This page from the Wayback Machine tells the story: http://web.archive.org/web/20060615014221/http://english-america.com/index.html You can pull up other pages with search: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php Bob Stafford Vickie Elam White <VEWhite@nycap.rr.com> wrote: Does anyone on this list happen to know the fantastic website English-America.com? I

This is one of those occasions where I am sorry I didn't know about something valuable out there, just because I "hadn't gotten that far." For those who wonder why "all this isn't free," this is instructive reading. I think he missed a bit, so not counting what he probably did "for himself", this tells it: [brackets mine] Cost of One person - [personal time @ $30/hr] Cost of research [travel, books, manuscripts, copies] Cost of compiling [personal time @ $20/hr, plus, say, Excel or Access @ $500] Cost of website [10 years] [$100?] Cost of web publishing [say $200 for software, plus $25/hr for building the pages and upkeep] Contrasted with: Number of visitors - over 1 million/year Number of requests for individualized research - hundreds Number of appreciative e-mails - dozens Number of donations in 10 years - 6 I'm sure no one wonders why he gave up. But isn't it amazing how many people think this is just how it "should be" -- not only with the volunteer sites, such as this one, but the commercial sites as well (which I gather he was trying to avoid). I'll bet he was a contributor (money wise) to Rootsweb 'way back as well. How sad. It'd be nice if he would donate it to someone who could post it -- or he could publish it in, perhaps, PDF, so we could buy it. Anyone know Thomas Langford? Pat (in Tucson) -----Original Message----- From: varoots-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:varoots-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Robert Stafford Sent: Saturday, July 21, 2007 10:49 AM To: varoots@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VAROOTS] English-America website gone - where? This page from the Wayback Machine tells the story: http://web.archive.org/web/20060615014221/http://english-america.com/index.h tml You can pull up other pages with search: http://www.archive.org/web/web.php Bob Stafford Vickie Elam White <VEWhite@nycap.rr.com> wrote: Does anyone on this list happen to know the fantastic website English-America.com? I ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VAROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message