----- Original Message ----- From: "Gary Harlow" <gdharlow@sbcglobal.net> To: <mo-cw@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 11:32 PM Subject: Re: [MO-CW] Missouri site > Diane, whenever I get to the bottom of the link you have to click on, it > takes me to a site to subscribe to the New mailing list. Well whenever I > get there it has Ancestrys name on it. So are they tied to it also? > Gary > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: Mike & Diane <garebel@embarqmail.com> > To: mo-cw@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2008 10:51:15 AM > Subject: [MO-CW] Missouri site > > Ted & All, > > I do apologize for not letting everyone know sooner about what was going > on > but we all got hit for a loop on Friday from Rootsweb/Ancestry. Here is an > email that was sent to all of the state GenWeb sites: > > RootsWeb Announcement > Thursday, March 13, 2008 > > As you know, The Generations Network has hosted and funded the RootsWeb > online community since June 2000, thereby maintaining RootsWeb as the > world > s oldest and largest free genealogy website. TGN remains committed to this > mission and believes that RootsWeb is an absolutely invaluable and > complementary resource to Ancestry.com, our flagship commercial family > history site. We believe in both services and want to see both communities > prosper and grow. > > As part of this goal, we have decided to "transplant" RootsWeb onto the > Ancestry.com domain beginning next week. This move will not change the > RootsWeb experience or alter the ease of navigation to or within RootsWeb. > > RootsWeb will remain a free online experience. What will be different is > that the Web address for all RootsWeb pages will change from > <http://www.rootsweb.com>www.rootsweb.com to > <http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com>www.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Again, the > RootsWeb experience is not changing. > > The decision to host RootsWeb on Ancestry.com is being made for one > primary > reason: we believe that the users of each of our two main websites can be > better served if they have access to the best services available on both. > Simply stated, we want to introduce more Ancestry.com users to RootsWeb > and > vice versa. > > Today, despite the fact that Ancestry.com and RootsWeb.com are the two > most > frequently visited family history sites on the Web, only 25 percent of > visitors to Ancestry.com visited RootsWeb in January 2008, while only 20 > Percent of visitors to RootsWeb visited Ancestry.com (according to > Comscore > Media Metrix). We think we will serve our users best by doing a better job > of letting them know what is available on both Ancestry.com and RootsWeb. > Hosting RootsWeb on Ancestry.com is the first step towards making this > happen, but we will absolutely look for more and better ways down the road > to advance this goal. > > Hosting RootsWeb on Ancestry.com will also make it easier for us to make > changes and improvements to the RootsWeb experience in the future. > > All old RootsWeb URLs will continue to work, whether they are bookmarks or > Favorites, links to or from a hosted page or URLs manually typed in your > Internet browser. We will have a redirect in place so that all old URLs > will > automatically end up on the appropriate new RootsWeb URL. You will never > need to update your old favorites or links unless you want to. We have > worked to make the transition as seamless as possible for our users, and > this change should have a minimal impact on your experience with the site. > RootsWeb will remain a free online experience dedicated to providing you > with a place where our community can find their roots together. If you > have > questions regarding this change please email them to > <mailto:feedback@rootsweb.com>feedback@rootsweb.com. > > Thanks, > Tim Sullivan > CEO > The Generations Network, Inc. > > > > As everyone knows once the sites get behind Ancestry's walls it wouldn't > be > too long before they have to start paying for the information contained on > the USGenWeb sites. This is the reason we are moving them. Some are > staying > with Rootsweb but the majority are moving. As of yesterday some 29 states > moved their sites from Rootsweb and I am sure more will be following very > soon. > > The USGenWeb has always been committed to providing free genealogy for > everyone and we all want to make sure these sites remain free to everyone. > The Civil War site is up and running. It is online here: > http://www.mogenweb.org/mocivwar/ > > If anyone has any more questions I will be glad to try and answer them for > you. > > Diane > > > http://www.ncgenweb.us/ncduplin/duplin.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgreene/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncjones/jones.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~nclenoir/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncnewhan/nh.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpasqu2/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncpender/pender.htm > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncperqu2/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncmil/ > http://www.mogenweb.org/mocivwar/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MO-CW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > MO-CW-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message