FW: Re: FW: RE: USGenWeb Problem

[NancyJanyszeski]

Hi, is there anyone who might have a suggestion that could be of help to Randy?

Nancy 

Nancy  Janyszeski. 🍀

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From: Randy C <r.cummi...@gmail.com>

Date: 9/22/25 10:25 AM (GMT-05:00)

To: Nancy_Janyszeski <nancyja...@yahoo.com>

Subject: USGenWeb Problem

Good Morning Nancy,

I didn't know what the protocol for this problem was, so I decided to start with my SC representative.

From early 1999 to January  2017 this URL, http://www.usgenweb.org/oh was "redirected" to The OHGenWeb Project's homepage. It appears from the wayback history of Ohio that the usgenweb webmaster was diligent about updating the redirect when Ohio's URL changed.

That is how we operate our OHGenWeb Counties links, so that when a new CC changes the server, all of the old links will still work, for the county homepage anyway.

I would like to have this repaired since during my rebuilding of Ohio county sites I have found hundreds of links to that usgenweb redirect page, http://www.usgenweb.org/oh I am also finding them on old 'homepages.rootsweb' & 'freepages.rootsweb' pages trying to link to our Project. If we repair these redirects the researchers that find an old page will end up where they want to be instead of at a 500 Internal Server Error error.

Please let me know

Thank you for everything you do!
Randy Cummings
SC OHGenWeb

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Randy C
GenWeb Volunteer
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Randy C
GenWeb Volunteer
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[Norma Hass]

Nancy,

I would be happy to help. I'll contact Randy and the USGenWeb Web Manager Team.

Norma

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[Dale H. Cook]

On 6 Oct 2025 12:26 pm, Nancy Janyszeski wrote:

> Hi, is there anyone who might have a suggestion that could be of help to
> Randy?

Nancy -

When I have a chance I will send him an email - Randy is one of my MA
TCs so we already know each other. In short, AFAIK there is nothing he
can do about the RootsWeb links at this point. I can probably help him
with the OH site redirect.
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Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS, AGS, MA Soc. of Mayflower Descendants;
Massachusetts State Coordinator for the USGenWeb® Project;
Administrator of https://plymouthcolony.net

[NancyJanyszeski]

That would be awesome thanks Norma

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[NancyJanyszeski]

Hi Dale thank you

Nancy 

Nancy  Janyszeski. 🍀

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From: "Dale H. Cook" <us...@mathomhouseradio.net>

Date: 10/6/25 12:42 PM (GMT-05:00)

To: state...@googlegroups.com

Subject: Re: [SC-USGWg] FW: Re: FW: RE: USGenWeb Problem

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[Randy C]

I am afraid that I am not being clear, as usual.

The problem with RootsWeb archived pages is no one can fix the links, but in this case we do have the power to.

I believe that for almost 20 years these redirects were coded in to usgenweb.org's htaccess page. It doesn't seem like a major thing to maintain. I think that there are only  1 or 2 state domain name changes a year.

Randy Cummings
USGenWeb Volunteer

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