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Re: finding my own threads

DelorisWilliams87 — 2013-02-25 19:32:14Z

You can also keep track of them by choosing the options on the right side of the Board that says "Add Board to Favorites", or "Add Board to Alerts", or you can choose to add a Thread to your Favorites or Alerts, too. Adding to your Favorites or Alerts means that you can view any of those you chose by clicking onto the "Message Boards" tab at the top of the page (under "Collaborate") and see them at any time. "Alerts" will be sent to your email account on a Daily basis, which will include links to any new messages in those Alerts.

Re: finding my own threads

AGHatchett3rd — 2013-02-23 11:28:57Z

Sure- just click the "view posts' link next to you name at the top of any of your postings.

finding my own threads

robinsiegwarth — 2013-02-23 09:28:17Z

hi,
i am searching in several states and counties, therefore i added a lot of threads. it there any chance to show an overview over the own threads and the progress (answers?) ?

Thanks
robin

Re: How to unsubscribe from family message board

mi2early — 2013-02-21 20:56:48Z

Unless the post has been edited by the board's administrator or the post is extraordinarily old, it is possible for the author to remove the check next to "Send me an alert when anyone replies to this thread".

Addition: Should have said that you can do this on the Ancestry side. Don't know if it works on the RootsWeb side.

Re: How to unsubscribe from family message board

white_roses — 2013-02-20 21:55:18Z

That's odd. What's listed under Page Tools isn't affected by whether the board has an admin or not. But, as long as they gave you a way to unsubscribe, no problem.

Re: How to unsubscribe from family message board

jmyoung365 — 2013-02-18 23:40:48Z

That box is automatically checked off unless you uncheck it. There is no way at present to go back and uncheck the box after if is done and even the board admin can't do it for you. Unless policy has changed the HelpDesk staff CAN do it for you but I believe they only offer to remove ALL notifications on a one time basis...not just a single message reply.

Joan

Re: How to unsubscribe from family message board

kahill1918 — 2013-02-18 23:37:42Z

Thanks for the suggestion. I thought about this and did some checking. It turned out I have only one account with the same login info for the past five years. The email Alerts I had been getting for this website have links in them which take me straight to the website here with my current login info. The guy I spoke with confirmed this.

However I think I know what might be causing the problem. When I posted a message a couple of years ago, I checked the box for "Send me an alert when anyone replies to this thread." So the Alerts I am getting now may have to do with the very old thread; someone was posting replies to that thread. But gee, it was about two years ago when I started the thread.

Re: How to unsubscribe from family message board

jmyoung365 — 2013-02-18 21:17:45Z

You may have more than one username and password (board account) and if so, the unwanted board might be in the Alerts for a different account than the one you are checking.

Joan

Re: How to unsubscribe from family message board

kahill1918 — 2013-02-18 19:01:08Z

That is what I thought too. This Board is not even in my List of "Message Boards" nor in my List of Alerts." So because it is not anyplace, I should not be getting the Alerts at all. So obviously somehow this got corrupted.

Re: How to unsubscribe from family message board

kahill1918 — 2013-02-18 16:58:50Z

At my end there is no "Remove Board from Alerts" under Page Tools. I called Customer Service, and it was discovered that this Board no longer has an administrator and has not had any since 2010. The administrtor who set this Board up disappeared.

So this Board is managing itself.

He gave me an email to send this URL to them, explaining the situation, and someone there will unsubscribe me.

Hoepfully this will work after one year of trying and pulling my hair out.

Thanks though.

Re: How to unsubscribe from family message board

white_roses — 2013-02-18 16:27:59Z

Go to the board from which you wish to unsubscribe. To the right of the messages, under "Page Tools," click on "remove board from alerts."

How to unsubscribe from family message board

kahill1918 — 2013-02-18 16:03:49Z

Ancestry.com is really becoming more and more obstinate and it is next to impossible to find help or navigate anywhere. I have been trying to unsubscribe from a family message board my alerts. Help will be much appreciated. Many thanks.

