hello to everybody. I'm here (CFTW 2.29x - W95a IE401) I'm fine, i don't have problems. Leonel Finotti Campinas, Sao Paulo, Brasil elefinotti@mpc.com.br

>Question: Is there any way to have each indexed book retain its own >beginning IRN? Naturally, the option to change should still be there, but >having it retained would certainly be nice. Nope. Yes a nice feature. In Ver 3 I hope to be able to solve this and other related issues. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com

I have been working with the Indexed Book portion of CFT and find one point quite bothersome. When creating the various reports you are presented with the option for the beginning IRN. That is fine. The problem comes when you change to a different book. The IRN of the previous book is still listed and one has to re-enter the desired IRN for every report. Question: Is there any way to have each indexed book retain its own beginning IRN? Naturally, the option to change should still be there, but having it retained would certainly be nice. Thanks, Mike

Hi everyone, Are all of you maybe experiencing something like no /"Slashes"/ before and after /SURNAME/ whenever a child is inserted not added???? ... .. Just curious...Henry.........

hello to everybody. I'm here I'm fine, i don't have problems. U.Klasmeier

Hi John. We're still here, just hasn't been any traffic lately. Hey guys, where are all of you? SgtGeorge Listowner At 10:45 PM 4/2/98 +1000, you wrote: >I have received no messages from CFT-WIN list since 26 March. Is there a problem with the list or have I accidentally become "unsubscribed". Help! I'm suffering withdrawal symptoms!! > >John L Smith >Canberra ACT Australia >johnsmith@interact.net.au >URL: http://users.interact.net.au/~plsj/

I have received no messages from CFT-WIN list since 26 March. Is there a problem with the list or have I accidentally become "unsubscribed". Help! I'm suffering withdrawal symptoms!! John L Smith Canberra ACT Australia johnsmith@interact.net.au URL: http://users.interact.net.au/~plsj/

When a new user subscribes to a List at RootsWeb, he/she sends the subscription email to an address that contains "-request" in it. That new subscriber receives a Welcome Message that plainly states that email to the List goes to an address that does NOT contain the "-request". An address containing "-request" is ONLY for subscribing or unsubscribing. For some unfathomable reason, there are users who either don't read the Welcome Message, or who can't understand simple instructions. In the future (starting tomorrow, April 2), if a subscriber sends an email to the List address containing the "-request", I will immediately manually unsubscribe that user. If a user doesn't care enough to do things prop- erly, or to read the Welcome Message, then that user doesn't deserve to belong to the List. If you have argument with this stance and wish to discuss it, DO NOT send your reply back to the List !!!!! Send it to me personally at: sgtgeorg@concentric.net If you reply to this subject back to the List, I will unsubscribe you. I will not tolerate any off-topic arguments on the List. If you are confused as to what I am talking about, I will give you an example of the TWO address that are used with Lists. Where you see "LISTNAME", just substitute the name of the List to which you subscribe. To subscribe to, or unsubscribe from, a List at RootsWeb, you send your email to: LISTNAME-L-request@rootsweb.com or LISTNAME-D-request@rootsweb.com (Depending on whether you are subscribing to, or unsubscribing from, the Normal mode or the Digest mode.) To send email to the List, you send to: LISTNAME-L@rootsweb.com (You don't ever send email to "LISTNAME-D".) Some of you subscribe, using the address containing the"-request", then continue to forward email to that same address, even though the Welcome Message explicitly tells you not to. Sorry to be so cantankerous, but I've about had it with people who unpack their computers, plug them up and plug in a cord to the phone outlet, get "online", and then refuse to read anything they receive in the way of HELP files. You wanna participate, you gotta follow the rules. It's that simple. Regards, SgtGeorge List Administrator

