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From: "dayle noble biba" <>
Subject: Fw: Good News, Bad News, Good News: The Merger of RootsWeb and MyFamily.com
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 18:42:38 -0700


dayle noble biba
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Subject: Good News, Bad News, Good News: The Merger of RootsWeb and
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> Good News, Bad News, Good News: RootsWeb and MyFamily.com Merger
>
> Good news: You, our contributors, with your financial support, have
> helped create at 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 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 our contributors, 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 THREE 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=G11BB
> <http://ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrialx.asp?sourcecode=G11BB>;
>
> 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 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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