* Rootsweb current status

[annejay55]

It is a long time since have used FH. Today I looked up Rootsweb to see old emails. It has changed. Apart from the 'lost emails' which I read about, is it all up to date?

I am contemplating dumping old FHUG emails after changing email addresses from Yahoo to Gmail around 16 months ago as I want to close down the Yahoo email addresses for good and wondered if I could rely on Rootsweb. As I am having to change my email address, yet again it will be very clumsy to have them filed in various places, hence the radical decisions. At present some are in Thunderbird and some in Outlook Mail client and I want to only have Outlook hence the clearance.

Many thanks in advance for any advice you can give me.

[tatewise]

Firstly may I clarify a few details.

FH is the Family Historian program installed on your PC.
FHUG is the Family Historian User Group that runs this www.fhug.org.uk website.
FHU Mailing List hosted on Rootsweb is run by Calico Pie authors of FH and nothing to do with FHUG.

If you change your Email address then you must manage several settings.

Here in FHUG click on your username annejay55 top right, choose User Control Panel > Profile > Edit account settings and Submit your new Email address.

For FHU Mailing List follow the advice at info:mailing_list|> FHU Mailing List and Unsubscribe from your old Email addresses and Subscribe to your new Email address.

As far as I am aware the FHU Mailing List history is complete back to 2001, but remember that you will have to search by your old Email addresses to find historic entries.

It is possible with most Email clients such as Thunderbird and Outlook to save messages in external files in plain text.
So you could build a personal archive in Windows folders & files outside the Email clients.

[annejay55]

Thank you very much, Tatewise for getting back to me so soon.

The advice of what I need to do is very helpful.

After reading your reply, I went on to the Rootsweb and tried searching with various addresses to no avail. I am wondering if you need to subscribe using each individual address. e.g. one each for Yahoo, Gmail and Outlook. Searching as far as I can see produces results from the latest ones which have arrived back a few months but not further than that. I also tried selecting on the left a year and a year and a month and did not succeed with either for a subject that I had put in e.g. sources. The help facility does not appear to give advice on searching at all which seems strange.

Regarding forming a personal archive I already do that and also use Word Documents for that where there are a number of emails on a single subject or a stream where I can copy from the latest arrival and Control All and just paste in to what I label a CorrespFile.

However I have doubts about copying such a big volume of emails - I think it may be impractical as I very seldom look at them.

Thank you for everything.

[tatewise]

I don't believe you need to subscribe or be logged in.
Were you searching here: https://lists.rootsweb.com/hyperkitty/l ... om/2019/5/

I searched for my Email address and others, and got many results gong back 14 years or more.
You must use your full and exact Email address.

[annejay55]

Thank you for getting back to me.

I was searching where that link led and put in my email address in the "Search this list" box and the ones which came up - the first entry was "This weeks active topics"etc which was 2 days and 16 hours old. The email address was an old one and not the current one.

Should I have put my email address in a different place as the wording I don't think makes sense? I would be really happy if I have made an error!

[annejay55]

I have cracked it!
With gmail I can get away with the email Address and also with outlook but Yahoo for the oldest and longest period you need your name and email address together. I can now see 19 years!
So very many thanks for all your help.