From laidlaws at hotkey.net.au  Mon Jun 29 22:32:42 2009
From: laidlaws at hotkey.net.au (Doug Laidlaw)
Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2009 22:32:42 +1000
Subject: [Boykett-announce] WebRing dropped
Message-ID: <200906292232.42665.laidlaws@hotkey.net.au>

Many small sites were hosted at Geocities (http://geocities.yahoo.com/).  
Geocities will be closing down later this year and all sites are looking for a 
new host.  Many are members of WebRing, and Webring is offering them a new 
home.

I discovered that my WebRing was closed down in 2000 by its maintainer.  He 
claimed that WebRing was also under Yahoo! and he could not cope with their 
requirements.  His personal page is hosted by Tripod, a network similar to 
Geocities.  I have never noticed any link between WebRing and Yahoo, and as an 
end user, I have never really had a problem with linking up.  On the other 
hand, the Boykett site has never benefited from WebRing (even before 2000,) and 
my Lions site has had about 2 messages in 15 years.  I have therefore deleted 
the link to WebRing and replaced it with the search engine from 
FamilyTreeSeeker.com.  

FamilyTreeSeeker.com replaces an earlier search engine for family tree sites, 
called Gendex; see http://www.familytreeseeker.com/faq.php?l=en&p=14.  All 
Gencircles sites offered a link to it.  Gendex closed down some time ago, and 
FamilyTreeSeeker.com revived the idea later.  All linked sites are updated on 
its database regularly.

Doug.