If you are sending email that causes attachments to these Lists, please read the instructions below to find out how to re-configure your email browser to stop the attachments. PLEASE DO NOT ANSWER THIS EMAIL BACK TO THE LIST !!!!! If you feel you must make a comment to me, send it to my personal email address: sgtgeorg@concentric.net If you don't know whether or not you are sending attachments, follow the instructions below and make sure your configuration is in line with the requirements for sending email to mailing lists. If your browser is configured to send vCards, please turn them off. *************************************************************************** Reconfiguring Microsoft Internet Explorer Program: Open Microsoft Internet Browser; Click: "Mail" Icon; Select: "Read Mail"; Click: "Mail" along the top of the email screen; Click: "Options" Select the: "Send" tab; Go to: "Mail Sending Format"; Select: "Plain Text"; Click: "Settings" Select: "Uuencode"; Click: "OK"; Click: "Apply"; Click: "OK" ==================== Reconfiguring Microsoft Outlook Express Email Program: Open Microsoft Outlook Express; Click: "Tools" Click: "Options" Select the: "Send" tab; Go to: "Mail Sending Format"; Select: "Plain Text"; Click: "Settings" opposite "Plain Text" Select: "Uuencode"; Click: "OK"; Click: "Apply"; Click: "OK" ================ Reconfiguring Netscape Communicator Email Program: Using Netscape Communicator (Netscape 4.x), from the menu select "edit" then from that menu select "preferences." From that screen select "mail & groups" then "messages." Under '"messages properties" make sure the box "by default, send HTML message" is NOT selected. Thanks for your cooperation, SgtGeorge List Administrator NOTE: The above instructions were written by Lin Wright <ethelind@athens.net> and passed on to listowners.

Subscribers, please forgive me for sending this on to all of you, but I feel that you should know what is happening at RootsWeb and how it affects you. Many of you new subscribers may not know, but Brian and Karen at RootsWeb operate at a loss every year. We Listowners pay our fees for having these Lists (notice that we PAY for the privilege of being Listowners), and most of us pay much more than the minimum required contribution. You subscribers pay NOTHING for being able to use the Lists; there never is a fee for being a subscriber, and that will never change; however, RootsWeb DOES depend on generous subscribers sending in whatever they can to RootsWeb just to help out. If any of you feel generous and want to help, RootsWeb is always grateful for even small contributions. A dollar or two, $5, or whatever you can spare would go a long way to ensuring that this wonderful service continues to provide us with an almost unlimited opportunity to exchange ideas and data. Brian doesn't say so here, but last year RootsWeb spent $60,000+ more for necessary hardware and software than was received in the form of contributions, fees, etc. Fortunately Brian and Karen are able to do this without having to mortgage their home. (GRIN) But, you could all help out a little by some small contribution. PLEASE DO NOT CONSIDER THIS A COERCIVE PLOY TO GET YOU TO CONTRIBUTE. If you don't want to, you don't have to. You may go on receiving the many bene- fits of RootsWeb without ANY contribution. You can use "snail mail" and send contributions to: RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative P.O. Box 6798 Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 You may use RootsWeb Credit Card utility for contributing at this URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html In any case, do whatever your conscience allows. We will all be grateful. Below is Brian's latest update on the happenings at RootsWeb. (If you are not already a contributing member of the RootsWeb family, you might consider becoming one. There are many benefits of being a contributor, which you will find out if you go to the web site and read about subscribing, including hosting Lists, having Web Pages, etc. If you know of any genealogy researchers who might like to join us, let them know. After all, any server that handles close to 100 MILLION pieces of email a month has to be doing something right. SOMEONE must be gaining valuable information from the Lists!) ************************************************** This note is going to tell you that RootsWeb set a new record level of service to the genealogical community last month, but a more important message that I'd like to convey first is just how important your support has been. RootsWeb wouldn't be here without you. In February, without your support we couldn't have purchased a generator to keep the servers up during the El Nino storms, a new search engine server for the USGenWeb and mailing list archives, and a new server to host Cyndi Howells' Website and the USGenWeb query systems. Your continued support is essential to us: just to keep up with demand, in the next few weeks we're going to have to upgrade the main Web server, upgrade the mail hub server, and start preparing to add a third list server. All that costs money. And beyond those inescapable upgrades, we really want to be building a kitty for buying genealogical datasets and bringing more new services online for the whole community. If you can spread the word and help us find more Members, Sponsors, and Donors, you'll be helping us keep up with demand and bring new data and services online. *** AND NOW FOR THE REPORT *** February was an incredible month: El Nino storms repeatedly caused us to lose power, and I wound up having to 4-wheel- drive off the mountain in a snowstorm to find and buy a generator to keep RootsWeb online. Because of our batteries and our generator, we were down only minutes even though the power was off for days. Also, Cyndi Howells' Website moved to RootsWeb right in the middle of the storms and the USGenWeb query system needed more CPU cycles and bandwidth, so we added a server and load balanced our T1 connections to the Internet right in the midst of all the snowfalls and power outages. We had about 11% absolute growth during just the month of February, but that's deceptively low because February is a short month. Our actual *daily* load increased about 20%: o 29,372,613 Web files (27,751,946 in Jan) from 2,488 Websites (2,400 in Jan). - 8,602,112 were HTML pages (not images or cgi-bin) (8,308,561 in Jan). - 3,446,096 were cgi-bin database searches and such. (3,574,701 in Jan). - 17,248,967 were GIFs (15,850,655) or JPEGs (1,398,312) (15,784,790 in Jan were GIFs (14,529,204) or JPEGs (1,255,586). o 644,950 FTP file downloads from the USGenWeb Archives and the ROOTS-L Library (618,762 in Jan). o Thanks to a neat hack by Tim Pierce, we know we shipped about 82,150,000 pieces of mail (88,649,000 in Jan) pieces of mail to the 3,050+ (2,600 in Jan) mailing lists we host. (The 82 million is probably low; we had to archive a significant amount of mail before the count because of a disk space crunch on one of the mail servers ... ) o 60,000 alt.g and s.g.* Usenet News articles to hosts on three continents (same as Jan). o Approximately 505,361,000,000 bytes in total (451,786,000,000 in Jan). And that's what RootsWeb did in February. Let me thank you once again for supporting RootsWeb -- none of this would be available to the community without your help, and your continuing support can help us grow and provide even more service to the community. Thank you, B. -- Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com

