This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------5B05CDB922B40ED40C3CD0B0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --------------5B05CDB922B40ED40C3CD0B0 Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.123] by pioneernet.net with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.03) id A6B72A46021A; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:25:43 -0700 Received: (from [email protected]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e5LJBUr26132; Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:11:30 -0700 Resent-Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 12:11:30 -0700 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Wed Jun 21 12:11:29 2000 From: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 15:11:03 EDT Old-To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 108 Subject: [PACENTRE-L] Ancestry.com purchases Rootsweb Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1556 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] X-RCPT-TO: <[email protected]> X-Mozilla-Status2: 00000000 Dear List members: A dark day in genealogy! Ancestry.com, a paid genealogy site, has this day announced that it has acquired Rootsweb, a free site. Our own list has recently had problems with publishers hawking their wares while masquerading as friendly, helpful co-listers. Now, the giant Ancestry.com has swallowed up Rootsweb. Can total intrusive advertising and pop-up ads be far behind? Rootsweb has sent e-mails to its' contributors announcing that they will be given a free six-month subscription to Ancestry.com. This offer is a slap in the face to every person who sent in a check or used a credit card to support the activities of the one truly free genealogy site on the Internet. I'm enclosing the link to Ancestry's announcement. Read it and weep! <A HREF="http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/rootsrelease.htm">Ancestry.co m - Roots Web</A> Kim ==== PACENTRE Mailing List ==== Don't forget to check for alternate spellings of your surnames; people 100 years ago weren't always good spellers! --------------5B05CDB922B40ED40C3CD0B0--
Dona: I don't think you read what RootsWeb said. QUOTE *********************************************************************** More good news: 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 Thanks again for your support! Now, let's go figure out where great-great-grandpa really came from, before that UFO deposited him in rural Indiana in 1848... Karen ************************************************************************ UNQUOTE Cecil Dona Van Voorst wrote: > > Dear List members: > > A dark day in genealogy! Ancestry.com, a paid genealogy site, has this day > announced that it has acquired Rootsweb, a free site. Our own list has > recently had problems with publishers hawking their wares while masquerading > as friendly, helpful co-listers. Now, the giant Ancestry.com has swallowed up > Rootsweb. Can total intrusive advertising and pop-up ads be far behind? ***** snip ***** -- Cecil Houk, ET1 USN Ret., AG6I San Diego CA 92154-3654 mailto:[email protected] ANDERSON-BLAKELY-EGGERS-FORD-HOUK-KIMSEY-MONTGOMERY-RULAFORD-SIMPSON Searchable GEDCOM: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=cchouk See also: http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=donhouk My Web page menu: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~cchouk/rulaford/menu.htm