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]