I have no idea how many people are really on the Freepages list and I'm pretty sure you don't either. It was suggested that we ALL should be contacting them as often as possible. Lets assume there are a hundred [ wildly underestimated ] on the list calling and emailing all the time. If it was happening to you wouldn't you find it aggravating. On 03/24/2018 08:41 PM, JFlorian wrote: > Billie, > > Don't try to stir things up. Nobody said "aggravate". Leaving a polite > message is better than the bellyaching that goes on. > > >

Billie, Don't try to stir things up. Nobody said "aggravate". Leaving a polite message is better than the bellyaching that goes on.

Sometimes you shouldn't aggravate your benefactor. We get virtually unlimited web space for FREE. I don't know of any place else that will give you that. I don't even want to think about how much space I'm using alone. It can't be en easy matter to deal with all that data and get it all moved and checked. Am I happy about the situation. No, but I'm willing to ride it out and hope for the best. Perhaps prayers for their abilities to deal with the issues. On 03/24/2018 03:22 AM, Valerie lirakis via FREEPAGES-HELP wrote: > Perhaps we should all do that! > > On 24 March 2018 at 03:59, JFlorian <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Start calling Ancestry and complaining. I do every week or so. >> >> And start writing in to Ancestry. Be sure to say you have already read the >> comments that Ancestry posted or you'll be fed that horse hockey again. >> >> >> > > >

Perhaps we should all do that! On 24 March 2018 at 03:59, JFlorian <[email protected]> wrote: > Start calling Ancestry and complaining. I do every week or so. > > And start writing in to Ancestry. Be sure to say you have already read the > comments that Ancestry posted or you'll be fed that horse hockey again. > > >

Start calling Ancestry and complaining. I do every week or so. And start writing in to Ancestry. Be sure to say you have already read the comments that Ancestry posted or you'll be fed that horse hockey again.

On Fri, 23 Mar 2018 17:50:41 -0500 she wrote: "Hi List, Does anybody know when our Freepages Websites will be available again? Am getting tired of waiting. Thank you for your help," It's been two months since our WorldConnect trees were restored to their mid-December status and still no word about when we'll being able to resume uploading trees. It's even worse with Freepages. The last word was Jan. 9, when Ancestry.com promised that sites would start being restored a few at a time. But no word since then. The Jan 23rd statement didn't even commit to bringing our websites back at all. Why no status update? I want an estimate of when we will be able to resume uploads to WorldConnect. And for Freepages, I want to know: a) when we can download our web pages?; b) when will the process of restoring web sites to public access begin?; and c) hou much of Freepages functionality is Ancestry.com willing to commit to restoring. I've been the project leader for many IT projects and a IT director for a major corporation. My users would never have stood for this deafening silence? Why are we being kept in the dark?

Hi List, Does anybody know when our Freepages Websites will be available again? Am getting tired of waiting. Thank you for your help, Heidi Boos-Utley Email: [email protected] URL: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~heidisfamily

Thank you Deloris for your advice, I am not paying anyone for my website--Ancestry is being paid for membership. My pages were on Rootsweb, but unavailable to me for several months. That is what I was complaining about…that and the removal of the File Manager. Patsy Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 ________________________________ From: Deloris Williams <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, March 23, 2018 1:15:44 PM To: 'Freepages Web Sites' Subject: [FreeHelp]Re: FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 13, Issue 15 If you're paying someone for your website, it's not Ancestry or RootsWeb. RootsWeb doesn't charge for websites. Ancestry.com doesn't have personal websites. Deloris Williams -----Original Message----- From: Patsy Domingo [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2018 5:14 PM To: FREE PAGES HELP <[email protected]> Subject: [FreeHelp]Re: FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 13, Issue 15 James Albro, I checked your paid site and thought it was great! Would you mind telling what a paid site costs? I am 81 and "stuck in my ways", so I was very disappointed to learn they removed the File Manager, as I had learned how to "master" it!. I downloaded the file loader they suggested and was so confused I could not do anything. Then I learned they had taken down my entire site. Sad to say, after several computer crashes, I did not have a good backup and I was depending on Roots Web to be secure. All during this time, Ancestry has been deducting $20 a month-and I can't do anything with my pages. Today, I wrote them and requested either my site be restored and/or they stop taking funds from me. IF I get my info back, I may look into a paid site-as currently, I am paying for NOTHING!!! Thank you for listening..again, great site!! Patsy from the Golden State Wine Country

