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How to Create a Profile on the AfriGeneas Forums 1. Go to the AfriGeneas message board where you want to place your profile. The message board that you use the most is the logical place to put your profile, because that's where it will be available for other users to see. But any of the message boards will accept your profile. 2. Click on "My Profile" just above the name of the message board near the center (or top) of your screen. 3. The next screen will allow you to enter all information exactly as you want it displayed to other users who open "User Profiles" to see them. Be careful to input your information without typo's. Your name and your e-mail address are required. (Your choice of a username is okay , your e-mail address must be exactly correct.) 4. You may input as much or as little information about yourself, your research, or your interests as you like, just remember that this will be available to everyone using the Internet. So, input wisely! 5. If you have a web site, you may enter the URL and web site name in the two input windows below the "Text" window. 6. Choose a Password for your profile...and WRITE IT DOWN!!! You will need that password. KEEP IT SAFE AND HANDY!!! 7. AfriGeneas does not have access to see anyone's password. If you lose it, only the software can help you, not us humans. 8. To make changes to your profile later on, you will need your password and CURRENT e-mail address already saved at our web site. So, whenever your e-mail address changes, you MUST update the information at the "My Profile" screen as soon as possible. 9. If you cannot update your profile at this web screen, you've probably been using and outdated e-mail address at AfriGeneas. WE CANNOT RETRIEVE YOUR OLD PASSWORD. You may also have to delete your cache of "cookies" in your computer's web browser if you encounter problems trying to update (or create) your profile. Your correct and current e-mail address is always absolutely necessary. 10. Also, if you'd like a FREE AfriGeneas e-mail address, you can get one by 'clicking' your mouse on "E-Mail", at the top of your screen at any AfriGeneas message board or the AfriGeneas Home Page.
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They then uploaded a 600MB video file that was a bootleg of some movie and created links to our cgi-bin and public_html folder. They were going to use our site for file downloads. The calendar has been taken offline until we can find a security fix. We apologize for any inconvenience.
•Only open expected e-mail attachments. •Don't automatically open e-mail attachments. •Don't download programs from Web sites, unless you know and trust the source. •Update your anti-virus software at least every two weeks. Source: Symantec
Forums Description: (www.afrigeneas.com/forums.shtml/) Main Forum (Queries & Surnames) The main message board. This is the place for those new to genealogy to ask all those questions about how to get started with their research and for our veteran genealogists to share information, knowledge and "tips" from their experiences. You may find it helpful to be familiar to be familiar with the detailed information in Guidelines for Beginners. You can probably gain a good footing and learn how to frame your questions. This board is reserved for discussion of the Enslavement Period, slave genealogy, documents pertaining to slavery, and techniques for finding the last slaveowner and the first slave ancestor. Free Persons of Color Forum This message board is the place to discuss issues pertaining to ancestors who were either born free or emancipated prior to the Civil War. This forum is for those interested in writing and publishing family histories, biographies, articles, extracts, transcriptions, or any other genealogical work. Got Book? What's on your reading list? The Book Club Forum is for the exploring, sharing, and dissemination of ideas through literature relative to genealogy and the Afrigeneas community. It's all here - from reviews to discussions. Enjoy. This forum is reserved for the use of junior genealogists. Any topics related to genealogy and family history are allowed. Any other posts will be promptly removed. Forum-Carib covers the numerous islands of the West Indies and the countries of North, Central and South America that border on the Caribbean. Hosted message board of the African-Native American Genealogy website. Discussion is strictly limited to the genealogy and history of the Oklahoma Freedmen -- the African citizens of the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek and Seminole Nations. All other posts will be removed. Hosted message board of the African American Cemeteries Online website. For African American cemetery queries and for the discussion of their history, cultural significance and for preservation issues and alerts. This forum is intended to explore our diversity, our history, our cultures, our accomplishments our needs and our resources in researching the motherland. Following the "North Star" led us to points of freedom enroute to Canada. This Forum board will help us learn about and connect with our ancestors who reached and settled on these shores. This forum board will help us put our heads and hearts together to focus, develop and utilize research resources in each of these United States of America. Please note that each State will be prefixed in the subject line, so post accordingly. The continents of SOUTH AMERICA, EUROPE, ASIA, AUSTRALIA and even ANTARTICA hold clues, keys, facts documents and relations in our ancestrial search. This forum is the place to discuss and combine our efforts to research these ROOTS! This is also the place for researching Multiethnic/Multicultural/Multiracial families and for discussing the difficulties in research as well as resources available and needed. A major objective would be to reduce the stigma faced too often by such heritage and to assist each of us to accept all parts of who we are. Hosted message board of the Lest We Forget website. For anyone interested in Military History and Records (links to resources on how to obtain personnel, unit and other records plus research facilities and references) from the Revolutionary War to the present. Strictly limited to serious discussion of this topic. All other posts will be removed. A message board for anyone interested in the history of the Underground Railroad, the vast pre-Civil War network of trails and safe houses used by enslaved people in their journey to freedom. Discussions will focus on the history, abolitionists, conductors as well as present day preservation and education efforts. This forum is strictly limited to serious discussion of the Underground Railroad. All other posts will be removed. This forum is designed to understand the life, time, survival and living of those we are researching during the 1860-1880 period. We will further develop tips, tools, records and resources to document their history and our lineage. For the posting of any non-genealogical topic of interest to AfriGeneas members. THE place to wax grandiloquent about fun topics, controversial subjects or current events. Getting Around the AfriGeneas Site
"There is a network outage that is affecting the following servers: You now have the ability to assign certain "smiley" and/or format codes, so that you have more control over how your message looks, without having to know or use actual HTML codes! Below, you'll find a brief explanation of how those features work. "Smiley" Codes If you include certain ASCII "smiley" characters (also known as "emoticons") in the subjects or bodies of your messages, they'll be automatically converted to graphics, as follows: Formatting Codes The following codes are available to you if you want or need to specially format your messages. (Unlike the "smiley" codes, these will work only in the bodies of your messages.) Simply put the appropriate formatting codes before and after the text you want formatted, and voila, you've moved out of the world of plain text! For example, the following message: Would appear on the forum as: Important General Tip Never assume that your message will look the way you expect it to look! Previewing your message before you post it is always a good idea, anyway, but is even more important if you're using the above codes, since if you mis-type something, the message won't look the way you expect it to look!
Profiles are no longer required. Make a request for profile to be deleted. That will solve the password problem.
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