Folks - I sent this, THEN reread it -- I sure didn't mean to sound self-righteous!!!!! I bet those who didn't contribute were on othere lists, or didn't know about the need, or maybe couldn't contribute for some reason. Anyway, what I wanted to say is that those of us who can might want to increase our contribution. Marian Nancy - I agree. I contributed at the suggested rate (I think about $25) This is a small amount for all the benefits we receive. I was under the impression this was a suggested annual conntribution, but in reading that there are so few who feel a commitment to pay for what they get, I'm going to send in another contribution. Incidentally, in addition to all the great material online and in the maillists, the Review is really helpful - I print each one out, and read and enjoy - and USE the information included. A lot of work goes into preparation of this "paper." Thanks for the reminder. Marian 07:44 AM 5/6/99 -0400, Wilson wrote: >this is an excerpt from something I received from Rootsweb. Have you >made your annual contribution yet??? > > >although people use the site like crazy, >fewer than 7% of our users have chipped in to keep things going. >The other 93%? Perhaps they're busy, or they're broke, or they >won't pay unless they have to, or they don't think RootsWeb is >useful. > >Because RootsWeb's costs exceed its income, we can't provide all >the genealogical facilities we'd like to support. These could >include online searchable databases of pension records, census >indexes, vital records, or countless other valuable genealogical >services that we could easily provide -- if only we could afford >the staff to support them. And, ultimately, RootsWeb can't even >continue to exist if we don't bring our costs and revenues into >balance, something we want to have under control before the >transition to non-profit status (as opposed to losing money >status) is completed. > >If you would like to join the folks who are making RootsWeb >possible and thus help us bring new genealogical data >online, freely available to all, please visit: > <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html> >or send e-mail to: > RW-info@rootsweb.com > >nancy > > >==== NJMIDDLE Mailing List ==== >Need to hire a Researcher? ><http://www.rootsweb.com/~njmiddle/Towns/midcounty/paidresearch.htm> > > ==== NJMIDDLE Mailing List ==== To Search the Archives for this List: <http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl>