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Help with Alerts

carlsonsc1 — 15 Nov 2008 4:10:49 GMT

I was wondering if anyone is having the same problem as me in not getting any message board alerts in their inbox this past week.

Surname Boards have lost the Author Field on list and on posts made to the boards.

t42Moore — 24 Oct 2008 2:51:08 GMT

Surname Boards have lost the Author field on list and on posts made to the boards.

Is this a permanent change?
. If so the board lists need to have the author field removed from the header.
. If not then there is a problem that needs to be fixed.

-Allen-

Message board problems, author's name

mbieliauskas — 8 Nov 2008 11:58:02 GMT

Lately I can no longer see anything in the Author's name column when viewing a message board. Is this ever going to come back?

Also for quite a while, the time it takes for a selected message board to come up, is very long, sometimes more than a minute. I don't have this problem with other web sites. Anyone else having problems with that?

What Happened to Search

gem5955 — 5 Nov 2008 8:35:16 GMT

I tried several times today to do a search on a few boards and I get back "weird" hits but not what I was searching.

Anyone else have this problem?

Ellen

Need to Delete a Message

Samsjazz — 4 Nov 2008 9:20:51 GMT

How do I delete a message I posted?
Thanks,
Samantha

Message board notices

WayneNeily — 24 Oct 2008 8:05:39 GMT

At various points over the years I have arranged to be notified by e-mail when new messages are posted to certain boards. This is very useful but I have a couple of questions.
1) Some of these are now being automatically forwarded to mailing lists that I am on, so I no longer need the notice. How do I stop them from coming? There seems to be a procedure for managing one's mailing lists, but I haven't found anything comparable for message boards.
2) Because the hotmail accounts originally had very limited storage, I set up different accounts (e-mail addresses) for the major names that I was searching, and tried to have the notices sent to the appropriate one. This has always been tricky, because Rootsweb seems to want to send everything to me at the same address. Is there a way around this?

Cheers,

Wayne Neily
(hoping that the authors' names soon re-appear on these boards)

How do I find my own message board postings?

SueAnnRobson — 13 Oct 2008 7:53:52 GMT

I have started several threads on the message boards. Now I can't remember where they all are. How do I simply find all my postings?

Sue Ann

marriages by location

wsilcox123 — 1 Sep 2008 1:53:25 GMT

Can someone tell me how I can find marriage info by just location alone? Someone told me I could find Anderson County, Tennessee marriages which would include additional data other than just names and marriage date.
Help with this appreciated

Was the Carney board discontinued?

Prata — 27 Aug 2008 7:27:47 GMT

I've been trying to access the Carney board and keep getting a message that it cannot be found. I've been there many times so it is puzzling. This is the link to the message I received. http://boards.ancestry.com/mb.ashx?q=carney

Surnames field - general questions

jabenson43 — 24 Aug 2008 10:28:02 GMT

Apologies in advance if non-administrators are not supposed to post here but this seemed the most appropriate place to submit my questions.

In recent days, a board which I regularly read and contribute to has been embroiled in a dispute regarding the use of the surnames field. I don't wish to get into the details of the dispute at this time except to say that it involves the administrator of the board so I don't feel that I can pose these questions directly to the admin.

I think one of the things fueling the issue is a lack of basic understanding about the surnames field: what is its purpose and the rules governing its use. Hence, I am trying to get answers in hopes it can help frame the context for future discussion.

Question 1: What is the basic underlying purpose of the surnames field and why is it so important that *all* surnames in the body of a message be duplicated *exactly* in the surnames field? I am deliberately pretending ignorance to some degree here but please bear me out. Note that I am not asking *how* to properly fill in the surnames field (I think I know that) but rather am more interested in an explanation of *why* I should do so.

Question 2: What rules govern what a board administrator is required or permitted to do in maintaining the surnames field of queries posted to their boards? In particular, I am interested in what are the rules regarding queries that have surnames in the message text but the surnames field is left blank (either accidently or on purpose). Are policies in this area well defined for all or are admins left to their own discretion?

Question 3: Where can I find the rules governing surnames field entries that board users are supposed to know and obey? I have seen things posted on this topic but frankly I have by myself not been able to locate anything I would call definitive anywhere on Ancestry/Rootsweb. Could someone post links to the "official rules" or at least describe how I can navigate to them?

Thank you very much in advance for any light you can shed on these topics. Depending on the answers, I may wish to ask a few follow-up questions.

Kindest regards,

Jeff

Message deleted

dialynna — 14 Aug 2008 11:57:00 GMT

I had transcribed some Bible pages from images of the scanned pages that aonother person had posted in Rootsweb Marr family message boards. Someone is asking me if I have the images which I don't. I went looking for them so I could email them the link and the messages with the attachments of the images have been removed. I checked the mailing list and archives with no luck. Why would they have been removed and is there any way to access the images? Thanks, Dianna

SORTING

jsullivan1221 — 16 Jul 2008 7:29:42 GMT

Is there any way to sort messages by date? When a search returns 100's of posts, would prefer to read most current. Often the older posts have invalid e's and/or never respond to queries.

Retrieving Errors

onlymepat — 18 Jun 2008 2:51:39 GMT

In trying to look up some of my older posts, I see that I have had some replies, but I can't read them because I get a message that says "Error Retrieving Message". What causes this and how can I read my replies? Thanks, Pat

Request Validation Error - Invalid or Unauthorized input

cmuller187 — 3 Jun 2008 3:25:18 GMT

I keep getting error messages when I try to make a new post. I follow all the guidelines, etc. and when I try to post I get a page "Request Validation Error" and it states "Invalid or Unauthorized input" It tells me to go back and remove the problem - but I have no idea what is creating this problem! (and it doesn't tell me!) I am following all of the posting guidelines, I don't understand why I cannot post - any suggestions>?

