I am guessing, that you exported the people to go on the web site to this GEDCOM, then imported it into a new, empty database. So far, it sounds good. Then you edit the fact types through the Lists menu, fact Types, and deselect the WWW usage for certain facts, but they still show up on the web page. They don’t on a book type of page, to remove them from the FGS type page, you have to deselect their use on the Family group sheet. I just discovered this, I wonder if Bruce even thought of it. I haven’t checked, but I wonder about the pedigree chart type of web page. I see what you mean about not wanting to change the original file, I can’t remember which facts I changed. The GEDCOM, or even a Backup, to a temporary file seems like the way to go. You can then delete the database when you are through with it and don’t have to worry about some anomaly showing up later. Good Luck, Alfred ----- Original Message ----- From: "LS_lingbro" <lingbro@lanset.com> > I have a problem that may have been discussed before. I have been trying to put my family > tree on the Internet using FOW v 9.02. This is what I have done. > > I created a GEDCOM of the people I want shown on the web site. I went through the Facts > List, and unmarked all the facts I didn't want on the web site. I then created my web site, > selecting family group sheets, and reviewed it through the browser. All the facts I marked > not to be listed on WWW was listed, including the the Facts I did mark on to be on the > website. > > I tried different methods to block the facts I didn't want on the web. The only way I could > omit the facts I didn't want on the web, was umark the facts on the original file so not to > export to a GEDCOM, then I created a GEDCOM for web use. I then had to return to my > original file and changed the Facts back to its original form. With the facts not exported > on the new GEDCOM, the facts naturally didn't appear on the web browser. This seems like a > alot of extra work, steps, and it bothers me to change the original file around so much. > Isn't there an easier way to do this? > > My questions are --- Why are the facts unmarked for WWW appearing on the web browser? Why > do the Facts status change when a GEDCOM is created. I.E.: After I create a GEDCOM, I still > had to go back and change its Facts List - if I unmarked the fact to be exported, it, wasn't > there to be corrected. I thought if I just unmarked WWW on the Fact List of the original > file, created a GEDCOM, that the Facts would remain unmarked for WWW on the GEDCOM. Better > yet, why can't I just unmark the facts I don't want on the WWW on my original file, and > create a website from there, without the unmarked facts appearing on the browser? This > doesn't appear to be the case --- what am I doing wrong. Why do I have to create a separate > GEDCOM? How can I cut down all these steps? > > Lynn >

I have a problem that may have been discussed before. I have been trying to put my family tree on the Internet using FOW v 9.02. This is what I have done. I created a GEDCOM of the people I want shown on the web site. I went through the Facts List, and unmarked all the facts I didn't want on the web site. I then created my web site, selecting family group sheets, and reviewed it through the browser. All the facts I marked not to be listed on WWW was listed, including the the Facts I did mark on to be on the website. I tried different methods to block the facts I didn't want on the web. The only way I could omit the facts I didn't want on the web, was umark the facts on the original file so not to export to a GEDCOM, then I created a GEDCOM for web use. I then had to return to my original file and changed the Facts back to its original form. With the facts not exported on the new GEDCOM, the facts naturally didn't appear on the web browser. This seems like a alot of extra work, steps, and it bothers me to change the original file around so much. Isn't there an easier way to do this? My questions are --- Why are the facts unmarked for WWW appearing on the web browser? Why do the Facts status change when a GEDCOM is created. I.E.: After I create a GEDCOM, I still had to go back and change its Facts List - if I unmarked the fact to be exported, it, wasn't there to be corrected. I thought if I just unmarked WWW on the Fact List of the original file, created a GEDCOM, that the Facts would remain unmarked for WWW on the GEDCOM. Better yet, why can't I just unmark the facts I don't want on the WWW on my original file, and create a website from there, without the unmarked facts appearing on the browser? This doesn't appear to be the case --- what am I doing wrong. Why do I have to create a separate GEDCOM? How can I cut down all these steps? Lynn

To all of the folks who responded to my (off-topic) post about my difficulty downloading a GEDCOM off the 'Net, I want to thank you one and all for all of your help. Most of all to Wayne League, who figured out the problem was my Windows file associations, and then guided me through fixing the problem. I am now downloading a GEDCOM from the 'Net using IE 5.5 AS as GEDCOM, and no longer a text file. Thanks again to you all for your help. HAPPY 225th BIRTHDAY, AMERICA!!! dAVID MSgt David E. Cann, USMC (Ret'd) Phone: 540-372-7868 Fax: 540-372-7707 E-mail: decann@infi.net HOME PAGES Family: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann Genealogy: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann/genealogy I'm a RootsWeb Sponsor. Ask me how you can be one, too. Researching Bradford, Brewer, Cann, Cashatt, Ewing, Fitch, Linson, Markley, Merkle, Oliver, Redkey, Schottler, Shockey, Vance and Wynne surnames and any others related by birth, marriage or adoption.

