Susan D. Chambless listowner for the CHAMBLESS, GAUSS, GLENDAY, BORDEN, DURFEE, BORDEN & SANDERSON surname lists, now at RootsWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com - please join us! Check it out: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~schmblss I'm posting a lot of old family letters & papers centered around the Charles Henry Gauss family of St. Charles, MO. Surnames are: Gauss, Johns, Fawcett, Glenday, Durfee, Lindsay, plus, of course, the people they knew. ----- Original Message ----- From: <columbine@ninenet.com> To: <JOHNS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 1999 2:17 PM Subject: [JOHNS] WorldConnect -- New RootsWeb Service > Rootsweb has instituted a new service, allowing you to painlessly > upload your genealogy files to the web. If you are considering this, > please make sure that you don't invade the privacy of living persons. > > Susan D. Chambless > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~schmblss > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > 2,227,126 NAMES ON ROOTSWEB WORLDCONNECT PROJECT AFTER FIRST WEEK OF > BETA TEST. As of 20 October 1999, RootsWeb users have > uploaded more than two million names to the RootsWeb WorldConnect > Project. Many users have told us that the upload software used in the > WorldConnect project is by far the fastest and most fully featured of > its kind. You can search the names already uploaded or upload you own > GEDCOM at: <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/>. > > You have full control over your GEDCOM at RootsWeb. You can change or > remove it completely at any time and RootsWeb will never burn it onto > a CD-ROM or charge others to access it. > > ROOTSWEB WILL NOW ACCEPT GEDCOMs ON REMOVABLE MEDIA. If you are > having trouble uploading your GEDCOM for any reason, please > feel free to send it to us on a floppy disk or ZIP drive disk to: > > RootsWeb WorldConnect Project > 1001 Tower Way, #120 > Bakersfield, CA 93309 > > We will upload it for you and send you notification by e-mail of your > account name and password. Our default display choice will be to > remove the names of everyone in your GEDCOM who was born within the > past 100 years. Thereafter, you can change the viewing options at any > time by going to <http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/>. > > Please remember to enclose your e-mail address with your disk or we > will have no way to notify you of your account name and password. > Please also note that we will destroy the disks we receive after > uploading the GEDCOMs contained on such disks. > > SOCIAL SECURITY DEATH INDEX UPDATED FOR AUGUST AND SEPTEMBER 1999. > NOW INCLUDES 62,259,198 NAMES. RootsWeb's implementation of the > Social Security Death Index now includes full updates for August and > September 1999. As you may recall, the previous August update > included no entries (deaths), only corrected entries. We received a > corrected August 1999 update at the same time that we received the > regular September 1999 update. Both are now included. Please remember > to use RootsWeb's Post-Ems to correct entries you know are in error > or to leave a note for other researchers. You can access the Social > Security Death Index at <http://ssdi.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi- > bin/ssdi.cgi>. > > > > > > -- > Is your email secure? http://www.pop3now.com > (c) 1998,1999 Cave Creations Corp. All rights reserved. > > > ==== JOHNS Mailing List ==== > Click here for the JOHNS resource cluster at RootsWeb: > http://resources.rootsweb.com/~clusters/surnames/j/o/JOHNS/ > > ============================== > FREE UNLIMITED Web space at RootsWeb! > Any subject: genealogy, computers, pets! Get your Freepages account today: > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/acctform.cgi >