MAC Friendly???

JeanneTrump58 — 25 Dec 2006 9:56:15 GMT

Has anyone realized the new Message Board format is not MAC friendlyy?? I can not respond to any post and I can not start a new thred. This is on ALL Message Boards, including this one. I had to use my son's PC to send this!

Also, the new format does not set up properly and the buttons are not aligned. It is definitely not MAC friendly. ANYONE using a MAC will have no way of communicating this to you unless they have access to a PC comouter too. And most MAC users don't have both! PLEASE re-format the Message Boards to include the MAC users!!!!

Jeanne

Weird happening - taken to completely different board after filing abuse report

JanMeyer915 — 4 May 2008 11:19:13 GMT

I filed an abuse report on a message on a locality board. After hitting "submit", I was taken to the read-only board "Administrative News", not back to the locality board I was on. WEIRD.

Mail list question, need help PLEASE!

JeanneCrews27 — 6 May 2008 11:23:02 GMT

This probably isn't the right place to ask this question but I don't know where else to go. For some reason, I can't post messages to mail lists, even to the one that I personally admin. I checked everything suggested in the FAQ. I AM subbed to these lists. I send only in plain text. I'm sending to the same addresses I've always used. Here's what happens-- I send a message, complete with a subject in the subject line, and then when my message goes through a mail list and gets delivered to my inbox, only the subject shows up but the message content is gone. It's not the "not me too" option because the other list members receive only my subject, no message content, too. I also checked the archives and the subject is there, but no message. I don't know if this is a Firefox problem or what. Is anyone else having a problem? Any suggestions? It's so frustrating!

How do I contact someone with a un public profile on here ?

evamattice13 — 23 Apr 2008 3:14:32 GMT

Can anyone help me

Re: How do I contact someone with a un public profile on here ?

jgalpin48428 — 24 Apr 2008 12:42:36 GMT

There should be a place to click that says something like, contact this person and see if they will share with you. It says something like that. Where did you see their un public notice?
Jen

A reply has been posted to your message LINK NOT WORKING

Rawben — 20 Apr 2008 7:01:37 GMT

Help! I can't access a link that automatically came via email. It takes me to the page, but the page won't load. It just keeps "clicking".

Here's a copy of my email.

A reply has been posted to your message, "Re: Gambetta" on "4/19/2008 5:41:44 AM GMT"

Board: Family History > Localities > North America > United States > States > California > Counties > Monterey
Subject: Cecilia Adeline DORNAN
Author: metaphor
Date: 4/20/2008 2:19:46 PM GMT

http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.cal...

Thank you.

The Message Board Administration Team

Posting images to boards question

AGHatchett3rd — 10 Apr 2008 4:58:50 GMT

I have been approached by a member of my mailing list as to the the possibility of posting scans of documents obtained from State Vital Records offices to the appropriate surname message boards.

She mailed me a copy of a certified birth certificate and no where on the document is there any wording about copyright or prohibiting language of any type concerning copying, duplicating, distribution, etc.

Are such public records in the public domain. These are scans that she made of documents- altho some of the documents do contain images of the original document.

I hope this is clear.

help

LOREESPEK — 28 Mar 2008 9:25:38 GMT

i got 38 replies on my message board how do i get to tham to read tham

Message Board Alerts

debbiall — 24 Jan 2008 4:00:22 GMT

Has anyone else not been receiving their Message Board alerts? I don't think I've received any since 1/19/08, but I've checked, and several of the boards have received postings. Also, I checked and someone responded to one of my postings but I wasn't notified.

I can't find anywhere on this site to actually contact someone and tell them of this potential problem, so I'm hoping someone here can help me.

Debbi

what does this mean if anything

Ann_KernsMarsh — 2 Dec 2007 2:55:04 GMT

at the end of several post I'm seeing ZYXZYX LIKE IN THE POST BELOW...Wondering what the heck it mean. just noticed it.

Would the person who requested a search of my records for John Mayse (if my memory serves me), please write back? I accidently deleted your message. RhondaZYXZYX

Can't find my recent thread posting under "Search the Boards". Help!

Phelpsf — 28 Feb 2008 12:39:26 GMT

New to all this, sorry. I went to main "Message Board" page where there are two areas to enter info - "Search the Boards" is at the top and "Find a Board" is at the bottom. I went to "Find a Board" and typed in my family surname - in this case "Fullerton". The next screen up shows "Surname > Fullerton" - I click on "Fullerton" and it takes me to a board with all Fullerton posts. Great. My recent post is at the top. Fine. But when I go back to the "Message Board" home page and type in the name of my ancestor in "Search the Boards" - in this case "Humphrey Fullerton", my post doesnt' come up. What am I doing wrong? Any help is very much appreciated!!

Phelps@fullertonassociates.net

Just try searching for anyone named Northern or Black etc.

donnnorthern — 15 Feb 2008 1:28:49 GMT

What a mess is right!!!! Just try a simple search for anyone on the message boards with the last name of NORTHERN and see what comes up. The board is totally useless. I could search for my wifes family, the BLACK family, but it's totally useless also.
Goodbye to this board on my computer.........

Sending _private_ e-mail to the author of a posted message.

hubherby — 14 Feb 2008 12:30:29 GMT

If you would like to send a private message to the author of a posted message,
you can do it.

Just "click-on" the author's name in the message "heading".
_Sometimes_ an e-mail address will be shown surrounded by "dots".
Copy down the e-mail address and just compose and send your message using whatever e-mailer
you normally use.

Other times, no e-mail address is show. When this happens you can still send e-mail.
Furthermore this e-mail is Anonymous! The author will not know who sent the e-mal. The
recipient can reply Anonymously as well.

Here's how you do it.
On the right hand side of that screen there words which say:
"Contact this person"

If you click-on "Contact this person" you can to send e-mail your to the author Anonymously
and the author can reply Anonymously.
If you choose, you can include your actual e-mail address so that the author can contact
you directly, if (s)he chooses.

have fun
Herb Nichols

p.s.
If you'd like, click-on my name in this message and send _me_ anonymously. I will respond to you

herb

New Board Request - Pugh-DNA

jpughdog — 5 Feb 2008 4:00:05 GMT

For the past several days, I have been trying to reequest a new board that will focus on the Pugh Surname DNA Project. Every time I go through the process of requesting a new board, I get a message that the page I requested is unavailable. The same message that you would get if you clicked on a dead link or if you were not connected to the Internet. I had hoped that this would have been corrected by now but it has not so I am reporting it.

Thank you,

Jeff Pugh

Time Stamp Settings

Frances_Flick — 2 Feb 2008 12:47:25 GMT

Is there any way to set time stamps for individual users? I try to keep up to date with the boards in My Favorites but sometimes it's hard to tell if anything new has been added since I last checked without going to the board itself. If there's a lengthy thread at the top then I have to scroll through the posts to see the latest entry. It's not a huge deal but if there's a way to make it easier, I'd sure love to take advantage of it. Thanks!

Alerts

gem5955 — 21 Jan 2008 12:48:46 GMT

I haven't received any alerts for 3 days. Is anyone else having this problems?
Ellen

"Request a Board" feature not working; is it just me?

lindalew — 31 Jan 2008 3:34:59 GMT

Have been trying to request a new surname board for over two weeks and cannot get feature to work. Same goes for trying to report problems/abuse for existing query messages.

When trying to use "request a board", after clicking on "post" button, computer takes me to my ISP provider's generic "can't find website...check spelling...." error message. Very frustrating that even the "little" features do not work properly and no one seems to care enough to fix in timely manner.

Anyone else experiencing this difficulty? Is Ancestry.com no longer supporting these functions [HINT they've done something: genealogy.com has exact same problem with trying to add a surname to their boards; I haven't checked genealogy.com in approx. a week].

Is there any place on Ancestry.com's web site that gives customers a timely report of what's not working and what the estimated repair time is? I would be a lot less frustrated if I knew they were aware of issues/problems and were attempting to fix.

My annual subscription [8th or 9th year] is due the end of February. Just more fuel for the fire why it's time to let subscription lapse; zero support, declining service and no one at Ancestry.com seems to care. Their focus seems to be on quantity vs quality......

Thanks.

I want the old board design!!!

jamesemorrisonri — 2 Jan 2008 8:45:43 GMT

This new design doesn't allow me to view the latest postings. Am I missing something? I used to be able to ask for a list of messages by the latest date, not the threads that have the most hits. Unless this is fixed, its a big waste of my time. I'll go to other boards like Genealogy forums.

How to find who the poster is replying to

Prata — 23 Sep 2007 4:47:18 GMT

When I search a forum with a keyword and get a list of posts to view, I find some that I'd like to track further back to whom they were replying to but can't seem to always figure it out. Would it be possible for post to have "in reply to message poster/number" or something like that. Or am I just missing something that's right in front of me.

This is ridiculous

_NanYoung_ — 28 Jan 2008 11:46:07 GMT

The boards were moved to a different server on 1/17 which fouled up several things, including Request New Board, Report Abuse and Alerts. They still don't have them fixed. It seems as if having the boards in GOOD working order is a very low priority with TGN.

gadreau

eno70 — 25 Jan 2008 2:55:56 GMT

I'm trying to find information on my grandmother Marie Alice Gadreau. She was born around 1900, she was adopted by the Anderson family in Maine (the anderson family was Dougal Anderson who was a famous painter) My grandmother mother gave her her up at a church and the Anderson faimily took her in when she was a little girl. She had good memories of the Anderson's farm. They had a birth cert made for her when she was around 7years old so she could go to school but it didn't work out for her because she was half indian and the kids didn't like her, on the census her name was marie alice gadreau and she had 3 brothers charles born 1905 edward born 1896 david born 1902 mother was bella born 1877. I'm trying to find out where bella was from and if her last name was Gadreau or was she married into that name. Edward and Bella was born in Canada and the others I'm not sure. I also found on the census that an Alice Marie was living with a Lareau family when she was 1 years old. Hope bella might be a piece of someone's history so I can connect to the next generation.

Continual duplications

kh440 — 21 Jan 2008 1:11:15 GMT

Whenever replying to a posted message the reply continually duplicates or triplicates, et al .

When I try to report this incident under "Other", Report Abuse, to have the Message Board Admin. delete at least the duplicate replies, and leave one posted reply, the message comes back that the server is too busy to accept said message. It doesn't matter what time of day or night this is.

Quite annoying!!

Kathleen

Finding surnames

JDey458797 — 12 Jan 2008 1:15:58 GMT

How do you type a surname on all boards. I have two names - Till and Vey. Till even if the first name is given gives me every message with the word till and Vey brings up every message with the word very in it (which I thought very was spelled very not vey)

Thank you

Error messages

Prata — 28 Dec 2007 6:33:38 GMT

For two days I have been getting error messages when trying to pull up posts on the Illinois Unknown County board. It's happening on and off. Has there been problems with the message boards?

http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.ill...

Search problems

seskauk — 30 Dec 2007 11:45:00 GMT

Ok. This is doing my head in! Each time I use the search eg. BARNARDOS, it tells me there are no posts found. If i do exactly the same search again, it will tell me no posts found again. Try again...it will find 5. Does anyone else have this problem with it finding 0 posts when you KNOW there are posts out there?!
This keeps happening with all searches i do, so I dont know if there really aren't any results or whether it's just saying there aren't. Just in case it's needed, I'm on a mac and using safari. Thanks in advance for any help given!

Errors

markrf1 — 30 Dec 2007 1:56:25 GMT

It seems I've been experiencing the same problem as the past 2 posters. I try to post a message, and it says an error occurred, try later. I go back to try to post again, and the same thing. When I give up and go back to the board, it has my post, x 4 times. I've been having major trouble retrieving messages also, error stating that they don't exist. This message will probably post more than once also.

Error Occured when posting message

esal2maggiebbridget2 — 27 Dec 2007 4:39:30 GMT

I wrote a query on the Kanabec Co. MN message board but it
would not go through. A pink highlighted message came up stating an error occured while posting the message. What could be the problem ?

Getting "Message Boards: My Notifications" e-mail that I NEVER signed up for?????????

TheresaRGriffiths — 15 Dec 2007 10:22:34 GMT

Hello,

I have wrote to rootsweb and ancestry.com and nothing get's fixed. ;(
I am getting "Message Boards: My Notifications" for Staes and Counties I am not on and even one for Canada.
They really need help since all the new updates have made things worse not better!!!!!!!!!!

Thank You

The message will go out

PEGGYOSHIELDSGADDIS — 14 Nov 2007 1:06:34 GMT

I can get messages good, but after I type the new message on the Board, and try to send it out, it gives me a error sign, this is for a new message or for a reply, I can get the messages OK, I am OK on the Lists, can any one tell me something to try to get a new message out. I have even tried even disconnecting my Firewall, but that did not work. I just hope that this one will go out.
Thanks Peggy

Are there rules on obituary postings?

scgen123 — 3 Nov 2007 12:39:10 GMT

I would like to know if it is okay or if it is wrong for a rootsweb user to post an obituary on a locality board that is not the place of death. For example, if someone was born in County Mayo, and died in Philadelphia, is it wrong to place the obituary on the General County Mayo board?

There has been some conflict about this, and it would be helpful (in general) to have unbiased ruling or opinions on this.

There are some users who watch the Ireland County boards to learn where relatives of their ancestors may have moved, since records are poor for the older time periods. Obituaries are one clue to where a relative has moved.

Then there are other users who believe that obituaries only belong on the board where the person died. Their reasoning is that people only search those locations for obituaries.

Obviously these are two types of uses for obituaries - clues where people were born and clues where people died. People who can only search backwards don't understand how an obituary located at a birthplace can help anyone. People who are searching forward believe that they should be placed where all locations are mentioned in the post, especially the birth place.

Thank you for your time and opinions. Please address the question of board location only, and not the people who are commenting. :)

Thank you!
Susan Daily

How do i use the message boards to post a querie?

snow3y — 5 May 2007 12:10:14 GMT

Hi

Its been a while since i used the message boards last (as i normally use Genes Reunited) but the last time i posted a message i could do it easily and without confusion now i cant even find the place to start.

Help very much need
Leanne

HELP!!!!!!!

cantorjoeocho — 9 Oct 2007 2:22:53 GMT

We can't post anything on the rootsweb.com COMMUNITY OBITUARIES BOARD!!!!!

What's going on there???? I HAVE A LOT OF OBITUARIES THAT NEED TO BE POSTED THERE TODAY!

Thanks,

User names

carlandlorraine — 15 Sep 2007 1:34:43 GMT

This may sound like a silly question and I may be missing something very obvious, but is there any way you can search for a member using their username? Yesterday I invited a family member to view my tree using the e mail address they gave me,and today it has a username there instead of a message saying that the person hasn't responded to the invite that was there before.I am almost positive that this family member is not a member of this site so am wondering why there is a username there and want to check if this is the person I invited.

post a query

bazwilkie2 — 9 Sep 2007 8:25:53 GMT

Sorry to but in on your post but I need some help. I want to post a query of my own but do not know how to, can you help?

Regards
Barry

Cant change my email

celia554 — 9 Sep 2007 1:44:02 GMT

I changed my email and have been trying for ages to update it.Every time i put my password in which i have used 4 years.It keeps going back again to the password page.How do i change my email address i wont get notification till i can.
C.J

Thought I was confused before... but now

murielluke — 2 Sep 2007 5:06:20 GMT

O.K.

I thought I'd got he hang of all this email forum and mailing list stuff, but now I'm even more confused.

I posted an enquiry on the Scotland General Forum a few days ago and now cannot find it. I have two messages sent to it. I can't read the messages because I can't find the thread.

Also the information at the base of the forum list suggests that I have to subcribe to the Scotland General Mailing List - suruely this would mean that I would be alerted to every Scotland General Forum message instead of those I am interested in?

A very perplexed and very, very confused RW member.

Database Contribution ??

archersl — 31 Aug 2007 4:30:38 GMT

I submitted a 695 record database to Rootsweb (filename 1958GlendaleHigh.txt) on August 25and have yet to receive an acknowledgement although this message popped up on the screen when I finished:

"What happens from here:
Staff will review your file (file reviews are performed daily).
If there are no problems or questions, the file will be imported into the appropriate Searchable Database.
You will be notified via E-mail, and given the URL of a template file for inserting the searchform into your own webpage.
If there are any problems or questions, you will be notified via E-mail."

I would have thought I'd have received an acknowledgement by now since this message said files are reviewed daily.
If this is the wrong place to post this question, can you direct me to the correct place please. Thanks, Susan

Is there a Msg Board 4 General or mail list help anywhere?

joni4ta — 21 Aug 2007 4:52:12 GMT

I cannot seem to find a HELP message board either for general rootsweb help or for help with rootsweb mailing lists. I cannot subscribe to the "help" mailing list and enter a query because I am not receiving any replies (even my own) from mailing lists that I have already subscribed to at this time. I have added all of their "from" addresses as safe senders (Outlook 2007) and still I am having issues.

Where does one go for help then? I was hoping to find a message board for mailing list help and post a query there. But there doesn't seem to be one that I can find.

Any suggestions?

Changing email address

Meadowlark40 — 20 Apr 2005 8:50:46 GMT

Hi,
I need help changing the address on some of my board postings. I created a new account and was successful in changing some of them, but I've been unable to get the rest of them changed.

I also need to know how to change my email address on some of my notifications.

Old address: Mona_Houser@juno.com
New address - I won't post it because I prefer to have it only show up in that neat image way that spammers can't pick up.
Thanks.

Servicing problem

OakMosGenie — 14 Jul 2007 5:03:28 GMT

My posts to a board keep going nowhere! I write my message, hit Post and then I get this message: "There was a problem servicing your request -- the details have been automatically logged to our servers". What is the problem? Why does this keep happening? I'm tired of writing messages that go nowhere!

5 star search

dixielhack1 — 19 Jun 2007 3:35:55 GMT

How can I get out of a 5 star search and back to a more general search.

Mc, Mac, and M'

ngcart — 12 Jun 2007 7:11:11 GMT

Here is a general question for a general board. For over a hundred years, libraries have interfiled Mc, Mac, and M' names. McNaughton, MacNaugton, and M'Naughton - not to mention Mcnaugton and Macnaughton - all mean exactly the same thing. Why do we have to look under at least two spellings for all our Scottish ancestors? Of course, this isn't as bad as some CD-ROM compilations where they actually SEPARATE the Mc/Mac from the stem name with a space. Maybe the moderator of this board can bring this question to the attention of RootsWeb and Ancestry.com decisionmakers.

MESSAGE BOARDS, WHAT HAPPENED?

karenweir52 — 28 Apr 2007 9:32:12 GMT

JUST A DAY AGO YOU COULD GO TO THE NMESSAGE BOARD, CHOOSE A STATE, THEN SCROLL DOWN TO FIND YOUR COUNTY AND PLACE AN INQUIRY OR WHATEVER..........TODAY IT IS A BIG CHANGE, I DONT LIKE IT AT ALL AND COULDNT FIGURE OUT WHERE TO GO OR WHAT TO DO, WHY WAS THIS CHANGED AND CAN SOMEONE TELL ME HOW TO USE THE SITE NOW, MY OPINION IS IT IS A TRAINW RECK NOW, DID ANYONE TELL US THEY WERE MAKING THIS CHANGE? ...I WAS TRYING TO FIND OUT ABOUT PRATER FAMILY IN WAYNE CO TENNESSEE, COULDNT FIND ANY PLACE, THE WHOLE THING HAS A DIFFERENT LOOK TO IT

URL from email alerts not working

helenstuddart — 23 May 2007 7:24:03 GMT

When I receive alerts that I have a reply to messages posted on the board, I can not get to the post via the url sent within the email nor can I find the reply if I go to the orginal posting....where is that post??????????

Helen

Error Message

donnam139 — 26 May 2007 2:43:01 GMT

Tried to do a new Posting followed all help guidelines etc and mark to be administrator of the board, submitted the post but got error message, URL or address is wrong to were submitted. Can someone help me please!

Error messages

carlandlorraine — 25 May 2007 1:55:30 GMT

Does anyone else have this problem on this site?
I keep getting an error message saying"firefox.exe has encountered a problem and needs to close down".
Then I have to restore the session and sometimes this works fine and I can continue with what I was doing and other times I just keep getting this message over and over again.
It only seems to happen on this site.
Hope someone can help me.

"Add boards to favorites" link doesn't work

fuschia07 — 24 Apr 2007 10:38:25 GMT

Any tips on how to get the link to work again?

Why duplicate message boards?

wizardluffy — 13 May 2007 1:38:08 GMT

I've noticed that there are Ancestry message boards and RootsWeb message boards for every category. Why

is there a log off button so that i can log off when i am logged in wheres it located

maggardbethx — 30 Apr 2007 3:49:43 GMT

is there a log off button so that i can log off when i am logged in wheres it located

Has something happened to the Message Boards?

Orlena39 — 28 Apr 2007 8:33:39 GMT

Has something happened to the Message Boards or have I clicked on something that changed it? I don't like the look of them now. If I clicked on something or it's my computer PLEASE tell me how to undo it.

The format I'm getting now is horrible. The posting box doesn't look so great either! I guess I'd have to say everything from start through preview and finish I don't like.

I also don't like not being able to preview the attachments, I can't tell if they are as I want them. We'd all like to be able to make corrections after we've posted something. We can edit with Post-ems on WorldConnect, why not extend them to here if nothing else. After we've posted Post-ems we can edit them. Trying to correct in later posts doesn't work, not everyone finds the corrections.

I'm attaching screen shots of these new formats. I'm trying anyway. It didn't post. My fault!

Thank you,

Orlena
~~~~~~

Where did the navigational links go????

BWarner3423 — 26 Apr 2007 4:20:39 GMT

Where did the handy navigational links go that used to be at the top of all the web pages go? When I go to the pages now there are practically no graphics - just words. They look like crap! The navigational links that used to be at the top of all the web pages (i.e. home, family trees, mailing lists, message boards, etc.) are gone now. I used those a lot. I'm using the same shortcuts I've used for years to get to my boards. Does it have something to do with my browser? I'm using Version 6 of IE which may not be the latest. Has something changed? If those of us who have used the Boards for years can't find our way around, how do they expect new users to??? I've spent years adding data to these Boards and now I have this sick feeling in my stomach that everything is being screwed up.

Also, I have a lot of links from my MoGenWeb site to Board postings and now when I go to them some of them look like crap - the formatting is all out of wack, etc. It's like the paragraphs are compacted and then maybe there will be one line that goes way off the right-hand side of screen.

Are the programmers responsible for making these changes even experienced Board users? Do they have a clue about genealogy? Why do they keeping fixing what ain't broke????

"My Favourites"

RossCameron42 — 25 Apr 2007 10:06:32 GMT

I suddenly seem to be unable to find a way to open "my favourites" when opening up messgae boards. Also the format of the screens seems to have changed (for the worse). Is this a problem with AOL? Anyone else having problems?

MESSAGE BOARD FORMAT

CaroleAJ — 12 Apr 2007 4:54:55 GMT

I am not sure on the proper place to pose my question. It has been a while since I was on rootsweb. Other than having mass problems for changing email and so forth, I am wondering what has happened to the format where you could see all postings for a particular name or subject. I now cannot do that and wonder if I am doing something wrong. I can only see current messages from one thread.
Thanks for any help or explanation.

How do I delete my posted messages?

907016 — 17 Apr 2007 7:48:58 GMT

I would like to delete all messages I have posted from
the year 2005 down to 1999. How do I delete all these
messages I have posted?

Help! Cannot find my last thread - Nichols

barbnik — 14 Mar 2007 3:49:58 GMT

I recently put an update to my Nichols family and cannot find it. I guess I don't remember exactly what I titled it. Is there a way to find it again?
Barb

why don't my posts turn up in a relevant search??

AWatcherOfTheSkies — 31 Mar 2007 11:59:41 GMT

Does anyone know why my various posts, which all currently appear on RootsWeb Message Boards, do not show up when I search for a keyword in my Subject Line? Posts by other Users showing that particular word do appear, but, regardless of whether I search for a word in the subject or the body of my message, my posts will NOT come up when I search. They turn up right away when I search the phrase on Google. How do I fix this?
Thanks!
Kat

subscribe to a Canadian message board

richard_vanwagenen — 31 Mar 2007 6:03:41 GMT

How does one subscribe to the Grenville County, Canadian message board ?

adding an attachment

happysearcher — 23 Mar 2007 2:33:39 GMT

Hi

I have just posted on the Australian board under general.

I asked for help identifying a disease and added an attachment file of my grt grandfathers death cert.

Although it seemed as though the attachment was added, when I posted the attachment does not seem to be there.

Could you tell me what I have done incorrectly here?

Thanks Rainie

Are we unable to put url links in our posts?

joni4ta — 19 Jan 2007 8:50:59 GMT

If we are, is there a format we need to use to make them "clickable" ?
Thanks!

post

christine6666518 — 9 Mar 2007 7:24:53 GMT

Can anyone please tell me how to find a post I started last week,,,haven,t got a clue??.Thanx Christine.

Security Issues

scgen123 — 6 Mar 2007 4:59:47 GMT

Suddenly Rootsweb is no longer remembering my Sign in. I have alowed all various versions of the sites for Rootsweb Message Boards to be allowed through my firewall, but it hasn't helped. The only way I could post this message now was to shut down my firewall! I am typing as quickly as I can!

This just happened in the past few hours. Any reason why? I am using IE 6.0 and Zonelabs Firewall on Windows XP.

Thank you - hope it can be resolved. Message Board use is getting harder and harder every day.

Retrieving Message Error.

Terryfritz1215 — 3 Mar 2007 8:06:24 GMT

I recieved a message and a link to collect it. However, whe I try to open it up it says retrieving message error. Does anybody know what to do?

Names of Posters Now Changed to "Anonymous",

PhilAbbotts — 26 Jan 2007 12:23:31 GMT

The latest glitch in the system seems to again be with message authors. Posters usernames have now been changed to "Anonymous". First they were blank. Anonymous has just recently (last hour or so) appeared.

See just three examples of many, many boards:
http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.new...

http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.ohi...

http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.britisles.ireland.wat....

http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.britisles.ireland.ant....

Can I remove a double post?

Dillj03 — 24 Feb 2007 4:06:22 GMT

This morning I was posting a new thread on the Kennedy surname board. Somehow the post ended up on the board twice. Is there any way to remove one of the posts? Thnx!

