My Hotmail account (an account used for all those companies who ask me if I can provide them with an email address, including the company I work for) was hacked a few months ago. Got an email at work telling me I was traveling and needed money to get home. By time I got home Hotmail had already discovered the hack, froze the account, and when I attempted to logon, popped up with the message my account had been hacked and the steps to regain access. And yes, I now have to change my password every three months. Were you able to contact AOL to see if there was any chance they could restore the lost emails? -----Original Message----- From: pacambri-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:pacambri-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of marilyn Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 2:37 PM To: pacambri@rootsweb.com Subject: [PACAMBRI] I was hacked--Marilyn Kline Washington Hi everyone, Recently I found all my e-mail related folders marked "The folder is empty." I stopped trying to use the e-mail, but I had a hard time finding someone reliable to try to fix it. Unfortunately, I can't get the e-mail back and my list of automatic contacts is gone, but all else seems OK. In addition, my daughter says my e-mail sent out a post saying I was stuck in Spain and needed $200 dollars. Correspondents who knew both she and I contacted her. "What is your mom doing in Spain?" I have received this sort of e-mail before about other contacts, but now it hit me!! I had no idea that this had happened, or how many of my contacts received the request. When I got this sort of post in the past, I sent an e-mail back to the person who supposedly contacted me, so they would know it had happened. Little did I know what a mess it would make. Supposedly I am protected now, but who knows? I am definitely still in PA, although I just got a renewed passport [wanna bet that is what started all this hacking?] and am planning to go to Europe to see my daughter later this summer. But be assured I would not ask any of you for money!! So, if you had anything you sent to me, or any requests for data, please resend it and I will attempt to take care of it. I am especially anxious for newly found relatives in the Knorr, Kline, Zettl, Mack, Reilly, Stoltz, Trinkly-Drenkel families to contact me again. I have found most of what they wanted in my files. Thank goodness I keep paper files, too, even though dragging them around has been a pain. It is only the most recent information that I completely lost. Through some very helpful distant relative connections I have discovered recently that the only Trinkly-Drenkel relatives with that last name, John George Trenkly-Drenkel and his family, sold their farm on Old Dutch Road in East Carroll Township, to my direct ancestor Charles Feighner and his wife, Sophia Ebig, [half-sister of John George Trinkly-Drenkel], and John George Trinkly-Drenkel moved to Kansas after the Civil War. His full-siblings, children of Berhnhardt Drenkel-Trinkley, married into the Stoltz, Hartman [John George married Sara Hartman], and Zorn-Zirn families. All the other Trinkley-Drenkel families in Cambria County MAY be related, but they were from collateral branches of the family. My descent is from John George Trinkley-Drenkel's half-siblings, the Ibig-Ebig children of his mother, Geneova [Eve or Genevieve] Schwand, and step-father, Roman Ibig-Ebig. [So far, Roman is the only member of the Ibig-Ebig family to emigrate. The name is often confu! sed with the various spelling of the Illig family.] If that seems to be a lot of repetition, I wanted to attempt to make it completely clear. Marilyn Kline Washington - - - - - - - - - - Search for more Cambria County information on our webpage: http://www.camgenpa.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PACAMBRI-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message