Dear MN GenWeb CCs,
Your USGenWeb National Coordinator has signed a confidential hosting
agreement for the National Pages (the entry point for the state and
county sites) with Ancestry/My
Family.com. The NC has also stated that
after this agreement is completely finalized, then Ancestry/My Family
will be contacting the SCs and CCs to sign similar agreements. This
would in my opinion give Ancestry ownership of the USGenWeb Project.
All the volunteers would be providing free labor so that Ancestry could
make a profit.
Further, the pages will have to be redesigned to conform to what
Ancestry wants. Although the agreement is confidential there is a copy
of it at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dailyboardshow/message/290
I'm going to forward to this list some of the comments that have been
posted on the ALL List for CCs and SCs. I'll forward them with the
subject line "Hosting Agreement"
Lynn
CC for Pennington and Red Lake Counties