Possibly but Magic Eight Ball says "All signs point to 'No'".
Email me directly off-list and I'll explain.
On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:43 PM, John Philip Adams <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
> Keith
> Are you related to the ISSAC Kirkland, of Raiford Co., South Carolina, REV.
> War? He died about 1785.
> JPAdams
> Texas
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Keith Kirkland
> Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 3:38 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Is Genealogy Dead?
>
> Footnote offers only certain sections for free and not even all records in
> those sections, I believe. They offer monthly and annual subscriptions and,
> IMHO, have better holdings than Ancestry in several categories; scanned US
> Civil War Military Service records, for example.
>
> Not sure about Tribal pages.
>
> Keith
>
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Huffstutler, Eric S. <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > That goes to show - I thought Footnote was relatively new and a free to
> > use site?
> >
> > Isn't Tribal Pages free?
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Discussion of research and writing about Virginia history
> > [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Keith Kirkland
> > Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 3:25 PM
> > To: [log in to unmask]
> > Subject: Re: [VA-HIST] Is Genealogy Dead?
> >
> > To add (re: Ancestry) :
> >
> > On Oct 21, Ancestry announced their purchase of iArchives.com, the
> > parent company of footnote.com, thus limiting the number of "big"
> > pay-for-play companies.
> >
> > http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ancestrycom-inc-completes-acquisition-o
> >
> f-iarchives-2010-10-21<
> http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ancestrycom-inc-comp
> letes-acquisition-o%0Af-iarchives-2010-10-21<http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ancestrycom-inc-comp%0Aletes-acquisition-o%0Af-iarchives-2010-10-21>
> >
> >
> > Additionally, Yahoo! suspended hosting of their major and traditionally
> > free hosting service Geocities in October of last year. All pages hosted
> > there (many by hobbyist genealogist like myself) are no longer
> > available.
> > Apparently, there were some attempts to index/save the information prior
> > to going offline, however there is no concensus on how much was
> > accomplished by the Internet Archive as the amount of information that
> > would have to be crawled on such short notice was prohibitively large. A
> > 1TB torrent of all Geocities sites has been released "in the wild" and
> > was announced recently, however.
> >
> > http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/geocities-to-be-released-as-a-tor
> >
> rent-904057<
> http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/geocities-to-be-released-
> as-a-tor%0Arent-904057<http://www.techradar.com/news/internet/geocities-to-be-released-%0Aas-a-tor%0Arent-904057>
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