they were combined into query board. truly messed and screwed is how I describe it. I expressed my strong complaint with Jake Gehring, CEO of Ancestry/ Rootsweb. no charge to see them but MANDATORY user id and password to post. Just tonight I received 3 messages from others who finally got to see what had happened to their boards and decided to abandon them totally because of following reasons: 1. all boards were combined into one "Query" board 2. require user id and password to post 3. inability to see the poster's email address in order to respond to them OFF the board. 4. "STOLEN HARD WORK" posted on Obits, Bios, Pensions, Wills, Deeds, Bible Records because they were lumped into "Query" board, inviting absolute irrevelant queries posted to those works. 5. Urls posted within those boards broken, not redirected. I am considering that if I still can't get to rest of my several boards (having finally got to see one county board and absolute did NOT like it (600+ bios on Germany, 100+ wills disconnected on one family board, over 800 obits on one county Obit board alone that had been LUMPED into useless query board) I want you to know some CCs who finally got to see theirs and deep-sixed them immediately because of insanity of lumping all into query boards. W. David Samuelsen David Linda Lee wrote: > > Anyone know what happened to all the information on the biography and obitruary boards? Are these other boards still available? Has all the info we spent so much time transcribing now lost? Or is there now a charge to see it? > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

Joan, Please figure this out for us. I just became aware of another problem associated with changed url for the GenConnect. It's PML. Now that boards.ancestry.com is located in Provo, Utah instead of in California with other Rootsweb servers, we won't able to see any messages posted on mucked up GenConnect system. No longer able to find specific post we might be very interested in. W. David Samuelsen

>I > think you will find this works even better than having 7 separate boards in a > suite. Perhaps . . . but for those of us who DO NOT have the "query" boards for the "other" 6 separate boards we have been administering all this time . . . we are left with nothing . . . a bit of a slap in the face . . . or at least this is the way I feel. Karima --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.262 / Virus Database: 132 - Release Date: 6/12/01

unfortunately, it is required. I managed to get far on one suite. Now requires user id **AND** password just to **POST** David Samuelsen Connie Snyder wrote: > > JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: > > > In a message dated 6/22/01 12:04:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > > topsaw@sc.rr.com writes: > > > > > At the risk of sounding stupid, what exactly would the new URL be? I never > > > got anything telling me that. My old address was: > > > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/SC/Georgetown Any clue what > > > the new one would be? I've tried to go to the main page for the boards > > from > > > the Ancestry.com home page, but that's not working either. > > > > > Debbie- > > > > You can start here: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=main&r=rw and > > navigate to Localities and then States and then to South Carolina and then to > > the counties and to Georgetown. We do apologize for the overloaded > > servers--please bear with us. You can also type the board name into the > > search box and get a list of boards containing that name, and then click on > > the link to the Georgetown SC board. > > > > Joan > > RootsWeb > > That doesn't even work for me. It simply is not answering. > > Is it true that users will be required to register and use a username and password > in order to even use the boards? > > Connie > > ============================== > Shop Ancestry - Everything you need to Discover, Preserve & Celebrate > your heritage! > http://shop.myfamily.com/ancestrycatalog

I have a similar situation. I have the (VTRUTLAN-L) Rutland County, VT. mailing list, and "had" all of the boards with the exception of the "query" board. I could never quite explain to the owner of the query board how to "gateway" to the list, so the queries never made it through to the list. However, all of the other boards were gatewayed and provided the bulk of the messages flowing through the list. This will be a big blow to the VTRUTLAN-L list. Karima ----- Original Message ----- From: "sylvia" <beswas@megalink.net> To: <BOARDS-ADMINS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 9:50 PM Subject: Re: [BOARDS-ADMINS] New Boards and new list > I had several boards that are no longer mine > Someone had the query section and I had rest of the boards- those are gone > permanenttly? > Sylvia Sawyer Sebelist --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.262 / Virus Database: 132 - Release Date: 6/12/01

