Ct allows members of the CT Society of Genealogists to do research in the vital records, so you either need to join and do it or hire a member to do it for you. Years ago I did find a brother for a sister who was adopted. Seeking info on a baby boy born in Hartford, CT., probably in 1918 who was given the name: SOLOMON GUSBERG. He was an inmate in the Municipal Hospital and Alms House in Hartford in the 1920 census with many others all wit : "mothers unknown". My mother Clara, was the only GUSBERG in CT. at that time and the child was probably hers but the CT. Vital Records refuses to release any info on this child suggesting to me that he was adopted and may be my half brother. I have written to everyone who I thought could help including Sen. Liberman to no avail. Can anyone help me? I am of advancing age and declining health so can't perform my own on-site research. Peter McCue peter19252000@optonline.net

Tried that Lance but the one I want are not there? e.g. page Right Centre left. I'm sure there is more but I haven't found them yet as I only updated yesterday? (I hate change) & only wish they would leave things as they are. <VBG> They have even changed the spell check into a tick, a red one at that. Regards Arthur ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance" <lance.b.4u@gmail.com> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, May 22, 2005 12:05 PM Subject: RE: [SR-NEWBIE] Outlook Express on XP home Arthur, just right click a blank spot on the Toolbar and then select CUSTOMIZE from the context menu. You should see all your "missing" buttons there and ready to be added. Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: S&A [mailto:starwall@optusnet.com.au] Sent: Sunday, 22 May 2005 11:57 AM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] Outlook Express on XP home G'Day all. I have just done a rather large update, consequently it has changed the look of the old Outlook Express I am not at all keen on the new one, as it has lost quite a few items on the tool bar. I have looked at the options & can't see a way to get them back. (Any Idea's) Regards Arthur South Oz ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To find and join surname and location genealogy lists at RootsWeb go here: http://lists.rootsweb.com ============================== Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx

Nancy, I'm not entirely clear on what you are asking. If you are asking what to do with the old pictures once you have saved them to a new folder, then I would say ,yes, delete the old ones. Pictures are generally large files, and there would be no need to have duplicates. To delete most anything, right click it and choose delete. You can also highlight a file, choose Edit from the top menu and then choose delete. One of the things that helped me most was to realize there is almost always more than one way to do anything on a computer. Hope this s helps. Mary -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.12 - Release Date: 5/17/2005

Arthur, just right click a blank spot on the Toolbar and then select CUSTOMIZE from the context menu. You should see all your "missing" buttons there and ready to be added. Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: S&A [mailto:starwall@optusnet.com.au] Sent: Sunday, 22 May 2005 11:57 AM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] Outlook Express on XP home G'Day all. I have just done a rather large update, consequently it has changed the look of the old Outlook Express I am not at all keen on the new one, as it has lost quite a few items on the tool bar. I have looked at the options & can't see a way to get them back. (Any Idea's) Regards Arthur South Oz

Floreda, when you are downloading from your memory stick, you have to take note just "where" the images are being saved to on your hard drive. Most likely, you're my Pictures folder may have been selected by default, or perhaps even MY documents. So check those out. If you download images you have already saved, your computer will alert you to this fact, suggesting you use another name to save them as. This, too, will give you a "clue" as to where you saved the first lot :-). Once the images have been downloaded, you can clear them from the memory stick by using the delete feature in your camera. Here are some sites which may give you some ideas of the process: http://school.edcentre.ca/resources/info10/module7a/lesson1.html http://www.coe.uh.edu/courses/photo/class2/class2.html#transfer http://www.seniorsnetwork.co.uk/digitalphoto/cameratopc.htm http://scs.k12.mi.us/hs/classes/safe_computing_how_to.htm http://www.thirdage.com/features/tech/booster/saving/ While not specifically about images, here are a couple of good tutorials on file saving which may be of help too: http://scs.k12.mi.us/hs/classes/safe_computing_how_to.htm http://www.thirdage.com/features/tech/booster/saving/ Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: Tallygators [mailto:tallygators@earthlink.net] Sent: Saturday, 21 May 2005 11:59 PM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] Digital camera memory stick I have just stared using my digital camera. The memory stick I am using (my first) says it is Folder 101msdcf. I downloaded it to my computer and sure enough the folder is as stated by the camera. I have since taken more pictures and want to download the whole thing (so I can delete the pictures from the memory stick and start all over). Questions: If I redownload the memory stick, what will happen to the pictures I have already downloaded? Can I rename the already downloaded folder and thus, when I download again it will go into 101msdef? (I am such a milktoast when it comes to anything that sounds complicated) Floreda

