according to information in NCGEN this will not be a free site in about 12 months. Jeannie I am on 27 states and all counties in those states mailing list and a lot of them are moving out of Rootsweb. because of this move to Ancestry.com JEannie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy King" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 5:03 PM Subject: Re: [TNSMITH] Sites > http://bigfile.rootsweb.com:80/newsroom/?p=111 > March 13th, 2008 by Tim > As you know, The Generations Network has hosted and funded the RootsWeb > online community since June 2000, thereby maintaining RootsWeb as the > world's oldest and largest free genealogy website. TGN remains committed > to this mission and believes that RootsWeb is an absolutely invaluable and > complementary resource to Ancestry.com, our flagship commercial family > history site. We believe in both services and want to see both communities > prosper and grow. > > As part of this goal, we have decided to "transplant" RootsWeb onto the > Ancestry.com domain beginning next week. This move will not change the > RootsWeb experience or alter the ease of navigation to or within RootsWeb. > RootsWeb will remain a free online experience. What will be different is > that the Web address for all RootsWeb pages will change from > www.rootsweb.com to www.rootsweb.ancestry.com. Again, the RootsWeb > experience is not changing. > > The decision to host RootsWeb on Ancestry.com is being made for one > primary reason: we believe that the users of each of our two main websites > can be better served if they have access to the best services available on > both. Simply stated, we want to introduce more Ancestry.com users to > RootsWeb and vice versa. > > Today, despite the fact that Ancestry.com and RootsWeb.com are the two > most frequently visited family history sites on the Web, only 25 percent > of visitors to Ancestry.com visited RootsWeb in January 2008, while only > 20 percent of visitors to RootsWeb visited Ancestry.com (according to > Comscore Media Metrix). We think we will serve our users best by doing a > better job of letting them know what is available on both Ancestry.com and > RootsWeb. Hosting RootsWeb on Ancestry.com is the first step towards > making this happen, but we will absolutely look for more and better ways > down the road to advance this goal. > > Hosting RootsWeb on Ancestry.com will also make it easier for us to make > changes and improvements to the RootsWeb experience in the future. > > All old RootsWeb URLs will continue to work, whether they are bookmarks or > favorites, links to or from a hosted page or URLs manually typed in your > Internet browser. We will have a redirect in place so that all old URLs > will automatically end up on the appropriate new RootsWeb URL. You will > never need to update your old favorites or links unless you want to. We > have worked to make the transition as seamless as possible for our users, > and this change should have a minimal impact on your experience with the > site. > > RootsWeb will remain a free online experience dedicated to providing you > with a place where our community can find their roots together. If you > have questions regarding this change please email them to > [email protected] > > Thanks, > > Tim Sullivan > CEO > The Generations Network, Inc. > > Joy > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jack Willoughby > To: [email protected] ; [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Sent: Saturday, March 15, 2008 4:43 PM > Subject: Re: [TNSMITH] Sites > > > Could you please explain this message? > > Jack > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I would appreciate it if we close this discussion i see no evidence of us becoming a pay site and if we do.... then i quess our day in the Sun will be over.... and we will cross that bridge then End of discussion!! all comments can be sent to me Off List Listowner Charlie @thewebsite [email protected] wrote: > according to information in NCGEN this will not be a free site in about 12 > months. > > Jeannie