an Ancestry.com subscriber please call 1-800-595-1211 to extend your current subscription. Select option #2 - Order Service. You must activate your FREE subscription by July 5, 2000. More good news: Nothing will change for you, no one is going to charge you to use RootsWeb. You'll still find RootsWeb at www.RootsWeb.com. Everything you're used to using will still be here: the 19,000 mailing lists, the hundreds of millions of names in free genealogy databases, the interactive learning guides, the weekly RootsWeb Review and Missing Links, the numerous tools for tracing your family history, the tens of thousands of message boards, the thousands of independently authored web sites. RootsWeb will still support worthy genealogy projects and societies, such as the USGenWeb Project (www.USGenWeb.org), the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild (ISTG.rootsweb.com) and the FreeBMD Project (FreeBMD.rootsweb.com), and other groups that provide free genealogical resources. And don't worry, you won't be charged to access RootsWeb. No one will put your data on CD without your permission. Our Privacy Policy (http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/pledge.html) and our Acceptable User Policy (http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html) are unchanged. Other promises made over the years will continue to be honored. You'll still deal with the same RootsWeb volunteers and employees. In fact, most users won't notice any changes, except exciting new tools, more content, and better genealogical resources. If you would like more information, please check out our official press release at http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/rootsrelease.htm Thanks again for your support! Now, let's go figure out where great-great-grandpa really came from, before that UFO deposited him in rural Indiana in 1848... Karen Bill and Diana Sowers - wrs@cjnetworks.com- check out our SCHREMMER-POLLOCK families page at: http://www.cjnetworks.com/~wrs/index.htm Lincoln County Kansas KSGenweb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/lincoln/index.html Gove County Kansas KSGenWeb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/gove/index.html Graham County Kansas KSGenWeb Project page at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/graham/index.html Barton County Kansas ALHN web page at: http://www.geocities.com/irus86/