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From: Erin Bradford <>
Subject: [BLACK-L] RootsWeb in February -- 1,000,000+ Hits Per Day
Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 18:12:10 -0800 (PST)

This is a message from Brian Leverich of rootsweb who is part of the team at
rootsweb responsible for making all these surname lists possible. Please
read this and if you are wanting to donate money to them, let me know and I
will give you the address:

>This note is going to tell you that RootsWeb set a new record level of
service to the >genealogical community last month, but a more important
message that I'd like to convey
>first is just how important your support has been.
>
>RootsWeb wouldn't be here without you.
>
>In February, without your support we couldn't have purchased a generator to
keep the >servers up during the El Nino storms, a new search engine server
for the USGenWeb and >mailing list archives, and a new server to host Cyndi
Howells' Website and the USGenWeb >query systems.
>
>Your continued support is essential to us: just to keep up with demand, in
the next few >weeks we're going to have to upgrade the main Web server,
upgrade the mail hub server,
>and start preparing to add a third list server.
>
>All that costs money.
>
>And beyond those inescapable upgrades, we really want to be building a
kitty for buying >genealogical datasets and bringing more new services
online for the whole community.
Erin Bradford

Listowner for Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, and Kern
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Plains/6106/genlinks.html (+800 genealogy
links)
http://www.angelfire.com/mt/listdex/index.html (Homepage for surname lists
above)

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