-----Original Message----- From: Ancestry Daily News <Ancestry_Daily_News@anclist001.ancestry.com> To: Ancestry Daily News Subscriber <globeboy@gateway.net> Date: Wednesday, June 21, 2000 4:01 AM Subject: Special ALERT: MyFamily.com and RootsWeb.com join forces >Ancestry Daily News--Special Edition >http://www.ancestry.com/DailyNews >Brought to you by the publishers of >"The Source" and "Ancestry" Magazine >http://www.ancestry.com >========================================================== >Please do not reply to this message. >For contact information, please see the bottom of the message. >========================================================== >21 June 2000 > >SPECIAL EDITION >----- MyFamily.com and RootsWeb.com Join Forces: >Alliance Allows Free Genealogy to Continue on the Web > >============================================================ >MYFAMILY.COM AND ROOTSWEB.COM JOIN FORCES ><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> >============================================================ >MyFamily.com, Inc., the leading online family network, announced today that it >has entered into an agreement to acquire RootsWeb.com, the oldest and largest >free community genealogy site. RootsWeb.com will continue to be free to all >users and will maintain its own unique URL at http://www.rootsweb.com. > >"This is truly a winning combination for both organizations and for the millions >of users who make up our audiences," said Greg Ballard, CEO of MyFamily.com, >Inc. > >The union will provide RootsWeb.com with the financial backing to expand and the >business structure needed to focus on preserving, sharing, and exchanging family >history records. As part of the MyFamily.com network of sites, the RootsWeb.com >site will be able continue its tradition of free access to information with >additional technology tools, increased family research content, and a greater >range of genealogical resources. > >"RootsWeb.com fits well with the MyFamily.com vision of creating the largest and >most active online resource for families and family history research," said Dr. >Brian Leverich, founder of RootsWeb.com. "This agreement will expand the number >of RootsWeb.com users and content contributors. At the same time, we have >ensured that RootsWeb.com content, services, mailing lists, and Web pages will >remain free, while allowing the site to provide more functionality and resources >to a larger audience as a result of our being part of the MyFamily.com network." > >Ancestry.com, part of the MyFamily.com network, has a seventeen-year history of >publishing award-winning books, magazines, and CDs, and currently offers more >than 600 million records and over 2,500 databases. More than half of the data is >freely accessible to all Web users. Ancestry.com also hosts, free of charge, the >Ancestry World Tree and Online Family Tree software, which allow users to >connect and collaborate with other researchers who are working on the same >lines. Ancestry.com users retain ownership of their data, and the company >pledges never to charge for access to that data or to publish it. For those who >prefer to keep their information a little closer to home, sister site >MyFamily.com allows users to create free, private sites that can be used to post >family history data, share news and photos with family, chat online, and much >more. > >RootsWeb.com is a valuable resource for family historians, with interactive >guides, discussion lists, and numerous tools for tracing one's ancestry; it >hosts more than 17,000 independently authored Web sites and about 19,000 mailing >lists. All of these services will remain free to users. > >As part of its ongoing commitment to the genealogical community, MyFamily.com, >Inc. will also continue to support RootsWeb.com-affiliated volunteer, non-profit >organizations, such as The USGenWeb Project, Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild, >The Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths Projects, and other groups that provide >free genealogical content. > >The MyFamily.com acquisition of RootsWeb.com promises to make it easier than >ever for family historians everywhere to discover their heritage. > >For the full press release, see >http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/rootsrelease.htm. > >MYFAMILY.COM, INC. URLs: > >Ancestry.com >http://www.ancestry.com > >MyFamily.com >http://www.myfamily.com > >FamilyHistory.com >http://www.familyhistory.com > >Ancestry World Tree >http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/usersub/worldtree/main.htm > >FGS Society Hall >http://www.familyhistory.com/societyhall/main.asp > >Ancestry.com Library >http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/main.htm > >ROOTSWEB.COM URLS > >RootsWeb.com >http://www.rootsweb.com > >WorldConnect Project >http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/ > >International Black Sheep Society >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~blksheep/ > >International Internet Genealogical Society >http://iigs.rootsweb.com/ > >Obituary Daily Times >http://www.rootsweb.com/~obituary/ > >INDEPENDENT ORGANIZATIONS/PROJECTS >HOSTED AT ROOTSWEB.COM > >The USGenWeb Project >http://www.USGenWeb.org > >The WorldGenWeb Project >http://www.rootsweb.com/~wggenweb/index.html > >Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild >http://ISTG.rootsweb.com > >The Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths Projects >http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com > >Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet >http://www.cyndislist.com/ > >******************************************************************** >Keep in touch with your family and share information and data with a FREE >MyFamily.com site. 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