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From: Jann Hutchison <>
Subject: Re: [Huguenot] Computer Problems
Date: Wed, 09 Feb 2000 06:48:16 -0800


Glad to help you Elizabeth, and am glad to do it after all the help you've
given me.
By the way, I've saved a lot more on your families that I will try to begin
sending you asap.
Doesn't anyone out there know how to program search engines to accept
gedcoms? HELP, please?
Jann

Elizabeth Russo wrote:

> Thank you Jann, and everyone, who sent me URLs for bookmarks, email
> addresses, and archived emails pertaining to my families and to the
> Huguenot reunion in Charleston.
>
> I love my list family here!
>
> And Jann, I don't even know what search engine footprints are, much less
> any programmers who do...
>
> Elizabeth
>
> Jann Hutchison wrote:
> >
> > Elizabeth, it just so happens I've saved a few of your emails, including
> > some about the reunion. I'll send them along as I can. Still working on
> > my darn search engine, genealogyexchange, but as of yet it will not accept
> > gedcom files. Know any good computer programers that can redo
> > search engine footprints? (or whatever you call it.)
> > Jann
> >
> > Elizabeth Russo wrote:
> >
> > > Well it seems to happen to good folks all the time, and now it has
> > > happened to me...
> > >
> > > In trying to delete my son's e-mail account (he was receiving
> > > unsolicited porno that would not stop), the Netscape Gods That Be
> > > somehow wiped out all of my own e-mail, preferences, address book,
> > > bookmarks, etc.
> > >
> > > This means that for now:
> > >
> > > * I cannot write any of you unless you write me first;
> > > * those of you on my Huguenot Reunion mail list need to re-contact me;
> > > * cousin Judy, we have two newly-discovered DUBOIS cousins who just
> > > e-mailed me before the crash, but I don't think I forwarded their emails
> > > to you just yet so we have to hope that they'll write again because I
> > > don't remember their email addresses, and for that matter, Judy, I don't
> > > have yours any more, either!
> > > * I do not have any of the emails sent to me over the past two years (I
> > > had filed in folders over 20,000 of them)
> > >
> > > Sigh....
> > >
> > > So, folks, do as I say and not as I do... back up your information
> > > often. I normally do with my other programs, but hadn't figured out yet
> > > how to back up email.
> > >
> > > Maybe this means I have to go back to practicing law and leave genealogy
> > > alone for a while....
> > >
> > > Sorry for using this forum, but this is where most of my more regular
> > > correspondents "hang out."
> > >
> > > Elizabet

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