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Re: Spelled wrong

dbowemd — 2013-05-08 19:57:32Z

Thank you for putting in the corrections. Charles H. Taft, Irene's father, is the son of Charles Adolphus Taft and Esther Rocelia or Rosalie Esther Bowe, who is a cousin of my great grandfather.

Problem Uploading GEDCOM to WorldConnect

DavidMyers260 — 2013-03-09 19:59:21Z

I have a problem uploading my GEDCOM to WorldConnect that I haven't had previously. After the updating is complete, I notice that all of the couples in my database aren't connected, even though they are in the GEDCOM. I.E. if John Jones and Mary Smith are listed as being married in the GEDCOM, they aren't listed that way in WorldConnect. They are listed as individuals, but there isn't any indication that they are married.

I can't imagine what could cause this. In addition, practically all of the sources are missing and the only source left that I can see is one created by WorldConnect that is called "BROSKEEP." This apparently is related to the fact that the genealogy program used to create the GEDCOM is Brother's Keeper.

I have tried updating twice in the past few days and get the same result. The first time was on a high-speed internet connection at a Family History Center, and the other was on a dial-up modem at my home. Same result both times, so it must be a problem with the website.

Help, help, help!

Gedcoms

VJHerman — 2013-03-08 16:09:15Z

:2392451
:2392427
:2391527
:2389812
:2389786
:2362567
:2181911

Re: Gedcoms

VJHerman — 2013-03-08 16:09:01Z

Joan...

1) Because I deleted my tree from ancestry.com, there isn't one to view.

2) I use only one username with ancestry.com

The problem I am having is that I have NO more trees on the area where you view your trees. There are NO more. So how in the heck do I get rid of something that isn't there?

I cannot delete the gedcoms!

VJHerman — 2013-03-08 16:08:51Z

Well, I am stumped. I did remove my tree from ancestry.com, family.com and rootsweb to try and figure this out. I still have gedcoms out there and no way to remove them. I don't know what to do. There's about 8 files out there. Geez, all this time I've had all these duplicate world trees!

I've worked long days lately so maybe I'm not getting it but I consider myself a reasonable intelligent person. I could use some help here!

:) Thanks

Deleting trees

VJHerman — 2013-03-08 16:08:41Z

I deleted my tree on ancestry.com and on rootsweb. I also have it on my site at myfamily.com. Do I need to delete it there too before I reload it here?

Re: How do I add my "disclaimer" ??

VJHerman — 2013-03-08 16:08:31Z

I tried that, it still isn't showing up!

How do I add my "disclaimer" ??

VJHerman — 2013-03-08 16:08:23Z

I have set up my family tree on rootsweb however I want to add a "disclaimer" if you will that you see when you click on an individual's name. I looked at a friend's tree and when you click on "Register" you can see her disclaimer at the top of the page. I thought that when I set up my database and entered my text in the header field, it would show up, but it hasn't.

I wanted it there to be sure that those who visit know the information is still being verified and not to take it as official yet.

Can anyone help me?

Re: guess what?

VJHerman — 2013-03-08 16:08:13Z

I learned something by reading this thread!

Ok since I have submitted to both ancestry.com and rootsweb I now have two databases, I understand that.

However, I submitted to Rootsweb because I wanted to be able to list that "disclaimer" at the top of my page when people visit individuals in my tree. I posted a thread asking how this is done. I can't see an option when you it through ancestry.

Or am I totally off here? :)

No kidding!

VJHerman — 2013-03-08 16:07:59Z

Really? How do I remove them?

