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Alicia you have found the magic solution to my frustration. . .a way
for everyone to be in complete control. Either building your own
website with your genealogical data on it or putting it online at one
of the many locations where you can submit your data.
thanks,
joseph
ps: oh, and yes . . .it is a good idea to fill in your profile. Go and
see mine if you want an example of what is meant. You have have to take
a few minutes and fill in some data. {I guess the only problem is that
that profile goes with you to every group in the Yahoo system and for
their email as well}.
Alicia Carrillo wrote:
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
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 be! cause 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
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