I think that's called "Monopoly" ...
Interesting that ancestry has created a lot of subcontractors to manage 
sections of their images.  However they don't seem to care if they turn over 
defective images for these subs.  They make a lot of money off these subs 
and should supply quality materials for the price.
Hannah Powell

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Keith Kirkland" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Wednesday, November 03, 2010 12:25 PM
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-of-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-torrent-904057
>
>
>
> On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 12:00 PM, JEFFREY D SOUTHMAYD 
> <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
>
>> It's my understanding ancestry.com is making money hand over fist.  If
>> true, someone must be interested in genealogy.
>>
>>
>> JDS
>>
>>
>
> -- 
> Keith Kirkland
>
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