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    1. Re: [NYMADISO] Fultonhistory.com
    2. patstone
    3. Hi Jayne, Do you have Adobe Reader 8 on your computer? I copied the references to my family to Adobe and found it easier to manage. Pat ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2008 10:05 AM Subject: Re: [NYMADISO] Fultonhistory.com > Dear Peggy, Dorothy and Pat: > > Peggy and Dorothy, you could not compose any greater encomiums to > fultonhistory.com than I can. You are no more grateful to Tom Tryniski > than I am. I > have been sitting here for the past month, copying by hand some of the > articles > about HITEMAN and printing out others, all of which I then type into a > Word > document. I now have about 100 pages typed up. Thee is a difference > between > complaining and seeking help so one can use a source better, and that is > what I > was doing, seeking the guidance of anyone who has used the site and > figured > out the answers to my questions. Anyone who has used it a lot for one > name, > as for instance, 1588 articles for HITEMAN, would run into what I did. I > think > I will now ask Mr.Tryniski. I had hoped to spare him the question because > I > have already asked him a few. > > Pat, you may be right about the indexing. I hadn't thought of that. I had > thought that the articles kept the position they had when they were added, > which > no doubt shows how simple I am computerly speaking--and my age, which is > 78. > When we were young and working out in the world, we stacked paper up, one > by > one, and we could see what we were doing. Not so with computers. > > I have thought that there are as many repetitions of a page as there are > items on it that are indexed. That is the only explanation of the > repetitions > that I have come up with so far. > > One needs to understand these things in order to use the site to its > fullest. > > Thanks for answering my question in the spirit in which it was asked, > Pat. > Jayne > [email protected]_ (mailto:[email protected]) >

    09/09/2008 05:48:43