Dear Listers: > Seeking info on a baby boy born in Hartford, CT., probably in 1918 who was given the name: SOLOMON GUSBERG. He was an inmate in the Municipal Hospital and Alms House in Hartford in the 1920 census with many others all wit : "mothers unknown". My mother Clara, was the only GUSBERG in CT. at that time and the child was probably hers but the CT. Vital Records refuses to release any info on this child suggesting to me that he was adopted and may be my half brother. I have written to everyone who I thought could help including Sen. Liberman to no avail. Can anyone help me? I am of advancing age and declining health so can't perform my own on-site research. > Peter McCue > peter19252000@optonline.net peter19252000@juno.com

G'Day all. I have just done a rather large update, consequently it has changed the look of the old Outlook Express I am not at all keen on the new one, as it has lost quite a few items on the tool bar. I have looked at the options & can't see a way to get them back. (Any Idea's) Regards Arthur South Oz

Thanks Lance ........ the deed is done and the photo now able to be seen. Most grateful indeed. Joe ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance" <lance.b.4u@gmail.com> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 9:25 PM Subject: RE: [SR-NEWBIE] PSP file - got it right this time!! > Joe, for the "psp" files to be handled by IrfanView, you need to download

You can download a manual for your camera here, Nancy. It is in PDF format so you will need Adobe Reader to view it: http://alpha03.c-wss.com/inc/ApplServlet?SV=WWUCA900 Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Tollefson [mailto:mamat@gvtel.com] Sent: Sunday, 22 May 2005 5:30 AM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] Digital camera memory stick Thanks, Mary!! I'm sure that cotton-pickin' book's in the house, someplace.... but, heaven only knows when I'd find it!! It's a Canon Powershot 80.... and I will sure go to their website and look!! Thanks, again! PAX NancyT Nancy, I bet if you go to the website for you camera's maker, you will find an online manual. I did. I have a Sony camera and lost my book. I found everything and then some on Sony's site. Mary -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.12 - Release Date: 5/17/2005 ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== The focus of this list is on helping Seniors to learn to use computers and the Internet. Tolerance and patience are the watchwords. For help with genealogical research methods and procedures, join ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS. Click and send: mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To find and join surname and location genealogy lists at RootsWeb go here: http://lists.rootsweb.com ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.14 - Release Date: 2005-05-20

Pictures are better than words, Nancy so here is a site that sets out the steps to create a folder In Windows, all nicely illustrated: http://www.learnthat.com/tutorials/learn412.htm This one will give you some good illustrated ideas on managing files and folders on your computer: http://www.coolnerds.com/XP/winExp/winExp.htm And in case they don't mention it, to "rename" a folder, just right click the folder and from the context menu select RENAME. Then type the new name in the little box that appears. Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Tollefson [mailto:mamat@gvtel.com] Sent: Sunday, 22 May 2005 6:29 AM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] RE:folders & photos Hi, Would someone please tell me: 1---how do I make a folder and name it? (I have one that's named "photosfortollefsonstorybook"...in the "my documents" list....but clicking on it does nothing.... of course there is nothing in it, see question 2.....should I delete it and start over again??) 2---How do I get my photos into this folder? (I have a lot of photos that are just in "My Documents" and some that I need to scan in and place in this new folder....) 3---I would really like to put photos in this new folder and then put the whole folder onto a CD ... I've lost them before and had to re-scan, etc...don't care to do that again.... little, tiny baby steps on all 3, please, I have never put something INTO a folder...and I don't remember how I made the folder described in question 1....I see that folks have different folders for this, that, and everything else....what I've read seems to discuss "WEB" folders"???? Thanks, a bunch! NancyT ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== For Newbie help with computers and genealogy see: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~besley/newbie.htm ============================== Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.14 - Release Date: 2005-05-20

