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From: "Nicholas D. Crugnale" <>
Subject: Re: [PHILLY-ROOTS-L] Ancestry down or changed their site?!!
Date: Sun, 2 Sep 2001 18:41:35 -0400
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Diana,

Thanks for the input about ancestry. It appears that you can go to the site
with that address but you cannot actually access their records.

- Nick Crugnale ( )
----- Original Message -----
From: "Diana Quinones" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 3:09 PM
Subject: Re: [PHILLY-ROOTS-L] Ancestry down or changed their site?!!


> Here is a reply that someone on the Delaware list received from the
> helpdesk at Ancestry:
>
> What you see as a webpage address is the "user friendly" version -
> http://www.ancestry.com/
> for example. That address is really a series of numbers, unique to each
> website. Ancestry's is 216.10.103.21 - and the cross-reference beween
> the numbers and names is stored in the Domain Names Server (DNS) at
> places all across the internet.
> When something gets out of sync in the DNS library files, your browser
> is unable to convert the named page you request to the numbers necessary
> for it to be brought up on your screen. That is what has occurred this
> weekend at Ancestry.com. We expect it will be another day or two before
> the corrected information is globally propagated.
> Meanwhile, you can access Ancestry using this URL: http://216.10.103.21/
> Pat
> Rootsweb HelpDesk
>
>
> Hope this works. I have not tried a search on Ancestry yet!
>
> Diana in Alabama
>
>

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