Who owns rootsweb

Users will no longer be able to send outgoing emails or accept incoming emails. Additionally, administration tools will no longer be available to list administrators and mailing lists will be put into an archival state. Administrators may save the email addresses in their list prior to March 2nd.

After that, mailing list archives will remain available and searchable on RootsWeb. As an alternative to RootsWeb Mailing Lists, Ancestry message boards are a great option to network with others in the genealogy community. Message boards are available for free with an Ancestry registered account. Thank you for being part of the RootsWeb family and contributing to this community. Sincerely, The RootsWeb team. So who really owns what anymore? But if anyone has more up-to-date information please feel free to leave a comment advising of the change.

COM — founded Ancestry. Having started small, the company has grown exponentially since and became a publicly traded company in November In October Ancestry. Current list of the websites and products owned by Ancestry.

Former sites and products: Memories — acquired late , relaunched as Shoebox see above Ancestry24 — acquired October Ancestry Magazine — discontinued Ancestry Publishing — discontinued Archive CD Books England — acquired Genealogy.

Story — launched July Former sites, now incorporated into Findmypast: online renamed to Findmypast. Our vision has been to make it easier for people around the world to use the power of the Internet to discover their heritage and strengthen their bonds with family and friends. Below is a list of the MyHeritage. Some of these companies still are online, others have been absorbed into MyHeritage. Currently available in 40 different languages, MyHeritage has employees around the world.

FamilySearch can trace its own roots back to when it was founded as the Genealogical Society of Utah GSU and their members have been actively gathering, preserving, and sharing genealogical records worldwide for over years. Renamed to FamilySearch, the organisation launched their first website in , which has now grown to include over a billion records from hundreds of countries around the world.

Partnerships with FamilySearch: Ancestry. Former websites and products: FamilySearch Indexing app Forums. Thank you for this. I have to spend a little more time with the article. This is great! And for my dollar, you should just pick only one. That along with FamilySearch should get you what you need. We have to remember that mostly we are being subjected to smart marketing, not new data. Do not fall for it. I do not need both.

I fell for some of that smart marketing I guess. I take the idea of using Ancestry for 6 months and then 6 months off, fill in with Family Search or subscribe to My Heritage in between. Also with all the other sites out there and Google, I can spend 6 months just catching up with what I have found. I started off with GRU and used their and still do tree where I can update as I go then ged com it back to my own set up, it was fine while it was working ok with xxx sending contact messages and asking xxxx if they could do a better search for you which most did without hesitation but some were downright rude to say the least and when that happened I just turned the light off and tired another.

From there I ventured to WVR Australia being an Aussie made sense it was magic, Aust records obtained and found at a great rate,Then it was reconstructed most of it went to WVR which is run by MH where I now subscribe to as it has all the census records at your disposal, I haggle every year when the subs are due and get a very good rate. With it went all the records that you could once log into for free which is now part and parcel with all of them as they march on merging site after site that once had free access.

The same happened with Gen Circles. BUT LDS will not go there as they have too bigger stake in genealogy and cannot keep up with the technology so this why they have outsourced a lot of their records to be digitized along with the big 3 and when those records cooling of period has lapsed then they will be available on the LDS site for all to see for free no matter who you are and live.

Today one cannot keep up with the releases of new records and digitization, I have set up 3 emails for just that by creating alerts with new releases of eBooks and NewsPapers and one setup just purely for translation of foreign web sites search forums.

You may say gee he has his hands full and my answer is yep a fair amount of the time but I do take big breaks, other wise you would go crazy and go around in circles and get nowhere, or wake up with head on keyboard nearly once that happened I have co worked with family and produced a family book that dates back to and still finding unfound records.

Doing this has given me great knowledge of history of how life was back in year dot, I have learnt how to read old hand writing and the digitizing mess when it pick up the smallest of dots through transcribing and indexing.

My subs to Ancestry keep on going up and so much of it is American based info anyway. I am a member of the Genealogical Society of Victoria and they have the real thing — older style filing systems but they definitely know where to find the information and their dedicated people know their stuff.

What a report!! Kudos to you! Each case is different, so sometimes checking the various name changes work, even though it takes more time. Completely independent. Great compilation! You missed Rootsweb which used to be an independent free site in the list of acquisitions by Ancestry. GeneaNet was created in Paris in and is owned by its founders and a few outside investors. You can check them out on Wikipedia.