---------- : From: George W. Durman <sgtgeorg@concentric.net> : To: BROYLES-L@rootsweb.com; CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com; CROCKETT-L@rootsweb.com; CULLOP-L@rootsweb.com; DURMAN-L@rootsweb.com; GAROUTTE-L@rootsweb.com; HOMESPUN-L@rootsweb.com; LOVETTE-L@rootsweb.com; WILHITE-L@rootsweb.com; WILKINSON-L@rootsweb.com; RESEARCH-HOWTO-L@rootsweb.com; SURNAME-QUERY-L@rootsweb.com; GERMANNA_COLONIES-L@rootsweb.com : Subject: SPAM from "File Dudes" : Date: Saturday, March 28, 1998 1:15 AM : : Subscribers, please be aware that I have contacted the ISP from whence : this stupid, teenage SPAM originated. The site, for a beginning, shows : much promise, but the owners have to realize they are antagonizing users : of these Lists, and that they are severely hurting their potential by sending : this SPAM. : : If you REALLY belive that SPAMMERS should be stopped and that they : should be punished for their total disregard of Net protocol, DO NOT : respond to their unsolicited ads and let them know at every opportunity : that you are sick and tired of having to download their junk mail. : : SgtGeorge : Listowner of all the Lists to which this is being sent, except for : SURNAME-QUERY, which is managed by the fantastic Ron Lahti.

Subscribers, please be aware that I have contacted the ISP from whence this stupid, teenage SPAM originated. The site, for a beginning, shows much promise, but the owners have to realize they are antagonizing users of these Lists, and that they are severely hurting their potential by sending this SPAM. If you REALLY belive that SPAMMERS should be stopped and that they should be punished for their total disregard of Net protocol, DO NOT respond to their unsolicited ads and let them know at every opportunity that you are sick and tired of having to download their junk mail. SgtGeorge Listowner of all the Lists to which this is being sent, except for SURNAME-QUERY, which is managed by the fantastic Ron Lahti.

>I experienced this error for the first time today. Previously had no >problems. I then used a blank disk and CFT advices that it found a >backup and should it "Overwrite?" I replied Yes and the bakup continued. > This problem requires resolution. BTW - I save copies of this Digest >and I referred back to previous editions. Unfortunately, not much was >helpful. Yes. This is a known bug and hopefully will get fixed with next version. Ira ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com

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Ira, et. al.: I experienced this error for the first time today. Previously had no problems. I then used a blank disk and CFT advices that it found a backup and should it "Overwrite?" I replied Yes and the bakup continued. This problem requires resolution. BTW - I save copies of this Digest and I referred back to previous editions. Unfortunately, not much was helpful. STEVEN J. FROME Glen Cove, NY E-Mail: sfrome@juno. com or sfrome@aol.com Home Page: http://members.aol.com/sfrome/index.html _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

It means that the person is connected to a FRN (family/marriage record) that does not contain a husband or wife. The only time this may be a problem is if you later find the father or mother and try to "link" (connect) to them you will get a message saying that person already has parents. You can ignore the warning. If you want to get rid of it then add a temporary dummy father and "disconnect" the child from the father. Then delete the dummy father. This should remove the reference to the FRN. Ira At 11:40 PM 3/24/98 -0500, you wrote: >Ira, > >After running the database verification, I have one individual that is >listed under "Child with Link to Family with no Parents". I looked at the >individual but found nothing unusual. Afterwards, I rebuilt the entire >database, and I ran the database verification again. The person is still >listed in the "Child with Link to Family with no Parents" section. What >does this error mean? > >Thanks, >Jeff > >mailto:jeff.murphy@worldnet.att.net > ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com

A proposal: - one of the "Flags" (Edit Individual - Tab General) can be changed to "twins" by the user - in the case of twins, .. you can change that flag to the number of births (2, 3, ...) - if the "Search routine" could use the Flags as query field, then you will have a list of twins, ... Changes to make: - package: search on any field (not any "text" field) - user: edit the records of all twins (you can find them with a birthday list) I'm using the dutch version of CFTW and have already a "meerling" flag. But I can't use them for searchs. Groetjes, Luc Matthijs mailto:lucmatt@advalvas.be > -----Original Message----- > From: richard rogers [SMTP:richard@ilson.demon.co.uk] > Sent: Tuesday, March 24, 1998 9:27 AM > To: CFT-WIN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Siblings > > On Sun, 22 Mar 1998 13:17:43 EST, you wrote: > > >Is there any way of printing out a Cumberland Family Tree that shows all the > >siblings? If not, is there a program that will? > > This is something I want to do too. Please let me know if you get any > further with this. > > > Richard Rogers (richard@ilson.demon.co.uk)

Ira, After running the database verification, I have one individual that is listed under "Child with Link to Family with no Parents". I looked at the individual but found nothing unusual. Afterwards, I rebuilt the entire database, and I ran the database verification again. The person is still listed in the "Child with Link to Family with no Parents" section. What does this error mean? Thanks, Jeff mailto:jeff.murphy@worldnet.att.net

On Sun, 22 Mar 1998 13:17:43 EST, you wrote: >Is there any way of printing out a Cumberland Family Tree that shows all the >siblings? If not, is there a program that will? This is something I want to do too. Please let me know if you get any further with this. Richard Rogers (richard@ilson.demon.co.uk)

No suggestions. Cumberland Family Tree uses it's own proprietary database structure. Sorry, Ira At 10:27 PM 3/22/98 +0000, you wrote: >Friends, > > I seek a Windows based genealogy program that incorporates the new >PAF version 3.0 format and database structure. > > I don't mean PAF 3.0 running in Windows mode but a program by a 2d >source company that is PAF 3.0 compatible. Like Ancestral Quest or >Family Tree but with the latest version of PAF. > > Any suggestions?? > >-eddie > ---------------------------------------------------------- Ira J. Lund Cumberland Family Software, Clarksville, Tennessee, USA Genealogy Software for Beginners and Professionals E-mail: ira.lund@cf-software.com http://www.cf-software.com