Creating an "Unknown" spouse and adding it as a link fixes the problem. Only after I actually added and linked a spouse named "Unknown" did it eliminate the several male spouses. This seems like a strange anomaly with the web family group sheet generation that I don't remember ever happening with the web descendant report generation. There are probably several of those sitting in my database ready to show themselves, because there are several occasions where I have added a father, but not a mother (or vice versa) to a child, or a child to only one parent. Several times, if I didn't know the spouse, then I cancelled adding one when asked. Patricia At 02:37 PM 7/3/01 -0700, P. SummersSmith wrote: >I posted a website of family group webpages, and as I am checking them (a >few days later), there's at least one that's gone crazy with marriages on >at least one person (I haven't checked all pages yet). > >Generating the web page for this family added 10 marriages to the >father... and the spouses that it added to him were men! In fact, he >actually had NO marriages in my database. > >In my database, he actually has one child linked to the father only, which >resulted in an "Unknown Spouse" when I look at it through the FO Explorer. > >Could anyone explain what happened here and how I can fix it? > >http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~odyssey/straube/d2124.htm#P3569 > >Thanks, > >Patricia

I posted a website of family group webpages, and as I am checking them (a few days later), there's at least one that's gone crazy with marriages on at least one person (I haven't checked all pages yet). Generating the web page for this family added 10 marriages to the father... and the spouses that it added to him were men! In fact, he actually had NO marriages in my database. In my database, he actually has one child linked to the father only, which resulted in an "Unknown Spouse" when I look at it through the FO Explorer. Could anyone explain what happened here and how I can fix it? http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~odyssey/straube/d2124.htm#P3569 Thanks, Patricia

This is a computer question. The people on this list are so computer smart I hope it's ok to ask :-) I bought the 1880 US Census from LDS and I can't view it! After down loading the viewer that comes with it I get the following message. ""Run time error "339" Component "Folio Objects ocx' ot one of it's dependencies not correctly registered: a file is missing or invalid" I have contacted Teck help and this is their reply " There are a few, like yourself, experiencing similar problems. These appear to be related to irregularities in the operating system as installed on your machine. Some are known to be problems in the Microsoft software. Others are currently undetermined. We will notify you, 1) when we can provide an appropriate resolution" That was more than 3 weeks ago, so I guess they have not come up with a fix. My question is, 1. has anyone else had this problem and 2. doe's anyone have any suggestions as how I might get around it? Other then as they suggested installing it on another computer which I don't have. Please contact me off list if you have any suggestions <yvonne@monmouth.com> Thank's in advance for any suggestions offered. Yvonne

It can't be the folder options and file type, because on my computer, mine is set (against my wishes of course) to ged as FTM ged file, and the file type is left blank. Nonetheless, my IE 5.0 opens David's file as a text file in notepad. This doesn't happen to one of mine, and I have suggested that the problem might lie in the name "index.ged" but otherwise I don't know. Linda for comparison see my ged file at: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~scheimann/seyfert/seyfert.htm On Sun, 01 July 2001, "Jerry Bryan" wrote: > > >I tried to download my own GEDCOM > >using IE 5.5 (my default browser, if that matters) and got only the text > >version of the information to show up on my monitor, and not the dialog > >asking if you want to "save it to disk." > > This is because in your folder options, under file types, you have the > gedcom or .ged file type set up with the "content type (MIME)" box > showing it to be a text/plain file. To make your browser ask if you > want to save it to disk instead of displaying it, edit the gedcom file > type and delete the contents of that "content type (MIME)" box so that > it is blank. Your browser will then ask about it because it won't > know what to do with it. (That will not bother or change any > associated action you may have for when you double click on a gedcom > file in windows explorer). > > (There is nothing wrong with the way you have your gedcom file on your > website.) > > Wayne League > > > I'm confused. This explanation makes total sense except for one thing. Why > wouldn't the Windows file type options apply equally to both Netscape and > IE? > > Jerry Bryan > > _________________________________________________________________ > Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > Family Origins GenForum - http://genforum.genealogy.com/fo/ > Tech Support Knowledge Base http://www.familyorigins.com/support/ > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2 _________________________________________________________________ iVillage.com: Solutions for Your Life Check out the most exciting women's community on the Web http://www.ivillage.com