Dave

How to change email account

danielamtt106 — 15 Apr 2006 11:01:27 GMT

Can anyone tell me how to change your email account on the Rootsweb my email is danielamtt106@aol.com

what do you think of the new interface?

pat10325 — 17 Dec 2006 3:21:42 GMT

Being a relative newbie I find it confusing-- what do you think?
Pat

Orphan boards

ecss12830 — 27 Jan 2007 4:12:04 GMT

Joan

Is there a list somewhere of the boards open for adoption?
i'm not a real good computer person, how does one "admin" a board?

ecss

Recent changes to new boards

AGHatchett3rd — 22 Dec 2006 2:22:48 GMT

Well.... they seem to have taken some suggestions for improving the new boards.

Here's hoping they keep doing so (particularly about seeing the board poster's name on messages gatewayed to mailing lists).

Researchers

Manaia_A — 18 Jan 2007 5:06:16 GMT

Please excuse the inconvenience
There was a problem servicing your request — the details have been automatically logged to our servers.
Please click here to visit our online Knowledge Base and find up-to-date information about any possible website errors we may be experiencing.
....

I am receiving the above post everytime I try to "Begin New Message".

I'd noticed others having the same problem of late. So, I am checking and hoping this gets posted.

To Be Continued...

Regards,
--Manaia

Re: A mess !!!

Bettestree — 7 Jan 2007 4:27:52 GMT

Since I can't seem to find a place to write a new POST, I will hang a ditto to "A MESS !!!"..............

Maybe when only a hand full of new posts come trickling in on all the boards we will get back the "easy, anyone can use" style of the Message Board !!...........

We don't need tips on creating a great post, we need to just be able to POST, period..........

Thanks for the old "Message Board" that I have made use of for so many years. I'm going to be lost without it ):

Posting Gives Error Message, then .......

NickCatterson — 13 Jan 2007 1:35:45 GMT

Trying to post gives an error message. Then you try to repost the message. Again an error message. But often when you're doing that, the message actually DOES post and lo!, you have posted more than one message with the exact same content. Arrrgggghhhhh! Sometimes you have to keep two windows open -- one with the message and one with the thread to see did it post or didn't it!!

Hope it will be fixed!!

Replying to Post gives error message

frenziedfemale — 9 Dec 2006 2:17:36 GMT

Hi,

I have been trying to reply to a post that was in response to my post and every time I try to I get an error message but no details about what to do. Can anybody help as I desperately need to make contact with this member. I cannot contact them using the locate member option as there is no availablity to do this on their member listing.

Thanks,

Kim

gc_gateway@rootsweb.com

swiftercurrents — 18 Dec 2006 2:29:53 GMT

Just lately I have been receiving messages from gc-gateway@rootsweb.com. At first I thought this was just a new member. But, I have begun to realize each post has a different person's name. Can you explain what is going on? Thank you

Thousands of Messages on Message Boards Poster Name Changed to Carole Bays

PhilAbbotts — 19 Dec 2006 1:10:56 GMT

Thousands of messages on the message boards now show the poster's name as Carole Bays and not the original poster's names. This has happened in the last 24-48 hours. If you click on the name Carole Bays it doesn't produce registration information or e-mail information. It just brings you back to the message with that name on it.

Just a small sample of the messages now showing Carole Bays as the author are on:
http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.new...

http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.new...

http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.ill...

http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.new...

http://boards.ancestry.com/localities.northam.usa.states.ohi...

And many, many more.

The message boards have been updated

Ancestry_Product_Mgt — 6 Dec 2006 8:58:11 GMT

As you can see, The Ancestry and RootsWeb message boards were updated today.

While these updates did not include all of the features advertised last summer, you will notice significant improvements to the look of the boards, particularly on the thread and message displays. For instance, you can now choose to view more threads per page (up to 50), and you have a choice of viewing each thread in "Thread" or "Flat" view.

Improvements were also made to the underlying board technology that will help us keep the boards running smoothly.

In addition to the updating the look and technology of the boards, there are other updates and changes that you should be aware of:

- Registration is now required in order to post a message. This will help message authors keep their contact information current and cut down on board spam.

- The "Community Guidelines" have replaced the “Board Rules” as the "rules" for participation on the Message Boards. A link to the Community Guidelines can be found at the bottom of all message board pages.

- "My Notifications" have been renamed "My Alerts". You can find a link to "My Alerts" in the upper-right corner of the Message board pages.

- Some tools, such as "Add Board to Favorites" can now be found in the Page Tools box.

- The board "Links & Announcements" have been renamed "Board Information" and a link to it can be found in the Page Tools box.

- Clicking on an Author’s name will now take you to their Public Profile (if they have one).

Important note: If you have posted a message to the boards in the past using a "Post Name" and "Post Email," they have now been replaced by your account user name and email on all of your posts. This is part of our effort to make it easier for you to update your own contact information in one central location.

To view and update your account username and email address, please click on the "My Account" link in the upper-right corner of the message board pages.

The Board Help and Board FAQ pages have been completely updated. Links to both pages can be found at the bottom of all message board pages and they are a great resource to help you become more familiar with the boards and these updates.

Please click on the Send Feedback link at the bottom of the message board pages to let us know what you think!

Regards,

Ancestry Community Product Management

New Board Interface - I vote thumbs down

LarryR_ca — 14 Dec 2006 9:44:31 GMT

