Excite has now been joined to Ancestry!
http://ancestry.excite.com/
Yes, the excite search engine now part
of the
MyFamily.com family!
The complete press release was online
yesterday (Yes, you guessed it!
Yahoo.com!)
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/000705/ca_myfamil.html
The Headlines read:
"New Excite@Home Partnership Strengthens
MyFamily.com
Position as Leading Genealogy Resource"
"Co-Branded Site Brings Ancestry.com's 600 Million
Records to Excite Users"
I guess the important question to pose to the
ROOTSWEB division, would be, how long before redistribution
means the archives to the list is moved to other servers on
ancestry and the like??
Reported in the Business news article released
on the 22nd of June on the Rootsweb merger,
the President of the NGS had this to say.
"Despite the renewed public interest in
family history that the Web has sparked,
Shirley Langdon Wilcox, president of the
National Genealogical Society, said she
worries about the online genealogy industry
consolidating into the hands of the for-profit
players.
"There are a lot of people who have been doing
research for a long time that are concerned
that sometimes the for-profit [companies] are
not as interested in scholarly research and
making sure everything is correct," Wilcox
says. "They sort of gloss over that you need
to go out and verify everything you're finding
on the Internet.""
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/is/20000622/bs/myfamily_com_branches_out_1.html