Ancestry putting Rootsweb under it's domain

There has been lots of buzz in the genealogy community in the past few weeks about Rootsweb. Ancestry, who is the provider of Rootsweb, has decided to move all the Rootsweb services under their Ancestry domain name. A lot of it looked like increasing their rank by increasing their page views. Many, however, took the view that Ancestry was trying to steal the free resources on Rootsweb and moved their USGenWeb pages elsewhere (although Ancestry denied this would happen).

There is a neat article on Randy Seaver's Genea-Musings blog that shows the trends of visits to the various genealogy sites that I found quite interesting. Check it out:

Genea-Musings: 5-year statistics for Ancestry.com traffic

Free Online Sample of Discovering Family History Magazine

There's a new magazine from the publishers of Family Chronicle, History Magazine and Internet Genealogy. It's called Discovering Family History.

It's more designed to help get people started with the basics of research, but even more advanced genealogists may find some useful ideas.

You can download a free issue at their website at http://www.discoveringfamilyhistory.com/freepreview.htm.

LegacyChart

Legacy 7 is getting ready to be released (I know, we've been hearing that for months). Part of the hype of this new release is chart capabilities.

There is a free download available so you can test-drive what we'll be getting in the new version of Legacy. This Legacy Charting free demo expires on June 15, but the full Legacy product should be out by then.

Check it out at Legacy Charting.