Oh thank you so much, Ron, for thinking of us users! There are so many websites that do not, and it is incredibly frustrating and time-consuming when RINs are renumbered. Not only must we users now search for a person each time we use that website, but we must search our own database(s) and change each source citation that used URLs from that website.
Having several hundred thousand source citations (not all the offending websites, DG), my life is no longer long enough to do that, so I change only those for persons I am reviewing or adding and notice the offending website in the sources. That is enough of a pain. In 50 years, I have accumulated many sources, more now because primary and truly reliable secondary sources (IPMs, CP, etc.) are available on the internet. More URLs, though...... CE > From: ronfergy....@tiscali.co.uk > To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Right clicking or clicking > Date: Thu, 29 May 2014 08:01:50 +0100 > > Jay, > > Why do you renumber the RINs. > > In over 24 years I have never renumbered my RINs. Indeed to do so would > change the URLs for all my pedigree web pages which uses them as the file > name, hence rendering useless any bookmarks made by visitors and totally > messing up search engine returns. > > Sorry but I do not agree with your implication that do to do is good practice. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
