This in addition to the aggressive banner advertising leaves only a single conclusion - stay (or get) away from Geocities ! Luckily there are many free or very reasonably priced alternatives ;-) ! Obviously on this list (which is run by rootsweb) http://www.rootsweb.com has to be listed in first place. If you have pages of general interest (i.e. not just family pages) you might consider joining the SwissGen Team http://www.eye.ch/swissgen/ and three mirror sites worldwide : if your material fits within our structure, it could be hosted (free of charge for you) by SwissGen, and you would also continue to maintain your pages yourself - if you are interested, just contact me and we'll talk about it in more detail (I will be going on holiday soon, however, and this may have to wait until end of July). For pages just about your family I can also recommend http://www.genealogy.net/privat/ where you'll get an advertisment-free web page for only DM 60 (just over $ 30) per year, which would also help paying for the services available there for genealogy - e.g. genealogy.net is one of the servers running SwissGen for free ! If you are interested in more detail - please, contact Reinhold Herrmann <mailto:rainer@retsys.eics.com> directly. Best regards - Wolf Seelentag ---------------------- Wolf W. Seelentag, PhD, e-mail : wolf@swissmail.com Reherstr. 19, CH - 9016 St. Gallen, Switzerland Tel (home) : +41-71-2885121 Fax : +49-89-66617-91987 Tel (work) : +41-71-4942233

---------- Von: W. David Samuelsen[SMTP:dsam@wasatch.com] Gesendet: Mittwoch, 30. Juni 1999 07:59 An: SWITZERLAND-L@rootsweb.com Betreff: [SWITZERLAND-L] Yahoo/Geocities Takeover of YOUR sites

http://www.wired.com/news/news/technology/story/20472.html http://www.internetnews.com/wd-news/article/0,1087,10_147231,00.html

this was posted TODAY, July 29, 1999

There are many genealogy sites at Yahoo/Geocities

If you have your site there, Yahoo/Geocities stole your site and declared them their own. Including your copyrights and refusal to pay royalties to you.

Feel free to circulate this message to other lists not receiving this alert.

W. David Samuelsen