If you're paying someone for your website, it's not Ancestry or RootsWeb. RootsWeb doesn't charge for websites. Ancestry.com doesn't have personal websites. Deloris Williams -----Original Message----- From: Patsy Domingo [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, March 22, 2018 5:14 PM To: FREE PAGES HELP <[email protected]> Subject: [FreeHelp]Re: FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 13, Issue 15 James Albro, I checked your paid site and thought it was great! Would you mind telling what a paid site costs? I am 81 and "stuck in my ways", so I was very disappointed to learn they removed the File Manager, as I had learned how to "master" it!. I downloaded the file loader they suggested and was so confused I could not do anything. Then I learned they had taken down my entire site. Sad to say, after several computer crashes, I did not have a good backup and I was depending on Roots Web to be secure. All during this time, Ancestry has been deducting $20 a month-and I can't do anything with my pages. Today, I wrote them and requested either my site be restored and/or they stop taking funds from me. IF I get my info back, I may look into a paid site-as currently, I am paying for NOTHING!!! Thank you for listening..again, great site!! Patsy from the Golden State Wine Country

Keith and others, The Lists had temporarily been off while RW fixed something. But the Lists are all back. Yay.

Sounds like an Ancestry monthly subscription which of course is not needed to use FreePages! On Thu, Mar 22, 2018, 9:05 PM Billie Walsh <[email protected]> wrote: > But Freepages doesn't cost anything. It's "free pages". I don't know > what your paying for. > > > On 03/22/2018 05:13 PM, Patsy Domingo wrote: > > I am paying for NOTHING!!! > > > >

But Freepages doesn't cost anything. It's "free pages". I don't know what your paying for. On 03/22/2018 05:13 PM, Patsy Domingo wrote: > I am paying for NOTHING!!!

"I am aware of the WayBack Machine ie Internet Archive and I am thinking of posting my web sites there." All you need to do is add your primary URL for each site and ask WayBack to spider the site. They do the rest. The problem was that a file got made with User IDs and Passwords. Someone found it, told Ancestry, so now they need to fix security and check that hackers did not add something to someone's site or many someones' sites. J

I was with Rootsweb prior to it being taken over Ancestry and I am sticking with it for the moment, as Freepages offers something that paid site generally do not offer.  Your web site remain up there for everybody to see even after you are dead.  With most paid sites, you stop paying and down comes your site. I am aware of the WayBack Machine ie Internet Archive and I am thinking of posting my web sites there. Ancestry's claim that the sites are unsafe has got me puzzled, as I would have thought that most of the family history web sites would be straight html coding, which offers minimum risk. Warwick Sherring

James Albro, I checked your paid site and thought it was great! Would you mind telling what a paid site costs? I am 81 and “stuck in my ways”, so I was very disappointed to learn they removed the File Manager, as I had learned how to “master” it!. I downloaded the file loader they suggested and was so confused I could not do anything. Then I learned they had taken down my entire site. Sad to say, after several computer crashes, I did not have a good backup and I was depending on Roots Web to be secure. All during this time, Ancestry has been deducting $20 a month—and I can’t do anything with my pages. Today, I wrote them and requested either my site be restored and/or they stop taking funds from me. IF I get my info back, I may look into a paid site—as currently, I am paying for NOTHING!!! Thank you for listening….again, great site!! Patsy from the Golden State Wine Country Sent from Mail<https://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=550986> for Windows 10 From: James Albro<mailto:[email protected]> Sent: Monday, March 19, 2018 7:12 PM To: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> Subject: [FreeHelp]Re: FREEPAGES-HELP Digest, Vol 13, Issue 15 Caroline, I agree with you 100%! Several years ago I moved my family genealogy "Albrogenealogy.com" to a paid server. Boy, am I glad I did! Now, I am busy moving my other sites, formerly with Rootsweb to another place. Just look what Ancestry has done to findagrave! There are so many ads, it's almost impossible to do anything, and I have a relatively fast connection. And what used to be compact pages, now are strung out all over the place. I must be old and set in my ways, but I have no room for mediocrity, which is what we mostly get anymore. There, I feel better! LOL! Jim Good evening from France, > Just looked again at the security blog, and love the latest: > > Disgruntled Ancestry Customer > March 13, 2018 at 2:24 pm > How is it not clear that one of the most important things people want back are the hosted websites? WAKE UP AND RESTORE THIS TO THE GENEALOGY COMMUNITY. THEY HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR ALMOST 3 MONTHS! There is no excuse for this kind of timeline other than there is only one semi-techincal person working on this “problem” part time – i.e. this is the lowest priority project at Ancestry, even behind renovating the bathrooms. > https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2017/12/23/rootsweb-security-update/#comment-324816 > > Seems to me the new CEO is not so much a new broom as a "baby and bathwater" chappie. > > Does anyone know what exactly the "code" is which they are taking so many months to examine? Those IT people must have the longest tea-breaks in the world. > > > Caroline

At 02:08 PM 3/22/2018, KEITH D SWARTZ wrote: > Please SUBSCRIBE ME to freepages if I am not >subscribed!Thanks, Rev. Dr. Keith D. Swartz, D.Min. If you were NOT subscribed, your message would not have been posted to the Freepages-Help List. Only subscribed addresses can post. Did you want to post a question, or are you just lurking ;-) Pat A.

You may find some help here http://home.rootsweb.ancestry.com/listindexes/search/Freepages-Help On 23-Mar-18 7:09:11 AM, KEITH D SWARTZ <[email protected]> wrote: Please SUBSCRIBE ME to freepages if I am not subscribed!Thanks, Rev. Dr. Keith D. Swartz, D.Min.

 Please SUBSCRIBE ME to freepages if I am not subscribed!Thanks, Rev. Dr. Keith D. Swartz, D.Min.

Caroline, I agree with you 100%! Several years ago I moved my family genealogy "Albrogenealogy.com" to a paid server. Boy, am I glad I did!  Now, I am busy moving my other sites, formerly with Rootsweb to another place. Just look what Ancestry has done to findagrave! There are so many ads, it's almost impossible to do anything, and I have a relatively fast connection. And what used to be compact pages, now are strung out all over the place. I must be old and set in my ways, but I have no room for mediocrity, which is what we mostly get anymore.  There, I feel better! LOL! Jim     Good evening from France, > Just looked again at the security blog, and love the latest: > > Disgruntled Ancestry Customer > March 13, 2018 at 2:24 pm > How is it not clear that one of the most important things people want back are the hosted websites? WAKE UP AND RESTORE THIS TO THE GENEALOGY COMMUNITY. THEY HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR ALMOST 3 MONTHS! There is no excuse for this kind of timeline other than there is only one semi-techincal person working on this “problem” part time – i.e. this is the lowest priority project at Ancestry, even behind renovating the bathrooms. > https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2017/12/23/rootsweb-security-update/#comment-324816 > > Seems to me the new CEO is not so much a new broom as a "baby and bathwater" chappie. > > Does anyone know what exactly the "code" is which they are taking so many months to examine? Those IT people must have the longest tea-breaks in the world. > > > Caroline > > > ____ > > --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus

Amen! I also would like to update my World Connect sites soon. JD -----Original Message----- From: TilburyCM via FREEPAGES-HELP Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2018 4:42 PM To: [email protected] Cc: TilburyCM Subject: [FreeHelp]Webpages & Ancestry Good evening from France, Just looked again at the security blog, and love the latest: Disgruntled Ancestry Customer March 13, 2018 at 2:24 pm How is it not clear that one of the most important things people want back are the hosted websites? WAKE UP AND RESTORE THIS TO THE GENEALOGY COMMUNITY. THEY HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR ALMOST 3 MONTHS! There is no excuse for this kind of timeline other than there is only one semi-techincal person working on this “problem” part time – i.e. this is the lowest priority project at Ancestry, even behind renovating the bathrooms. https://blogs.ancestry.com/ancestry/2017/12/23/rootsweb-security-update/#comment-324816 Seems to me the new CEO is not so much a new broom as a "baby and bathwater" chappie. Does anyone know what exactly the "code" is which they are taking so many months to examine? Those IT people must have the longest tea-breaks in the world. Caroline ____ Every path has its puddle. Life has no reverse gear. NB: an e-mail message remains the Intellectual Property of the sender; traffic on this e-mail server may be normally subject to UK and French copyright law. --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus