Mrs. Hoese, As for the shortening of the URLs for Rootweb.Com, the tips supplied by Mr. Hoff are suggested. He shortened the URL for everyone to <http:// http://bit.ly/1hUBOHr> to which I thanked him. Just afterwards Mr. Harter was kind enough to pass along tips on the same subject. I had finally, just before getting his e-mail, figured out how to do it. It works like a charm with one caveat. Now I have to try and remember one more thing before I send out a posting to this list. On another note, I made an error which by accident made the article unavailable to non-members of the site. This has been remedied and all I can is that I am human. Everyone should be able to access the article now. Cordially, A. Wayne Webb Historian: German Baptist Brethren Church Past Editor: Brethren Roots Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Books <http://books.brethrenarchives.com> Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Ministers <http://mincon.brethrenarchives.com/> & Congregations Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Almanacs, <http://books1.brethrenarchives.com/> Annuals & Yearbooks Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Offerings <http://offering.brethrenarchives.com/> In other words: Chief Bottle Washer and Cook -----Original Message----- From: Ruth Hoese [mailto:ruthjh@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 12:28 PM To: SpiWebb@aol.com; brethren@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BRE] Happy New Year to my Brethren Friends Happy New Year to All and thank you to Wayne Webb for all his work. Wayne, When I clicked on your link I got a 404 page not found message so I did what I usually do in those cases and deleted part of the url. In this case it left me with this: http://books.brethrenarchives.com/index.php/home/research-blog which loaded immediately. I then clicked on the recently added link that is to the right and got the first of the blog posts. I may be the only one who had to do this, but if others are having trouble getting the site, try it. Ruth

Thanks, Wayne. Happy New Year to you and thank you for all the work you have done for preserving Brethren history! My husband’s Brethren line goes back to Barbara E. Wagner and John J. Wagoner and I am also thankful to Delores Wolfe Baker for her work and the books she published. Without it, I would be very little idea of where to start.

If you can't remember just do an internet search on "URL shortener" :-) Bob Harter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Webb" <SpiWebb@aol.com> To: <brethren@rootsweb.com>; "'Ruth Hoese'" <ruthhoese@att.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 12:58 PM Subject: Re: [BRE] Happy New Year to my Brethren Friends > Mrs. Hoese, > > > > As for the shortening of the URLs for Rootweb.Com, the tips supplied by > Mr. > Hoff are suggested. He shortened the URL for everyone to <http:// > http://bit.ly/1hUBOHr> to which I thanked him. Just afterwards Mr. Harter > was kind enough to pass along tips on the same subject. I had finally, > just > before getting his e-mail, figured out how to do it. It works like a > charm > with one caveat. Now I have to try and remember one more thing before I > send out a posting to this list. >