This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------0865361BF3A2ED2C7645CDFE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi, I am forwarding this to all the Rootsweb mail lists I frequent on the Internet. -- Bonnie Burkhardt <[email protected]> <[email protected]> Researching: Allender/Arbo/Archibald/Bergman/Burdick/Burkhardt/Debruler/ Deline/Holden/Hathorn/Hyett/Keyser/Lashley/Long/Pervorse/ Porter/Rice/Sternbacher/Stone --------------0865361BF3A2ED2C7645CDFE Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from mailgw.flash.net (deimos.flash.net [209.30.0.43]) by centurion.flash.net (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id PAA15484 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 15:09:54 -0600 (CST) Received: from bl-30.rootsweb.com (bl-30.rootsweb.com [207.113.245.30]) by mailgw.flash.net (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id PAA09619 for <[email protected]>; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 15:09:53 -0600 (CST) Received: (from [email protected]) by bl-30.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id NAA17425; Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:08:38 -0800 (PST) Resent-Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 13:08:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 16:10:48 -0500 From: Dennis Zank <[email protected]> X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Old-To: migen-l <[email protected]>, "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Old-CC: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Rootsweb needs help!!! X-Priority: 2 (High) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Resent-Message-ID: <"OgTQQ.A.2PE.UpAg2"@bl-30.rootsweb.com> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/31 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] I don't normally do this put I think this is important to share since Karen and Brian have given so much. I will be sending my donation the first of the year. This msg came off the MIKENT-L Everyone on a very limited income, those new and young genealogy researchers with young families or people who already give to Roots Web may delete this message. For everyone else, I am begging you to listen. RootsWeb is run by a Mom and Pop operation called Brian Leverich and Karen Isaacson, husband and wife. They started RootsWeb out of the money in their pockets with the server in their home. Karen works for Rand Corp fulltime and Brian, a Phd in computers, does speaking engagements and keeps RootsWeb servers, equipment "pieced" together with whatever donations comes their way. Brian is determined to keep genealogy free on the internet. Our donations haven't been enough (about 2.5% of the users of RootsWeb sites donate) so he went out after a sponsor who wouldn't have strings attached. Palladium came across but was recently bought by the biggies, I think it was the Broderbund conglommerate - forget) and the money and equipment expected from Palladium didn't make the last payment. Soooo, Brian and Karen took out a $25,000 loan recently to keep our genealogy free out here. A thought has crossed some minds that the "biggies" are trying to break Brian and Karen down in order to get B and K to sell out to them. Brian and Karen are working to go non profit so down the road maybe some major contributions and foundation money will go their way. Brian says all involved in going non profit with an atty, etc, is mind boggling. In the meantime, RootsWeb is hurting in the financial support department. Anytime you are subscribed to a list or browse/search sites for genealogy information, note the domain in the url. Does it have rootsweb in the address? I am begging you, if you can afford it, to support the RootsWeb Genealogical Cooperative. If I have helped you in anyway with your research, would you please donate $12 or $24 to RootsWeb so we can keep all this great genealogy data on the internet free and even increase the data for users? I am doing my part by being a donor. Here is the site to learn about RootsWeb and the address to donate. http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html I know with Christmas we are all pretty well tapped out, but could you find $12 or $24 or even more by Jan? Think of those little pieces of paper with ancestors names on them that Grandpa, Grandma, Dad or Mom saved for you, how they would be flabbergasted at the time it is taking you to find a ggggrandparent by way of the internet and RootsWeb. By January, we will probably find the RootsWeb servers overloaded with all the new computers received as Christmas presents. It happens every year. A side note here - this is the best time to browse while everyone is in Wally World going crazy with shopping. Better get the browsing done now because January and the increase in people going online, it inevitably slows down. Thanks for listening and thank you to anyone who will contribute to RootsWeb. Written by Gloria Frazier Happy Holidays, Yvonne in Burke, VA Vive la USGenWeb Project! -- Denny Zank Researching the surnames of Adams, Axtell, Babcock, Blower, Bradley, Cavanaugh, Clarke, Cumings, Fenner, Howlett, Gross, Guiles Jawgno, Kingley, Kingsley, Montgomery, Myers, O'hara, Perrin, Rice, Root, Ross, Shaw, Stolp, Traxler, Woulters, Young, Zank USGenWeb Michigan Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/mi/mifiles.htm USGenWeb Clinton County Michigan Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~mibarry/barry.htm USGenWeb Clinton County Michigan Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~miclinto/clintmn.htm USGenWeb Eaton County Michigan Genealogy http://www.rootsweb.com/~mieaton/eatonmn.htm United States Internet Genealogical Society http://www.usigs.org/ --------------0865361BF3A2ED2C7645CDFE--