yes we are talking about the right site. The other one you're talking about is familydiscovery.com and they don't index pedigrees, just link and frame other sites, passing them off as their own. W. David Samuelsen Margaret McCleskey wrote: > > Are we sure that we are talking about the right web site (Kindred > Konnections)? There is another, one whose name I can't find right now, > that I have read about recently that is selling access to links to other > web sites. The name, as I recall, is similar to ancestry.com (but is > not them). > > Margaret > > Tom Thatcher wrote: > > > > > > > > I will be most glad if somebody just send us simple instructions for > > > setting up robots.txt file. > > > > Here is the META tag; copy this into your html file in between the <HEAD> > > and </HEAD> tags (you only need to do this for the main page, usually named > > index.html) > > > > <META name="robots" content="noindex"> > > > > The robots.txt protocol is explained at this site > > > > <http://info.webcrawler.com/mak/projects/robots/exclusion.html> > > > > However, it explains that the robots.txt file only works when it is > > installed in the root directory of the server. If your personal homepage is > > hosted by another site (like rootsweb, or your ISP) putting a robots.txt > > file in your own directory will not work (according to the site). > > > > The other problem is that the robots.txt and META robot tags are voluntary. > > If KK is really indexing other sites and then charging people to see them > > through their frame, they probably don't respect anti-robot protocols > > anyway. > > > > I'm going to try that no frames javascript, though. Thanks! > > > > -- > > Tom Thatcher > > [email protected] > > <http://members.rpa.net/~thatcher> > > <http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=thatcher-th> > > > > ==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== > > Support RootsWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > > > ============================== > > Visit ROOTS-L, the Internet's oldest and largest genealogical > > mailing list: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/roots-l/ > > ==== COPYRIGHT Mailing List ==== > Support RootsWeb - http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html > > ============================== > Search over 64,000,000 records in the Social Security Death Index: > http://ssdi.rootsweb.com