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FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTION: For quite some time now I have been unable to
access the forum's archives. I get a message stating that the requested URL
is not found on this server. Can you help?
RESPONSE: Many of the links on the Coker Forum and the DuBose Forum web
sites are broken. The reason is that our message archives at liszt.com are
no longer fully functional and many of the links were to those archives. I
will be correcting this problem by putting the materials directly on the
Forum web site, when I get the time. Until then, you can find all the
messages by searching the message archives at Rootsweb. Or, you can find
some of the material at the SCRoots Forum web site. Try these pages.
http://scroots.org/http://www.rootsweb.com/http://archiver.rootsweb.com/http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/COKER-L/http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/DUBOSE-L/http://archiver.rootsweb.com/archives/SCROOTS-L/http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/searches/http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl
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You can also retrieve Forum digests by:
Retrieving Archived Messages
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YOU HAVE READ ALL THE INSTRUCTIONS AND ALL THE NOTES GIVEN AT THE BOTTOM.
DO NOT ABUSE THIS SERVICE. KEEP ARCHIVE RETRIEVALS TO THE MINIMUM
NECESSARY. THEY PUT AN EXTRA LOAD ON THE SERVERS.
A. THE DIRECTORY OF DIGEST FILES.
To find out which 1998 SCRoots digests are available send a message like this.
To: SCRoots-D-request(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: archive
dir volume98
quit
This will return a directory listing for all the 1998 SCRoots digests. The
digests may have been zipped (gz) or they may be in raw text (rw) format. A
typical listing reported might be as follows.
-rw-rw---- 1 slist slist 30432 Mar 11 05:22 77
This tells you that digest Issue #77 was sent out using Smartlist on March 11th
at 05:22, the archived digest is only available in raw format and the file is
about 30,432 (30k) in size.
B. RETRIEVING A DIGEST.
To get digest Issue #77 in raw text form send a message like this.
To: SCRoots-D-request(a)rootsweb.com
Subject: archive
get volume98/77
quit
If available in gz format, use "get volume98/77.gz" to get the gz version.
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utility programs from many shareware sites on the Internet such as
http://www.download.com. If you don't know how to do this, then you should
learn before you try to retrieve the archives.
* DO NOT SEND /* COMMANDS TO RETRIEVE ARCHIVES! Retrieving all of the
messages in a list archive at once using a /* command will typically double
the load on the list server, and possibly worse. On a high volume list this
may be a request for thousands of messages, which is too much for the list
server to handle, and will probably kill your own mailbox. This is at best
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cause damage to both the server and you. DO NOT USE THE /* COMMAND!
* The Forum began in 1998. There are no archived messages before 1998.
* Please don't ask me to explain any of this. I can't explain it better
than what I just did. If you can't figure it out from what I've written in
these instructions, then you probably should not be using this special
utility service, yet.
Hope that helps,
Steven J. Coker
Coker Forum Manager, http://cokers.org/
DuBose Forum Manager, http://dubose.org/
SCRoots Forum Manager, http://scroots.org/
I have posted many times before, but will try again.
Would like any info. re: descendants of R. B. Coker (1861-1902). Not sure
where he was born but he died and is buried in east Tenn.
1. R. B. Coker - abt. 1861 - abt. 1902
m: Rebecca Allen 1866-1944
2. Bonnie Coker
2. Dinah Coker
2. Hattie Coker
2. William Lewis Coker 1895 - 1980
m: Bell Cross
3. Verldon Coker
3. Mavia Coker
3. Pearl Coker
m: Reuben Phillips
2. Rhoda Coker 1883- 1901
2. Charlie Coker 1886-1963
2. Flora Coker 1886 - 1978
Frank Coker 1890 - 1955
2. Loma Coker 1905 - 1992
All were born and reared in east Tenn. in Campbell, Scott and Anderson
Counties. Would be pleased to share info.
Regards,
Rebecca Phillips Parker
BeckParker(a)aol.com
HI all,
This site has been very quite??? Have all the Cokers been found?
I have a question about this WILL below. What's the date?
WILL: Greenville County, Will Book 1 - page 228 (What Year??)
Will of James Coker: Wife Ann; son Thomas; son Darkis; Jesse Coker son of
Darkis; to Frances Eppes, what my executors shall judge. Ex. Batte
Peterson, Francis D. Eppes, Benjamin Coker. (what year??).
Thank you,
Dwight Stipes
I am Nakisha Coker, grandaughter of Allen Smith Coker. I just subscribed to
the Coker Forum last week and I am very anxious to talk with others that
share the name. Evrytime I am in a new city I like to pick up the white
pages and look to see how many Coker's are listed. Alwyas to my suprise
there are very few listed. I tried to find myself on the internet and that
is how i found the forum. Anyway if there are any Coker's out there that
would like to talk. I am just an e-mail away!...Thanks for your time.
>From: "Dwight Stipes" <DwightStipes(a)worldnet.att.net>
>Reply-To: <DwightStipes(a)worldnet.att.net>
>To: COKER-L(a)rootsweb.com
>Subject: Will of James Coker
>Date: Thu, 2 Dec 1999 09:05:58 -0500
>
>HI all,
>
>This site has been very quite??? Have all the Cokers been found?
>I have a question about this WILL below. What's the date?
>
>WILL: Greenville County, Will Book 1 - page 228 (What Year??)
>Will of James Coker: Wife Ann; son Thomas; son Darkis; Jesse Coker son of
>Darkis; to Frances Eppes, what my executors shall judge. Ex. Batte
>Peterson, Francis D. Eppes, Benjamin Coker. (what year??).
>
>
>Thank you,
>Dwight Stipes
>
>
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