Make it easy for your cousins to find you. Update your e-mail address in WorldConnect when you change Internet Service Providers (ISPs). Researchers use WorldConnect daily and many contact the submitters of GEDCOMs of interest to them. If your e-mail address changes and you have not updated it at WorldConnect, you might miss an important connection.

Before you leave your old ISP or change your e-mail address, be sure that you have recorded the original user code and password for your account. If you have forgotten your user code and/or password, visit Password Central and have this information sent to you by e-mail *before* your e-mail address changes. Your user code and password will be e-mailed only to the address listed in your database. http://passwordcentral.rootsweb.com/

As soon as possible after your e-mail address has changed, go to the WorldConnect page where you originally submitted your database and type in your original user code and the password for your account. http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igmuser.cgi

Select the Standard set-up page to update your e-mail address, which will be found in the box in item #2. Delete the old address and type in the new one. Scroll to the bottom of the page and click on the Upload/Update GEDCOM button to update the e-mail address option without uploading a new GEDCOM.

Leave the box blank in item #9 when updating options for your GEDCOM. That way WorldConnect will know to reprocess the current GEDCOM rather than upload a new one.




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from 07/19/00