On Friday, June 24, 2005 1:51 PM MDT, Shannon Moore <shanroy(a)bellsouth.net> wrote:
Ok, I'm confused. I thought the email address for the counties
that were on
rootsweb.com was always of the form:
http://www.rootsweb.com/~oh123456
where 123456 are the first six letters of the county
and that the ohio page would be :
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohgenweb/
Now that's what I have for the link on my pages but Sandy's references all have
http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eohgenweb/ in them.
and counties are listed as
http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eoh123456
It seems to get there but are these redirects?
Hi, Shannon,
Some e-mail and web page programs translate the tilde "~" character to
"%7E", a hexadecimal representation of its Latin-1 code. This is based on the
fear that some web browsers won't understand what the "~" represents.
It's probably been 8 years since that's been an issue, but it continues to happen
through inertia. I always just change it back to "~".
For the same reason you'll sometimes see "%20" as a replacement for the
space character " ". The space is more likely to cause problems, though, because
it might look like the end of the address. So it might be adviseable to leave those alone.
And only give space-less names to web pages when you create them.
I've always told people that I am helping research the way to
easily find a
county, assuming it is housed on rootsweb was to type in a slash, then the ~
followed by the two letter state abbrev and the first 6 letters of the
county. Is this incorrect?
Personally I would direct them to the OHGenWeb county map
<
http://www.rootsweb.com/~ohgenweb/ohiomap.html>or the corresponding list. It's
more generally applicable, because not all sites are on Rootsweb.
I was trying to find my neighbor's addresses.
Hi, neighbor. I'm here:
Scott
USGenWeb Coordinator,
http://www.usgennet.org/usa/oh/county/guernsey/