Re: Germany

mi2early — 2013-02-10 15:35:13Z

Enter Germany (with no spaces before or after the word) into "Find a board about a specific topic -
Surnames or topics" field and you'll see:

Localities > Central Europe > Germany (http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.ceeurope.germany/mb.as...)-

Category
Baden-Wuerttemberg
Bavaria
Berlin Stadt
Brandenburg
Bremen
Hamburg
Hessen
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Niedersachsen
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Rheinland Pfalz
Saarland
Sachsen-Anhalt
Saxony
Schleswig-Holstein
Thuringia

General
Graftschaft-Bentheim

Germany

edmolinari — 2013-02-10 01:40:31Z

Is there a reason why there is no message board for Germany?

I am searching for ancestors from Germany but I do not see a message board.

Re: Forum not letting me post reply's

CTjane — 2013-01-11 21:54:55Z

Hi Fawn. Firefox will do the same thing but it tends to hang your pc when it gets more than 3 versions trying to run at once. Or it tells you that Firefox is already running.

I have had as many as 12 versions of Google Chrome running at one time. My laptop was crawling at that point. It is an easy fix which is nice...

Re: Forum not letting me post reply's

fawnda10 — 2013-01-11 19:09:58Z

Yes, I think you're right. I switched to Firefox and haven't had an issue like that since then. Thanks for your reply, I'll keep that in mind if I'm in Chrome again and having issues......

Fawn

Re: Forum not letting me post reply's

CTjane — 2013-01-11 18:22:01Z

It may depend on the browser you are using. Google Chrome (which is great for translations) has a problem where it loads multiple version of itself(load module) that you can't see unless you go into task manager. The easiest way to get rid of the extras is to exit the browser wait about 10-15 seconds until they all shut down and then start over. I am not a techie so I don't have any idea what causes this problem, but it will definitely slow down your PC. I think this could be your problem because you are writing to your own replies and sometimes that just (for lack of a better word) confuses the machine.

Re: Forum d'aide en francais

CTjane — 2013-01-11 18:14:36Z

Hello, do you want help on using french sites or do you want help written in french ?

ou

Bonjour, voulez-vous aider sur l'utilisation de sites français ou voulez-vous aider écrit en français?

jane

Re: Forum not letting me post reply's

fawnda10 — 2013-01-03 23:32:41Z

It says error 500, btw.....I can post replies here, so maybe its the forum I'm in? It's the Sweden general forum.

Forum not letting me post reply's

fawnda10 — 2013-01-03 23:31:24Z

I replied a couple times to a question I had posted, but now it just tries to load VERY SLOWLY, then I get an error message telling me to try again later. I try again later, but the same thing happens.......anyone else having issues replying to messages?

Re: Old Post

KCutshall — 2013-01-03 13:11:06Z

Re: Genealogy Steinborn Posted on: 01 Jan 2011, by superstitionv...
Surnames > Steinborn
If your mother was a child of August...she was related to my birth father who did not know me. He was John Steinborn Sr. I am looking for his descendants ;my 1/2 siblings from a relationship he had in Ajo Az in 1958

Old Post

LouiseEnzler1 — 2013-01-02 15:41:56Z

Where can i go to find an old post/There was someone looking for her bio father in Jan 2011. She had a picture of herself on it.Was looking for John Steinborn Sr.I just heard about it and saw the picture but can't find it. I think she was from Ajo Az. Thank you for any help. Louise Enzler

Re: Forum d'aide en francais

mi2early — 2012-11-15 20:57:00Z

Yes. See
Localities / Western Europe / France

Enter the word "France" into the "Find a board about a specific topic" at the bottom of the message board screen.

Forum d'aide en francais

georgettelebrun — 2012-11-14 17:09:51Z

Bonjour
Existe-t-il un forum en francais pour avoir de l'aide.

Merci

Re: keyword search doesn't bring up messages I posted

mcfleetwhite — 2012-10-31 19:29:36Z

Got it, and thanks. I was afraid that if I couldn't find them, neither could the people with the information I'm looking for. I'll be more patient.

Re: keyword search doesn't bring up messages I posted

mi2early — 2012-10-31 19:15:30Z

You haven't gone wrong. It's just that the boards haven't been re-indexed in a while so your posts aren't appearing in searches. Your posts will appear in searches when staff gets around to reindexing.

In the meantime, you can also find your posts by looking at any one of them and then clicking on (View posts) next to your author ID. You may want to also click the star next to your author ID which will add it to your My Favorites list. From there you'll always be able to bring up all your posts, either in chronological order or by board.

keyword search doesn't bring up messages I posted

mcfleetwhite — 2012-10-31 18:45:05Z

A few days ago I posted some messages with names in the subject. Now, when I search using those names (for instance, "Elmo White, Opal Baker"), my messages don't appear in the results. In fact, the only way I can find them is to search with my user name. Where have I gone wrong?

Re: Long vs: long sorting.

mi2early — 2012-09-19 18:07:57Z

In theory, using Advanced Search and entering LONG into the Last Name (surname) field should work, but I see that it isn't.

You might have to resort to using Google search and using some of the operators to eliminate word pairs. See http://support.google.com/websearch/bin/answer.py?hl=en&... for information about that.

Long vs: long sorting.

jraylong — 2012-09-19 14:45:13Z

With a common name like Long, I get literally hundreds of thousands of matches to 'long ago", "long time", "long way", etc. Is there any way to sort the surnames from the common word, long?

Re: How can I find my messages again?

robmoff — 2012-09-10 22:24:46Z

Look at your message above and click on the (View Posts) next to yourr name.

How can I find my messages again?

suzanne_lawson1 — 2012-09-10 21:17:26Z

I wrote a couple of messages, and they were moth moved to another subject without telling me a while ago, but now I can't remember where they were moved to so I can't see if anybody replied.

Re: deleting old messages

jmyoung365 — 2012-07-03 04:10:43Z

If you are logged in with the account (username) you used to post the messages while viewing the message click the link to delete the post. You cannot delete any replies to your posts though. If you posted under an old account you no longer have access to click to REPORT ABUSE while viewing the post and request that the board admin delete the post. However, an alternative would be to post a reply to your old post updating the information...and correcting any error in the old posts.

Joan

deleting old messages

HSalsgiver — 2012-07-02 23:10:49Z

I have posted through the years on boards and I really need to go in and remove these old posts as new and correct inforamtion has been found and added.
How do I delete my old messages? what if there under my old no longer used e maill?
THANKS

Re: On which board do I post queries for the Merchant navy mid 1800's?

mi2early — 2012-06-16 14:00:22Z

Here are your choices:

Topics / Military / Merchant Marines
Topics / Military / World War II / Merchant Marines
Topics / Military / United Kingdom / British Merchant Marines

On which board do I post queries for the Merchant navy mid 1800's?

geebrooks9 — 2012-06-16 06:54:51Z

Hi, I would like to know which board is suitable to post queries on, for the Merchant Navy mid 1800s
Thank you, Sara.

Re: marriage board

jasche — 2012-06-14 03:18:49Z

There is a board for the surname Marriage.

http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.marriage/mb.ashx

Re: marriage board

jmyoung365 — 2012-06-13 21:59:51Z

You have the answer about a Marriage BOARD but if you are asking because you want to post marriage records post them on an appropriate surname or locality board and select MARRIAGE as the classification for your post. By doing that someone doing an advanced search for only marriage posts will find your posts.

Joan

Re: marriage board

mi2early — 2012-06-13 20:32:07Z

There's
Topics / Research Resources / Vital Records (BMD, name changes, etc.)

If you're looking for specific marriage records, post your query on the relevant surname or location board.

marriage board

petersimpkins76 — 2012-06-13 20:27:55Z

does anyone know if there is a marriage board,if so how do you get there?

