Member's Profiles

[Alicia Carrillo <alliecar@...>]

Joseph,

 

I have recently been perusing the members' profiles and noticed that there are many people who have blank profiles. The profiles section allows us to post some favorite links, a little about each of us, one photograph and a favorite quote, it even entices you to create a free web page via yahoo/geocities.com. Even I the clumsy non-techy person was able to create a very simple page. I would encourage others to do the same and while I like the who's who I think we should also take the time to fill out the member profiles.

 

I am slowly but surely advancing in my research and would be willing to put a link to my homepage with some of my geneaological data once I submit it. I realize that it would be public and not private but I would not be putting any data for living family members.

 

 

Alicia

 

Joseph Puentes <makas@...> wrote:

Pacorro73@... wrote:

  I look forward to checking out any of your submissions to the files section of Ranchos, if Joseph allows it.

I do! In fact I allow every member (that's the requirement for members only). . .I allow each and every member to go to the files and links areas of the group and look into (thoroughly study is more like it) the individual folders and links to personal webpages of each other in search of more family connections.

I do. . .in fact I'm a firm believer that the words "I do" are too tame. When my wife and I got married in 1995 the justice of the peace said "do you Joseph take Figen to be your lawfully wedded wife?" my reply was not "I do", but rather "Absolutely without a doubt."

Yes the files and links are open and will continue to be open to all members of the group without restriction. The only restriction is in the modification of the files that are in currently submitted. The reason there is a restriction is because I am doing all in my power to keep Ranchos, Free. I don't want to have to charge a small fee to be part of this group. That being the case I'm juggling Ranchos, Ranchos2, and now YahooBriefcase to find solutions to our growing need for additional file space. I closed user modification of the Ranchos file space but that doesn't mean the files there can't be modified. A simple email to me and I will Add, Remove or even completely delete all entires. I'm open to helping do whatever needs to be done. I just don't have the solution to leaving it open and possibly maxing out the alloted 20megs of space and be in situation where people who have their files there already wouldn't be able to make additions. I would hate for one person to have to have part of his/her work in the main files area and another part in the YahooBriefcase area. Therefore I closed it with about 20% of the space remaining for the members there (a majority of us) to make additions as needed.

I'm open to ideas if anyone would like to tackle this problem. The easiest solution would be to hire a megasite with unlimited storage capacity and hire a technician to handle the technical end of it (not me) and go from there.

Yes, I'm not happy with the situation, but can anyone figure out a Free alternative other than Ranchos3, Ranchos4, Ranchos5, etc.?

thanks,

joseph