Ancestry has changed a lot of past "offers" over time, when they started
buying up all the competition.

Rootsweb used to be independent, and offered "unlimited" space for
genealogy related sites, the purpose WAS to provide no fee access to
data, vs. what ancestry was doing, and still is. More and more public
records are being distributed by subscription to private databases, like
ancestry. Rootsweb became valuable enough that the former owners who
were going broke, finally caved and sold it. Now it is part of what it
opposed, a gateway to subscription data.

Jeff

Axel Berger wrote:
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>
> Jeff wrote:
> > a LOT of users have free space on Rootsweb.com, a sub
> > of Ancestry,com, and they do not support server-side applications.
>
> In that case you're right and scripting is the best solution. My "rock
> bottom cheapo" may have sounded deprecating, but I agree there's
> absolutely no reason not to avail yourself of free offers while they are
> sufficient to serve the intended purpose.
>
> Unfortunately the time when dial-up or DSL access, and most email
> services too, always came with some webspace included seem to be over
> here in Germany. Too few people knew what to do with it so it was better
> marketing to become even cheaper.
>
> Axel
>
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