Hello all, I received a suspicious email this morning from a person I do not know, which contained what appeared to be a partial message requesting or giving genealogical information, and had what appeared to be a random .exe file attached. With the possibility in mind that this may be related somehow to my participation in the list, I thought I would post this information FYI just as a heads up in case we are, indeed, passing things around again. The message originated from a sender named James McBroom. I have already contacted him directly to inform him of the message and suggest that he scan his system. The subject line was "Born to Claire" The text of the message was "Born to Claire and John(?) Richardso" The attached file was titled, "billmind.exe". From what I can tell, which isn't much, this file is one from Quicken, and not an actual worm/virus .exe. I am far from being an expert on viruses/worms, and this message contains just about all that I know in regard to this message. I would welcome any comments from those of you who know more about such things. Peace, Amy C. Jude Keaton

Hi Richard, You can save it (or any image) by clicking on your right mouse button, then select "Save Image As..." and then put it in your files, wherever you want. Regards, John New Orleans ---------------------------- Richard Griffith wrote: > > Where can I find the file for the RootsWeb Icon? It is called "rwbutton.gif" > on the Massachusetts GenWeb page. I would like to include it in credits to > RootsWeb on my new page. > > Richard Griffith > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

I'm asking for help again from all you who are more experienced than I at this Web page thing. I now have Macromedia's Dreamweaver per your kind suggestions however, I am having a lot of trouble when I try to include photographs on my webpage. When I upload to the site a message comes on for each picture saying "An FTP error occured - cannot put (whatever my photo is).jpg. Permission denied on server [Filename [accept]]" on each picture. I first tried to put them in without loading linking them under the Dreamweaver site but although I could see the pictures on my computer when I went online others said they couldn't bring up the pictures. So now I linked them under my site in Dreamweaver and even I can't get the pictures to come up when I go online. Would some of you check and see if the "Photos" page is coming up and the "More" page? they both have pictures included. If not maybe someone can give me a clue as to what I'm doing wrong. Please reply in detail as to what to do - I'm new at this. Thank you. Sharen

Would anyone on the list have a spair clear gif that I could use? Dropped mine and being clear I can't see it. Ray Brown ray.brown@earthling.net

In a message dated 2/1/02 4:01:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, rgriffithone@mediaone.net writes: > Where can I find the file for the RootsWeb Icon? It is called "rwbutton.gif" > on the Massachusetts GenWeb page. I would like to include it in credits to > RootsWeb on my new page. Richard- You will find the graphics here: http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/FAQ/graphicsgeneral.html Joan

Where can I find the file for the RootsWeb Icon? It is called "rwbutton.gif" on the Massachusetts GenWeb page. I would like to include it in credits to RootsWeb on my new page. Richard Griffith

Generally, the "search box" code can be placed on any -- or all! -- pages. In setting up the search engine parameters you will specify the "beginning" of the site to be indexed. Some search engines will even allow multiple starting points, or exclusion pages. -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Genealogy, et Cetera: http://dav4is.8m.com 282 ancestral & collateral families, mostly 17th-19th century New England, total population: 64,667 Annex: http://www.gencircles.com/users/dav4is/

Help - When I try to edit a new html page, it will only accept the first 30,000 bytes. Often, this means only a portion of my document gets uploaded and I have to put it on two or three pages - as in family histories etc. Is this a default restriction? or is there a way to upload more than 30,000 bytes of text to a single page? comments please _________________________________________________________________ MSN Photos is the easiest way to share and print your photos: http://photos.msn.com/support/worldwide.aspx

Thanks to all who responded to my question. Another question--does the placement of the code need to be on the index page or can it be located on a subpage? Thanks in advance, Lorraine

Hi Lorraine, You can add your own little search engine, just for your site. Go to http://www.picosearch.com/ and download the code. I use them at several sites and another nice thing, it's free. Regards, John New Orleans ---------------------- Lorraine Hatfield wrote: > > Hello everyone! I'm new to this so please bear with me. I would like to add a search option to my site to enable visitors to search for surnames or other points of reference. What is the easiest way to do this? Do I build me own, sign on to a search engine site or is there another way? Any help would be most appreciated. > > Thanks, > Lorraine > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

I have had great success with Free Find http://www.freefind.com/ Laurie ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lorraine Hatfield" <lorraine@fuse.net> To: <RootsWeb-Help-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 6:58 PM Subject: [RW-Help] Search > Hello everyone! I'm new to this so please bear with me. I would like to add a search option to my site to enable visitors to search for surnames or other points of reference. What is the easiest way to do this? Do I build me own, sign on to a search engine site or is there another way? Any help would be most appreciated. > > Thanks, > Lorraine > > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > >

Hello everyone! I'm new to this so please bear with me. I would like to add a search option to my site to enable visitors to search for surnames or other points of reference. What is the easiest way to do this? Do I build me own, sign on to a search engine site or is there another way? Any help would be most appreciated. Thanks, Lorraine

Hi Lorraine, I use this one and I'm very satisfied. http://www.freefind.com/ Regards Steve Regards Steven R. Everitt sreveritt@sno.net Surname Roundup http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surnamru/ Guild of One Name Studies Member 3080 http://www.one-name.org/index.html Boniface One Name Study boniface@one-name.org Boniface Internet Group http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~surnamru/steve/bonifaceindex.html

