GREAT!! Thanks very much Peggy. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Peggyt1950@aol.com> To: <tnweakle@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, September 04, 2007 10:24 PM Subject: [TNWEAKLE] Using Rootsweb > > It occurs to me that maybe some folks on the list don't know all the ways > you can use Rootsweb for getting information. > > We are very lucky on this list to have volunteers who work tirelessly to > provide us with information that we couldn't get unless we bought the books or > the films or spent hours in the library. Specifically, Lee Cate with single > surname marriage, census and burials and Martha Smith with newspaper abstracts > and obits through 1970. Others help, too, but these two are the most active > in sharing their information. All of this information is stored and > viewable at all times in the Rootsweb Archives, as well as every other email that > comes through the list. > > There are two ways to use the Archives. You can Search them or you can > Browse them. Go to Rootsweb.com and click Mailing Lists at the top of the page. > That takes you to the "new" page for searching the Archives, but I prefer > the "old" page. To get the old page, look for a light blue rectangle on the > left top of the page and click on the link "clicking here." > > That takes you to a page where you can search a Surname only by choosing the > first letter of that surname or you can choose a state, then a county in > that state. So you would click on TN and then Weakley to search the Weakley > Archives. On the TNWeakley-L page, you can Subscribe or Unsubscribe from the > list and on the very bottom, you can Search or Browse the Archives. > > I use the Advanced Search and put the surname I want in the line that > searches the Subject. That will get me all of Lee's posts for that surname (and > any others who have put that surname into the subject of their email). There > are lots of ways to search for the information you want. You need to play > with it to see what it will do. > > When you Browse the Archives, the posts come up by year and month down to > the last email posted. If you think that you haven't gotten any emails from > the list and want to know if you've missed something, just Browse the list. > All the posts from day one are there and posted in the order they came in. You > can choose several ways to view them, but you will know immediately if there > is activity on the List or not. > > And please remember that Rootsweb.com with the Mailing Lists, family trees, > Freepages, and other links too numerous to mention, is paid for by > Ancestry.com. So those who pay for the subscription to Ancestry are also paying to > provide everyone with the free information and services on Rootsweb including > this Mailing List which allows us to ask questions and share information about > our ancestors. > > Peggy M. T. > > > > > ************************************** Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at > http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TNWEAKLE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >