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From: "Dorothy Falk" <>
Subject: [ILCLINTO] 6 months Ancestry free
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 09:47:05 -0500

>From another List:

>Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 05:03:44 -0700
>To:
>From:
>Subject: Good News, Bad News, Good News: The Merger of RootsWeb and
MyFamily.com
>
>Good news: You, our Sponsor Plus contributors, have played a special
>role in creating RootsWeb, one of the largest and most popular sites
>on the Internet. In May, we had over 149 million page views
>(according to Nielsen NetRatings combined home and work statistics),
>sent over 155 million e-mails, and handled over two million downloads
>of files from the various archives hosted at RootsWeb. Everyone, take
>a bow! This is an incredible community of genealogists, and the
>advances we're all making in our research due to the sharing that
>occurs here is unprecedented.
>
>Bad news: The more popular RootsWeb becomes, the more costly it is to
>simply stay alive and online. Even with your very generous support,
>expenses continue to exceed revenue. We ran up a truly scary loss
>last year. Without outside help, it's not clear how long we'd be able
>to go on like this.
>
>Good news: MyFamily.com (you may know them better as Ancestry.com)
>recognizes the importance of the genealogical community that has grown
>here at RootsWeb, and wants that community to continue to thrive.
>They're excited to provide the financial stability we need to ensure
>RootsWeb will be around for years to come.
>
>Brian and I are pleased by Ancestry.com's coming involvement with
>RootsWeb. Now we can all focus on helping each other on the mailing
>lists and message boards, uploading our GEDCOMs, and building Web
>pages to share our research.
>
>Better news: As a special thank you to those of you at the Sponsor
>Plus, Ancestry.com is making the following offer:
>
> As a RootsWeb contributor, you are invited to visit Ancestry.com today
> and sign up for a FREE SIX MONTH SUBSCRIPTION with no obligation.
> You'll gain full access to all 600 million names in more than 2,500
> databases. Go to the following address to begin your free subscription
> now:
>
> http://ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrialx.asp?sourcecode=G11BC
> <http://ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrialx.asp?sourcecode=G11BC>;
>
> If you are already an Ancestry.com subscriber please call 1-800-595-1211
> to extend your current subscription. Select option #2 - Order Service.
>
> You must activate your FREE subscription by July 5, 2000.
>
>More good news: No one is going to charge you to use RootsWeb. You'll
>still find RootsWeb at www.RootsWeb.com. Everything you're used to
>using will still be here: the 19,000 mailing lists, the hundreds
>of millions of names in free genealogy databases, the interactive
>learning guides, the weekly RootsWeb Review and Missing Links,
>the numerous tools for tracing your family history, the tens of thousands
>of message boards, the thousands of independently authored web sites.
>RootsWeb will still support worthy genealogy projects and societies,
>such as the USGenWeb Project (www.USGenWeb.org), the Immigrant Ships
>Transcribers Guild (ISTG.rootsweb.com) and the FreeBMD Project
>(FreeBMD.rootsweb.com), and other groups that provide free
>genealogical resources.
>
>You will of course still get all of services and benefits we promised
>you, such as mailing lists, banner-free home pages, and access to PML,
>the feature that scans all our mailing lists and message boards for
>the surnames you specify.
>
>And don't worry, you won't be charged to access RootsWeb. No one
>will put your data on CD without your permission. Our Privacy Policy
>(http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/pledge.html) and our Acceptable User
>Policy (http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/aup.html) are unchanged.
>Other promises made over the years will continue to be honored. You'll
>still deal with the same RootsWeb volunteers and employees. In
>fact, most users won't notice any changes, except exciting new tools,
>more content, and better genealogical resources.
>
>If you would like more information, please check out our
>official press release at
>
> http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/rootsrelease.htm
>
>Again, thank you for you loyal support. We hope you enjoy your free
>Ancestry.com subscription, and we look forward to your continued
>patronage. Now, let's go figure out where great-great-grandma really
>came from, before that UFO deposited her in rural Kentucky in 1835...
>
>Karen

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