Dear USGenWeb Members: By now, news of MyFamily.com's acquisition of RootsWeb has made its way through the genealogical community. We are thrilled with the overwhelming positive feedback we have received. I would like to take this opportunity to assure the USGenWeb Board and Members of MyFamily.com's desire to continue our support of your project. And in response to some of your questions, we will make the following pledges to the USGenWeb Project: * MyFamily will continue to support the USGenWeb Project with free, unlimited server space. * MyFamily will not place advertising banners on USGenWeb Project pages without the express permission of the page creator. * MyFamily will never charge for access to any USGenWeb data, nor will we use it in any way other than its current use, without the express permission of the contributor and/or the Project. * The USGenWeb.org and USGenWeb.net domains will be transfered to The USGenWeb Project. We have been working with Tim Stowell, the National Coordinator, to ensure a swift transfer. * MyFamily will continue to strive towards open communication with the Board and Members of the USGenWeb Project. On a related subject, I want to reassure you that all of the current RootsWeb features, including mailing lists, message boards, user databases, and WorldConnect GEDCOMs, will continue to be FREE. And while we will no longer solicit financial contributions, we will continue to honor all commitments to current contributors for tagline-free mailing lists, banner-free home pages, use of Personalized Mailing Lists (PML), vanity domains, etc. We appreciate your on-going support of RootsWeb, and look forward to a long relationship. Sincerely, Curt Allen Chairman of the Board MyFamily.com, Inc.