Ok, David, I just sent the following to Jake Gehring at jgehring@ancestry-inc.com: ====================== Very bad idea you guys came up with and extremely RUDE. You have really shot yourselves in the foot this time. Why can't you people understand that "volunteers" are just that . . . "volunteers". I have spent countless hours and a great deal of money on purchasing books, etc. to help me with submitting bios, deeds, probate records, etc., etc., to the "boards" I was administering. Now, just because I took care of all of these boards all this time, but DID NOT have the query board . . . I get left with nothing. This is true for two county sets of boards I was taking care of . . . forget it, someone else can provide the information from now on. I feel quite sure I can find a better way to spend my spare time "volunteering" for something worthwhile . . . that might just be appreciated. Karima ====================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "W. David Samuelsen" <dsam@sampubco.com> To: <RootsWeb-Help-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2001 10:22 PM Subject: Re: [RW-Help] GenConnect board problem > they really SCREWED it. > > Combined boards into ONE "Query" board - AND - requires Ancestry.com' > USER ID and PASSWORD just to POST a query or bio or anything. > > send your objections to Jake Gehring at jgehring@ancestry-inc.com > > I am now seeing other messages from other CCs who are OUTRAGED over > the screwed/mucked combined board message system and declared that > they are DEEP-SIXing any connection to this screwed/mucked system > effectively immediately. > > I sent a message to Jake expressing my outrage that I had been > refused several times MY Ancestry.com USER ID and PASSWORD. > > I haven't seen my Aldrich family boards yet. If they are combined, > GOOD BYE. I already saw one of my county boards - Baker County, OR > - all boards had been combined. I am NOT happy. > > What ever happened to integrity of separate and orderly boards??? > It was best system I have ever seen in use UNTIL the idiots that be > chose to COMBINE all applicable boards into one "QUERY" board, killing > the goose that laid the golden egg. > > W. David Samuelsen --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.262 / Virus Database: 132 - Release Date: 6/12/01

you can apologize for all we care but how in world are you able to apologize for Ancestry's lumping of other boards into the **QUERY** board? David JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 6/22/01 12:04:39 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > topsaw@sc.rr.com writes: > > > At the risk of sounding stupid, what exactly would the new URL be? I never > > got anything telling me that. My old address was: > > http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/SC/Georgetown Any clue what > > the new one would be? I've tried to go to the main page for the boards > from > > the Ancestry.com home page, but that's not working either. > > > Debbie- > > You can start here: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=main&r=rw and > navigate to Localities and then States and then to South Carolina and then to > the counties and to Georgetown. We do apologize for the overloaded > servers--please bear with us. You can also type the board name into the > search box and get a list of boards containing that name, and then click on > the link to the Georgetown SC board. > > Joan > RootsWeb > > ============================== > Create a FREE family website at MyFamily.com! > http://www.myfamily.com/banner.asp?ID=RWLIST2

Anyone know what happened to all the information on the biography and obitruary boards? Are these other boards still available? Has all the info we spent so much time transcribing now lost? Or is there now a charge to see it?

Tim Singleton wrote: > I couldn't even get to the web site...got an error that said the page was > unavailable. What's up??? Same problem here. How can we apply for the boards if we can't get there? Can you also tell me how this affects the password for the companion Rootsweb mailing list that we've been using? Connie

Discovered Jake Gehring has another email address and it is listed. It's Jgehring@ancestry.com (the alternative is ancestry-inc.com) David

Website: Hatcher Families Resource Center http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher List Admin: Hatcher email list Researching: Cook, Hall, Hatcher, Kuhns, Miller, Shepherd, Timberman The Hatcher Records & Documentation CD is now available!! FOR MORE INFO: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~nhatcher/hatchlib.htm We need to have a specific person to send our complaints to. I doubt Jake is that person. I doubt he designed the system. I was appalled to find that all 7 GC boards had been combined with queries. I had no idea that this new msg board was also going to dump wills, deeds, etc into "queries." When I saw my board, my first thought was "How in the HELL will anyone using this system know how to search for these very valuable records and documents?" This system looks to be a major disaster! And I want to know how I can find all my non-query entries so that I can pull them off to a more organized system - even if it's on my own website. Not a happy camper! Nel

absolute joke. It is a database that was stolen from LDS' Ancestral File by a dishonest person and sold to Ancestry.com LDS Church had been notified of this. Look like it is still unresolved matter. Included in this stolen database are my submissions I sent to Ancestral File years ago. W. David Samuelsen Margo wrote: > > What exactly is the Gene Pool Individual records that is now a subscriber feature on Ancestry? > > Margo > > Linda Lee wrote: > > > Anyone know what happened to all the information on the biography and obitruary boards? Are these other boards still available? Has all the info we spent so much time transcribing now lost? Or is there now a charge to see it? > >

What exactly is the Gene Pool Individual records that is now a subscriber feature on Ancestry? Margo Linda Lee wrote: > Anyone know what happened to all the information on the biography and obitruary boards? Are these other boards still available? Has all the info we spent so much time transcribing now lost? Or is there now a charge to see it? > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

