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From: Erin Bradford <>
Subject: Rootsweb membership
Date: Thu, 19 Jun 1997 16:00:57 -0700 (PDT)


Just got this on another list. Read on and consider donating to Rootsweb:).

Erin Bradford
listowner

http://members.tripod.com/~Kshai/genealogy.html (my surnames)
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6106/genlinks.html (+500 gen. links)

>Dear list subscriber,
>
>You are all probably aware that this mailing list is made possible through
the cooperation of RootsWeb. Depending on your own involvement with other
mailing lists, USGenWeb, etc you may or may not know of the magnitude of
support that RootsWeb has been providing to genealogical community. The
interest in the Internet, Genealogy, and USGenWeb have resulted in a level
of website activity for USGenWeb and other genealogy sites at RootsWeb that
has been constantly increasing. When the MAISER mailing lists fell victim to
a mass commercial email attack and were shut down, RootsWeb took over the
hosting of hundreds of mailing lists. In a recent status report Brian
mentioned a number like 2 million messages a day being handled through the
RootsWeb mailing lists. Additionally RootsWeb is the host for the Roots
Surname List and a host of other services to the genealogical community. If
you have not done so you may want to goto to http://www.rootsweb.com/ and
explore a bit.
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>RootsWeb was founded and is funded principally by the person efforts of Dr.
Brian Leverich and Karen Isaacson. It is largely their time AND money that
keeps RootsWeb consistantly providing such great service. In their effort to
provide as much data and service for free as possible to the genealogical
community, they have been very low key in asking for any financial
contributions. There is however a mechanism to provide support through
RootsWeb memberships ($12/year) and Sponsorships ($24/year). The details are
at http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html . If you haven't
already done so, are in a position to do so, and would like to express your
appreciation and support for all that RootsWeb has provided please consider
becoming a RootsWeb member or sponsor. Of course if you are in a position to
be able to contribute a bit more I am sure Brian will not object <G>. It is
a good way to support what is in my personal opinion one of the finest
examples of a FREE resource on the net.
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>Sue
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>*****************************************************
>"What a tangled web we weave, when first
>we practice to conceive!"
> _______
> .------|_______ Sue Skay Abruscato
> ------+ _______ 1117 W. Torrance Blvd.
> `------|_______ Torrance, CA 90502-1613
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>http://www.rootsweb.com/~sueskay/
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>co-listowner:
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Erin Bradford

http://members.tripod.com/~Kshai/genealogy.html (my surnames)
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6106/genlinks.html (+500 genealogy
links)

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