tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post4189173806581218279..comments2023-04-20T12:46:11.858-06:00Comments on The Ancestry Insider: RootsWeb Update for 20 August 2016The Ancestry Insiderhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02490682912125335188noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-73569204531303004322016-08-31T12:13:25.908-06:002016-08-31T12:13:25.908-06:00The Freepages File Manager is up and all functions...The Freepages File Manager is up and all functions appear to be working.Pat Asherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17431222020353955788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-71002302478271890902016-08-22T20:58:25.116-06:002016-08-22T20:58:25.116-06:00I think your message chart generally tracks my per...I think your message chart generally tracks my personal use. It peaked 15 years ago and has been declining every since. Most of the half a dozen of lists I'm subscribed are down to one or two posts a month. I would guess that the RW traffic has moved to Facebook. <br /><br />Our local genealogy society has a long tradition of publishing member queries in its quarterly journal. This year we had gone three issues without a query and it appeared that we were going to break a 38 year tradition as we assembled our fourth issue. So I wrote a query to keep the tradition going but I see a day that we will cease publishing queries entirely. Even publishing a traditional local genealogy journal is something that has probably seen its day.Janhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16473905334605518834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-36429859993137362622016-08-22T13:31:19.520-06:002016-08-22T13:31:19.520-06:00I wonder if the problem with File Manager is the n...I wonder if the problem with File Manager is the new security layers. File Manager allowed uploading of files from the user's remote computer, I assume using FTP piggybacked on HTML. Is TLS available for a piggybacked connection?Pat Asherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17431222020353955788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-69965077221771228542016-08-22T12:49:59.663-06:002016-08-22T12:49:59.663-06:00The mailing lists were having problems last week w...The mailing lists were having problems last week where spam was getting through to just about every list because of the server moves, and the fact that the List administrators were unable to get into their tools to adjust the settings. By the end of the week, however, most of that had been fixed, and as of this morning, Monday, Aug. 22, I haven't seen any spam from any of the many lists I'm subscribed to. <br /><br />I personally doubt if Ancestry is planning on doing away with their mailing lists, after having just moved them to new servers. <br /><br /><br />As for the Freepages, I don't know the plans that may be in store for them, however, for those who use FTP for uploading their files, that does seem to work with new security settings as worked out and generously shared by the members of the Freepages community:<br /><br />http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pasher/encryptedFTP.html<br /><br />For those who use the File Manager to upload, that seems to be the system may be done away with. I've never used it, but it could be that those who use it may have to change their method of uploads to via FTP. The reference to "decisions are being made as to the future availability of this feature." sounds to me like they were talking about the File Manager, since that is the only feature in Freepages which hasn't returned. That might be an outdated system that they consider to be not as useful as others. <br /><br /><br />DWilliamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12839369314085404694noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5512311610334754148.post-54599269001235953772016-08-22T10:24:43.626-06:002016-08-22T10:24:43.626-06:00I belong to two lists, my Lowry surname list (whic...I belong to two lists, my Lowry surname list (which I admin) and the Transitional Genealogy Forum. The Lowry list had just two messages posted to it in 2015, while the TGF see multiple messages each day. I also belong to several active Google Groups. I believe there is still a place to communicate via email with like-minded genealogists. Facebook, Twitter, and the Ancestry.com forums (among others) just give us additional avenues. I would hate to see Ancestry turn off these features.Joe Lowryhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15504601286813488873noreply@blogger.com