It is with mixed emotions that Brigitte and I make the following announcement: As of December 21, 1998 our GENEALOGY.COM server will go permanently offline and the domain name will be transferred to Broderbund Software, Inc., who will be using it for their own purposes. Furthermore, all external user accounts on the GENEALOGY.COM server have already been deactivated in preparation for the move. The current contents of GENEALOGY.COM will remain frozen as they are today. During the past 3 and 1/2 years, Brigitte and I have made a number of friends and acquaintences through the connection of our web site. We are confident that those who are truly our friends will continue to remain so despite this sudden and abrupt change of course. As many of you might imagine, our involvement with genealogy will not be diminished by this event. In fact, we already have a new domain name, WORLDROOTS.COM, which will be coming online at the same time that GENEALOGY.COM makes the transfer. The content of WORLDROOTS.COM will be managed strictly by Brigitte and myself. We will most certainly be publishing links into the German servers of the genealogy pages that have been so thoughtfully maintained by all of you over these years. Above all, we wish to thank all of those who have been a part of GENEALOGY.COM over the years. We will still be online and Brigitte's pages will remain accessable through WORLDROOTS.COM. We hope that everybody will stop by and check in on us from time to time. Thanks so much for your friendship and contributions over the years, Fred and Brigitte -- Brigitte Gastel Lloyd email: brigitte@qrz.com http://www.genealogy.com/~brigitte ---------------------------------------------------- Wer über gewisse Dinge nicht den Verstand verliert, hat keinen zu verlieren. (G.E. Lessing)