Over on soc.genealogy.misc someone is posting some fairly obnoxious messages using the ID of "Rootsweb@rootsweb.com" He has been reported several times to the abuse@prodigy.net address in his headers, but he continues to post. Given the content of at least the first couple messages, RW isn't getting any good vibes out of this. Cheryl *_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_*_* Cheryl Singhal (Singhals@erols.com) http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cpafug/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~wvhampsh/ http://www.capaccess.org/com/troop763/ http://www.fortunecity.com/millennium/blyton/772/ (Bottony Cross DAR) http://www.rootsweb.com/~cresap/ http://members.fortunecity.com/csinghal1/ (Joanna Waddill UDC)

Hi! Thanks to Drew I have fixed my problem... I forgot to upload my pages as binary and was using the ASCII.... I have rescanned and loaded pages and all apprears to be fine now... Thanks for your help! Heather Waddingham Campobello Parish Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcampob/ My England and Canadian Roots http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=CDNROOTS

Hi! I have had a frustrating day:) I have been trying to "scan" documents to use on my next update. They appear to scan fine, and looks OK in the preview box etc. (I am using Corel Photo House). However, when I load the page this is what I end up with... tricolored scanned document and the words have all "moved" on the page... see this page http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcampob/bap1876-77.htm Does anyone have any suggestions as to how I can fix this?? I have also scanned smaller images which are not quite "right" either.... http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcampob/pcard5.htm Any suggestion greatly appreciated... the scanner was working fine two weeks ago. I have no idea what "happened" to make it not work all of a sudden. Thanks! Heather Waddingham Campobello Parish Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~nbcampob/ My England and Canadian Roots http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=CDNROOTS

Reference page: http://boards.rootsweb.com/ (this is not the only instance) I get a scripting error with all three of my browsers: Opera (5.50), Netscape (4.7) and MSIE (6.0). All three complain of an error like: "document.rookie" is null or not an object. Looking at the page source, I see the phrase "document.rookie" appears several times in the script code. After ignoring the error, which may occur several times, all three browsers render the page. Login links, such as on the reference page, elicit the error message also. Nothing resembling a login form is presented, however. -- Regards, Rod Dav4is / P.O. Box 118 / Hyde Park, NY 12538 / USA Genealogy, et Cetera: http://dav4is.8m.com 280 ancestral & collateral families, mostly 17th-19th century New England, total population: 64,451 Annex: http://www.gencircles.com/users/dav4is/

Actually Drew, something you said kicked in something in my brain. When this fails, and the Session Properties window comes up the next time, it does say "GA Worth" in the Host Name/Address field. I, of course, did not put it there, so it has to be a glitch in the program. Just as a test, I went in and installed my WS_FTP into another new directory, tried to log in and it worked. Go figure... I have no idea why it is doing this, but it looks like I get to uninstall and reinstall my FTP Client! Thanks for the help. I knew I wasn't losing my mind! :-) Mary Kozy Worth Co., GA CC DrewSmithFSGS@aol.com wrote: > Mary, > > >From the prompts you're getting, it sounds like you've got "GA Worth" in the > Host Name/Address field. That should be something like "users.rootsweb.com" > instead. > > Regards, > Drew Smith > FSGS Webmaster

I am entering the userid as "gaworth", just as the directions said. I am also putting it in the correct field. I am using users.rootsweb.com in the host name/address field. Here is what I have entered: Under Session Properties, I clicked the "New" button. Then I entered: Profile Name: GA Worth Host Name/Address: users.rootsweb.com (I also tried ftp://users.rootsweb.com, and http://users.rootsweb.com) Host Type: Auto. Detect (I also tried specifying UNIX (Standard)) U s e r I D: gaworth P@sswurd: the one sent to me (tried typing it, as well as copying/pasting) and clicked Save Pwd (also tried it without clicking Save Pwd) I still am getting this error. Believe me when I say that I have tried many different iterations of the above (knowing that UNIX is case sensitive) to no avail. I still cannot get it to work. I have tried deleting the account and starting over; no help. At this point, it won't even allow me to "make" an account, since I can't access the server. This is really maddening..... Mary

Hi! I just received the information for my newest Rootsweb account (I have 6 others). Upon entering all the information into the slots in my WS_FTP LE FTP client, I get a pop-up window that says: "Please enter a userid for connection with GA Worth:" with a blank line for me to enter my userid. I entered the one that I was given, and then receive the following error message: !Can't get "GA Worth" host entry !Connection failed GA Worth I am at my wits end. I have contacted the person that sent me the account information, and she said that she can access it with WS_FTP with no problems. That's fine, but I can't. All my other FTP accounts are working. I've checked all the different options under the Session Properties window and its various tabs to see if perhaps I'm missing something. I've added "public_html" as the remote startup directory. I have double-checked that I'm using all lower case letters, I have tried typing in the various userid and passwords, as well as copying and pasting them; all to no avail. I've been using this FTP Client for over 4 years now, and have never run into this problem. Can someone please help me figure this out? I managed to upload a few pages to the site using my browser, but as many of you probably know, it is hardly the most efficient way to do things, and I can't figure out how to upload a new subdirectory using this method. I love WS_FTP, but I'm having a hard time with this, and I need to get this page up and running. HELP! Mary Kozy mkozy@attglobal.net Worth Co., GA CC USGenWeb