Your viewable WorldConnect file is a composite of the GEDCOM you upload and the options you select on the setup page, which include your owner information, display options, upload and download options. Unlike changes you make to the GEDCOM itself, changes in your selected options can be made without uploading a corrected file. Probably the most common option changes are to e-mail addresses and how to display records of living persons.

To change options, enter the user code and password for your GEDCOM that you wish to change, then go to the setup page at http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igmuser.cgi. Click on the button for the Standard or Advanced setup page.

Use the Advanced setup page if you most recently added/updated your GEDCOM before there was a choice of Standard or Advanced, or if you previously used the Advanced set-up page. (If you use the Standard page after having used the Advanced page, the option of Ignore to Clean or Remove the living will change, depending upon which box you check. However, the Standard page will not automatically override any other advanced selections you previously made.)

After completing selection of the options to be changed, click on the upload/update button to reprocess the existing GEDCOM.

IMPORTANT: LEAVE BLANK item 9 on the Standard setup page or item 22 on the Advanced set-up page. (As long as you do not put an entry in the box for the location of the GEDCOM -- item 9 for Standard setup or item 22 for Advanced setup - WorldConnect will know you wish to reprocess options on an existing file rather than upload a replacement file.)




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from 7/19/2000