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Ancestry/Genealogy

kickysnana

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1. So sorry to hear this.

Reply to HeiressofBickworth (Original post)

Wed Apr 9, 2014, 03:02 AM

Apr 2014

Rootsweb was born from the blood, sweat, tears, voluntary and donations from USNET news groups at the dawn of the www. USENET newsgroups were developed by an employee ancestry club at the Rand Corporation. The servers that were developed for it were at one time the second largest on the web behind AOL. Rootsweb was taken over by Ancestry, which was controversial, but they assured the community it was supposed to remain free but Ancestry was sold again a bit ago.

You were supposed to be able to remove your information too. I wonder if that is still true. I transcribed some sources for it.

Really sad ending to an open sharing research site.

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Rootsweb.com -- UPDATE [View all] HeiressofBickworth Apr 2014 OP

So sorry to hear this. kickysnana Apr 2014 #1

That's why when Ancestry started hosting rootsweb sites, I bailed from shraby May 2014 #2

Unfortunately, it looks like the recent DDOS attack..... AverageJoe90 Jun 2014 #3

I've been working on my trees this evening HeiressofBickworth Jun 2014 #4

A tip for using a trial membership with Ancestry.com csziggy Jun 2014 #5

I've managed for over 40 years HeiressofBickworth Jun 2014 #6

My Mom and my father's mother did all the footwork csziggy Jun 2014 #7