(GA people read all the way down)
Sounds good to me. Glad that I have spent a lot of time putting data in the
Archives instead of on the GenConnect Boards. Text files have always seemed
to me to be the best way to store data for the future. I'm certainly glad
to be a part of the TXGenWeb and GAGenWeb Archives Team.
Now if I can just figure out how to take care of the queries on my Project
Pages! :) Right now I'm just waiting to see how all this plays out! I do
trust Rootsweb and
Ancestry.com. They have never given me any reason not
to. I've been a subscriber to
Ancestry.com for a long time as well as
Rootsweb and I thought it was a pretty good marriage when it happened -
let's hope so!
Mary Love Berryman
File Manager, Coke & Smith Counties TXGenWeb Archives
File Manager, Madison Co GAGenWeb Archives
----- Original Message -----
From: "David W. Morgan" <dmorgan(a)efn.org>
To: <TXGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 12:57 PM
Subject: Re: [TXGENWEB] Archives
On 25 Jun 2001, HertiageSearch wrote:
> Now that we have had the problem with
Ancestry.com taking over the
message boards, what is the guarantee any longer of the continued FREE
use of the archives? It is at least somewhat in competition with
Ancestry, since they sell things like Census CD's. Do we have a guarantee
and how good is it?
I asked Linda to respond to this and said I would post it to this list.
David
From cityslic(a)ix.netcom.com Tue Jun 26 07:54:13 2001
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2001 09:07:27 -0400
From: Linda <cityslic(a)ix.netcom.com>
To: David W. Morgan <dmorgan(a)efn.org>
Subject: Re: [TXGENWEB] Archives (fwd)
Ancestry did not acquire the USGenWeb Archives or any other hosted
projects, they only acquired the servers, etc. that host those sites.
During the merge talks, Brian and Karen made sure that MyFamily/Ancestry
would provide the same free services that Rootsweb had provided and
promised for years.
As far as the "competition" issue, there is SO much data not online, it
would be years, decades or longer before that would be an issue.
USGenWeb, the Archives, FreeBMD, FreePages, and other volunteer projects
play a big part in Ancestry's public relations with their users.
Linda
>
> At 08:31 AM 6/25/01 -1000, David W. Morgan wrote:
> New or revised files uploaded to the archives last week
>
>
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txuploads.html
>
> Over 800 MB in the archives for the free use of researchers.
>
> David
dmorgan(a)efn.org David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/okfiles.htm
http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm
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