To all - The following announcement on upcoming changes to Rootsweb is forwarded for your information. This will cause a change in the URL of Fauquier Co web page, currently http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafauqui/fqva.htm - see below how the change will affect the URL. Larry Francis Assistant Web Master Only RootsWeb URLs should be affected. A page at www.rootsweb.com/~pagename would change to www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pagename (though the old www.rootsweb.com/~pagename URL would still work and would just redirect to the new URL). Pages with their own domains (URLs without rootsweb.com in them) that are hosted on RootsWeb would not be affected. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Freddie Spradlin" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:08 PM Subject: [VAGEN] Rootsweb Announcement. > > ----- Original Message ----- > > Please forward to all Project lists. > > Tina Vickery > National Coordinator > USGenWeb Project > > ____ > > RootsWeb Announcement > > 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. > > > ------------------------------- > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 just tried all the sites and none of them work...Dave ----- Original Message ----- From: "Larry Francis" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 12:42 AM Subject: [VAFAUQUI] Fw: [VAGEN] Rootsweb Announcement. > To all - > The following announcement on upcoming changes to Rootsweb is forwarded > for > your information. This will cause a change in the URL of Fauquier Co web > page, currently http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafauqui/fqva.htm - see below how > the change will affect the URL. > > Larry Francis > Assistant Web Master > > > > Only RootsWeb URLs should be affected. > A page at www.rootsweb.com/~pagename would change to > www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pagename (though the old > www.rootsweb.com/~pagename URL would still work and would just > redirect to the new URL). > Pages with their own domains (URLs without rootsweb.com in them) > that are hosted on RootsWeb would not be affected. > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Freddie Spradlin" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:08 PM > Subject: [VAGEN] Rootsweb Announcement. > > >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> >> Please forward to all Project lists. >> >> Tina Vickery >> National Coordinator >> USGenWeb Project >> >> ____ >> >> RootsWeb Announcement >> >> 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. >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >
They have not change the URL yet. Our current URL still works. No need to change the URL, they will have a redirect when they implement the change. Larry ----- Original Message ----- From: "David E Mason" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 10:55 PM Subject: Re: [VAFAUQUI] Fw: [VAGEN] Rootsweb Announcement. >I just tried all the sites and none of them work...Dave > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Larry Francis" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, March 14, 2008 12:42 AM > Subject: [VAFAUQUI] Fw: [VAGEN] Rootsweb Announcement. > > >> To all - >> The following announcement on upcoming changes to Rootsweb is forwarded >> for >> your information. This will cause a change in the URL of Fauquier Co web >> page, currently http://www.rootsweb.com/~vafauqui/fqva.htm - see below >> how >> the change will affect the URL. >> >> Larry Francis >> Assistant Web Master >> >> >> >> Only RootsWeb URLs should be affected. >> A page at www.rootsweb.com/~pagename would change to >> www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pagename (though the old >> www.rootsweb.com/~pagename URL would still work and would just >> redirect to the new URL). >> Pages with their own domains (URLs without rootsweb.com in them) >> that are hosted on RootsWeb would not be affected. >> >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "Freddie Spradlin" <[email protected]> >> To: <[email protected]> >> Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2008 6:08 PM >> Subject: [VAGEN] Rootsweb Announcement. >> >> >>> >>> ----- Original Message ----- >>> >>> Please forward to all Project lists. >>> >>> Tina Vickery >>> National Coordinator >>> USGenWeb Project >>> >>> ____ >>> >>> RootsWeb Announcement >>> >>> 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. >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 >> > > > ------------------------------- > 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