Great list, but did I miss something? Where does the Genealogist website fit in? Evelyn, while they do have SOME of the same records, most of it is different. But it would depend of what your focus is. I really hated it when Ancestry ditched some of the best sites, myfamily. If anyone is interested, they are always needing help, much like the data indexing for the Family Search. What a wonderful article! I do have one correction to make.

BillionGraves is a privately owned, by Otter Creek Holdings, and has numerous partnerships throughout the genealogy world. You are correct, they have partnered with MyHeritage in a collaborative effort to create more records world-wide since Feb of In addition, we have been partners with FamilySearch since , Genealogy Bank since , Previously partnered with Ancestry, and have partnerships with many more organizations throughout the industry.

All in efforts to make the information on BillionGraves more accessible and to expedite the creation of additional records! Thank you for this list! Personally, I avoid Ancestry — in all its many forms — as much as humanly possible.

My experiences with them have been consistently bad, along the lines of money-sucking vultures grabbing at every cent they can fool you into spending. But this has been an excellent source of information — thank you kindly for providing it to the rest of us. Much appreciated. Thank you very much to all of you! At last, we have a good view of the genealogy world! But effectively, some sharks out there are waiting for us and we can easily pay for what we can have for free. Thank you so much!

You just saved me a bundle! I must admit however that I have subbed with Ancestry. They cover considerable of my needs for research in Canada. Thanks again and best wishes to all for the best that you can possibly expect!!!

It would be nice if we only had to subscribe to one site but that is not realistic. We need good data and no site has it all. I know that I am paying double on some things. I want to contain costs but convenience is also important. Are they still independent? What other major sites are still independent? I signed up for My Heritage free trial a few years ago and somehow it installed itself as my main search engine which annoyed me immensely. It took forever to figure out how ti uninstall it and I am fairly tech savvy so for that reason I will never touch them again.

Silly way to lose customers! Thank you, this is a very helpful list. Thanks for this information. Another money making machine. In the short term, it means that records we used to see on microfilm at a Family History Center we now will see on a computer at a Family History Center. My cynicism aside, Judy, in the short to medium term I think you are incorrect.

Perhaps I have misunderstood the process but, if not, there is a difference in the records we can now examine at a local FHC. BTW, to me the decision to take this road was likely due to the serious decline in traffic through the local FHCs — they need some justification to keep them open and needed to counter the trend. I applaud both for trying to get more benefits for their customer base but to some extent they have made deals with the devil. I work at one of the local Family History Centers.

The reason that one can no longer order in films for viewing is the fact that they can no longer purchase the blank filmstrip materials it is no longer being manufactured………we no longer use film in our cameras, we all have digital cameras………we like that too.

Original films were never sent out to the FHCs. The films we received were duplicates. They no longer have the materials to create duplicates. Even what is available is hard to get and very expensive — going digital really is the answer for the long term.

But, the price per roll shot up dramatically due to limited demand and increased cost from the supplier. Wonder how websites that US Gen county coordinators still have on Rootsweb are impacted.

We still either have to able to have a somewhat functioning site or able to move it. Mail lists the least, but everything to one degree or another. Some of the coordinators from USGenWeb and other organizations were furious and moved off Rootsweb, and got hooted at for their outrage.

What is going on with Ancestry? Now today I have the same problem. Anyone else having a problem? Sorry, finally got through to the support center. They had me clear my browsing history, cache, and cookies and the problem went away. First time that has ever happened. I was at RootsTech this week. I raised the issue of RootsWeb with every Ancestry person I could find.

Most seemed unaware of what I was event talking about — sigh. One tool highlighted was a very complex mathematical algorithm that revealed that people who landed in SC migrated toward Alabama. Anyone who has done any genealogy on ancestors in Alabama could have told them this. I am at a loss to understand how we get this message to them.

Would it be possible to get FamilySearch or one of Ancestors competitors to take this content from them? We created this content and it is just GONE…. Being prevented from doing so is extremely frustrating. To add insult to injury, ancestry. My 11 trees were removed because they were not sourced. All my trees were totally sourced in the gedcom format. So if your ancestry. My trees were uploaded multiple times per year and was always in the search to help others as ancestry says they recommend to help others.

