It has come to my attention that there are a few county coordinators at
USGenWeb who are placing links on their county pages to
Ancestry.com in
return for payment. The links are to Ancestry's search engine, and takes
the visitor to a page listing results, and a form for subscribing to
their for-a-fee services. The webmaster of the referring page gets paid
for each subscriber generated from their page.
Such a use of county pages is clearly in conflict with the spirit of The
USGenWeb Project (free data, etc.). If you have a link to this "paid
partner" program on your VAGenWeb county page, please remove it
immediately. From the beginning of The USGenWeb Project, it has been a
policy that volunteers cannot make a profit of any kind from hosting a
USGenWeb page.
You are certainly welcome to use the Ancestry search partner link (for
payment) on your personal pages, and can link to your personal page from
your VAGenWeb county page, but please, do not put the link on your
VAGenWeb county page.
Thanks,
Linda