That goes to show - I thought Footnote was relatively new and a free to
use site?

Isn't Tribal Pages free?
 

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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
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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

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 
 
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