There has been a lot of discussion about this. From my understanding, RootsWeb is moving all of their sites. They will be under the banner of Ancestry.com and will no longer be free. The people that have done the work are moving what they have done under the thought that genealogy researchers would be able to use the information they posted for free-----this isn't going to be true when it is all moved under Ancestry, so many of the list administrators are moving THEIR information onto sites they can maintain themselves and still allow folks to search without paying------especially considering a lot of people can't afford the Ancestry membership. This is how I am understanding it from some of the lists I belong to. LaDonna Hinch In a message dated 3/12/2008 11:02:28 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: I am wondering if your pulling our, and I repeat our Butler County GenWeb site out of the Kentucky State GenWeb Sites list and for that matter, the USGenWeb Sites list is ill advised. When I first started using the Butler County, KY GenWeb Site, I didn't even know that one existed. I started with the US GenWeb Site, and drilled down to Kentucky, and then drilled down to Butler County. There it was, and I was thrilled that I had discovered this site. I have been using it ever since. My concern is that you are taking it off into your own little private domain, never ever to be discovered by future researchers again. The other thing that I don't like about your moving this site, one that a number of researchers have been contributing to over the years, is that you decided arbitrarily to do it on your own without consulting with other users, and asking for their permission to move their information to your private Web Site. I know that you are supposed to be the administrator of the site, but do you have authority to do this. I don't think so! I have seen nothing anywhere to suggest that we will be charged for using the Butler County GenWeb Site. If you are wanting to have your own private little Web Site, then maybe you should establish one just for your own use, and not at the expense of all of the researchers who have been contributing and using to this site over the years. Regards, Dave Jones **************It's Tax Time! Get tips, forms, and advice on AOL Money & Finance. (http://money.aol.com/tax?NCID=aolprf00030000000001)