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Subject: [WHITNEY-L] Fwd: Special ALERT: MyFamily.com and RootsWeb.com join forces
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 17:50:46 EDT
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Dear WRG:
I don't know how many of you subscribe to the daily report from Ancestry.com,
but this notice came out today and I thought it should be shared with the
WRG. If someone beat me to it and it has already come by, I'm sorry -- just
delete this one.
I don't think that this will affect us, except possibly for those of you who
have submitted family information to either of these participants, i.e.,
RootsWeb or MyFamily.
Happy Hunting:
Allan E. Green
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Subject: Special ALERT: MyFamily.com and RootsWeb.com join forces
Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 00:31:21 -0700
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Ancestry Daily News--Special Edition
http://www.ancestry.com/DailyNews
Brought to you by the publishers of
"The Source" and "Ancestry" Magazine
http://www.ancestry.com
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21 June 2000
SPECIAL EDITION
----- MyFamily.com and RootsWeb.com Join Forces:
Alliance Allows Free Genealogy to Continue on the Web
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MYFAMILY.COM AND ROOTSWEB.COM JOIN FORCES
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MyFamily.com, Inc., the leading online family network, announced today that it
has entered into an agreement to acquire RootsWeb.com, the oldest and largest
free community genealogy site. RootsWeb.com will continue to be free to all
users and will maintain its own unique URL at http://www.rootsweb.com.
"This is truly a winning combination for both organizations and for the millions
of users who make up our audiences," said Greg Ballard, CEO of MyFamily.com,
Inc.
The union will provide RootsWeb.com with the financial backing to expand and the
business structure needed to focus on preserving, sharing, and exchanging family
history records. As part of the MyFamily.com network of sites, the RootsWeb.com
site will be able continue its tradition of free access to information with
additional technology tools, increased family research content, and a greater
range of genealogical resources.
"RootsWeb.com fits well with the MyFamily.com vision of creating the largest and
most active online resource for families and family history research," said Dr.
Brian Leverich, founder of RootsWeb.com. "This agreement will expand the number
of RootsWeb.com users and content contributors. At the same time, we have
ensured that RootsWeb.com content, services, mailing lists, and Web pages will
remain free, while allowing the site to provide more functionality and resources
to a larger audience as a result of our being part of the MyFamily.com network."
Ancestry.com, part of the MyFamily.com network, has a seventeen-year history of
publishing award-winning books, magazines, and CDs, and currently offers more
than 600 million records and over 2,500 databases. More than half of the data is
freely accessible to all Web users. Ancestry.com also hosts, free of charge, the
Ancestry World Tree and Online Family Tree software, which allow users to
connect and collaborate with other researchers who are working on the same
lines. Ancestry.com users retain ownership of their data, and the company
pledges never to charge for access to that data or to publish it. For those who
prefer to keep their information a little closer to home, sister site
MyFamily.com allows users to create free, private sites that can be used to post
family history data, share news and photos with family, chat online, and much
more.
RootsWeb.com is a valuable resource for family historians, with interactive
guides, discussion lists, and numerous tools for tracing one's ancestry; it
hosts more than 17,000 independently authored Web sites and about 19,000 mailing
lists. All of these services will remain free to users.
As part of its ongoing commitment to the genealogical community, MyFamily.com,
Inc. will also continue to support RootsWeb.com-affiliated volunteer, non-profit
organizations, such as The USGenWeb Project, Immigrant Ship Transcribers Guild,
The Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths Projects, and other groups that provide
free genealogical content.
The MyFamily.com acquisition of RootsWeb.com promises to make it easier than
ever for family historians everywhere to discover their heritage.
For the full press release, see
http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/rootsrelease.htm.
MYFAMILY.COM, INC. URLs:
Ancestry.com
http://www.ancestry.com
MyFamily.com
http://www.myfamily.com
FamilyHistory.com
http://www.familyhistory.com
Ancestry World Tree
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/usersub/worldtree/main.htm
FGS Society Hall
http://www.familyhistory.com/societyhall/main.asp
Ancestry.com Library
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/main.htm
ROOTSWEB.COM URLS
RootsWeb.com
http://www.rootsweb.com
WorldConnect Project
http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/
International Black Sheep Society
http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~blksheep/
International Internet Genealogical Society
http://iigs.rootsweb.com/
Obituary Daily Times
http://www.rootsweb.com/~obituary/
INDEPENDENT ORGANIZATIONS/PROJECTS
HOSTED AT ROOTSWEB.COM
The USGenWeb Project
http://www.USGenWeb.org
The WorldGenWeb Project
http://www.rootsweb.com/~wggenweb/index.html
Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild
http://ISTG.rootsweb.com
The Free Births, Marriages, and Deaths Projects
http://FreeBMD.rootsweb.com
Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet
http://www.cyndislist.com/
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Keep in touch with your family and share information and data with a FREE
MyFamily.com site. Sign up now for your site at:
http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?id=ancnewsfooter
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Search Ancestry's World Tree--the largest, free database of family files
available on the Internet! Add your family tree today!
http://www.ancestry.com/search/rectype/usersub/worldtree/main.htm
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Best Wishes,
Juliana Smith, Editor, Ancestry Daily News
Megan Vandre, Associate Editor
Please feel free to circulate this newsletter to other genealogy enthusiasts! We
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Daily News. Ancestry.com reserves the right to edit for content and clarity.
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