So rootsweb has been crashed, findagrave is being reworked, and most of my searching requests are taking forever to appear meaning a major slowdown. Ancestry appears broken so backup your trees to a gedcom file and hope someone other then ancestry will provide a rootsweb style interface for free gedcom files of family trees. So, as of July 2nd, does anyone have inside information as to whether Worldconnect will ever allow updating, uploading, or removing of our gedcoms?

I get the same automatic replies when I ask a question—has been going on for months. I do not mind paying to put my gedcom somewhere else and of course have it on my computer and backed up also , but what is a good place used by hundreds of thousands of people? It needs to allow users to generate a Register Report, and I would prefer it to have none of those stupid pink and blue heads either.

I want a serious site with good reports, the sort used by professional genealogists when writing scholarly articles. I agree Cherilyn.

A few months ago my WC gedcom was still there, even if my name as the contributor had been changed from Bonnie Follett to just plain Bonnie. You could at least see the gedcom title, the number of individuals in my gedcom, the last update date, and review it in the old user-friendly format. You have to play with menus to try to find anything related to your old gedcom individuals.

On the plus side — I was able to create a new account and password on the new system. It was then able to link my two gedcoms I had on the system to my new account. I appear to now have the option to delete those gedcoms or add a new one. I suspect it will get dumped into the new system which as we can see lacks any user-friendly component, with no ability to search individual gedcoms.

I suspect it also is being coded so that no one in these WC files gets indexed by search engines. Also on the plus side, if you explore the menus and links, you can do a name search for individuals. Trying to go back causes you to have to redo your search after each individual you have viewed.

Again it seems designed to NOT be user friendly. My thoughts are simple: particularly these days we get what we pay for — and only what we pay for. What happen to Rootsweb. So If Ancestry. This makes me sick that such a beautiful and helpful website has been destroyed because of greed. Is Roots web still accessible? I am trying to delete some information that is still showing up from the old site and am unable to do so.

Under the old system, I deleted all my trees but information is still showing up. What can I do to erase these entries. Contacting Ancestry would be the way to go.

Sadly, there are no notes anymore??? Is there any chance these will be brought back in the future? I just found this after trying to lookup the difference between Ancestry and Rootsweb -I new at researching family. I can only conclude that I need to get a large SSD for local backup and seriously consider paying for decentralised backup with Sia or one of the otehr decentralised storage options being developed.

Very disgusted by this now monopoly. Just venting, alas. I refuse to use Ancestry. Even sites that are free for researchers have to be paid for by somebody. The big site that is free for researchers is FamilySearch.

Hi Joan — Judy is correct that familysearch. You only need to sign up and create a login at familysearch to have free access there. I have accepted that the tree I had there is no longer useable.

Many people were upset with how Ancestry chose to deal with that. But we have to move on. I chose to move my publicly accessible family tree to wikitree. It has furthered family research by tremendous jumps and bounds. It forces better sourcing out of people, and better sharing. When you see a badly sourced profile, you can just update it. When duplicates are found, you merge them to one profile. When you have an additional spouse, sibling or child, you add them in, along with your sources.

I love wikitree though. It is a fun place. So my process has become this: I have an offline family tree program where I gather my research finds and update my data, then I update the wikitree and familysearch profiles from there. I also have an older tree on Ancestry that I uploaded many moons ago, and I update my info there when time permits.

I also found many gaps in what info they currently had for certain foreign countries although they are fairly good in others. I also prefer FS source citations to those recommended at Ancestry which are cumbersome and lacking the data I like to include in my cites, which forces me to rewrite them before I share them.

But Ancestry has also been useful to fill in gaps with a few records that FS does not yet have. So I view it as the last place to look in researching. This is way too long. I just wanted to share some ideas on how I responded to losing my tree info at rootsweb and WorldConnect.

I needed to verify and organize my data and research anyway, which had long been on my agenda. Very sad. Such a tragic loss of information. I cannot seem to find any where they might have posted about any updates. The Search page is still useless as it was when they brought it back online so long ago. Your email address will not be published. By posting a comment, you agree that this website can store and handle your data under its privacy policy. Bad news about RootsWeb by Judy G.

The prospect of months of delays Ugh. The news about RootsWeb is thoroughly depressing. Weeks, perhaps. Optimistically, even days. Yeah, right.

Not at all. Think about it.