Thank you Valorie. I will give this another try. Nancy ----- Original Message ----- From: "Valorie Zimmerman" <valoriez@zimres.net> To: <MOMERCER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 1:29 AM Subject: [MOMERCER-L] Re: FYI--OBITS, BIOS Pages > "Nancy L. Hancock" wrote: > > > > I must have done something wrong, maybe. I went through the " boards" to > > research a surname and reached a window that told me I had to be a > > subscriber of ancestry.com to retrive the surname info. Has anyone else had > > this problem? How do I access through rootsweb so that I can research > > surnames, and retrive rootsweb info., without joining ancestry? Nancy > > The main page is here: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=main&r=rw > > You do NOT need to join anything, or even log in, to run a search or > read messages. And you don't have to join Ancestry to register/log in so > that you can post. And once you HAVE registered, if you click the > "Remember My Password" box, from then on all you need do is click on > your name to log in. Quick as a flash. > > They are still moving some of the locality boards into their final > logical positions, so occasionally the Find A Board won't work right. > The early days were a bit rocky, but I've found everything working > flawlessly lately. > > Valorie > > > ==== MOMERCER Mailing List ==== > List mail archives can be accessed at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > or at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > >

And Nancy, they just announced today that if you don't want to log in to post, you don't need to. Of course, then your address won't be "updateable" -- but now the choice is completely up to you. Best of luck, Valorie "Nancy L. Hancock" wrote: > > Thank you Valorie. I will give this another try. Nancy > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Valorie Zimmerman" <valoriez@zimres.net> > To: <MOMERCER-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 1:29 AM > Subject: [MOMERCER-L] Re: FYI--OBITS, BIOS Pages > > > "Nancy L. Hancock" wrote: > > > > > > I must have done something wrong, maybe. I went through the " boards" > to > > > research a surname and reached a window that told me I had to be a > > > subscriber of ancestry.com to retrive the surname info. Has anyone else > had > > > this problem? How do I access through rootsweb so that I can research > > > surnames, and retrive rootsweb info., without joining ancestry? Nancy > > > > The main page is here: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=main&r=rw .

Thank you Valorie. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Valorie Zimmerman" <valoriez@zimres.net> To: <MOMERCER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 10:02 PM Subject: Re: [MOMERCER-L] Re: FYI--OBITS, BIOS Pages > And Nancy, they just announced today that if you don't want to log in to > post, you don't need to. Of course, then your address won't be > "updateable" -- but now the choice is completely up to you. > > Best of luck, > > Valorie > > > "Nancy L. Hancock" wrote: > > > > Thank you Valorie. I will give this another try. Nancy > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Valorie Zimmerman" <valoriez@zimres.net> > > To: <MOMERCER-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Wednesday, July 11, 2001 1:29 AM > > Subject: [MOMERCER-L] Re: FYI--OBITS, BIOS Pages > > > > > "Nancy L. Hancock" wrote: > > > > > > > > I must have done something wrong, maybe. I went through the " boards" > > to > > > > research a surname and reached a window that told me I had to be a > > > > subscriber of ancestry.com to retrive the surname info. Has anyone else > > had > > > > this problem? How do I access through rootsweb so that I can research > > > > surnames, and retrive rootsweb info., without joining ancestry? Nancy > > > > > > The main page is here: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=main&r=rw > . > > > ==== MOMERCER Mailing List ==== > List mail archives can be accessed at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ > or at: > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > > >