Thought some of you might be interested in obtaining free web space or posting your gedcoms. Vicki ======================================== ANNNOUNCEMENTS FROM THE CEO by Robert R. Tillman <rrti@rootsweb.com> 1,768 FREE PAGES REQUESTS RECEIVED AND FULFILLED. As of 20 October 1999, the second week of the beta test of RootsWeb's Free Pages, we have received and fulfilled 1,768 requests for unlimited free Web space at RootsWeb. We strongly encourage all of you, particularly genealogy and historical societies, to move your Web sites to RootsWeb. Please tell your friends. To see the complete Free Pages announcement, please click on <http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/press/freepages.html>. Please remember that ONE Free Pages account can accommodate MULTIPLE Web sites, each of which can be located in a different section of RootsWeb. You can change or remove completely your Free Pages Web site at any time and RootsWeb will never burn it onto a CD-ROM or charge others to access it. FREEPAGES Directory (users' pages at FREEPAGES): <http://communities.rootsweb.com/free.html> o 2,227,126 NAMES ON ROOTSWEB WORLDCONNECT PROJECT AFTER FIRST WEEK OF BETA TEST. As of 20 October 1999, RootsWeb users have uploaded more than two million names to the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project. Many users have told us that the upload software used in the WorldConnect project is by far the fastest and most fully featured of its kind. You can search the names already uploaded or upload you own GEDCOM at: <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/>. You have full control over your GEDCOM at RootsWeb. 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. o ROOTSWEB WILL NOW ACCEPT GEDCOMs ON REMOVABLE MEDIA. If you are having trouble uploading your GEDCOM for any reason, please feel free to send it to us on a floppy disk or ZIP drive disk to: RootsWeb WorldConnect Project, 1001 Tower Way, #120, Bakersfield, CA 93309. We will upload it for you and send you notification by e-mail of your account name and password. Our default display choice will be to remove the names of everyone in your GEDCOM who was born within the past 100 years. Thereafter, you can change the viewing options at any time by going to <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/>. Please remember to enclose your e-mail address with your disk or we will have no way to notify you of your account name and password. Please also note that we will destroy the disks we receive after uploading the GEDCOMs contained on such disks.