In a message dated 10/28/2006 5:32:28 PM Eastern Standard Time, jasche45133@gmail.com writes: How are you accessing them? When using the banner link on rootsweb pages it goes to a blank page. I did notice that I can reach the message board by using a link from a gateway message -- so -- it does get stranger and stranger -- J. Asche It would appear that the aliases are broken. When you click the tab in the masthead you are going to: http://boards.rootsweb.com/ which is an alias for the actual board URL. It would appear that the alias file is broken but the boards themselves are accessible using their actual URL. Joan

Hi, The only lnk that did not work for me was the rootsweb homepage toolbar/masthead link. I tried all the other links into the master page ? (the page that shows the alphabet listings and state/country listings) they work... I always enter the boards from ancestry.com's family community link... which has my membership link as my boards ID... so I enter already signed in... Would this be a rootsweb problem or a ancestry problem since the boards actually belong to ancestry with an ancestry.com addy? MY BOARDS: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=admin.main&r=an 1. or: http://www.ancestry.com/community/ 2. or: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=main&r=rw 1 & 2 above the identical page different routes to it... they work.. Nelda Nelda's websites - http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ yDNA tests for Hurst, Beatty, Gilpin, Graves; all direct male relatives _________________________________________________________________ Add a Yahoo! contact to Windows Live Messenger for a chance to win a free trip! http://www.imagine-windowslive.com/minisites/yahoo/default.aspx?locale=en-us&hmtagline