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From: Chris Tinney <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Rootsweb Redirects to Ancestry
Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2008 09:58:17 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <mailman.90.1205478027.4167.apg@rootsweb.com>


Re: Rootsweb Redirects to Ancestry

According to Compete.com
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/ancestry.com+rootsweb.com/?metric=uv
SnapShot of ancestry.com vs. rootsweb.com
shows ancestry.com
3,185,635 people,
-8.4% year
with rootsweb.com
3,668,975 people
+6.2% year
[sub set] cyndislist.com
186,310 people
-9.6% year

According to Compete.com
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/ancestry.com+familysearch.org/?metric=uv
SnapShot of ancestry.com vs. familysearch.org
shows same ancestry.com
3,185,635 people
-8.4% year
with familysearch.org
941,367 people
+ 24.5% year

At the same time, Compete.com
notes genealogy.com
1,109,361 people
-3.4% year

What is the trend, at present? Is it a trend
away from the paid and advertised link sites,
back to original sites with with freely developed
database resources? Is Ancestry trying to
reverse the trend by an inclusionary policy that
will suppress, as the end result, activities of the
volunteer sites, for its own economic advantage?
Will this eventually eliminate the independent professional
researcher who does not have standing with Ancestry?
Or, will independent professionals need to combine
with local organizations and groups that develop
databases, in conjunction with their service objectives,
that can attract sufficient clients to remain viable?


Respectfully yours,


Tom Tinney, Sr.
Who's Who in America,
Millennium Edition [54th] through 2004
Who's Who In Genealogy and Heraldry, [both editions]
Family Genealogy & History Internet Education Directory
http://www.academic-genealogy.com/

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