Mahoning County and Trumbull County will be holding a joint chat session. Time: Sunday, November 8, 1998, 8:00 PM EST Place: RootsWeb IRC, irc.rootsweb.com, #OHIO Topic: What are your Surnames? ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- You will need an IRC program. There is a good shareware program called mIRC. This can be down loaded from http://www.tucows.com or from http://www.shareware.com. Once you download the program you will need to add the rootsweb server to get set up. While connected to the Internet, activate the mIRC program. >From the mIRC setup window click "ADD" and enter the following info into each slot. Description: RootsWeb IRC Server: irc.rootsweb.com Port(s) : 6667 Click OK. >From here click connect to hook up to the IRC server. Once you have connected type /join #OHIO (this is the channel we have set) and you will be in the proper room for the chat. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- Kay Schaney e-mail: kstarr@rochester.rr.com *Trumbull County, Ohio - U.S. GenWeb* http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohtrumbu/