Greetings,
I didn't want any of you to miss this opportunity of three free months of
Ancestry.com
I sure hope the merger doesn't require our "cookies" to be operational for
RootsWeb websites, now....It does for
MyFamily.com which is owned by
Ancestry.com.
Anyway, this is no doubt due to not enough contributors, and expected (by
me, at least) sooner or later....
Do take advantage of the 3 free months of
Ancestry.Com. You have until
July 5th. See below:
Cheers,
Emily
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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