Jim: I'm with Nellie on this one...no notice IS required when duplicates are removed. What likely happened in your case is that an admin who noticed all the duplicates deleted the dupe from his or her boards and then reported it to staff and staff removed the rest globally. Usually when they do this they leave the post on the most appropriate board (in their opinion) and delete the rest.

When a poster posts on a single appropriate board it is THEIR choice where to post but when they post on multiple boards and the dupes get removed then it is up to the admin to make the choice where to leave the one remaining post.

My advice in the future if you really feel there is something you WON'T get in reply by posting on a single board then customize each message so that it provides what you hope to learn from each board individually in the post to go on that board and that way you won't be posting duplicates even though you are posting on multiple boards.

As an example, I recently had someone post about an African-American family they are researching who lived in NJ and PA at various times --- part of the information the poster seeks concerns a specific county in NJ and part they don't know the county involved and they are looking for different information for the time the family lived in PA. So they emphasized each aspect on each of three boards and I didn't remove any of those three different posts. (I happened to admin all three boards.)

Joan