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.txt > > > 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