Well, I got my notice and I can't even get to the site. Gee does this smell a little bit like a skunk!! Have we been here before when FTM wanted all of our files for free!!!! Margo "W. David Samuelsen" wrote: > I got message informing me to go to a certain address listed in > the message to register to reclaim my boards. > > What happened? REJECTED REJECTED REJECTED REJECTED REJECTED. > all 3 user ids WERE MINE!!!!! still REJECTED REJECTED REJECTED. > > Ancestry.com user ids and passwords are killing us off!!! > > I do NOT want to use Ancestry.com system of user ids and passwords > becuase they forever changing my user ids and passwords in the past > whenever I tried to use Ancestry.com services. > > This is lot worse, than when user ids were NOT required for the > GenConnect Boards. Just Passwords should be simple enough. > > W. David Samuelsen > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry.com for a FREE 14-Day Trial and enjoy access to the #1 > Source for Family History Online. Go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/subscribe/subscribetrial1y.asp?sourcecode=F11HB

they really SCREWED it. Combined boards into ONE "Query" board - AND - requires Ancestry.com' USER ID and PASSWORD just to POST a query or bio or anything. send your objections to Jake Gehring at jgehring@ancestry-inc.com I am now seeing other messages from other CCs who are OUTRAGED over the screwed/mucked combined board message system and declared that they are DEEP-SIXing any connection to this screwed/mucked system effectively immediately. I sent a message to Jake expressing my outrage that I had been refused several times MY Ancestry.com USER ID and PASSWORD. I haven't seen my Aldrich family boards yet. If they are combined, GOOD BYE. I already saw one of my county boards - Baker County, OR - all boards had been combined. I am NOT happy. What ever happened to integrity of separate and orderly boards??? It was best system I have ever seen in use UNTIL the idiots that be chose to COMBINE all applicable boards into one "QUERY" board, killing the goose that laid the golden egg. W. David Samuelsen Tim Singleton wrote: > > I couldn't even get to the web site...got an error that said the page was > unavailable. What's up??? > > Tim Singleton, tsingleton@iclub.org > 105 Nancy Drive > Richmond, KY 40475-8613 > > Volunteer INGenWeb Coordinator > Adams Co. - http://www.rootsweb.com/~inadams > Randolph Co. - http://www.rootsweb.com/~inrandol/ > > ============================== > Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com

I got message informing me to go to a certain address listed in the message to register to reclaim my boards. What happened? REJECTED REJECTED REJECTED REJECTED REJECTED. all 3 user ids WERE MINE!!!!! still REJECTED REJECTED REJECTED. Ancestry.com user ids and passwords are killing us off!!! I do NOT want to use Ancestry.com system of user ids and passwords becuase they forever changing my user ids and passwords in the past whenever I tried to use Ancestry.com services. This is lot worse, than when user ids were NOT required for the GenConnect Boards. Just Passwords should be simple enough. W. David Samuelsen

I uploaded my new web site - www.rootsweb.com/~wabgs - didn't seem to have any problems doing this but when I try to view the webpage it just comes up parent directory and you click on this and you get the main page of rootsweb. HELP Jackie

Hello everyone.......I have quite a bit of information I want to put in my archives_ftp folder. It won't let me add the folder - nor the .txt document I have ready. It says "permission denied" - Do I need to get permission from someone before I can add this? Thanks In Advance! Vonnie vonnieann@earthlink.net ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "With God All Things Are Possible"

Hi all I'm the list-owner for the COSBURN-L surname mailing list. We have less than 10 subscribers and have only been operating for a few months, but we are all very keen, and there is not a week goes by without several messages. We would now like to collaborate on a one-name study database, recording all of the data that we have individually collected over the years. We are thinking of a table with fields like: date, place, type of event, person's name, parents or spouse, source, contributor's name & email etc etc. Does ROOTSWEB have some facility for this? We would need a web page that could be accessed by the list members (and ideally restricted to members) for entering records on a web form, and another page for viewing the resulting table of data, perhaps with clickable column headings for sorting and a facility to download a comma separated variable file (or equivalent). The records would be restricted to events involving people with the surname COSBURN and variants. There could be several thousand records involved. So, can it be done via ROOTSWEB, or do we have to build something from scratch ourselves (assuming we can cope with the steep learning curve)? Regards Peter J Williams Largs NSW Australia

Hi All, I'm a beginner at making webpages -- haven't uploaded yet, but getting close! <g> I have a couple of questions. I have a database with 538 lines of text. Is this too large -- should I break it down into a few pages?? When using the guestbook, counter, logo, etc. from Rootsweb and it says to Insert the Code, where exactly does one do this?? (no laughing, please!!) ;-) I'm using Netscape Composer for my webpage. There is something called "Edit HTML" and a box opens with all the code. Is this where I would insert it? I just want to make certain. If it wasn't the right place, and I had to go back to remove the code -- well, that could end up being disastrous!! Or my other thought was, do you just put the code right on your working page??j Thanks for any advice! Linda