Here is the URL for Red Lake and Pennington
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.nor...
ates.minnesota.counties.redlake&o=1&maxrows=25&dir=next
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.nor...
ates.minnesota.counties.pennington&o=1&maxrows=25&dir=next
Jackie
----- Original Message -----
From: "Lynn Brandvold" <lynn(a)gis.nmt.edu>
To: "Jackie Hufschmid" <jhufschmid(a)adelphia.net>
Cc: <MNGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 28, 2001 5:51 PM
Subject: Re: [MNGEN-L] old GenConnect Boards
Jackie and all,
I am suddenly unable to connect to any site on
rootsweb.com or ftp to
any of the sites I maintain on rootsweb. Do you know what is up?
Lynn
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnpennin/mnpennin.htm
http://www.rootsweb.com/~mnredlak/mnredlak.htm
Jackie Hufschmid wrote:
>
> I have adopted the boards for my counties and have looked at the new
ones.
> Needless to say I do not like them and not happy about the
situation.
It is
> unfortunate that the cc's were not asked for their input as
they are the
> ones who have put a lot of work into their pages.
>
> And I certainly don't like the fact that I can't do any editing, I have
had
> several cases where the email address had to be changed and it
was very
> simple to do but now it can't be done - hopefully this will be
corrected.
>
> This morning I received an email message that the URL for the county
boards
> have changed, again, it is now
>
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.nor...
>
ates.minnesota.counties.roseau&o=1&maxrows=25&dir=next
> Change roseau to your county.
>
> But like all new changes it just means we have something new to learn.
>
> Jackie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Lynn Brandvold" <lynn(a)gis.nmt.edu>
> To: <MNGEN-L(a)rootsweb.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, June 26, 2001 1:17 PM
> Subject: [MNGEN-L] old GenConnect Boards
>
> > Jackie and all,
> >
> > Are there other CC's in MN that were using the GenConnect boards that
> > have gone away since they have all been combined into one Rootsweb
> > Message Board? I really liked the GenConnect Boards and don't wish to
> > be an administrator for the new boards, which require that a poster be
> > registered with
Ancestry.com and raise some big questions in my mind
> > about copy right, as well as the fact that the new admins will not be
> > allowed to do any editing...not even at a poster's request. So I
> > haven't re-adopted the boards for my two counties, but am now looking
> > for some other query system. Does anyone have any suggestions?
> >
> > Lynn Brandvold
> > CC for Red Lake and Pennington Counties
> >