RootsWeb

RootsWeb
URL	https://rootsweb.com/
Status	Endangered
Archiving status	Unknown
Archiving type	Unknown
IRC channel	#archiveteam-bs (on hackint)

RootsWeb is a genealogical site and community that has been around since the 80s, some of their mailing lists have messages going back to at least 1980.

In 2000 Ancestry.com LLC (then MyFamily.com, Inc.) acquired RootsWeb.

Mailing Lists

For many years (from the early 2000s) the list archives were on lists.rootsweb.com. Ca. early 2019, mailinglists.rootsweb.com, apparently the same server as lists.rootsweb.com under a second domain, began being linked to by the main rootsweb.com navigation for the lists of mailing list; however, it still linked back to lists.rootsweb.com for the list archives themselves. At this point the archives used HyperKitty. On 2020 March 02, the mailing list service was made read-only. Some groups moved to Groups.io. Around early November of 2020 the index domain was kept at mailinglists., but it began linking to mlarchives.rootsweb.com for the archive contents, which is now displayed by an unknown (perhaps bespoke) program; the HyperKitty archives no longer worked.

lists.rootsweb.com and mailinglist.rootsweb.com were subject to a 13-month long AB job that was started in February 2020. When the lists were moved to mlarchives.rootsweb.com an ignore was added for ^https?://lists\.rootsweb\.com/hyperkitty/.

Freepages

On 1999 October 07, RootsWeb started providing "unlimited" Freepages storage to users, before that they hosted guest pages by request.

Other

RootsWeb previously hosted an IRC server at irc.rootsweb.com.