Thanks David. I'll put the emails together accordingly and get them up to this group. I just finished ftp'ing the 1970 Death records for all the counties, I'll send them up in a separate email. Working with Lee on her 1971 to 1974 death records, I came across a problem. The 1972 files I pulled down are about 10 meg in size. All the others I've pulled down are about 16 to 18 meg in size. I have not had a chance to look at the contents yet, but what problems will this raise for us, and should I run with what we got or let someone know of the discrepancy? Dave, With the complexity of this project, don't sweat the lack of details in the instructions. I'm just glad there are folk like you and the others out there !!! :-) TTFN, Chuck Mahaffey -----Original Message----- From: David W. Morgan [mailto:dmorgan@efn.org] Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 6:16 PM To: TXARCHIVE-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [TXARCHIVE] Please welcome new archivist! On Tue, 21 Aug 2001, Chuck Mahaffey wrote: > Gina/GentlePeople, > > Well your timing is good. I could use some help. :-) > > I finished creating the Vital Death records for all of the counties in Texas > for the year 1969. About an hour ago I created the appropriate directories > and ftp'd the files up to the server. Now what........? > > My questions and/or clarification I need help on is: > > 1) Should I create a single email for each county (250+) that would contain > a separate link? I gathered that from the instructions. Or can I do it > similar to how Tina did by listing multiple counties in one email. I can > set it up to be done either way, but I'd prefer the multiple listings to one > email if that's doable? You can send one e-mail, if you can get all the URLs in that one e-mail. > 2) Also, exactly what would need to be in that email? The complete URL of the file (the way Tina did it), the size of the files, and name of the county. And the subject line should say Deaths, 1969, something like that. > > Here is a sample from Tina I recently received: > <snip> > Sabine Co. TX - Births, 1949 > ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/sabine/vitals/births/1949/sabi4901.tx > t > 40,021 > <snip> > > Here is the location where I put the Harris county death records as a > sample: > ftp://txgwarch@users.rootsweb.com/home0023/txgwarch/archive_ftp/harris/vital > s/deaths/1969/harrd69a.txt Do not use a URL like that. That requires a password. Use this instead ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/tx/harris/vitals/deaths/1969/harrd69a.tx t > > > 3) Do I update the HTML link, or is someone else responsible for that? If > I need to do this, then where and how? No, the county or regional file manager takes care of the html. I am sorry my instructions were not clear enough. David dmorgan@efn.org David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dmorgan/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm ==== TXARCHIVE Mailing List ==== 300 MB as of Sept 1, 2000, 408 MB as of Oct 20, 2001, 500 MB as of Jan 17, 2001, 600 MB as of Feb 28, 2001, 713 MB as of May 21, 2001, 801 MB as of Jun 25, 2001.