ALL I am sorry to contradict Scott but it is NOT my provider that is at fault. I have had a gedcom with over 5,000 names- NO PROBLEM! If you paused to think about it, Scott, you would realise that the CHASE database was not built by people sending me floppy discs I have received over 25 gedcoms, by mail, from CHASE Group members without a problem. With others there has normally been an answer. You say that you have sent many files as attachments but only your last effort came through as such and then it was truncated. I repeat. How do you think I got 11,000 names in the Chase database if MY ISP is at fault? In the past most Aol files have come thru to me as "split" files. I have already spoken to Netcom re this problem and they assure me that their system will handle any files. I also have sent all kinds of files and I can send them to you if you wish. I received one,a copy of all the HUME family on the Lancashire IGI, which was 11Mb in size. Some weeks ago I informed the Group that I would not be able to continue managing the CHASE site I have already told the Group that I would make one last update and I have received some gedcoms since then and added them to the database ready for uploading but in view of all the problems and my severe lack of time. and in view of your assertations Just one last offer. Will ANY of you that have successfully sent gedcoms to me ask those with a problem to send to you and if you receive them OK then send to me as before. This offer ends on the 20th November for I really am snowed under. I regret I must call it a day at that and consequently after this next update I will not be making any more. >" What I ended up having to do was put my GEDCOM file on a Web Page >on the World Wide Web so that Keith could download it. This is not an easy solution" What is difficult about it? Keith At 09:30 AM 11/9/98 -0700, you wrote: >I have also had problems e-mailing GEDCOM files to Keith. I tried it >from 2 different Internet Service providers, and I did everything >correctly. >I am a computer programmer for a living, and I successfully e-mail large >file attachments many times a day. I was able to e-mail from AOL and >my work e-mail account to many other users, but not to Keith. I was even >able to e-mail my GEDCOM file from my work e-mail to my home e-mail >with no trouble, and vice versa. So I know that this is not an AOL >problem. > >By the time my data file got to Keith, it was always split up into several >different pieces -- the same problem this user is having. So, since this >has >happenned to more than one person, I am beginning to suspect that Keith's >Internert provider is the problem. It possibly has a maximum file size set >for >attachments, and when this is exceeded, the file is broken up into smaller >pieces. >What I ended up having to do was put my GEDCOM file on a Web Page >on the World Wide Web so that Keith could download it. This is not an easy >solution, but that was the only was I could get my data across. > >Scott Hendrick >------------------------------------------------------------- >SHendrick@CQG.com >------------------------------------------------------------- > >---------- >> From: k.hume <khume@netcomuk.co.uk> >> To: CHASE-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: Re: [CHASE-L] WWW Site update. >> Date: Sunday, November 08, 1998 8:54 AM >> >> ALL, >> PLEASE,PLEASE,PLEASE, if here is any among you who use aol mail system >and >> have sent me gedcoms can you please publish,to the Group, how you did it. >> I now have two members whose gedcoms I cannot use as the Aol mail system >> breaks the messages up and sends as many seperate files. >> Failing this can anyone give me Aol Technical Support email address and >I >> will ask and publish the results. >> I left them long ago because of their,then, shortcomings in the email >side, >> MEG CHASE, your file also came thru as part of the message in txt. form >and >> I cannot use for the same reasons as described. >> I must once again and for the last time refer all those having triuble >with >> email to refer to their providers. >> If you are using Netscape mail,( and if you have a Netscape browser -- >you >> can) then use that. You will need to set it up in their News and Mail >> preferences file in the Options... menu. >> You will see a "Button" with "Attach" and a picture of a paper clip on >it. >> Click on it and select the file from your directory listing shown. It is >as >> simple as that! >> >> >> Keith Hume > > > Keith Hume, email khume@netcomuk.co.uk CHASE-L Website at:- http://www.surnameweb.org/centers/c/chase/index.html http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~khume/home.html Kent,England Researching:- HULME,DAWSON,(In Lancs.) HUME,McKAY, (In New Brunswick & Nova Scotia SHERMAN,SIMMONS,HATHAWAY AND CHASE,(In USA & Canada) SHERRING & BLUNDEN (Hampshire,England) FALL,(Ireland & Australia) BUTCHER,PAYNE/PAINE,BURCKITT(Bedfordshire,England)