RootsWeb Newsroom

Over the past couple of days, we’ve heard a lot of concern about blinking or flashing ads on RootsWeb that are annoying and even potentially dangerous to those susceptable to seizures or migranes. We agree that these advertisements have no place on RootsWeb and we’ve been working with the ad folks to remove them all.

If you see a flashing or offensive ad anywhere on RootsWeb, please report it to the HelpDesk. Make sure that you include a general description of the advertisement and the text that is on the ad so that we’re sure that we remove them all.

Thanks for your patience and understanding and for helping us identify and nix all of these bad advertisements.

There have been several comments on this blog in the past few weeks about giving volunteers copies of The Official Guide to RootsWeb, and you’re right that RootsWeb should do a lot more to thank the over 20,000 volunteers who keep it all going – without them there truly would be no RootsWeb! We don’t have 20,000 copies of The Guide to give out right now, but we’d like to tell you about some Volunteer Recognition plans we have in the works.

(more…)

Sorry that the font size for your comments has been shrinking!  We want RootsWeb to be as easy to use as possible, and that includes font sizes and colors. 

As of this morning, you should be seeing bigger fonts for the comments you make on the RootsWeb Newsroom (it’s the same size as is used for the posts themselves).  Thanks again for your suggestions, and we hope this makes commenting on Newsroom posts even easier.

If you’re planning on going to the National Genealogy Society conference in Richmond, Virginia in a couple of weeks, don’t forget about the RootsWeb class Saturday afternoon! It’s class S448 – May 19th at 4:00.

(more…)

Wanted to let you know that we’re taking the new WorldConnect Tree Administration tools out of beta, and they will replace the old tools as soon as all of our FAQs and help documentation are updated.

(more…)