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From: "Nancie" <>
Subject: ancestry message
Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2001 14:09:30 -0500

In this weeks issue of Ancestry Daily News, they posted the following message.

WHAT'S NEW AT ANCESTRY.COM
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ANCESTRY.COM AND ROOTSWEB.COM LAUNCH NEW MESSAGE BOARDS
Largest Collection of Free Community Content Organized by Surname,
Locality, and Topic Areas

San Francisco, CA-MyFamily.com, Inc., the leading online destination
for connecting families and generations on the Web, announced the
launch of new family history message boards on both the Ancestry.com
and RootsWeb.com Internet sites. Assembling the largest collection of
genealogy and family history messages on the Internet, the new
offering will allow users to freely access over 18 million messages,
tips, and postings from individuals engaged in family history
research.

"Internet message boards have become one of the best resources for
the millions of people around the world who are searching to find out
more about their family's past," said Andre Brummer. "What was once a
very solitary pursuit has been transformed into a monumental
collaborative effort as people with common ancestors are now able to
share and exchange information. Our new message boards will enable
the genealogy community to more easily post queries, communicate
insights, and swap leads with other researchers with the click of a
computer mouse."

Accessible from either the Ancestry.com or RootsWeb.com sites, the
new boards are greatly improved to provide greater functionality, a
clean and simple user interface, faster search results ranked by
relevancy and the ability to handle surges in traffic load without
interruption. Family history researchers will also have the ability
to add attachments such as scanned photos, documents, or GEDCOM
genealogical files.

The new message boards further the company's goal of building the
largest and most active online community for family history research.
The company's network of sites, which includes Ancestry.com,
RootsWeb.com, and MyFamily.com, offer both free and premium paid
services to users. Ancestry.com is the third largest paid
subscription site on the Internet with over three hundred and
seventy-five thousand paid subscriptions to its service. Additionally
the company sends free genealogy e-mail newsletters to more than 2
million subscribers.

Message boards can be searched at:
http://boards.ancestry.com

Nancie L Dobyns
TreeVines Genealogy

Alone we can do little, together we can accomplish much.
....Helen Keller

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