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From: Elizabeth Harris <>
Subject: Re: [Fwd: [NCROOTS] Re: NCROOTS-D Digest V03 #60]
Date: Wed, 13 Aug 2003 11:26:24 -0400
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>Why is it that every search that I make goes to ancestry.com? I
>even try the old free websites and they are now "governed" by
>ancestry.com. They have become a monopoly. What happened to
>freedom of search on the Internet? Is anyone else having this
>problem? Pat Hite
>

Please, let's try to keep discussion on NCROOTS restricted to North
Carolina genealogy.

To forestall further debate about this issue, I'll just make a short
administrative statement:

Several years ago Ancestry.com bought out RootsWeb, which was
originally a cooperative genealogy project, and which hosts NCROOTS
and many other lists, the WorldConnect project, and many of the
national and county pages of the USGenWeb project. All these are
freely available, as are the message boards at RootsWeb/Ancestry for
counties and surnames. Ancestry.com also provides many additional
databases and records as a subscription-only service. Some people
find these to be a valuable resource, others would prefer not to pay
for access.

There are of course many other projects and personal web pages on the
internet that having nothing to do with Ancestry.com.


--
Elizabeth Harris


NCGenWeb project: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncgenweb/
Winston-Salem NC area genealogy: http://www.fmoran.com/

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