----- Original Message ----- From: "Vicki Lindsay Thauvin" <vicki@rootsweb.com> To: <LISTADMINS-ANNOUNCE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 15, 2002 11:47 AM Subject: IMPORTANT - PLEASE READ > Dear Valued Volunteer, > > In an effort to continually improve communication with you, our > volunteers who spend so much time on behalf of others, we would like > to establish a new tradition. Beginning today, we will be releasing > new and exciting information to our Mailing List and Message Board > Administrators before making this information available to the general > public. Given that many RootsWeb users consult admins regarding > various issues, this not only gives you extra time to prepare for > questions and comments from your list or board members but also gives > you the "inside scoop" into the happenings at RootsWeb.com. > > This week, we are pleased to announce the upcoming launch of a new > document collection on our sister site, Ancestry.com. We have > included the text of the announcement below. > > Best regards, > Laryn Brown > Director and Executive Producer > RootsWeb.com > > > ================================================================== > > HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS ARE COMING TO ANCESTRY.COM > > ================================================================== > > Have you ever wondered what life was like for your ancestors during > the Civil War? The Roaring 20's? The Depression? Newspapers can give > us a window into their world, revealing what the nation was thinking > about during these and other historic eras. In addition, newspapers > can also give us important details about the ancestors we seek. > Wedding and birth announcements, obituaries, school graduation and > military appointments are all chronicled in our nations newspapers. > > In the next few weeks, Ancestry.com will be bringing these valuable > genealogical resources as close as your home computer, launching an > entirely new subscription collection of historical documents. Never > before available at this level of convenience or quality, our > Historical Newspaper Collection will begin with newspapers from the > western frontier in the 1870's, the Midwest at the turn of the > century, and the long time standard of our nation's news, The New York > Times (1857-1866). > > We will start with 100,000 newspaper pages and add 1,000 pages per > working day to keep the collection growing. With over 50 million pages > slated to be posted, we will soon have the largest collection of > historical newspapers ever assembled. > > Our free viewer software allows you to see these pages in the comfort > of your home, with all of the convenience and power you have learned > to expect from Ancestry.com. The Newspaper Collection is fully > searchable, and individual pages can be saved to your home computer or > printed for your family history files. > > At Ancestry.com, it is our goal to make our collections available at a > very reasonable rate. This new collection may not interest all > researchers and so is being offered as a separate subscription. This > keeps the overall price of our core services affordable. Current > subscribers to any of our collections can add a Historical Newspaper > subscription at a greatly discounted rate. > > This new offering comes at an exciting time at Ancestry.com where, as > announced a few weeks ago, our core data subscribers will be seeing > more and more images accompanying new datasets at no additional cost. > In addition, census subscribers will be seeing exclusive images of the > 1930 U.S. Federal Census going on line within hours of its release. > The new Historical Newspaper Collection promises to be just as > exciting and valuable to researchers. > > Get a flavor of the Ancestry Historical Newspaper Collection at: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?sourceid=2079&targetid=3491 > > >