In a message dated 1/21/2008 7:36:35 A.M. Pacific Standard Time, rwyant02@charter.net writes: ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ By messing around [chopping off some of the end of the URL,] rootsweb directed me to this : _ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/fayette/history/places/bryantst.txt_ (ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ky/fayette/history/places/bryantst.txt) Warning: Rootsweb mostly *wraps* URLs in punctuation marks such as dashes or parens, and you have to remove those before pasting in your *search blank*. That's why URLs in rootsweb messages have to be doctored! Also, if a URL is repetitious, as the above one seemed to have been in your original message, chop it off and try again. (When some URL does not work for me, I look at it and try to figure where I can make a *cut*, and I am a rank amateur at the language of computers. But--computers are like genealogy--you have to figure out a way to try another method--or another source--or look at the original [generally a film for me] rather than a published abstract.) Sometimes a shorter URL will get you to a directory and then you can click away on various links. Rootsweb.com has a lot of directories and links, and I used to use CyndisList a good deal, but not for several years. Also, I have learned to manipulate google.com in this manner: [name of county] [name of state] + [the plus mark on your keyboard] genealogy I get some dandy links that way, but, occasionally I find the website is now dead. Too bad! E.W.Wallace **************Start the year off right. Easy ways to stay in shape. http://body.aol.com/fitness/winter-exercise?NCID=aolcmp00300000002489

Thank you! You have just made my life simpler. Bud. -----Original Message----- From: madky-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:madky-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Hdanw@aol.com Sent: Monday, January 21, 2008 12:33 PM To: rwyant02@charter.net Cc: MADKY-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MADKY] Outsmarting the computer brain!!!