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Subject: Re: [HACKETT-L] Announcement regarding the website
Date: Sat, 18 Jun 2005 23:04:21 -0700
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Hello Erin Bradford. I am Bill Hackett (the Birth Certificate reads,
"William Bostock Hackett III") in what I call "Santa
Barbara-by-the-Sea", California. I would like to donate a tiny tad of
financial support for your work -- say, $10 -- but I don't know how to
do that. :-) You seem to be very open and honest, as well as someone
who, from my "Internet Ignoramus" perspective is very knowledgeable of
webbery. :-) Can you tell me how I might send you my tiny
contribution? :-[ Perhaps there's a simple way for you to place a
one-click DONATE in your sendings so that people like me can send you a
few bucks? VISA? PayPal? --Bill Hackett

Erin Bradford wrote:

>Hello everyone, it's your list monitor here. I wanted to let everyone know
>about changes I am currently making to the website (and for those who don't
>know about it, introduce you to the list). As most of you know, I maintain a
>site called "The Genealogy Depository" (see signature below) that acts as a
>supplement to the list. A lot of the material on the site has been submitted
>to me by list members or I have asked list members for permission to post data
>from an email to the pages if I felt it was relevant.
>
>For those of you who've been on the list since March 2004 or earlier, you know
>that I left my Rootsweb site back in April 2004 and now have my own domain,
>which I pay for out of my pocket. I graduated in May with my MA in Public
>History, concentration in Archival management, but due to the fact that I
>cannot find a job yet, I'm having a hard time scraping all the money for the
>site together. I'm not asking for money from anyone, please understand that.
>What I have done is to sign up with Google Adsense program, which in short
>means I put ads on my page and everytime someone clicks on one, I earn a
>percentage. Money I earn goes directly to help pay for the site. I've had ads
>up on the page for about 2-3 weeks now, fine tuning, etc. and earned $1.44 so
>far (yay!!).
>
>Also, there is a new search box, which works the same way, if you use that box
>to perform searches (including regular searches you would normally go to the
>google homepage for), the site earns a percentage of those as well. So far,
>the site hasn't earned anything from the search box, but it wasn't working
>properly before. I finally tweaked it so that search results will be displayed
>that includes specific pages on the site as well as the internet. So now, if
>you do a search for "Richard Bradford" it will return all pages on the
>Genealogy Depository AND on the www. This is an improvement over the old
>search box. That one only returned matches on the Depository and not the www.
>It took me a while to figure it out, but finally got it and it's up and running
>and I've tested it out, so feel free to use now.
>
>Both the ads and search box will be on the sister site, http://www.ncalhn.org.
>
>Ok, another thing I have done is also signed up for being an
>associate/affiliate for Heritage Quest, Willow Bend Books, and Amazon.com. If
>you see a book linked from my site, it will take you to one of these sites and
>as with the google ads, the money earned go towards paying for the site. The
>difference with google ads and associates of the bookstores is that with google
>you don't have to buy anything, you just follow the ad, but with the
>bookstores, nothing is earned until a person actually purchases an item. It
>doesn't have to be that item you clicked on though.
>
>Also, I know that ancestry.com has an affiliate program, but I have no plans at
>this time to get that because the Genealogy Depository is FREE and will stay
>that way. There are too many sites out there that say something like, follow
>this link to see a ship list or something and then it takes you to ancestry and
>you have to sign up and pay for it. I HATE that! I will not do that to you
>guys. IF I ever do go with ancestry, it would only be to take you to their
>books, like with Heritage Quest, etc.
>
>Lastly, I know that some of you will have a problem with not only the ads on
>the website, but for me getting money for them. I am sorry if you have a
>problem, but it's really the only way I can keep the site going. It's just a
>way for the site to basically pay for itself. I know when I first signed up
>with Amazon 5 years ago and informed the lists about it, I got some very angry
>responses to it. I just can't please everyone, so I'm sorry if you're upset
>about the changes.
>
>Ok, this is long enough, so I'll sign off now. Please continue to submit
>information for inclusion on the website. Remember, I can't do dig up a lot of
>this info, about 90% is submitted from others. You maintain the copyright to
>the material (at least the portion that is copyrightable), and I do give credit
>where credit is due, in other words, if you submit information, I will say
>that, I will not claim it as my own. Good luck everyone with your research.
>
>Erin Bradford
>
>http://www.gendepository.com (The Genealogy Depository)
>List monitor: Barringer, Black, Bradford, Coventry, Eller, Hackett, Hupp, Kern
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