Watch What You Put In Email Correspondence!!

Not too long ago, I read where, as a precaution against identity theft, you should never post your mother's maiden name online or anything private (such as medical info) that could go into the wrong hands. Now, I'm finding out it's not even safe to email a personal email to someone. That person apparently has all the rights to post your private email online. Case in point: Someone who is *not* a Loy descendant, but rather, whose ancestral aunt married into the Loy family sent me the following reply:

From: prsjr@att.net

Subject: Re: IA Genweb page My Queries on Line?

Date: October 30, 2009 4:31:45 PM PDT

To: loy_genealogy@att.net

Deloris, so nice to hear from you to.

I have Not heard from you since 2004

When you correspond through e-mail you are no doubt aware that you are giving that information to the recipient.
Under the federal "Electronic Communications Privacy Act" (ECPA)
that recipient can upload/forward that same information to any additional recipient(s) he/she wishes.
See: Privacyrights, on E-Mails
http://www.privacyrights.org/fs/fs18-cyb.htm#Email <---Click Here!

Some of your E-Mail's [Apr. 05, 1997] have been on our "Query" pages for over 12 years!
and now you tell me you did NOT mean for these to be posted on our pages??????

By now your E-Mail's have been "spidered" to several million sites through-out the internet system.
I have no idea what you consider "personal stuff??" You must be more specific.

Paul R. Sarrett, Jr. President FOPC© (prsjr@att.net)
Researcher, Compilier of Friends of Page Co., IA.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~iapage/index.htm <--Homepage!
http://www.rootsweb.com/~iapage/families.htm <--Families!

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-----Original Message-----
From: Delores Rochelle Walls
To: prsjr@aol.com
Sent: Mon, Oct 26, 2009 6:33 pm
Subject: IA Genweb page

Paul,

I did a search for my name under Google and saw where you posted my email letters to you on your queries page. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~iapage/families/loy/QUERY1.HTM

None of these emails I sent you were "queries" and nothing I meant for posting online. They were emails to you. Some of this was personal stuff, like my chemo experience (which I was told can discriminate me from being hired at jobs I've been trying to find!), my street address, and mother's maiden name. I moved from there in 2003, so that's not an issue, but could you please delete this personal stuff??

Thanks!

Delores

Another Blog

For those of you who descend from Martin Loy (to America 1741), I just began another blog just for you. It's called Loy Happenings and is now linked from the LoyHistory.com site.  Here's the direct link. Discussion on this site will be limited to those connected to this Martin Loy family and will give more detail on the second edition of The Complete Loy History, featuring descendants of Martin Loy (to America 1741).

However, as always the LoyHistory.com website and this blog will be open to anyone researching the surname Loy.

Little By Little....

Little by little, I'm getting this site revision done. The newest revision has been to the Matthias Loy (to America 1733) page. You'll see what page has had the latest revisions by the "last updated" day/time at the web page header. (If no "last updated" is there, that's a page I've yet to revise.) I'm also making the counters more consistent on all the pages, so you can get an idea which has been most viewed.

I know when I get to Loy lines not of my Martin (to America 1741) for these charts, I've had to rely on research other than my own. It gets a little knotty in areas where I've received discrepancies in information. But, as Martin's family is a handful in itself, I wouldn't have time to investigate further. Rather than eliminate these charts, I've listed what I can with caveat. As mentioned many times, I think would be ideal if those researching these other Loy lines could send me links to their *well-sourced and documented* family tree websites. Then, I could post the links from my site so others could have a resource for further information.

Keep watching for more updates!

Still Working On Site

The latest addition has been the "last modified" date/time stamp which will appear on each of the pages, once all have been revised. If you go to Martin Loy's (to America 1741) link, you can see the stamps on his and George's pages. Although the main (index) page shows a "last modified" time stamp, it only reflects when the index page has been revised. Many times I've revised other pages on the site, but unless I reload the index page, the time stamp was never updated. This new way, you can see how current each page is.

Still Doing Loy Website Overhaul

As you may or may not have noticed, this current update to the Loy website is the most extensive I've made since its 1997 creation. I think this project is going to take at least another week, to have everything running smoothly. So please be patient, especially when you click on a link that goes to another part of my site, only to get an error message. I'm still moving pages into newly created directories on the web server and many of the links have yet to be updated.

For this reason, I've also removed the search box from the main page, as it will need to be updated as well. (I have to put all the search info in manually, so it may be the last to be reinstated.) The main page still needs tweaked so column layering will be constant. But I decided the other (easier) pages should be revised first and finish the main page later so at least all the links will be in order.

As you'll notice, I incorporated more Javascript links to open in new, smaller windows from the main home page. The smaller windows will make navigation much easier.

Eventually I plan on adding more images of old documents pertaining to the Martin Loy (to America 1741) line, such as copies of original wills, land records, marriage records, death records, war records, etc.

But first...to finish the update...

DRW

Is it just Safari?

After nearly all day working on it, I finally revamped the Loy site main page with a better layout. However, after uploading to the Rootsweb server, the page has some problems viewing through my Safari (Mac) browser. The webhost ad keeps lodging between the second and third column of my page, making the scroll right very long.

Yet, I found it works great in my Firefox and Opera browsers. Since IE hasn't made a Mac version for umpteen years, give or take an ump, I haven't been able to check that out yet. I don't know if it's something "buggish" in Safari, or if it can be fixed by more troubleshooting.

There are lots more pages I have to go back to reformat, update links, etc. So keep watching!

I'm Back!!

Yes, I know I've neglected the blog and site updates for awhile. Actually, I *have* been updating the site time to time, but the title homepage doesn't show new "updated date/time" unless main entry page itself is updated.

Instead of new material, right now I've been mostly reformatting pages for easier access, improving typeset for easier reading, etc. Some links to pages once "hidden" in obscure places, I've now given a second link from more obvious places. So those pages might seem "new" to you. My next project will be improving the layout of the old photos pages. For example, though it looks fine in some browsers, others show the images in single columns instead of 3, making it a bear to have to keep scrolling down.

Keep watching for more updates!