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Arturo,
Go to Groups>Ranchos>Members>and find your name within the members and click on your call name or handle for the yahoo groups. It will open up your profiles page. In the upper tabs find edit profile>, click on edit profile and find each item such as name, gender, age, hobbies, cool links etc. It's up to each member as to how much or little information you want to provide.
I went as far as putting photos in yahoo photos to be viewed by the group and I also created a free home page on yahoo geocities.com. It was surprisingly easy to do, I didn't have _javascript_ and I downloaded that program and was able to create a very simple page.
Check it out and see what you think. Maybe someone in the group can have better ideas on creating the homepage.
Good Luck...........Alicia
arturoramos2 <arturo.ramos2@...> wrote:
Alicia:
I can't seem to figure out where the profiles section is. Can you be
a little more explicit as to how to go about changing this?
Joseph:
How much storage space are you using now with all of the Ranchos
groups and briefcase combined? How many members are there? Is
anybody storing anything more sophisticated than their GEDCOM data
that they are then transmitting in various formats (Word, PDF, etc.)
Check out my family website (I will send you the link in an email)
and see if you think this might be a possible alternative, where
people could upload their GEDCOM files (minus living individuals) and
we can simply restrict access completely to members. In addition, we
could use the bulletin board there in lieu of this group and people
can sign up for more specific areas of interest to receive
email
notification, i.e. by specific geography or topic of posting, etc.
We could probably host a site like this for $10-$20 a month if the
database is not too big.
--- In ranchos@yahoogroups.com, Alicia Carrillo <alliecar@p...> 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
>
>
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> Joseph Puentes <makas@n...> wrote:
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> Pacorro73@a... 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
>
>
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