Chris Jefferies wrote: > The problem I found is that the majority of email addresses found on family > history web sites are no longer in use. People change their ISP quite > regularly to get a better deal so their old email address stops being used. > One solution is to also have a none ISP related email address which can be > used on web sites and will work whatever ISP you use. Another solution which > a friend used was to subscribe to a company which created a dummy email > address. Any emails sent to that address was automatically forwarded to your > current real email address. This is why I advocate the use of non-ISP dependent address or renting your own domain name which can be forwarded, if so wished, to a current address. > Another similar problem I have is that there is someone with a tree on > Ancestry with interests identical to me. The problem is that it is probably > me! I think I uploaded a tree about 10 years ago and cannot now remember the > user name, email address or password. The last time I subscribed to Ancestry > I contacted Admin but they were not at all helpful. I recently put a small but problematic tree onto Ancestry and now, every time I do a search that involves one of the surnames I get a pop up referring me to my own tree!! -- Charani (UK) OPC for Walton, Greinton and Clutton, SOM Asst OPC for Ashcott and Shapwick, SOM http://wsom-opc.org.uk