Amen to helping Rootsweb. Dan Rootsweb runs on your much needed donations; Learn about Rootsweb http://www.rootsweb.com Check out the Mailing Lists at http://www.rootsweb.com/~maillist/ ---------- > From: [email protected] > To: [email protected] > Subject: [ROLL-CALL-L] FYI Please read > Date: Wednesday, January 06, 1999 3:52 PM > > http://rootsweb.com/ > The Internet's Oldest and Largest Genealogy Site > > Home of ROOTS-L (founded 1987) > and > Home of the surname List (founded 1988) > > Support RootsWeb -- Please Contribute Now! > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > > So what's a RootsWeb, anyway? > The RootsWeb project has two missions: > > To make large volumes of data available to the online > genealogical community at minimal cost. > To provide support services to online genealogical > activities such as USENET newsgroup moderation, mailing list > maintenance, surname list generation, etc. > RootsWeb's own genealogy runs back more than a decade to the > days of net.roots. RootsWeb folks have been involved since > the early days of ROOTS-L and the RootsWeb Surname List, and > more recently were among the founders of the RAND Genealogy > Club. We created the RootsWeb site to continue to support > the genealogical community as the needs of the community > outstripped the ability of RAND and other organizations to > host the genealogical community on a guest basis. > > > Support RootsWeb! > Contribute Using Our Secure Server > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > More about RootsWeb | RootsWeb is international > Who pays for RootsWeb? > Contribute to the Cooperative and Support Internet Genealogy > How to provide data | What's new > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > > > RootsWeb Search Engines > RootsWeb is really about search engines -- databases and > software married together to let you search for records > online. You'll find we already have enhanced search engines > for the 568,617-name RootsWeb Surname List and the Roots > Location List. As resources allow, we'll be bringing more > databases like the Social Security Death Index, census > extracts, and county history indices online. > > > Guest Home Pages > RootsWeb freely provides space on our servers for 3,395 > homepages of genealogical and historical societies and to > groups such as US GenWeb. The Olive Tree Genealogy Homepage, > with its ship lists and other resources, was one of the > first to join us at RootsWeb. Who else is here? Pay a visit > to our guests page to find out. > > We would like to freely provide space to individuals, but we > aren't sure at this point whether we'll have the resources > to handle that activity. > > > Comprehensive Links to Other Online Data Sources > The links on these RootsWeb pages point to actual > information and data sources, and not just to other Web > pages that just point to yet other Web pages. > > The ROOTS-L Resources > The ROOTS-L State Pages > Cyndi Howells' List > > Downloadable Files > This area contains more than 1200 megabytes of files that > are available over the Web by FTP transfer or by the archive > function of the mailing list software. > > > ROOTS-L Archives > > USGenWeb Archives (Absolutely awesome!) > > User Mailing Lists > We've installed the SmartList mailing list manager, which > enables us to support user lists with 10 to 1,000,000 > subscribers. RootsWeb currently hosts more than 4,913 > mailing lists. If you're a RootsWeb sponsor and would like a > mailing list for your genealogical society, family > association, or whatever (and if you or another volunteer > are willing to handle the not-too-difficult chores of being > a listowner), there is a Mail List Request Form to assist > you. > > > Contributor Services > While all of RootsWeb's databases, mailing lists, and other > activities are open to the public, selected services that > are conveniences (like automatic notification when your > surnames appear in new material uploaded to RootsWeb) are > available only to Contributors and Sponsors. Some services > that are expensive to provide (like personal Web space or > Web serving of personal GEDCOM files) are available at a > nominal extra cost to Sponsors. > > > Webmasters and Listowners > If you are the Webmaster of a site hosted at RootsWeb or > Listowner of a mailing list served from RootsWeb, you'll > find FAQs and other useful things by following this link. > > > Please Give Us Feedback! > Comments, suggestions, and especially bug reports are more > than welcome -- just send them to RootsWeb HelpDesk. Please > be patient if it takes us a bit to respond, though, because > we're all hacking away at the RootsWeb search engines and > registries. > > > > ==== ROLL-CALL Mailing List ==== > This is your list relax and enjoy it hopefully we will have success > with our genealogy research.