I have renewed my membership to Rootsweb. I feel that this group should be supported for all it has done for genealogy research online. ----- Original Message ----- From: <renewals@rootsweb.com> To: <ddavis@logicsouth.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 6:04 AM Subject: Renewal Reminder from RootsWeb > Who made it possible for RootsWeb to double the number of genealogy > mailing lists in just the past year, so genealogists now have access > to almost 16,000 lists through which they exchange about 150,000,000 > messages each month? Who made it possible for genealogists to connect > with over half a million families being researched by more than 85,000 > fellow genealogists through the RootsWeb Surname List? Who made it > possible for the USGenWeb Archives and other projects to bring more > than a gigabyte of data (that's the equivalent of more than 10,000,000 > vital records) online, data that genealogists access more than > 1,000,000 times each month? And who made it possible for all these > resources to be made freely, yes FREELY, accessible to all > genealogists? > > YOU DID. And you can make all these resources and new tools, like census > records, city directories, and other genealogical resources > available FREELY to genealogists this year. For less than cost of > mailing just a few letters each month. > > By contributing about $24 or more to RootsWeb, you > helped make all ofthat possible last year. On behalf of the > genealogical community wewould like to thank you for your > support, and we hope that you willjoin us again this year and > support our commitment to keepgenealogical data free on the Internet. > > This year, with your support, RootsWeb intends to continue adding > new free resources for all genealogists and new tools and benefits > specifically for our contributors. What we achieve will be governed by > how many folks choose to support RootsWeb, but this year we hope to > make significant progress in bringing new resources online like: > > o US Census records > > o British birth/death/marriage records > > o City directories > > o County histories > > Your support is critical to our progress! Please consider renewing > your contribution. To do so, you can use RootsWeb's secure server to > renew over the Web by visiting: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > Or you can mail your contribution to: > RootsWeb.Com, Inc. > P.O. Box 6798 > Frazier Park, CA 93222 > > AN IMPORTANT NOTE: Because e-mail addresses change and because > RootsWeb has never had the resources to develop a formal membership > database, it is possible that you received this note while you are > still a current contributor. If that has happened, please accept our > sincere apologies and drop us a note at <renewals@rootsweb.com>. > We'll be happy to correct our records. > > Also, very recent contributions aren't yet logged in. If you've > recently contributed, but received this letter, and haven't received > an acknowledgement, please be patient. Though if you don't hear > anything within a week or two, write and ask "What happened!?!" > > And thank you again for your support! > > - Brian Leverich, Karen Isaacson, and the staff > and volunteers at RootsWeb > >