http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/ Ancestral Atlas Forum Thu, 13 May 2010 08:15:12 GMT ancestral.atlas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/36 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/36 Any information you add is, by default, private to you. If you add an event to a map pin, you will be able to see the pin and the associated information but Thu, 13 May 2010 08:11:05 GMT ancestral.atlas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/35 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/35 You're correct - you can see all your individuals (public or private) because you're logged in and the system knows which events belong to you. If you log out, Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:35:21 GMT mhbowes11 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/34 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/34 When I upload my gedcom, what will it do with records for living individuals. How does it determine which individuals are living? Does it assume that all Fri, 19 Mar 2010 09:30:32 GMT mhbowes11 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/33 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/33 On a different private/public note, I just uploaded my gedcom and requested that it be public. While I am logged in I can see the information for living Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:42:38 GMT ancestral.atlas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/32 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/32 We've added two new articles to the site - written by users - that help show some of the benefits of the site. The articles are: Who Were the Parishioners of Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:30:31 GMT ancestral_atlas-owner@yahoogroups.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/31 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/31 We've now joined up with A Vision of Britain (http://www.visionofbritain.org.uk/) to allow you to see contextual information about each place within Great Tue, 15 Dec 2009 11:25:53 GMT ancestral.atlas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/30 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/30 Dear All, We've now added an Articles section to the Ancestral Atlas web site at http://www.ancestralatlas.com/articles.php Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:01:41 GMT russell_harrison http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/29 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/29 ... Thanks so much for the swift turn around on this issue. Mon, 14 Sep 2009 15:58:47 GMT ancestral.atlas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/28 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/28 ... As an update to this, we have now relaxed the timeout to 12 hours. We hope this is long enough for most requirements. - Ancestral Atlas Tue, 01 Sep 2009 08:16:22 GMT russell_harrison http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/27 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/27 ... I understand its purpose, and greatly appreciate your dedication to the security of your users, but I find it overzealous to have timeouts shorter than Fri, 28 Aug 2009 21:04:38 GMT ancestral.atlas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/26 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/26 The town in the USA where your ancestors lived may well at the time have been in a different county or even state from where it is today. With our new Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:46:47 GMT Cyndi Wiseman http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/25 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/25 24 hour sessions seem very reasonable to me. What are you protecting? This isn't a banking site. From: ancestral_atlas@yahoogroups.com Fri, 28 Aug 2009 20:16:43 GMT ancestral.atlas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/24 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/24 ... Russell, Thanks for your suggestion. The automatic log out should only occur if you've been inactive on the web site for 20 minutes. It's designed to Fri, 28 Aug 2009 19:59:56 GMT russell_harrison http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/23 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/23 Is there a way to remove the session timeout on the site? It makes working with the site very frustrating. Even my bank doesn't log me out that quickly. At Mon, 22 Jun 2009 14:57:56 GMT ancestral.atlas http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/22 http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ancestral_atlas/message/22 It's now even easier to map your family history. Simply upload your GEDCOM files, and any location-based data will be automatically plotted for you. You can