Thanks Joan for your reply. I found exactly what I was looking for at http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/help/x-diag.html#Glossary of terms John New Orleans ------------------------------- JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: > In a message dated 5/28/02 11:02:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, longstrt@gs.net > writes: > > > Is there some place on line where I could go to learn how to interpret > > headers? Nothing too technical mind you, just some help in > > understanding what they are trying to tell me. > > John- > > If you mean from the perspective of a list administrator (I say that because > list admins are usually the ones who need to do some interpretation of > headers) you might search on the word headers in the listowners-L archives or > ask specific questions about headers and interpreting them on that list. > There is almost always some discussion of interpreting headers going on on > that list. > > Joan

In a message dated 5/28/02 11:02:16 AM Eastern Daylight Time, longstrt@gs.net writes: > Is there some place on line where I could go to learn how to interpret > headers? Nothing too technical mind you, just some help in > understanding what they are trying to tell me. John- If you mean from the perspective of a list administrator (I say that because list admins are usually the ones who need to do some interpretation of headers) you might search on the word headers in the listowners-L archives or ask specific questions about headers and interpreting them on that list. There is almost always some discussion of interpreting headers going on on that list. Joan

Is there some place on line where I could go to learn how to interpret headers? Nothing too technical mind you, just some help in understanding what they are trying to tell me. Thanks, John New Orleans

Did you try this link? http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~slhessick/ > > Subject: [RW-Help] Freepages not found > Date: Fri, 24 May 2002 15:04:42 -0700 > From: "Sherri Hessick" <slhessick@earthlink.net> > To: RootsWeb-Help-L@rootsweb.com > > Are the Freepages at Rootsweb down? I keep getting the message: The > requested URL /~slhessick/ was not found on this server. > > Thanks. > > Sherri Hessick ô¿ô > Tucson, AZ -- CT AHGP http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctahgp/ Litchfield County CT AHGP website http://www.rootsweb.com/~ctlitch2/ Ray Brown's Place for New England Genealogy http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rbrown/ New England History http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyne/neh/ US History Web page http://www.rootsweb.com/~nyne/us-history/ US History by Hawthorne http://freepages.books.rootsweb.com/~rbrown/us/ CT Photo Gallery http://www.state.ct.us/scripts/photo.asp

Yesterday, I ran across a reference to the Sevloid Guide to Web Design at http://www.sev.com.au/webzone/design.asp I've now read through the whole guide and I can wholeheartedly recommend it. The author also has an HTML guide that I'm going to take a look at in the next couple of days. Elsi

Thanks for looking. I don't know what the problem was, but it seems to be working now. Maybe it was just my ISP. Sherri Hessick ô¿ô Tucson, AZ ----- Original Message ----- From: "coffey" <coffey@viptx.net> To: "'Sherri Hessick'" <slhessick@earthlink.net> Sent: Saturday, May 25, 2002 11:08 AM Subject: RE: [RW-Help] Freepages not found > Don't know if the problem is this, but I see a space in what you've typed > after the slash, and before the tilde. There can't be a space there, try > retyping it without the space there. > Billye Jackson > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sherri Hessick [mailto:slhessick@earthlink.net] > Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 5:05 PM > To: RootsWeb-Help-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [RW-Help] Freepages not found > > > Are the Freepages at Rootsweb down? I keep getting the message: The > requested URL /~slhessick/ was not found on this server. > > Thanks. > > Sherri Hessick ô¿ô > Tucson, AZ > >

Are the Freepages at Rootsweb down? I keep getting the message: The requested URL /~slhessick/ was not found on this server. Thanks. Sherri Hessick ô¿ô Tucson, AZ

