fyi > > Update on the News: Colorado's state pages are safely back on Root$web. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~cogenweb/comain.htm > > > You Read It Here First: As reported here yesterday, Root$web has > announced the beta version of its new WorldConnect Project, which is > essentially another online GEDCOM storage site. Among the many > fine features listed, one seems to be missing: ad banners on every page > [currently Ubid and Office Max]. Some of the GEDCOMs currently available > also include information on living persons. According to Root$web CEO, > Robert Tillman, "Unlike with certain other Web sites, you have full > control over your GEDCOM. You can change or remove it completely at any > time and RootsWeb will never burn it onto a CD-ROM or charge others to > access it." [For those of you who have noted the remarkable and increasing > similarities between Root$web and Ancestry, remember--imitation is the > sincerest form of flattery.] > > In Other News: Also reported in this week's New Zoo Review, DearMyrtle is > now hosted by Root$web. Someone sent me one of her columns this week and > she has wasted no time in shilling for RW's new free web space offer. Her > new address is: http://www.dearmyrtle.com. > > Root$web has also announced its revamped Donor appreciation page. The > top-listed donor for 1999 is ... Ancestry.com. They got top listing even > over the guy who donated in memory of his parents. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~donors > > > Today's quotation comes from a reader: > > "It is the lying at the top levels of our society that concerns me the > most because morality, like water and unlike money, really does trickle > down. I am concerned that some at the top have adopted a concept that > lying for the higher good is all right--that dishonesty in the name of > righteousness is just fine." > ---Jim Lehrer > > > This has been your Daily Board Show. >