Hi Lists,
I wanted to address this before you found out anywhere else, although I know
I may be too late for some.
Rootsweb.com and
MyFamily.com/Ancestry.com have merged; you can read about
the particulars at these links:
http://www.ancestry.com/home/celebrate/rootsrelease.htm
and
http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/merge.html
If you have further questions about what this means, please feel free
to ask and I'll do my best to answer or get answers for you, or you can go
to the help desk and ask:
http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help.cgi
OR, you can e-mail me privately at christib(a)satx.rr.com.
As your list admin, I am adopting a "wait and see" attitude about how
this may affect our lists and GenConnect boards; I want to believe the
assurances given in the above releases that nothing will change with our
services, and don't see a need to panic unless they are proven to be false.
Rootsweb has been running "in the red" for many years now and they had to do
something, and our donations as member weren't enough to keep the services
going. I want to believe that this merger will help keep genealogy on the
internet free as it has been and hope you will continue to believe that with
me. Again, if you have any questions or want to discuss this further,
please feel free.
Christi
Listowner - Barton, Brogan, Burlingame, Calvert, Dunn, Dunne, Don,
Gildersleeve, Perley, Voss, Vos, Vose, Vass, Whitmer, Widmer, Witmer,
Wittmer, and Whitmire
Visit our homepage at:
http://jadis.darktech.org/christi
Visit our genealogy pages at:
http://jadis.darktech.org/genealogy