In a message dated 5/22/02 12:12:56 PM Eastern Daylight Time, longstrt@gs.net writes: > One of the members of our mailing list wrote: > > "In the last several days, you have referenced information that I have > failed to receive, such as the reference to data supplied by Richard > Dent." > > I carefully checked our list of names and his is there, correct address > and all. Why would you suppose he doesn't get it? > > Your help or suggestions would be much appreciated. > Hi, John- If the subscriber's address is correctly shown on your list of subscribers and if the messages he didn't receive are found in the list archives (you may want to have him check the archives to be sure), then the problem has to be on the receiving end. Either the mail isn't making it to him and is bouncing (in which case you should be receiving the bounces as list admin) or they are just trashing or queueing the mail and he may receive it later on or not at all. In any case, he would need to check with his ISP about it. However, there are a couple other possibilities. First, have the subscriber check his mail filters to be sure he didn't receive the messages and that they haven't been filtered off to a folder where he wasn't expecting to look for them. Second, there may have been private replies made that are referenced in later list messages -- so he might not be missing anything at all--checking the list archives will answer that question for him. http://archiver.rootsweb.com/ Joan

One of the members of our mailing list wrote: "In the last several days, you have referenced information that I have failed to receive, such as the reference to data supplied by Richard Dent." I carefully checked our list of names and his is there, correct address and all. Why would you suppose he doesn't get it? Your help or suggestions would be much appreciated. Thanks, John New Orleans

Many thanks to those subscribers who offered advice on how I could upload changes to my web page using FrontPage 2000 publisher to homepages.rootsweb.com. I am pretty sure the problem was my internet service provider (ISP), America On Line (AOL). I think AOL changed its system to not allow FTP to an address with "public_html" suffix. The problem was solved by using a high speed cable ISP. I was paying $20/month for AOL. My new ISP is only $25/month. Again, thanks for your assistance. Nelson Dean

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This is my first attempt at requesting help. Hope Someone can help me. A few weeks ago I was hit by a virus and was wiped out. Backup was bad and had to go to one that was over a year old. Due to this I lost my web site. I also lost my transfer program (FTP-pro). Request a new transfer program and received it. I also downloaded my website (index and pages) from Rootsweb. (rootsweb.com/~okegs) I mad a few corrections and wanted to transfer the corrected page back to the website. Will not transfer through the transfer program. I am working with them but would like to know something. When looking at the pages that I downloaded from the website I noticed the HTML codes changed around etc. Meaning the same as I want them but would any changes prevent the transfer back to my website. Help help Peace and good health Gene

I have several county sites and I have a reunion page on each one of them for people that wish to post their reunions of any kind. I got tired of the same problems with the universal calendar so decided to make my own per county and let anyone with ties to that county use it. It's a lot simpler. Paula http://www.rootsweb.com/~gabenhil/ http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ga/county/whitfield/ ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dennis Ahern" <ahern@world.std.com> To: <RootsWeb-Help-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 11:12 AM Subject: [RW-Help] Calendar a waste of time > > Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 13:03:33 -0500 > From: Cynthia Samples <samples@neto.com> > > >I put a link on my GenWeb page to the Calendar on the Rootsweb Resource > >Page so that people could post their own reunions, etc. > > I would remove the link and tell them not to bother. The so-called > reunions calendar has to be one of the least valuable resources on > rootsweb. Have you ever gone looking at a wordwide events calendar to see > if there are any reunions of interest next month? I can't imagine anyone > doing that. It would make a lot more sense if it was categorized by > surname. Then a person could go in and find out when the next gathering > is scheduled for a family they are interested in joining. > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Dennis Ahern | The Ahern Family Genealogy Website > Acton, Massachusetts | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/

Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 13:03:33 -0500 From: Cynthia Samples <samples@neto.com> >I put a link on my GenWeb page to the Calendar on the Rootsweb Resource >Page so that people could post their own reunions, etc. I would remove the link and tell them not to bother. The so-called reunions calendar has to be one of the least valuable resources on rootsweb. Have you ever gone looking at a wordwide events calendar to see if there are any reunions of interest next month? I can't imagine anyone doing that. It would make a lot more sense if it was categorized by surname. Then a person could go in and find out when the next gathering is scheduled for a family they are interested in joining. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | The Ahern Family Genealogy Website Acton, Massachusetts | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

