I guess I missed this notice in the past, what is the web link to this site that yall are talking about? :) Don ----- Original Message ----- From: "Suzie Henderson" <henderson.suzie@gmail.com> To: txfannin@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, 23 June, 2010 21:28:36 GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: Re: [TXFANNIN] YES!!!! This just in! No one needs to be a premier member to view the certificates... that is the notice I just sent out. The State of Texas has just agreed that the certificates can continue to be open to any and all visitors to the site. You still need to register, but you do not have to be a premier member. Debra, if you have been able to view the images in the last two days, then you are holding your mouth right... as the rest of us have been blocked from viewing them. Just consider yourself fortunate. And now we all are!!! I am no longer getting the "You must be a premier member notice... but the one image I tried to view was, again, temporarily unavailable. Suzie On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:08 PM, <BBIRDSWIFE@aol.com> wrote: > I am NOt a premier member and I can STILL see the images on the new beta > site....unless they have not loaded them. That has been only on two > occassions. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXFANNIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TXFANNIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

In summary: The Family Search PILOT site: http://pilot.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html is being phased out and all databases being moved to the Family Search Beta site: http://fsbeta.familysearch.org/ which is now requiring a log-in in order to access the site. This new site has open access to MOST databases with your free log in and password BUT: Some databases require a Premier Membership in order to view the images. Premier members are : ANY members of the Church of Jesus Christ of the Latter Day Saints OR Anyone who assists the Family Search project in Indexing records... at least 900 points worth per quarter... through their indexing project. Until just a few hours ago, the Texas Death Certificates had been classified as a Premier Membership database and most of us could not view the certificates any more. That database has now been removed from the restricted list and can be viewed by anyone who registers (for free) to use the site. I'm still getting a LOT of "Image temporarily unavailable" messages but I'm no longer getting the "You must be a premier member" notice. I'm having the best luck (at least for now) at the link below: http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html This was my link for accessing the Pilot site before there was a Pilot site and we were testing the search functions of the database. Most of the images still seem to be on this site. Suzie On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:18 PM, <lockeroots@comcast.net> wrote: > I guess I missed this notice in the past, what is the web link to this site > that yall are talking about? :) > > Don > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Suzie Henderson" <henderson.suzie@gmail.com> > To: txfannin@rootsweb.com > Sent: Wednesday, 23 June, 2010 21:28:36 GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain > Subject: Re: [TXFANNIN] YES!!!! This just in! > > No one needs to be a premier member to view the certificates... that is the > notice I just sent out. The State of Texas has just agreed that the > certificates can continue to be open to any and all visitors to the site. > You still need to register, but you do not have to be a premier member. > > Debra, if you have been able to view the images in the last two days, then > you are holding your mouth right... as the rest of us have been blocked > from > viewing them. Just consider yourself fortunate. > > And now we all are!!! I am no longer getting the "You must be a premier > member notice... but the one image I tried to view was, again, temporarily > unavailable. > Suzie > > > > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 10:08 PM, <BBIRDSWIFE@aol.com> wrote: > > > I am NOt a premier member and I can STILL see the images on the new beta > > site....unless they have not loaded them. That has been only on two > > occassions. > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > TXFANNIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXFANNIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TXFANNIN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >