Pamela, I don't understand your exact concern but to clarify: 1. "freepages" allows only ONE "account" (~youraccount) 2. "freepages" has, I think, 9 "categories" -- each acts as a separate "website" BUT ALSO (see #3) 3. You can cross-link all of the category websites into 1 bigger "website" 4. If you use the "miscellaneous" (misc) category, your URL will be shorter and "misc" can act as the "main page" for all the category websites. For example, I use the categories of family, genealogy, school-alumni, religions, and misc. Others on this List told me I could use the "misc" site to make it easier for visitors because "misc" has the shorter URL. See http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~florian/ As you see, on that page I give the URLs for each freepages category that I use (plus one account I have on the "rootsweb" server). As well as giving links to all my "sites", I also USE the misc website for a different type of content. So in effect, I have 5 "webs" in freepages by using the different "categories" they offer. I don't remember all the other ones, but 2 others off the top of my head are "nostalgia" and "military". You can make a pretty big overall "site" just using the freepages "categories" offered in each person's (one-only) account. So you might want to check it out a bit more before feeling disappointed or frustrated about the account name you requested. Judy On Wed, Feb 16, 2011 at 1:45 PM, Pam Orcutt <pamelaorcutt@ymail.com> wrote: > When I requested my free page I thought I could have more than one free > account > I need to rename my account reflecting that I have only one. How do I do > that? > > Pamela Orcutt >

Judy, if you want the shortest url, it is:- http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~florian/ Try it yourself. Barry On 17/02/2011 9:15 a.m., J.A. Florian wrote: > Others on this List told me I could use the "misc" > site to make it easier for visitors because "misc" has the shorter URL. > See http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~florian/ > As you see, on that page I give the URLs for each freepages category that I > use (plus one account I have on the "rootsweb" server). > As well as giving links to all my "sites", I also USE the misc website for a > different type of content. >

Judy said: > 4. If you use the "miscellaneous" (misc) category, your URL will be shorter > and "misc" can act as the "main page" for all the category websites. > > For example ... http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.com/~florian/ Even better, if you use the "misc" folder to hold your main index.htm(l) file you don't have to put it in the URL - for example, http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wendyh65/ <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/> takes you to http://freepages.misc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wendyh65/index.htm I use that as my "home" page, with links on it going to other pages. Kind Regards, Wendy