"Kevin Benson" <kevinbenson@worldnet.att.net> wrote: >When David's gedcom link is clicked in my browser (IE5.5) it opens it in >text form also, and in my case the File Types Options do not HAVE an >association for files of type Gedcom (or .ged). At least I cannot find >anyplace where it has been "registered". I don't think I covered all bases . . . . . (whoops!) If you do not have the gedcom file type entered or registered at all, then IE will display the gedcom file as text as David says. But if you enter the .ged as a new file type, leaving the "content type (MIME)" blank, AND enter an "open" action where you associate the gedcom file with some program (perhaps your text editor), then IE will ask you whether you want to save the file to disk when you click on the gedcom link in David's website. This works on his gedcom as he has it now on his website. I'm seeing it happen with my own MSIE browser. Wayne League

----- Original Message ----- From: "Jerry Bryan" <c24m48@hotmail.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 9:10 PM Subject: [FO] Download GEDCOM problem > >I tried to download my own GEDCOM > >using IE 5.5 (my default browser, if that matters) and got only the text > >version of the information to show up on my monitor, and not the dialog > >asking if you want to "save it to disk." > > This is because in your folder options, under file types, you have the > gedcom or .ged file type set up with the "content type (MIME)" box > showing it to be a text/plain file. To make your browser ask if you > want to save it to disk instead of displaying it, edit the gedcom file > type and delete the contents of that "content type (MIME)" box so that > it is blank. Your browser will then ask about it because it won't > know what to do with it. (That will not bother or change any > associated action you may have for when you double click on a gedcom > file in windows explorer). > > (There is nothing wrong with the way you have your gedcom file on your > website.) > > Wayne League > > > I'm confused. This explanation makes total sense except for one thing. Why > wouldn't the Windows file type options apply equally to both Netscape and > IE? > > Jerry Bryan > When David's gedcom link is clicked in my browser (IE5.5) it opens it in text form also, and in my case the File Types Options do not HAVE an association for files of type Gedcom (or .ged). At least I cannot find anyplace where it has been "registered". In researching this, I believe that the problem lies in the fact that the HTML code for David's gedcom link is a "FILE:// link" instead of a "HTTP:// link". By that I mean he assigned the filename "index.ged" to the link, instead of "http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann/genealogy/brewer_notes/index.ged". If the extension is not registered and you are downloading the file from a FILE:// link, Internet Explorer tries to determine the type of file that it is downloading on its own. However, if the file you are downloading contains plain text (but has an extension not associated with text files), Internet Explorer detects that it is a plain text file and downloads it into the browser so you can view it. When you use an HTTP:// link to download a file, the file type is associated correctly because the MIME type (file type) is sent by the server. Therefore, the browser does not try to determine the file type on its own from the file contents. I'd be curious to see if that would work (if David could make the change)! Meantime....if you just "right-click" and choose "save target as", then it will allow the download to take place. Hope this makes sense and is plausible. The only reference I could find was to IE3 versus IE4 in this regard.(see http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q216/8/42.ASP). -=Kevin=-

"Jerry Bryan" <c24m48@hotmail.com> wrote: >I'm confused. This explanation makes total sense except for one thing. Why >wouldn't the Windows file type options apply equally to both Netscape and >IE? I would imagine that the Netscape browser controls its file type actions from within its own options. That's where you would expect to find them. And that's where they were ages ago when I also had netscape. Microsoft has a bad habit of sticking controls for one application inside another. That's one of the things they got in trouble about. (Looks like they are beginning to squirm out of that trouble now). Wayne League

>I tried to download my own GEDCOM >using IE 5.5 (my default browser, if that matters) and got only the text >version of the information to show up on my monitor, and not the dialog >asking if you want to "save it to disk." This is because in your folder options, under file types, you have the gedcom or .ged file type set up with the "content type (MIME)" box showing it to be a text/plain file. To make your browser ask if you want to save it to disk instead of displaying it, edit the gedcom file type and delete the contents of that "content type (MIME)" box so that it is blank. Your browser will then ask about it because it won't know what to do with it. (That will not bother or change any associated action you may have for when you double click on a gedcom file in windows explorer). (There is nothing wrong with the way you have your gedcom file on your website.) Wayne League I'm confused. This explanation makes total sense except for one thing. Why wouldn't the Windows file type options apply equally to both Netscape and IE? Jerry Bryan _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com

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Because you have subscribed in the “Digest” mode, There is no main message, just an group of attachments to a blank e-mail message. You can double click on the name of the message in the message list. It will open a blank message, with a little “Attach:” window just above it with several messages in it. You have to double click on each of these to read the messages. The first on of the list is always a table of contents and a list of “tag-lines” or tips and links that I think people might find useful or informative. You can’t get to the real messages from here, but it gives you a look at the complete subject line and who it is from, so that you can decide which you might want to open. The rest of the attachments are individual messages, just as you would have received them on the regular list. Just double click on one and it will open in a new window. Welcome aboard. The Family-Origins-Users-Mailing list administrator Alfred Eller ============= ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara A. Wilson" <BarbWilsonRealty@home.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 01, 2001 1:56 PM Subject: [FO] Re: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-D Digest V01 #208 > Your messages arrive but they are blank. > >

I tried it with IE (I normally use Netscape) and it downloaded just fine but when I went to Netscape I got the text version. Course, I can go to File, Save and save out the text that is showing, but it did not download like it did with IE> Keith Thompson "David E. Cann" wrote: > > Woops! I gave you the wrong URL. The one in my original message has no > GEDCOM on it, but the following one does. > > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann/genealogy/brewer_notes/ > > Thank you again for any help you can give me. > > David > > *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** > > On 07/01/2001, at 10:39 AM, David E. Cann wrote: > > >I normally place a GEDCOM on most of my genealogy web pages to share with > >others, and I recently noticed something that I have never noticed before. > >After uploading the page last night, I tried to download my own GEDCOM > >using IE 5.5 (my default browser, if that matters) and got only the text > >version of the information to show up on my monitor, and not the dialog > >asking if you want to "save it to disk." <CLIP> > > MSgt David E. Cann, USMC (Ret'd) > Phone: 540-372-7868 > Fax: 540-372-7707 > E-mail: decann@infi.net > Family home page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > UNSUBSCRIBE? Send the word: UNSUBSCRIBE(inside the message) and no additional text to: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L-request@rootsweb.com or FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-D-request@rootsweb.com for DIGEST > > ============================== > Search over 1 Billion names at Ancestry.com! > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist1.asp -- Keith Thompson, Worthington, OH Home Web Page: http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~kthompson/ Genealogy Web Page: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~kthompson Efax # (419) 818-1912 JFax & Voicemail (530) 484-3831

"David E. Cann" <decann@infi.net> wrote: >I tried to download my own GEDCOM >using IE 5.5 (my default browser, if that matters) and got only the text >version of the information to show up on my monitor, and not the dialog >asking if you want to "save it to disk." This is because in your folder options, under file types, you have the gedcom or .ged file type set up with the "content type (MIME)" box showing it to be a text/plain file. To make your browser ask if you want to save it to disk instead of displaying it, edit the gedcom file type and delete the contents of that "content type (MIME)" box so that it is blank. Your browser will then ask about it because it won't know what to do with it. (That will not bother or change any associated action you may have for when you double click on a gedcom file in windows explorer). (There is nothing wrong with the way you have your gedcom file on your website.) Wayne League

Woops! I gave you the wrong URL. The one in my original message has no GEDCOM on it, but the following one does. http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann/genealogy/brewer_notes/ Thank you again for any help you can give me. David *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 07/01/2001, at 10:39 AM, David E. Cann wrote: >I normally place a GEDCOM on most of my genealogy web pages to share with >others, and I recently noticed something that I have never noticed before. >After uploading the page last night, I tried to download my own GEDCOM >using IE 5.5 (my default browser, if that matters) and got only the text >version of the information to show up on my monitor, and not the dialog >asking if you want to "save it to disk." <CLIP> MSgt David E. Cann, USMC (Ret'd) Phone: 540-372-7868 Fax: 540-372-7707 E-mail: decann@infi.net Family home page: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann

