Tuesday, February 08, 2005

Learning how to post images - Peleg GIFFORD - My sister Nancy

Thanks to Bill Hecht, who is an expert at posting free images on the internet, I have been working on the learning process to be able to put postcards and photograph images on my website. Did get unlimited free storage space on rootsweb and am learning how to transfer both thumbnail and full size images, which seems to work ok, and then I have to learn how to put the thumbnails on my website and have them link to the full size images on rootsweb.

Have received a message from a descendant of Peleg GIFFORD of the Old Cambridge District and I will be updating the GIFFORD file on the website, but it is likely to take some while because I have a lot of material to input.

Been chatting with my sister in Idaho and enjoying it immensely.

Sunday, February 06, 2005

Dick Hillenbrand Posted by Hello

Network Problems - 1845 Cayuga Co census (partial)

Have been having nightmarish computer problems of my own. It all started a few days ago when I decided to set up a homeoffice network with three desktop computers and a wireless laptop. Lots of luck. One machine will not go on the web no matter what I try, the main system that I use all the time started hiccuping also and then my main email reader, OUTLOOK, seemed to not be working. To top it all off it appears as though the rootsweb mailing servers must be down. I subscribe to dozens of mail lists and generally get a couple hundred emails a day. I have only received a handful in the past three days and a couple of those that rigidly found their way through the ether were Viagara commercials. The webmail services still seem to work ok, but not the pop service.

I am now using my laptop directly into the satellite modem, no network, and am trying to get caught up with backed up messages to respond to. If I owe you a response please bear with me. I will get to it.

Thanks to Karen in Florida I now know that there are some segments of an 1845 NYS census for some parts of Cayuga County to add to my list of NYS Census available. I'll put the details on the website.