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About Us

This is the obligatory page that talks about why this site exists, who had the free time to develop such a site, and what we hope to accomplish with all this.

Whose Bright Idea Was This?

On July 3rd, 2000, Dominic and Scott were talking about how cool it would be to have an Address Book that all of the family members could share, so that when someone's address or phone number changed, it wouldn't take days/weeks to get that out to everyone. As all good ideas do, this percolated into Family Clippings, the web site.

If you like this site, you have Dominic Schanen and Scott Jentsch to thank. We took a good year to get this out the door just so that others could check it out, and we expect to be fine-tuning long into the future.

Mission Statement

The start of Family Clippings was the idea of the universal Address Book, but it doesn't stop there. We felt that there were lots of things in our lives that could benefit from the ability to share between friends and family, so that's why the site isn't called "Universal Address Book" or something simplistic and obvious like that.

The name Family Clippings came about due to the idea that some people store clippings of news articles, recipes, obituaries, photos, and other such things in drawers, bibles, or shoeboxes. We're hoping to create a virtual shoebox of sorts, where you can share those things which make sense to do so.

What We Hope to Accomplish

If our family members can make use of it, that's what we're hoping for. Currently, it costs us very little (in terms of bills to pay) to run the site as it stands now. Therefore, we're not looking to charge our family for using the site. We would appreciate your feedback, of course, since we want to make it as useful as possible.

We're not looking to make money off our family members on this venture, so as long as we only have to pay for the yearly registration of the familyclippings.com domain name, we're not going to come begging for money. However, if things change, and we have to start paying for the hosting and bandwidth, we may ask for people to pitch in a couple of bucks a year to keep everything running smoothly.

These are some of the features that we're thinking of offering on the site: