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exessexgirl
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Done that Trystan and it says my computer is accepting cookies............. Lyn
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wrjackson
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Hi, Tristan, Seems that I am not clued up on the 'Sign In' proceedure. Is the first name the Surname or the given ? All in lower or upper case ? When it comes to the Cookie does the given number have to be inserted in the space, or ?. I keep getting different numbers and the 'Knock back'
I think I will have to reverse my 87 years to '8 or 7' and then I will 'SAVVY'.
As said in 'The King and I' ... "It's a Puzzlement"
Over to 'U'.
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wrjackson
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"Hi" again Trystan, Seems that very slowly I am getting the 'hang' of this "Roots Chat" ... should not take me more than another 10 years .. or at least, that is what my son thinks. He is the professor while I am still in the infant class. We are both on "Mac's")
W.R. Jackson. ..... Just call me BOB.
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deadants
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We are both on "Mac's"
Well, I thought I was the only person using a mac on rootschat. Actually I use a PC as well but that's for something completly different.
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Cleary, Doran, Boland, McCooey, McManus, O'brien, Martin, Savage, Wallis, McCollister, Wood. (More to come soon)
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trystan
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'Cookies' are not in general a good thing to allow on your computer.
They allow the 'planter'of the cookie to track your use of the internet and of all the sites you visit.
Cookies are an essential part of websites, and they do not allow other websites to track your useage of the other sites you visit. They are generally used just to keep you "remembered" on a site, so that settings are set for the next time you visit, or even very basically so that you can navigate from page to page.
Large "pornrings" are generally on massive webservers and they share tracking cookies so they can serve up even more filth and target adverts according to your browsings... Naturally, we wouldn't expect any of our users to be using such sites, so they should not be concerned about how these companies operate. On the plus side, the police can use cookies to catch people looking at things they shouldnt.
Our cookie is called rootschatcom, it just stores your RootsChat userid number and the current date so that you do not need to login each time, or each time you change pages. This, and to credit adverts to publishers, is the use for the great majority of cookies for almost every website.
Trystan
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avj
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Patience my ****, I'm going to press something...
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Cookies are not "essential" to websites - useful very possibly, but not essential.
My problem with cookies are the ones generated by groups like 'casalmedia' who spawn cookies from lots of different sites, including otherwise reputable shareware sites and even a genealogy software site recently (can't remember which one offhand).
They don't store just one cookie, ether, three or four is about usual. The only purpose of these cookies seems to be to help bombard me with popup adverts.
I DO accept cookies, but usually only from sites where they tell me up front that they use cookies, why they use them and what info they hold.
In this regard RootsChat should be held up as a model of good practice.
Adrian
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AngelaR
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My great grandparents Basil & Sarah Sealey
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Hi Trystan and all technical people,
I had a problem last week of suddenly not being able to log in (after a long and uninterrupted relationship with RootsChat which automatically logs me in so I don't have to think about it )
I had an exchange of emails with Trystan, since I couldn't log in to post a question, and finally got back in after manually deleting what appeared to be an old cookie.
Now it happened again this morning, so I carefully checked what I needed to do to clear it and I'd really appreciate anyone who can make sense of it for me 
I normally use Firefox as my browser which works brilliantly for me (now I've loaded all the add-ins I need like DJVU etc) I've double checked it and it allows cookies, or at least it says it does BUT I deleted the Rootschat cookie manually as before and still Rootschat couldn't log me in. Then I used IE, logged in, closed IE, reopened Firefox and was away again, as you can see, since I'm typing this.
So what I'm asking is this - why was Firefox unable to save the Rootschat cookie when IE obviously could? (The option 'Allow sites to set cookies' is checked in Firefox)
I've just seen a similar posting of newbie's to do with the the family relatives site that might or might not be a sympton of the same thing......
Any ideas anyone? I don't really want to keep IE on my desktop purely in order to set cookies for a few sites - Firefox seems to be saving them for some sites but not others?
Angela
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Any census information included in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukEspecially looking for - Sealey, Rogers, Sheppard in Wiltshire; Virgin, Slade, Abbott, Saint in Somerset; and Virgin, Tarr, Beer in Devon |
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