Edward Malone b1801 d1877, North Carolina-Tennessee ANY help appreciated!!!!!

emilysuz_1 — 2013-03-05 03:33:06Z

I've been looking for information on Edward Malone's parents. I believe they came from Ireland which is why I'm running into problems finding their information. Edward was born in NC in December of 1801 and married first Charity whose maiden name and birth/death dates I do not know, then Lavina Cain born in 1807 these are their children
Malone, John Birth : 4 MAY 1830 ,Limestone,Alabama
Malone, Elizabeth E. Birth : 1832 ,,Alabama
Malone, Benjamin Thomas Birth : 1833/1834 ,Lauderdale,Alabama
Malone, Elizabeth Birth : 1834 ,,Alabama
Malone, Margaret L. Birth : 1837/1838 ,,Alabama
Malone, David E. Birth : 20 SEP 1839 ,Franklin,Tennessee Death : 9 MAR 1920 ,Giles,Tennessee
Malone, Edward Death : ABT 1877 ,Giles,Tennessee
Malone, Josephine Birth : 1846 ,,Tennessee

I think that David and Edward Jr. are the same person (Edward being David's middle name). He was my great great great great grandfather and he fought in the Civil war. He married Matilda Griffin in 1867

If any of these names ring a bell, or if you know where I can find info on this family, I would greatly appreciate the help! I've been working on this for a while now, off and on, and have hit a brick wall with this family member.

Re: How do I change the URL for my RootsWeb WorldConnect family tree?

editor02 — 2013-02-02 04:00:49Z

It's working fine so far. I also want to associate a new freepage with the new tree. I sent a request, but did not get a reply with FTP instructions. I want to keep the old freepage open till the new one is up and running. Is that possible, since both trees are on the same email address?

Re: How do I change the URL for my RootsWeb WorldConnect family tree?

pasher44 — 2013-01-30 19:12:48Z

You don't have to remove the Tree ID. Simply take the tree/GEDCOM offline by clicking "Take tree offline."

Both your Tree ID and the GEDCOM it contains will remain on the server and can be reused when or if you wish.

If you wish to permanently relinquish the use of a particular Tree ID, you will need to "Delete Tree." That will delete both the GEDCOM and your user information from the system.

The Title and homepage link are not exclusive to any one Tree ID and can be used for other Tree IDs.

Re: How do I change the URL for my RootsWeb WorldConnect family tree?

editor02 — 2013-01-30 18:28:56Z

When I remove the old Tree ID, will I then be free to re-use the old Tree Title and old Homepage Title for the new Tree ID? They won't somehow be locked up in the system, will they?

Re: How do I change the URL for my RootsWeb WorldConnect family tree?

pasher44 — 2013-01-28 13:50:28Z

Create the desired Tree ID in your WorldConnect tree management tools, http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/wcus

Upload your GEDCOM to the new Tree name.

Don't forget to remove the old (duplicate) Tree ID from display.

How do I change the URL for my RootsWeb WorldConnect family tree?

editor02 — 2013-01-26 10:28:07Z

I changed the display title of my RootsWeb WorldConnect family tree fine. But How do I change the URL for my family tree?

Ancestry World Tree display

jeanneflowers — 2013-01-13 18:07:25Z

This is a question, which I posted before on another board:
http://boards.ancestry.com/topics.ancestry.ancsite/12302/mb....
When displaying an Ancestry World Tree, I find that the formatting of the page appears as centered rather than left-aligned. This causes a problem reading pages. My own file appears left aligned when using an old link, but if I go to it on a Google search, it is centered. I post my GED file through Rootsweb. Attached is an example of the problem. I have examined possible browser type/version problems and have contacted Ancestry support to no avail. Someone suggested that I post here. Two examples are provided, the last is my file as found with a Google search.

Password access to 'LIVING' data

LawrenceTAN35 — 2013-01-11 15:37:30Z

Would it be possible to create a feature where a password could be given to family members so that 'LIVING' data is not hidden from them? In that way anyone with the password could see all data and anyone without it would only be able to see the data for those not considered to be 'LIVING'.

Re: Connecting files

AGHatchett3rd — 2013-01-07 04:18:37Z

In a word- no.

Connecting files

charsoos — 2013-01-07 01:15:13Z

Can I connect multiple files that I have submitted based upon a particular name - or at all - for that matter - other than just referencing them in the comment at the bottom of the screen.

Re: question why is my tree all mixed up on rootsweb?

pasher44 — 2013-01-05 13:57:10Z

**You search a name, it comes up on the world connect page correctly with parents/spouse, when you click on it to get to that person, someone else comes up who is completely different,**

Did you wait 36 hours so re-indexing has occurred?

