I created a Temple chat for everyone to take part in since only AOL members can take part in the AOL Temple chat. The chat will take place every Friday night at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1200/chat.html The chat will start at 5 PM Pacific, 6 PM Mountain, 7 PM Central, & 8 PM Eastern. The above is a link directly to my chat page on my site. I've gotten several messages from people asking me where the chat is located. Some people are under the false assumption that my Temple chat is officially hosted by Geocities like the Temple chat at AOL is hosted by AOL. Geocities only provides free pages for its members. It does not have any official surname chat's taking place. This is a personal chat room on my own pages. I created the chat over 3 weeks ago and have mentioned it on the Rootsweb Temple mailing list before I believe. Altough I haven't done that good a job at promoting the chat, including giving last minute or after-the-fact alerts and forgetting to include the link in some of the posts and mixing up the times between the subject heading of the post to the list and the time I mentioned in the body of the message. Also, not being there to meet everyone as they logged in was a mistake. When someone comes to the chat they must log in to see if anyone is there to chat. Some people may have come and left and never knew you had to log in, if they remembered how to find the page at all. Once you log in you should wait around a few minutes if no one else is there because if people come and go in split seconds they may all miss each other by a matter of a few seconds or minutes. Also, once the chat gets going the program will eventually stop after a certain amount of time or memory space or whatever. You will need to log back onto the chat to continue with the discussion. You will only miss a few seconds of the chat if you log back on as soon as you are cut off. The best way to get to the chat is by the above link, but for the detailed way to get there it goes like this: 1. The main link to my site is at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1200 2. From there by clicking the tiger picture you go to http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1200/home.html 3. Then by clicking the "Family Tree Project" link, which has two animated target icons beside it, you go to my surname table at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1200/project_1.html 4. After scrolling down that surname table, at the bottom of the page clicking the link "Family Tree Project Part 2" takes you to http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1200project_2.html 5. It is at that page that page that the link to the chat room is on. By clicking the link "chat" you go to the chat page at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Meadows/1200 I think I may just add a link to the chat page on the second page "home.html" to make finding the chat a little easier for everyone. William J. Temple temple-family@geocities.com http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/t/e/m/William-J-Temple -----Original Message----- From: ACTVanpelt <ACTVanpelt@aol.com> To: temple-family@geocities.com <temple-family@geocities.com> Date: Sunday, March 15, 1998 12:16 PM Subject: Re: Temple chat Fri. 8pm eastern >Hi I don,t understand how to get to the chat for Friday. I tryed the web >address and still couldn't find it. Could you email me and Temple- >L@rootweb.com exactly how to get to where the chat is going to be and how to >get there ,step by step. Thank you. Chrissie Temple Van Pelt-Temple's in Pa >