Re: Where is Russia?

mi2early — 2012-05-19 14:00:57Z

You must really be asleep! :-)

Enter RUSSIA into "Find a board about a specific topic" and you'll be presented with some choices:

Localities > Asia > Russia
Surnames > Russian
Topics > Immigration and Emigration > United States > Russian Immigrants
Topics > Research Resources > Translation > Russian Language
Topics > Royalty and Nobility > Russian Nobility

Where is Russia?

patmob — 2012-05-19 10:17:01Z

OK, I know its early and I may not be fully awake yet, but I can't find a message board for Russia. Is it there and I'm too sleepy to find it (likely) or does ancestry not have one for some reason?

Re: Looking for official posting guidelines

jasche — 2012-05-17 01:17:31Z

If I understand you correctly you are looking for admin duties?

Go to the help desk, In the drop down window 'search by topic' select Message Board Admin - Keyword duties

It will open to a page with a very long URL.

http://rootsweb.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/rootsweb.cfg/php/enduse...

Re: Looking for official posting guidelines

cherylar01 — 2012-05-17 00:43:54Z

Joan-
I have done all you suggest. My problem is the administrator.

I still have not found the posting guidelines.

Thank you for your time.

Cheryl

Re: Looking for official posting guidelines

jmyoung365 — 2012-05-16 22:45:09Z

Cheryl-

Having now caught up in reading the other boards...I see why you posted here. My advice would be to address your concerns with the board admin directly via email using the Board Info link on the board.

If you are unsatified with the reply you get or if the admin doesn't respond...contact the RootsWeb HelpDesk and explain your concerns.

Joan

Re: Looking for official posting guidelines

jmyoung365 — 2012-05-16 22:29:37Z

Community Guidelines, FAQs, and board help plus the Admin Info link at the top of the admin pages.

If you care to search the archives of the RootsWeb Review there have also been many articles on proper board usage. OR...since you have stated you filed a complaint about a board admin -- perhaps you should have posted on the boards admins board rather than the boards users board. I'm not clear whether your question pertains to board USE or board admin duties?

Joan

Looking for official posting guidelines

cherylar01 — 2012-05-16 13:04:36Z

I am looking for the official posting guidelines and responsibilities used by administrators. I found a couple of pieces of information in the FAQ's but that is about it. If they are not readily available here at the site I will be looking to request them from corporate.

I have already submitted a complaint against the board administrator.

Thanks,
Cheryl

Re: Setting changed on its own

jmyoung365 — 2012-05-11 05:37:19Z

Carole-

Your chosen settings are held in place by a cookie on your computer. Perhaps you deleted your cookies and the settings reverted to the default.

Many of us are having a problemt with the cookies not holding when a new one is set because the cookie becomes corrupted.

If you access the boards from the Ancestry side rather than the RootsWeb side the cookies SHOULD work as you want them to if you set your choices back how you want them.

Many of us have been discussing this issue on the Ancestry Site Comments message board since last Sept. The HelpDesk insists the problem is on OUR end but something is causing the boards.rootsweb.com PREFS cookies to be corrupted and not hold our chosen settings.

Joan

Setting changed on its own

MikeyCarole — 2012-05-11 03:45:15Z

When I went in to the 'Waller' board this evening, it had changed format completely. Instead of listing the threads starting with the latest with the subject line it now starts at the beginning (1998) listing both the subject line and the body. This board has over 15,000 threads. I certainly don't want to have to go through hundred of pages to get back to the latest threads.

I made no settings changes - I don't have any idea how to do it. Can anyone suggest a way to get back to the default setting? This is the only board that seems to be affected.

Thanks for any help,

Carole

Re: Surnames field - general questions

jmyoung365 — 2012-04-26 04:24:56Z

You won't get a hit on new posts in a search until the boards are reindexed to include new posts. this can take some time and the board indexing doesn't seem to be on any regular schedule at present. It used to be done once a week on Sunday nights---but that doesn't seem to be the case of late.

Joan

Re: Surnames field - general questions

JoelMontesdeOca — 2012-04-26 01:15:15Z

I posted this yesterday: http://boards.rootsweb.com/localities.northam.usa.states.ohi... and today when I do a search for Helene (field: Name/Keyword) and Anton (field: Surname) I get one hit but not my post. Why isn't my post showing up in the search?