Links are based on ID numbers, not names. If your genealogy program generates new ID numbers every time you export a new GEDCOM, then when you upload that new GEDCOM, the names and ID numbers at WC will be out of sync until the nightly reindexing is complete.

Re: question why is my tree all mixed up on rootsweb?

skibran — 2013-01-04 03:37:58Z

wow! you're good, how do I get it to Randy Winch? thanks so much!

Re: question why is my tree all mixed up on rootsweb?

AGHatchett3rd — 2013-01-04 02:05:19Z

See the attached and get it to Randy Winch at Rootsweb. It shows that the problem is.

Re: question why is my tree all mixed up on rootsweb?

AGHatchett3rd — 2013-01-04 01:28:45Z

I see what you see.

Contact Helpdesk and/or Randy Winch at Rootsweb.com

You'll probably get quicker action that way.

question why is my tree all mixed up on rootsweb?

skibran — 2013-01-04 00:08:17Z

Hi, I just tried to update a tree I previously entered on rootsweb, and this time, even after 2 attempts, it is all mixed up. You search a name, it comes up on the world connect page correctly with parents/spouse, when you click on it to get to that person, someone else comes up who is completely different, tried it with several family members. When I go directly to my tree and search the index, it comes up fine. What do you think is up?

Re: If I upload a tree on Rootsweb does it also post on Ancestry?

lindhale — 2012-12-27 18:47:35Z

I put mine on ancestry.com and on rootsweb and on a website I built and I used FTM 2012 to sync it on Ancestry to keep all the information updates and correct.

Re: gedcom utility programs

klbonnell1 — 2012-12-10 23:46:28Z

I would really appreciate it. I used your utility a lot and it was very useful. I haven't found another one that does the same thing.

Re: gedcom utility programs

randy_winch — 2012-12-10 22:44:24Z

I do not currently. I could look into making a new one using the latest tools.

Re: Automatic cutoff date for LIVING

tdprince — 2012-12-05 16:56:56Z

I find the automatic cutoff date of 1930 to be meaningless, because the 1940 census has been published. Why not change the cutoff date to be 1940?

Re: Can this website please enable special Polish language letters?

larryparker124 — 2012-12-04 15:35:55Z

John,

Well, that did work...eventually. So thanks a lot.

I didn't know much about character sets.

I went to the link you provided: http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref

If you scroll down that long list of special characters, and hover the pointer over a special character you want to get the html code for, then in addition to the code listed, two other codes pop up to the right. But you can't "copy" the two codes on the right, because moving the pointer over those two codes makes them disappear. That's very strange. So you have to memorize them or otherwise copy them.

But I was assuming that the "less than" symbol, a.k.a. left arrow symbol, and its opposite, the "more than" symbol, a.k.a. right arrow symbol, were supposed to placed immediately to the left and right, respectively, of the code. Because every bit of html that I am familiar with has always been typed within arrows.

So I copied the
& L s t r o k ;
code, (but without any spaces. Also, I can't even post that code in this message without spaces. I tried, but then this entire message gets rejected by the system). Then I added a left and right arrow symbol to each end, without spaces, and added that into my "notes" and uploaded it. But that did not work to render a special Polish L with the line through it.

Then I tried it again, but without the arrow symbols. That did not work either.

Then I finally tried both of the other two codes, without the arrow symbols, and both DID work to render the Polish L. The codes also work in the names of the places where people were born, married, and died.

I used the third of three html codes in my notes because it is only 6 characters long;
& # 3 2 1 ;
(but without any spaces).
The second html code was 9 characters long.

If anybody wants to insert any html codes in their notes to render a special letter or symbol, then I suggest you copy the third html code. You can then test that code here, to see what it will render:

http://www.w3schools.com/html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_ent...

There is another way to find out what the html code for a special non-English language letter or symbol is. If, using your mouse, you copy a special letter from a website, then you paste that one letter into the surname field on http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ then click on "GO", then the next page will show the html code for that special letter.

