Tuesday, March 11, 2008

Dee’s Genealogical Journey » Blog Archive » No Personal Genealogy Right Now…

Dee’s Genealogical Journey » Blog Archive » No Personal Genealogy Right Now…: "5. Rootsweb had originally offered free webspace for all USGenWeb Counties. While this seems like a nice gesture, many in the project feel that since Rootsweb is now a part of a large organization, with investors who aren’t even interested in genealogy, it is no longer a generous, no-strings-attached offer as it may have once been.

as an ancestry subsacriber I pay for GenWeb too

6. One reason they feel the way I described in #5 is because there have been quite a few claim that information from there personal USGenWeb County site was harvested and placed behind a pay-site."

Evidence please

3 comments:

  1. You said that as an ancestry subscriber you pay for genweb too? USGenWeb is free...it's ran completely by volunteers who offer it up to everyone for free.

    As for evidence on the other, just do a google search you'll find it all over the place

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  2. of course the content is free

    but who pays for the server and band width all on rootsweb

    we do - the ancestry subscribers

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  3. US Genweb is asplinter group

    see 1,250,000 for rootsweb genweb
    rootsweb genweb - Google Search

    and who pays for US Genweb then

    "no such thing as a free lunch"

    bandwidth costs money

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