Mary.. Thanks a bunch! One question......once I get these "storybook" photos in their folder... should I leave them in the My Documents list? Or should I delete them? (If so, how do I do that...) I am gonna try your directions tomorrow, as it's getting a bit late, and I'm tired... But... I sure do thank you! PAX NancyT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Fowler" <marynell@everestkc.net> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 5:33 PM Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] RE:folders & photos Assuming you are using Windows XP. To make a new folder is easy. Right click anywhere on your opening desktop screen. Left click on new, then on folder. Type a name for it while it is highlighted, then click enter. DONE! The new folder will be housed on your desktop. Now, to save things to it, like pictures, open the picture you want to put into your folder, right click on the photo and select "save as". Beside the "look in" line, you will see a down arrow. Click it and find desktop, then your new folder. Click on the name of your folder. Be sure the name of your file is one that will let you know what the picture is (you will likely need to change it). Then click save. Now, when you want to save your folder to a CD, just open the folder, Click edit, then select all. If you are using XP, there will be a choice on the left to send the files to a CD. If you don't have XP, it's a bit different process, but creating a folder is the same and "save as" is the same. Good luck. Mary -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.12 - Release Date: 5/17/2005 ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== The focus of this list is on helping Seniors to learn to use computers and the Internet. Tolerance and patience are the watchwords. For help in genealogical research methods and procedures, join ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS. Click and send: mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Thanks Lance!! for this info, and also for the addies on folders! I appreciate you folks!! (and I really appreciate that you do NOT make me feel like some complete idiot!) again, thanks! PAX NancyT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lance" <lance.b.4u@gmail.com> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 7:09 PM Subject: RE: [SR-NEWBIE] Digital camera memory stick You can download a manual for your camera here, Nancy. It is in PDF format so you will need Adobe Reader to view it: http://alpha03.c-wss.com/inc/ApplServlet?SV=WWUCA900 Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: Nancy Tollefson [mailto:mamat@gvtel.com] Sent: Sunday, 22 May 2005 5:30 AM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [SR-NEWBIE] Digital camera memory stick Thanks, Mary!! I'm sure that cotton-pickin' book's in the house, someplace.... but, heaven only knows when I'd find it!! It's a Canon Powershot 80.... and I will sure go to their website and look!! Thanks, again! PAX NancyT Nancy, I bet if you go to the website for you camera's maker, you will find an online manual. I did. I have a Sony camera and lost my book. I found everything and then some on Sony's site. Mary -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.12 - Release Date: 5/17/2005 ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== The focus of this list is on helping Seniors to learn to use computers and the Internet. Tolerance and patience are the watchwords. For help with genealogical research methods and procedures, join ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS. Click and send: mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe ============================== Find your ancestors in the Birth, Marriage and Death Records. New content added every business day. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13964/rd.ashx ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== To find and join surname and location genealogy lists at RootsWeb go here: http://lists.rootsweb.com ============================== Jumpstart your genealogy with OneWorldTree. Search not only for ancestors, but entire generations. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13972/rd.ashx -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.14 - Release Date: 2005-05-20 ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== The focus of this list is on helping Seniors to learn to use computers and the Internet. Tolerance and patience are the watchwords. For help in genealogical research methods and procedures, join ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS. Click and send: mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=subscribe ============================== Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx

Doris!! Thanks, a bunch!! PAX NancyT

Joe, for the "psp" files to be handled by IrfanView, you need to download the plugins available on that site, to use with IrfanView. There are a number of formats which require various plugins. Just refer to the list of formats handled by IrfanView - click "What is IrfanView" (on the left). Then on that screen you will see the link highlighted "here the list of formats" - click that. The plugins are available all in one download or separate whichever you prefer (click PLUGINS): http://www.irfanview.com/ Lance P. S. Check out Legacy Family Tree today! This full featured genealogy program can be downloaded FREE at http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Index.asp?mid=52583ii -----Original Message----- From: Joe Twitchin [mailto:jo.boy@bigpond.com] Sent: Saturday, 21 May 2005 7:42 PM To: SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] PSP file - got it right this time!! I am still unable to open this photo. I have downloaded 'Irfanview' and get this dialogue; "Paint Shop Pro file format, from Jasc Software; special graphics format that can describe a multi-layered image in complete detail. Note: IrfanView will display only the first layer (if many) in a PSP image" I'm afraid I dont understand the import of this message. Any thoughts? Joe

Hi Peter, I hope you find your half brother, & I see that the list admin. has guided you to the roots web "rocking chair" site. Some more suggestions .... I don't know where CT. is, I live in Qld. But have a look at http://lists.rootsweb.com/ the have all sorts of mailing lists .... surname, adoption, international, you name it, it's there. Try the latter day saints site as well http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Search/frameset_search.asp An Australian adoption reconnection society is Jigsaw .... they may be able to give you links to adoption reconnection sites in your part of the world, their site is http://www.jigsaw.org.au/ Peter ... IF you have the time, please let me know where CT. is. Just so I know, if I ever I ever run across anyone one else from CT. Cheers ..... MUCH LUCK Carolyn > Dear Listers: > Seeking info on a baby boy born in Hartford, CT., probably in 1918 who was > given the name: SOLOMON GUSBERG. He was an inmate in the Municipal > Hospital and Alms House in Hartford in the 1920 census with many others > all wit : "mothers unknown". My mother Clara, was the only GUSBERG in CT. > at that time and the child was probably hers but the CT. Vital Records > refuses to release any info on this child suggesting to me that he was > adopted and may be my half brother. I have written to everyone who I > thought could help including Sen. Liberman to no avail. Can anyone help > me? I am of advancing age and declining health so can't perform my own > on-site research. > Peter McCue > peter19252000@optonline.net > > > ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== > To view or submit a GEDCOM, go here: > http://wc.rootsweb.com/ > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx > >

I am still unable to open this photo. I have downloaded 'Irfanview' and get this dialogue; "Paint Shop Pro file format, from Jasc Software; special graphics format that can describe a multi-layered image in complete detail. Note: IrfanView will display only the first layer (if many) in a PSP image" I'm afraid I dont understand the import of this message. Any thoughts? Joe

You might try MEMORY-LANE-L-request@rootsweb.com ----- Original Message ----- From: <MindaTamsyn33@wmconnect.com> To: <SENIOR-NEWBIE-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 1:25 PM Subject: [SR-NEWBIE] Re: SENIOR-NEWBIE-D Digest V05 #248 > In a message dated 5/21/2005 12:33:26 PM Central Standard Time, > SENIOR-NEWBIE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes > > Are there any more different mailing lists concerning "Seasoned Citizens"? > I > see the Senior-Newbie list, the Rocking Chair list and then what? They > are > pretty good and would like more. > > Laurelyn > Tulsa, OK, USA > > > > > ==== SENIOR-NEWBIE Mailing List ==== > To leave the list, click here and send: > mailto:SENIOR-NEWBIE-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > To leave the DIGEST, click here and send: > mailto:SENIOR-NEWBIE-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >

In a message dated 5/21/2005 4:25:59 PM Eastern Standard Time, MindaTamsyn33@wmconnect.com writes: Are there any more different mailing lists concerning "Seasoned Citizens"? I see the Senior-Newbie list, the Rocking Chair list and then what? They are pretty good and would like more. Laurelyn- You are not limited to lists specifically for seniors--you can subscribe to any of the RootsWeb lists of interest to you. See: http://lists.rootsweb.com/ for an index of all of the lists. Joan

Assuming you are using Windows XP. To make a new folder is easy. Right click anywhere on your opening desktop screen. Left click on new, then on folder. Type a name for it while it is highlighted, then click enter. DONE! The new folder will be housed on your desktop. Now, to save things to it, like pictures, open the picture you want to put into your folder, right click on the photo and select "save as". Beside the "look in" line, you will see a down arrow. Click it and find desktop, then your new folder. Click on the name of your folder. Be sure the name of your file is one that will let you know what the picture is (you will likely need to change it). Then click save. Now, when you want to save your folder to a CD, just open the folder, Click edit, then select all. If you are using XP, there will be a choice on the left to send the files to a CD. If you don't have XP, it's a bit different process, but creating a folder is the same and "save as" is the same. Good luck. Mary -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.322 / Virus Database: 266.11.12 - Release Date: 5/17/2005

In a message dated 5/21/2005 12:33:26 PM Central Standard Time, SENIOR-NEWBIE-D-request@rootsweb.com writes Are there any more different mailing lists concerning "Seasoned Citizens"? I see the Senior-Newbie list, the Rocking Chair list and then what? They are pretty good and would like more. Laurelyn Tulsa, OK, USA