Thanks, Mary. Carmen At 11:13 PM 3/18/99 -0500, Mary D. Taffet wrote: >Better yet -- try this URL: > > ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/ > >... or any of the corrected URL's below -- I removed the excess /ftp >from the path, so these links should now work. > >The URL's in the original message didn't work because there was an extra >/ftp in the path. This portion of the path doesn't exist. If you >change the prefix of all URL's to ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/ as I have >done below, then the links should work. > >Also, the files available through FTP are not necessarily linked to the >VA Archives page whose URL is given immediately below, so it is best to >use the ftp link above or the fixed URL's below. > >-- Hope this helps, > Mary Taffet > mdtaffet@syr.edu > > >Carmen Finley wrote: >> >> I am not sure why the ftp URLs will not work, but go to the VA Archives >> proper at: >> >> http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/va/vafiles.htm >> >> Carmen >> >> At 07:45 PM 3/18/99 -0600, Joyce McMurray wrote: >> >I check some of these and they won't work >> >> >> >> 3-18-99 >> >> >> >> ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/albemarle/wills/h6200002.txt >> >> ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/albemarle/wills/h6200001.txt >> >> ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/augusta/court/2court28.txt >> >> ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/botetourt/census/1850cena.txt >> >> ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/frederick/cemeteries/mthebro.txt >> >> ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/princewilliam/wills/f6520001.txt >> >> >> ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/rockbridge/vitals/marriage/mcmarr >> >> ia.txt >> >> ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/spotsylvania/wills/c5200001.txt >> >> >> >> [snip] >