I'm finding that facebook has a lot more genealogy sites and they are being used. Dee in Phoenix  www.azwvgs.org - West Valley Genealogical SocietyWhen a person dies, a library closes. Researching: NJ: Snook, Bozarth, Dickerson, Dalton, Hicks, Asay NY: Semlear, Stoothoff, Foster, Murray, Dierks, Cairns PA: Hicks, Shaw, Roberts, Swartz/Black, Penrose Nova Scotia: Arthur, Hutt, Eisenhauer, Conrod, Morris   From: Elizabeth Knowlton via <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sunday, June 14, 2015 4:32 AM Subject: Re: [NYC-ROOTS] NYC-ROOTS Message Boards     While I am sure Rootsweb (and eventually Ancestry and even WE) will disappear, at the moment the Message Boards for Rootsweb and Ancestry that I checked, mainly New York Co., are absolutely identical, down to the interface, colors, etc.  You may enter the message boards through either Rootsweb or Ancestry, the only difference being that you do not need a subscription with Rootsweb. So encourage your non-subscribing friends to utilize what is here right now.  I live in one of the largest cities in the USA, and even here we have no access in our homes or even our branch libraries to Ancestry.  Libraries are on hard times--for a while this year my branch was open only a few days a week, all part time workers were let go, etc.  I have access to the libraries of two counties, and I think in only one is Ancestry available right there in the main library.     Believing in the Glass Half Full theory of life, I suggest we use Rootsweb to its fullest extent right now:  our mailing lists (only on Rootsweb), World Connect's database of family trees (which you can easily upload to and download from to your own computer database plus can be seen for free by others), the message boards, and many free search engines and databases.  When it is going/gone (like my knees, my eyesight, etc.), then it is gone.  For now, Eat, Drink, and Be Merry.     And also, a reminder, those of us who use Digest ask that you delete long strings of unrelated messages below your new message and that you use relevant Subject Lines because we cannot "just delete" a digest without scrolling through the whole thing lest we lose new messages at the bottom.  THANKS Elizabeth On 6/14/2015 3:00 AM, [email protected] wrote: > Message: 2 > Date: Sat, 13 Jun 2015 17:22:13 -0400 > From: Robert Pieterse<[email protected]> > Subject: [NYC-ROOTS] Message  Biards > To:[email protected] > Message-ID:<[email protected]> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 > > > > > I just  noted  there  are  ore  messages  being  posted  on  ancestry  message  boards  rather  than  roots  we >  > All  the  bards  I  subscribe  to  on  roots  the  number  of  message  have greatly  reduced  in the  past  two  years. >  > Messages  posted  to  ancestry  to not  wind up  on  roots  web  and  vice  versa. >  > I  would  not  be  surprised  if  roots  web  became  obsolete  in  the  near  future  There  sure  is  a  drastic  reduction  in  volume.. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message