Like you said, John, the special letters can only be rendered in the "notes" and not the person's name as listed in the chart. But that is better anyway, because a person using English, and searching for a name, would search, for example, for Labuz, not the version using the special Polish L.

Here's how my "notes" for one person named Labuz (but using the special Polish L that won't render in this message) now looks:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

I was able to shorten my explanation about the Polish letter, and I was able to delete the photo of that name.

I think somebody at rootsweb World Connect should write a story explaining how people can insert special characters into their notes. Then put a link to that on the main page here:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/

The link would be entitled something like:

How to insert non-English letters and special characters into notes
************************************************
Edited to add:

Actually, I see that special foreign language letters CAN be included in a person's name in the chart itself. Without thinking, I added the html code for a Polish letter in a new person's name that I just added to a different chart. A couple of days later, I was looking at the chart online here, and I saw that the special Polish "l" DID show up on the chart. I don't know why I was able to insert a foreign letter in a name this time, but previously, it did not work.

But I found that the name with the special letter does not show up when the name is searched using the standard English letter. So I changed the spelling of that name back to English letters, because someone would be far more likely to search for the name using only English letters.

gedcom utility programs

klbonnell — 2012-12-03 20:41:30Z

Randy:
Do you have an updated version of your analyze.exe program? I used the program in the past to find the odd unconnected people in my database. I have about 340,000 people in my database, so I really need a program like analyze.

Re: Can this website please enable special Polish language letters?

johniel — 2012-11-27 05:57:42Z

Polish letters are part of the ISO8859-2 character set, which is not supported by WorldConnect (it uses ISO8859-1, the standard "Latin" character set).

The character set (ISO8859-1, ISO8859-2, UTF-8, etc.) only matters when the characters are represented with binary character values, which is normally the way characters or symbols are represented digitally.

But HTML has a special method to access any character in a font's repertoire, no matter what the character set is for the page. It's the HTML Character Entity feature, whereby a string of letters or numbers following an ampersand can be used to indicate whatever character or symbol is desired. Here's a page listing the current definitions:

http://dev.w3.org/html5/html-author/charref

The character in which you are interested is the Lstrok character (html text &Lstrok;).

The entity names are case sensitive. For example, Lstrok is different than lstrok, which is, of course, the lower case "l" with a slash.

So if you don't mind having HTML character entities in your notes text, then this is the way to go.

Note: this will NOT work in the name field. You still have to use the non-slash version there. This only works in the notes field to shorten your explanation.

Re: Stokenbury or Stukenbury Family

bwells35 — 2012-11-23 02:26:36Z

I am a descendent of Herman Stokenbury. We have a copy of his obituary and the ship's record of where he entered the US. We have many of his descendants in our data base. We also have a picture of him. My email address is rubystokenburywells@gmail.com.

Re: Can this website please enable special Polish language letters?

larryparker124 — 2012-11-22 00:51:37Z

Since most of my photos are very large, such as immigration manifests and census pages, I decided that I would insert them as clickable links, instead of embedding them.

Re: Can this website please enable special Polish language letters?

fergybeanies — 2012-11-22 00:37:55Z

You can upload pictures to Rootsweb if you have an FTP program such as CuteFTP. I upload to my pages. For example see:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

Re: Can this website please enable special Polish language letters?

larryparker124 — 2012-11-20 16:20:22Z

Posting the name as a photograph did once cross my mind, but then I forgot about it. But thanks for reminding me about that. I decided to do what you suggested. Here's how it looks in the notes for one person named Labuz in my chart:

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

Re: Can this website please enable special Polish language letters?

pasher44 — 2012-11-20 13:53:01Z

Why not write it in Polish script, scan or photograph it, and link that image to your tree. You can not upload images to WorldConnect, but you can include links to other locations on the web, e.g. http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

Re: Can this website please enable special Polish language letters?

robtbehra — 2012-11-19 23:42:48Z

Larry,

Your request is similar to a thread from six years ago. At that time Randy said the it would require quite a lot of work to change the character set.

http://boards.rootsweb.com/topics.rw.worldconnect/3614.1.1.1...