In a message dated 5/7/02 2:06:28 PM Eastern Daylight Time, samples@neto.com writes: << Now I have two people who are mad at me because they have forgotten their passwords and they want me to edit it for them. >> Send them to Password Central http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/ Click on Calendar Entries Their password will be mailed

I put a link on my GenWeb page to the Calendar on the Rootsweb Resource Page so that people could post their own reunions, etc. Now I have two people who are mad at me because they have forgotten their passwords and they want me to edit it for them. Is there anyone anywhere with the authority to go in and delete or edit these postings. Cynthia Samples

In a message dated 5/4/02 7:13:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ahern@world.std.com writes: > For example, I was doing a search on www.google.com that led me to an index > entry for an > AHERN obituary at http://surhelp-bin.rootsweb.com/surindx.pl?site=KYJESSAM > but when I click on the link from that page, I get nothing but a generic > top-level Boards list. Even if I try going through all the levels to get > down to the state and county in question, I find no obits there. Dennis, You mean this one? http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw& p=localities.northam.usa.states.kentucky.counties.jessamine&m=2618 If you go down thru the boards to the county in question, and put "Ahern" in the search box (make sure that "Jessamine Board" is selected), the obituary pops right up. Drew Smith Webmaster, Florida State Genealogical Society

In a message dated 5/4/02 7:13:45 AM Eastern Daylight Time, ahern@world.std.com writes: > I don't understand what became of some databases that were on Rootsweb > that seem to have become lost in some misguided redesign. For example, I > was doing a search on www.google.com that led me to an index entry for an > AHERN obituary at http://surhelp-bin.rootsweb.com/surindx.pl?site=KYJESSAM > but when I click on the link from that page, I get nothing but a generic > top-level Boards list. Even if I try going through all the levels to get > down to the state and county in question, I find no obits there. > > What happened to the original material that some volunteer no doubt spent > hours inputting? Is it now lost in some circular file on Rootsweb? Is > this where everything is going to end up some day after the gazillionth > redesign? > Dennis- Surname Helper used to index the old GenConnect boards which have not been in use since last June when the new combined RootsWeb/Ancestry message boards were launched. Surname Helper has not yet been updated (and I'm not sure whether it ever will be or not) to index the new message boards. The new boards have their own search engine which can do more sophisticated searches than Surname Helper's surname-only searches. So whenever a Surname Helper search leads you to a post on the old boards, go to: http://boards.rootsweb.com and then to the board where Surname Helper indicated the post was--the one you are interested in. Then do a search of that board to find it. All of the old posts are still on the new boards--the problem is one of finding them if accessing them from Surname Helper. Joan

I don't understand what became of some databases that were on Rootsweb that seem to have become lost in some misguided redesign. For example, I was doing a search on www.google.com that led me to an index entry for an AHERN obituary at http://surhelp-bin.rootsweb.com/surindx.pl?site=KYJESSAM but when I click on the link from that page, I get nothing but a generic top-level Boards list. Even if I try going through all the levels to get down to the state and county in question, I find no obits there. What happened to the original material that some volunteer no doubt spent hours inputting? Is it now lost in some circular file on Rootsweb? Is this where everything is going to end up some day after the gazillionth redesign? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | The Ahern Family Genealogy Website Acton, Massachusetts | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Two questions -- 1) When I use my present version of Netscape Composer I find that there is a "carry over" of the directory URL when I move a file to a new directory. That is, if I make a page in a temporary directory, then move it where I want it to be, I will still see the name of the temporary directory in all the links on that page. I have to alter all the links before it will upload correctly to my website. This never happened with an older version. Is there anyway to turn this carry over off? (Now using 4.79) 2) What make Netscape tables different and give some users problems? Is it in the heading f the file? When I hand code or use Netscape Composer, the tables are identical, so am wondering why everyone says there is a problem with Netscape when picked up by other browsers. The files always go through validators correctly, but I am wondering if I should be editing out something in the headers ??? Cleadie B.