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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