here's the quick hint - go to ancestry.com site and click on "My Account" at upper right corner. David Samuelsen Nel Hatcher wrote: > > I've now gotten into the Board Admin signup page - thank you, Andrew! The > problem still exists - username. > > It keeps telling me my username already exists. Of COURSE it does! One of my > biggest problems with myfamily/ancestry.com is that when I try to access one > of their pages, it takes me 10 mins trying to find the correct > username/password. And by the time I stumble onto the right combination, I > no longer know how I did it. > > I don't understand WHY, when I supply everything but my SS#, that the system > can't recognize that the person entering all this info IS the person who > owns that "existing" username and allow me to continue. It is attempting to > force me to select another username which is the core of the problem. Too > many usernames scattered all over these sites. > > Perhaps it boils down to what the definition of IS is :-) > > Nel > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library