Hi people... I thought you might be interested in the following, which offers a full explanation of why my Webster County site, among others, has been down for the past few days. >I have been informed the server for USRoots.com, USGenWeb.com and >USigs.org is down and will not be back on-line until at least Monday, >February 9, 1998. > >>From what I understand, the servers went down early Monday morning, >February 2, 1998, because of a broken link on the server's T1 line >between the server and the Internet backbone, owned by US Sprint. The >server was located in Idaho Falls, Idaho and was served by a small >telephone company. US Sprint could not make repairs for at least three >days so the owners decided to physically relocate the server to a more >secure location, Spokane, Washington, where the server will be served by >a direct connection via a T1 line to the backbone of the Internet. > >During the move to Spokane, the server was damaged and technicians at >the NOC will not be able to get it back on-line until Monday. > >All e-mail to anyone at the above server locations has been interrupted >and will not be available until at least Monday. > >Ancestry.com also lost their connection with their database location due >to the same net link black-out that hit USRoots.com, et al. You might try the Webster mirror site ( the URL is in my signature line); everything isn't there but some of it is. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your patience. Carole Palmer Webster County KYGenWeb page sponsor http://www.usroots.com/~cpalmer/index.htm Mirror site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~kywebste/