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From: "Julie Miller" <>
Subject: [APG] GenWeb
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:40:56 -0600

Thought I'd share this information with those of you who had not heard.
The background for this is that Doc Schneider owned the rights to usgenweb.com and put it up for sale for $2500. USGenWeb did not have the money to buy it from him and so they were trying to raise the necessary funds from donations.

From: Holly Timm, USGenWeb Coordinator

> Today I received the following message from Jake Gehring of Ancestry. I
> have accepted their generous gift to the USGenWeb Project with enthusiasm
> and appreciation. I also received the necessary paperwork placing the
> usgenweb.com domain in the name of The USGenWeb Project.
>
> At 12:31 PM 9/19/01 -0600, Jake Gehring wrote:
> >It gives me great pleasure to inform you that Ancestry.com is donating
> >the usgenweb.com domain to The USGenWeb Project. This gift from
> >Ancestry will result in The USGenWeb Project exercising control over all
> >three of the usgenweb.xxx domains. Doc Schneider, who has been most
> >helpful in this process, has already notified Internic of the transfer to
> The USGenWeb Project although it can take up to 30 days for Internic to update
> >their records.With this donation, Ancestry reconfirms its ongoing
> support of volunteer genealogy projects such as The USGenWeb Project.
> >
> >
> >JAKE GEHRING
> >Executive Producer
> >RootsWeb.com


Julie Miller
Genealogy Research
http://pages.prodigy.net/rojam
Broomfield, Colorado GenWeb Coordinator
http://www.rootsweb.com/~cobroomf/

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