Robert Behra

Can this website please enable special Polish language letters?

larryparker124 — 2012-11-18 16:08:01Z

One of my charts has people with the original Polish language spelling surname of Labuz, except that instead of a English capital "L", the first letter is a Polish letter that looks like a capital "L", but it also has a short, thin diagonal line that crosses the middle of the upright part of the "L", going upwards from the lower left to the upper right of the upright section of the "L" at a 45 degree angle.

That Polish letter can not be displayed on this rootsweb World Connect website. I tried, but what ends up showing here is that the Polish letter is replaced with a question mark. So I have no alternative but to type Labuz--both as the chart name, and within my written "notes" for the various people.

It's true that more people might find the person on this website if the name on the chart itself is typed in only English characters.

But if Polish letters were enabled in people's "notes", then at least in those "notes" I could visually show readers how the peoples' names were properly spelled in Polish.

Without being able to show that Polish letter, then I have to type a long explanation of how the name was originally spelled, like I did in the first paragraph above.

That gets a little ungainly for people reading my chart to deal with, when I could delete that whole paragraph if I could just get the Polish letter to show up here on rootsweb World Connect.

Hit counter

JIMDELL32 — 2012-11-10 22:27:57Z

There seems to be some broken links on this page
http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/FAQ/listquestions.html

Update FAQ

jmatrow — 2012-10-29 19:46:15Z

"Terms, Symbols, and Definitions" only shows the blue silhouette symbol. What is the green leaf on the pedigree? Please update "Terms, Symbols, and Definitions".

Re: Automatic cutoff date for LIVING

randy_winch — 2012-10-15 17:01:07Z

Invalid GEDCOM date format...Yeah that would be parsed incorrectly. I'll look when I have a chance.

Automatic cutoff date for LIVING

robtbehra — 2012-10-14 17:26:48Z

For some time the automatic cutoff date that triggers the replacement of given names and dates by LIVING has been 1930. In my files I opt for 1917. I know that many people would prefer to include everyone, whether they're living or not. I've just stumbled across a small file (only 119 names) whose author, apparently unintentionally, has found a way to evade the trigger:

:493950 (Regnstrom Family Tree)

She gives the dates in the format

yyyy mm dd OR
yyyy-mm-dd OR
yyyymmdd

with the result that people born fairly recently show up, despite not having a date of death (as recent as 1998; this file was uploaded in 2001). Despite this, there are still 40 individuals in this file marked as LIVING.

Re: This may be the sloooooowest site on the internet

RWAdmin — 2012-10-10 16:24:18Z

Never said it was a problem on your end. As Randy said it was on our end. I only sent that link after he fixed the site and you were still having lagging issues. Clearing your cache and cookies is a good way to insure that your browsers is properly connecting to our servers and the fix Randy made.

Re: This may be the sloooooowest site on the internet

larryparker124 — 2012-10-09 22:07:56Z

Yep, good as new :)

Thanks.

RWAdmin, the problem never was my computer's cookies or anything else on my end.

Re: This may be the sloooooowest site on the internet

RWAdmin — 2012-10-09 22:04:45Z

Try this. http://ancestry.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/ancestry.cfg/php/enduse...

Re: This may be the sloooooowest site on the internet

randy_winch — 2012-10-09 21:59:26Z

I'm getting next to no slowness on the first link from here now. Hopefully it is faster for you as well.

Sorry about the slowness and thank you very much for letting me know so that I could find/fix the problem.

Re: This may be the sloooooowest site on the internet

larryparker124 — 2012-10-09 20:58:41Z

It's much better now, with one exception.

The first page change improved from 21 to 16 seconds.

The other two page changes went from 11 and 10 seconds, to immediate page changes.

I appreciate the fixes, and I appreciate your efforts to see if you can speed up the first page change any further.

Larry

Re: This may be the sloooooowest site on the internet

randy_winch — 2012-10-09 19:11:38Z

I've fixed one issue that was causing a 10 second delay. I'm still looking for more issues. See if that has helped any.

Re: This may be the sloooooowest site on the internet

randy_winch — 2012-10-09 17:40:06Z

Have found an issue and am looking for solution. Stay tuned.