I normally place a GEDCOM on most of my genealogy web pages to share with others, and I recently noticed something that I have never noticed before. After uploading the page last night, I tried to download my own GEDCOM using IE 5.5 (my default browser, if that matters) and got only the text version of the information to show up on my monitor, and not the dialog asking if you want to "save it to disk." And yet, when I try the same process using Netscape 4.77 (also installed, but rarely used), I can easily download the GEDCOM normally, and with the usual dialog asking where you want it saved. Is this a problem with the way I am doing the upload, or anything else I can correct? I have not downloaded a GEDCOM off the Internet in quite some time now, so I have no idea how long it as been like this, but I would love to hear from anyone who can help me correct the problem. If someone else wants to try it, following is the same URL I was using: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann/genealogy/brewer/ Maybe someone else can try it with Internet Explorer and see if it downloads normally, and can tell me what the problem is. It may well not be a FO problem, I just don't know, but I have not changed any settings (that I know of) in IE in a very long time. If it helps any, here is my computer information: IE 5.5 (default browser) Netscape 4.77 (rarely used) Windows 98 SE Family Origins 9.02 Pentium II 300? 64 MB of RAM 2.5 GB hard drive (0.5 unused) I am not sure this is a FO problem, so please respond privately unless you think the information might be of help to someone else. Thanks. MSgt David E. Cann, USMC (Ret'd) Phone: 540-372-7868 Fax: 540-372-7707 E-mail: decann@infi.net HOME PAGES Family: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann Genealogy: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~decann/genealogy I'm a RootsWeb Sponsor. Ask me how you can be one, too. Researching Bradford, Brewer, Cann, Cashatt, Ewing, Fitch, Linson, Markley, Merkle, Oliver, Redkey, Schottler, Shockey, Vance and Wynne surnames and any others related by birth, marriage or adoption.

Your messages arrive but they are blank. ----- Original Message ----- From: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-D-request@rootsweb.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-D@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 24, 2001 9:00 PM Subject: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-D Digest V01 #208

To apply the patch, you need to know the path for the fowin32.exe file because the path needs to go in the same directory as that file. Click on Start, then find, and search for fowin32.exe. Where the program files are, depends on where you installed them. Mine are in C:\fowin9. The default installation may have put the version 9 program files in a parsons tech path. It does not really matter to the program function -- what does matter is to get the patch to the same directory where the program files are located. As far as the combining of your two databases. I would delete the mixed up one, and restore your last good backup, assuming of course you have been making backups. If you have duplicates of everything, then you may have accidentally combined two copies of the same database. To transfer the same database between two computers as you make changes to one of them, BACKUP up the most recent version on a floppy or zip disk, then RESTORE to the computer that you want to update. DO NOT make a gedcom of one of them and import it into the other database and try to merge. You will end up with lots of duplicates. Incidentally, the best place to purchase FOWIN9 or 10 when it comes out is directly from Bruce's site at http://formalsoft.com -- However, the program will be exactly the same no matter where you purchase it from. Margaret Scheffler ----- Original Message ----- From: <BDavis9359@aol.com> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, June 30, 2001 5:16 PM Subject: [FO] Re: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-D Digest V01 #212 > Hello List, > I seem to have two seperate problems that perhaps you con help me with.First when I open my data base and go to search button[flashlite] I get two of everyone and they have different numbers.the entries are different in as much as one will be in capital letters and the other in small letters, I think I have somehow mixed two data bases together by importing from my laptop. Is there a way I can seperate them out but still keep the two data bases. My second problem is that I purchased FO9 and tried to put the patch onto it but it refuses to accept it. Somehow I still seem to be tied to Parsons Tech which I had hoped to get away from if possible I purchased my FO9 from Genealogy .com? Thankyou all for any help forthcoming. Brian Brian M Davis Concord CA

Hello List, I seem to have two seperate problems that perhaps you con help me with. First when I open my data base and go to search button[flashlite] I get two of everyone and they have different numbers.the entries are different in as much as one will be in capital letters and the other in small letters, I think I have somehow mixed two data bases together by importing from my laptop. Is there a way I can seperate them out but still keep the two data bases. My second problem is that I purchased FO9 and tried to put the patch onto it but it refuses to accept it. Somehow I still seem to be tied to Parsons Tech which I had hoped to get away from if possible I purchased my FO9 from Genealogy .com? Thankyou all for any help forthcoming. Brian Brian M Davis Concord CA USA bdavis9359@aol.com S&D.fhs,38013B