Welcome to the new Geddes Message Boards!
Contact Info:
Board administrator: Patricia Gaddis
E-mail:
(Please put "GEDDES message board" in the subject line so I know where you are writing from.)
G**DD/TT*S website: link to webpage
If you have any questions regarding these new message boards, please feel free to contact me at the above listed e-mail.
The New Message Boards
Basically, all the GenConnect suite of boards (query, biography, obituary, deeds, pensions, bible and wills), the Ancestry.com message boards and MyFamily.com boards are now combined here into one board. The best of all worlds in one place to search!
If you've made it this far, you're doing great. Now, a few tips on how to use these boards.
Change from the old system: Each spelling of a surname has it's own board. I am the board administrator for the GADDIS, GADDES, GEDDIS, GEDDES and GETTIS boards. So, you will find consistencies for these three spellings on the boards. Other spellings - GATTIS - are either owned by other admins or being requested.
To post a new message to the boards:
Click on the "Post a new message" link just under the surname.
Fill in your data (name, e-mail, subject, message, etc).
From the Classification box select what type of message you are posting. Leave it blank if it is just a plain query.
Leave the "send me an e-mail whenever anyone replies to this post" checked if you'd like to automatically be notified.
And, click on Post Message or Preview Message (if you'd like to see what it will look like first). Voila! You're done.
Add Board to Favorites
Click on the "Add Board to Favorites" to bookmark this board for quick retrieval in the future. The board will be added to your list of favorites accessible whenever you are logged in.
Add Board to Notifications
Click on the "Add Board to Notifications" to be notified whenever a message is posted to the board. You will be notified by e-mail that a message has been posted and be directed to a link to get to the message. This board is not gatewayed to GEDDES-L at the present time. So, you must check this option to be notified of messages.
Links and Announcements
Brings you here.
Post Reply
To post a reply to someone's message:
Click on their message to open it.
Click on the "Post Reply".
Fill in the data and select "Post Message".
Your message will automatically be linked to their message in a thread.
I would also like to invite you to visit our webpages.
There, you will find more researchers following this name along with other spellings (GEDDES, GADDES, GEDDIS, GATTIS, etc). You will also find instructions on how to join our maillist sponsored by RootsWeb, a Name Index of G*DD/TT*s' in our databases, some tables of data we've collected and many other items.
Please join us. We'd love to have you.