Note: You can access ever other feature of your FausettFamily account from any part of your account. For example, you can access your documents from the e-mail section of your account by a single click and without having to log in again. FausettFamily.com accounts are free of charge and powered by Google Apps. For those of you that use GMail, you will love your FausettFamily.com account as most features are nearly identical.
Whopping 7 Gigabytes (GB) of storage space, and growing.
Much easier to remember everyone's e-mail addresses (all addresses are yourname@fausettfamily.com)
Amazing spam filtering provided by Google.
Uses forced SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protection, which keeps your connection secure when on a non-secure Internet connection, such as a public wireless or non-encrypted network.
Ability to send e-mails to the Fausett family distribution list. (This feature will soon replace news.fausettfamily.com. To prevent spam or unwanted e-mail, the FausettFamily.com distribution list will only send out e-mails that are sent from a FausettFamily.com e-mail address.)
E-mail can be retrieved by Microsoft Outlook or any other POP3 or IMAP client. You can also access e-mails from any other POP3 enabled account right from your FausettFamily.com account.
E-mail can be automatically forwarded to any e-mail address(es) you specify (For example, if you have a hotmail.com address, your FausettFamily.com e-mail can all be forwarded to that address, or use filters to automatically forward specific e-mails.)
Instant Messaging and Chat built right into your e-mail. - When you're about to (or in the middle of a) reply to someone, and you see that person online, you can just send your reply as a chat message. You can also log into your account at any time from any computer to send instant messages to any other FausettFamily.com or GMail user.
Chat transcripts can also be saved right into your account. That means you can pull up any previous chat transcript from any computer you log into.
Send text messages and receive replies right in your inbox. All you need to know is the recipient’s cell phone number. (To prevent abuse, if a recipient has not replied to your first 3 text messages that you sent to that recipent, you will not be able to send any more text messages to that recipient until receive a reply from that recipient.
Vacation auto-responder
Automatically detects street addresses and tracking numbers in the body of your e-mail and displays useful options such as directions and package tracking alongside your e-mail.
Automatically scans attachments for viruses.
Import/export contacts - Move all your contacts to/from Yahoo! Mail, Outlook, and other e-mail account in just a few clicks.
Auto-save - Saves to 'Drafts' as you're composing. Never lose a half-written e-mail again.
E-mail Integration - Add events to your calendar without ever leaving your e-mail inbox. The e-mail server recognizes events mentioned in e-mails.
Great search features - Easily search through e-mails or calendar events. Or, search public calendars to discover new events you're interested in and add them to your own calendar.
Sync contacts - You can automatically sync your contacts between your iPhone/Blackberry phone and your FausettFamily.com account.
You can also chat by downloading and using Google Talk.
Automatic access to the Fausett family calendar, which has family birthdays, anniversaries, and other events.
Calendar Sharing - Set up a calendar or calendars that you can share with friends and family so you can view each other's schedules side by side.
Calendar Invitations - Create event invitations, send them to friends, and keep track of people's responses and comments, all in one place. Your friends can receive your invitation and post responses even if they don't use Fausett Family e-mail or calendar themselves.
Reminders can be sent to your e-mail or text-messaged to your phone, including a daily agenda.
Uses forced SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) protection, which keeps your connection secure when on a non-secure Internet connection, such as a public wireless or non-encrypted network.
Upload Microsoft Office, documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML, text files, or PDF files (or create documents from scratch).
Easily format your documents, spell-check them, edit them, etc.
View your documents' revision history and roll back to any version.
Download documents to your desktop as Word, OpenOffice, RTF, PDF, HTML or zip.
Email your documents out as attachments.
Share and edit documents with other FausettFamily.com users, or anyone else with a Google account.
Click on "Create a Section", right-click on the text box that appears, select "paste", and click the "Go" button. example
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Your can also search by topic for any feed, such as news, sports, or hobby information (which is automatically updated with the most up to date information). example
After signing in, click on "Add Content"
Click on "Create a Section"
Type your topic in the text box that appears and click "go."
Find which feed source you would like to add (as the search will most likely find more than one feed source on that topic) and click "add"
After adding the content that you would like on the site, you can arrange it any way you like; simple, click the header of the content, and drag it to where you want it. example
If you would like an FausettFamily.com account, please send an e-mail to account@fausettfamily.com or use the contact link at the bottom of this page. Note: Only those who are descents of Elmer and Merle Fausett will be given access to private information such as the Fausett Family Directory and the Fausett Family Calendar.