I had some of my data purloined without my permission and it's on Kindred Konnections or some such place just as big as life. At 02:16 PM 6/21/00 +0000, Pat Connors wrote: >I received this today and didn't pass it on sooner because I assumed >everyone who was on a rootsweb mailing list received one. > > >RootsWeb-Announce@rootsweb.com writes: >Good News, Bad News, Good News: The Merger of RootsWeb and MyFamily.com > > Good news: You, our list and board administrators, have played a very > special role in making RootsWeb one of the largest and most popular > sites on the Internet. In May, we had over 149 million page views > (according to Nielsen NetRatings combined home and work statistics), > sent over 155 million e-mails, and handled over two million downloads > of files from the various archives hosted at RootsWeb. Everyone, take > a bow! This is an incredible community of genealogists, and the > advances we're all making in our research due to the sharing that > occurs here is unprecedented. Without you, it couldn't have happened. > > Bad news: The more popular RootsWeb becomes, the more costly it is to > simply stay alive and online. Expenses continue to exceed revenue. > We ran up a truly scary loss last year. Without outside help, it's > not clear how long we'd be able to go on like this. > > Good news: MyFamily.com (you may know them better as Ancestry.com) > recognizes the importance of the genealogical community that has grown > here at RootsWeb, and wants that community to continue to thrive. > They're excited to provide the financial stability we need to ensure > RootsWeb will be around for years to come. > > Brian and I are pleased by Ancestry.com's coming involvement with > RootsWeb. Now we can all focus on helping each other on the mailing > lists and message boards, uploading our GEDCOMs, and building Web > pages to share our research. > > Better news: As a special thank you for the hard work you do, > Ancestry.com is making the following offer: > > As a RootsWeb mailing list or board adminstrator, you are invited to > visit Ancestry.com today and sign up for a FREE THREE MONTH >SUBSCRIPTION > with no obligation. You'll gain full access to all 600 million names >in > more than 2,500 databases. Go to the following address to begin your >free > subscription now: > > http://ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrialx.asp?sourcecode=G11BB > <http://ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrialx.asp?sourcecode=G11BB> > > If you are already an Ancestry.com subscriber please call >1-800-595-1211 to > extend your current subscription. Select option #2 - Order Service. > > You must activate your FREE subscription by July 5, 2000. > > More good news: Nothing will change for you, no one is going to charge > you to use RootsWeb. You'll still find RootsWeb at www.RootsWeb.com. > Everything you're used to using will still be here: the 19,000 mailing > lists, the hundreds of millions of names in free genealogy databases, > the interactive learning guides, the weekly RootsWeb Review and > Missing Links, the numerous tools for tracing your family history, the > tens of thousands of message boards, the thousands of independently > authored web sites. RootsWeb will still support worthy genealogy > projects and societies, such as the USGenWeb Project > (www.USGenWeb.org), the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild > (ISTG.rootsweb.com) and the FreeBMD Project (FreeBMD.rootsweb.com), > and other groups that provide free genealogical resources. > > And don't worry, you won't be charged to access RootsWeb. No one > will put your data on CD without your permission. Our Privacy Policy > (http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/pledge.html) and our Acceptable User > Policy (http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html) are unchanged. > Other promises made over the years will continue to be honored. You'll > > still deal with the same RootsWeb volunteers and employees. In > fact, most users won't notice any changes, except exciting new tools, > more content, and better genealogical resources. > > If you would like more information, please check out our > official press release at > > http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/rootsrelease.htm > >-- > >Pat Connors, Sacramento CA, listowner >Siochain Leat (peace be with you) > >Researching: Connors/O'Connor, McEntee, Campbell, Flynn/O'Flynn, Smith, >Phillips, Carter, Boyle, O'Rourke, Healey, Cullinan, Hoare, Todd, Owen, >Booth, Gallagher, Fahey, Ryan, Haviland > > >http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~nymets >http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/c/o/n/Pat-Connors/ >mailto:nymets11@pacbell.net > > > >==== NYRENSSE Mailing List ==== >Some Rensselaer Births, Marriages & Deaths: http://www.angelfire.com/fl/Sumter/Troy.html >Rensselaer County Genweb page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyrensse/ >GenConnect Board: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/NY/Rensselaer >Listowner: Pat Connors mailto:nymets11@pacbell.net > > Barb Baxter http://www.pinehurst.net/genealogy/