Genealogy Chat

just to say you lot have also helped me a great deal as i now got some new sites to look at any more info on new sites gratefully recieved. from a sort of novice

Thanks everyone, I now have a fab list of all the best sites on the web, will continue to add to it myself and anyone else can give it a nudge up if it looks like its getting lost as it will be useful for all the newbies! and some of the oldies! thanks again Vicky

Thanks for the tip Tracy Amazing what you learn on this site, isn't it?! Janet

Hi all, You can save the actual links from your favourites without copying them all into a WP document. From Windows Explorer select the 'Windows' directory. From there you'll find a 'Favourites' directory and then you can just drag and drop the files onto a floppy disk. Windows 2000 and XP are slightly different, as the files are stored under c:\documents and settings\(username)\favourites. The username being whatever your PC is setup as. Hope this helps? If not, e-mail me and I'll try and sort it out. Tracy

Computers..... adopteesearch(.)com phonenumbers(.)net people-search(.)com genealogyportal(.)com If this doesn't work will cry......... Liz

ok - having blond hair day all have www in front as normal ukancestor.com adopteesearch.com genealogyportal.com Liz

Sorry if these have already been added: www.ukancestor.com www.peoplesearch.co.uk/ www.genalogyportal.com www.bigfoot.com www.whowhere.com Regards Liz

That's right, I pasted all the ones that were on this thread onto a word document, as a back up to my favourites. ann Glos

George I think Ann meant the sites listed on here, she probably pasted them into a WP document and saved that. Correct me if I'm wrong Ann.

Maybe i am being a bit thick here but how do you save your favourites to a floppy. Regards George

Thanks for raising this problem, although sorry it happened to you. every cloud.... however for somebody and I have now copied all these sites onto a floppy. Thanks again Ann Glos

thanks for the tip keely unfortunatley i tried it and got nothing

Hi Vicky, this happened to me where I work. I.T migrated our computers and they lost all of my favourites to do with my job. I did find them! I went to 'Start' then 'Find' and onto 'files or folders' I messed around typing in favourites etc and eventually I find it! This might work for you, I'm not 100% sure, but it is worth a try! goodluck!

Heres the ones Janet kindly sent by email www(.)familysearch(.)org http://freebmd(.)rootsweb(.)com www(.)genuki(.)org.uk http://freecen(.)rootsweb(.)com www(.)genealogy-links(.)co(.)uk/html/more(.)links(.)html www(.)ancestry(.)co.uk www(.)gendocs(.)demon(.)co(.)uk www(.)north-easterner(.)freeserve(.)co(.)uk/links(.)htm www(.)gencircles(.)com www(.)ukbdm(.)co(.)uk

If anybody has any other useful links that they want to share then let's try and keep this thread going. I always welcome an interesting new link but it's easy to miss one if you're away for a couple of days, so let's put as many as we can in this particular thread. Over to you! Andy.

Thanks again everyone, I'm backing up to a floppy and writing them down as well!

Oh Vicky, what a nightmare. An important lesson for us all: always back up your files. I keep meaning to do mine BUT still haven't done them yet!! Just a few I copied and pasted earlier - hope they will prove useful. http://www.north-easterner.freeserve.co.uk/links.htm http://hospitalrecords(.)pro(.)gov(.)uk/ http://www.angelfire http://www(.)genhomepage.com/commercial.html#comersoft http://www(.)cityoflondon(.)gov(.)uk/family-research www.curiousfox.com www.gendocs.demon www(.)lightage(.)demon(.)co(.)uk www(.)nationalarchivist(.)com www.photo-ark.co.uk http://www.county-surnames(.)co(.)uk/index2(.)mv Good luck Kathy Epsom, SRY

Thanks Andy I'm sure others looking at this will appreciate it as well, its hard to keep up with all the new sites and if you don't come on for a day 'doing the houswork, ironing and stuff' coz it dont half pile up, you can miss a good link. Thanks again

Hi Vicky, If you haven't done so already then go to the Links section on this site and you can add those to your Favourites list. I would certainly add these to your Favourites list: http://www(.)stepping-stones(.)co(.)uk http://www(.)archivecdbooks(.)org http://www(.)old-maps(.)co(.)uk http://www(.)yourmapsonline(.)org(.)uk http://www(.)streetmap(.)co(.)uk http://www(.)ukbdm(.)co(.)uk http://www(.)documentsonline(.)pro(.)gov(.)uk http://www(.)genealogysupplies(.)com http://www(.)exresidents(.)co(.)uk http://www(.)ancestral-villages(.)co(.)uk http://www(.)ukbmd(.)org(.)uk http://www(.)rmhh(.)co(.)uk I'm sure others will think of lots more Andy

Oh thank you thank you thank you, my quest can begin again! I have my pen and paper at the ready