How bout you........

Larry

Update on the Board Updates

Ancestry_Product_Mgt — 15 Dec 2006 11:10:02 GMT

We want to thank you for all of the feedback we have received through the boards, blog comments, and “Send Feedback" links. We regret that we cannot respond to all comments individually so please know that we are listening.

The message board team has been very busy this week reading your feedback and fixing bugs. We have also spent a lot of our time planning and developing adjustments to the boards based on that feedback.

Our first priority in this post-launch period is to fix anything things that are broken (also known as "bugs"). Often when new code is launched and/or a database is updated (both happened with this board update), there are bugs that are not caught during the QA process or things that don't work correctly when the code goes live.

One bug with the "Last Post" column that caused a lot confusion was fixed Wednesday. The Last Post column was displaying the incorrect date and this made threads on a board appear to be sorted in random order, rather than by order of the most recent reply or new thread.

The column is now displaying correctly and threads with the most recent replies (and new threads) are at the top of the list. This makes it easy to locate the newest messages and replies posted to the board. Because threads are sorted by "last post" you don't need to use a separate "date"-type view to be sure you see replies made to old messages along with the new messages.

Other bugs we have or are working on include:

- My Alerts, My Favorites, and "Boards I Admin" which are displaying in incorrect order.
- Board Information-related bugs.
- URL's within a message not displaying as a link.
- "Author" field Advanced Search searching incorrectly.
- Reported Firefox and Netscape browser-related bugs.
- And more...

After fixing bugs, our second priority is to evaluate your feedback to help us plan and develop adjustments to the boards. Below is a list of some of the adjustments we have been working on.

Note: Some adjustments have already been applied to the boards and some are still in the planning and development stages:

- Adding a link to view all of an author's messages.
- Updating the My Favorites page with category information (to help clear up confusion over which "General" board is which), and a drop-down to view more favorites per page,
- Displaying the full subject line.
- Changing the link color of the threads you have clicked on.
- Adding "next thread" navigation.
- Adding the ability to sort threads by "classification" type.
- And more...

The message board team is working hard to make necessary bug fixes and planning and development of adjustments takes time. We appreciate your kindness and patience during this process.

posted to wrong board

Marilynn_Lake — 5 Nov 2006 1:52:00 GMT

I accidently posted a message to the wrong surname board, how can I change it?

viewing by dat

Prata — 10 Dec 2006 2:50:21 GMT

Is there an option that I'm not seeing to be able to view messages by date collapsed? I liked the old format much better all the way.

New Message Board Layout

ELLinSpain — 8 Dec 2006 5:29:53 GMT

Hi all

(1) The new layout is causing some difficulties - How can you view (as before) an expanded thread - not for a particular posting/message but, the whole of that county - Before, you could choose to expand or not ALL the messages and, it was easy to see if someone wanted a bit of help - now, you have to click (& then page changes) each individual message from that 1st page before you can view the thread for that person only, and, if like me you connection is very slow, its a real pain and takes forever likewise, if you pay for a particular connection which has a limited download/upload per month !!!

(2) Every time I do a reply, I am getting a email message showing my reply - AAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHH!!!!

Would really appreciate an answer - perhaps I am just being thick on this one

Thanks

Message Post doesn't work reliably

frostfreedet — 8 Dec 2006 2:00:21 GMT

There are two copies of my post "Can't retrieve Deeds, wills, etc."

This is because the first time I clicked on "post" I was taken to the "Error Retrieving Thread" error page for Message Boards. I used back button on keyboard to go back to the message and clicked on "post" again.

So the message was posted the first time, even though there was no indication of this because the Error Page was displayed.

This is going to be really fun. For someone, not for Boards Users.

Can't retrieve Deeds, Wills, etc.

frostfreedet — 8 Dec 2006 1:54:37 GMT

Bookmarks to individual posts that worked on last Tuesday now don't work, the URLs for all messages have been changed.

So now I get to spend a lot of time re-establishing bookmarks to documents and to messages, such as ones I am working on responses to.

Went to a Message Board where I know there were documents I want to bookmark.

Searched under a term I believed would retrieve them.

The search results list did indeed list them.

However, clicking on the message-title link took me to an error page "error retrieving thread" for each one of them.

I used my mouse right button to copy the URL.

Pasted URL into browser window.

Got same error page.

Does this mean we can't retrieve deeds, wills, obits, biographies, etc. that were posted within those categories?

This is a disaster.

Boards are not working

oldkycaver — 7 Dec 2006 10:02:30 GMT

I checked several boards and when I tried to change the number of messages shown or go to the next page, a blank page resulted. Also I am now shown as an adinistrator of a board that I never heard of and are not the administrator of any of the boards that I formerly administered.

Changing board admin info

cemeterysearcher — 7 Dec 2006 10:35:05 GMT

I need to change the board administrator information that comes up when the box is clicked on. It has an old email address and I have tried reading all the "help" sections. I have asked to have this changed in the past. Can anyone guide me through this process please? I have two boards that need to be updated.

distaster list

dnkcen — 7 Dec 2006 9:12:25 GMT

Hugh_Watkins has chosen to use Ancestry’s connection service to remain anonymous. The connection service is a premium service from Ancestry, which requires basic membership with a minimal subscription fee.

Clicking the "Go to Ancestry Profile" button below will take you to Hugh_Watkins's profile on Ancestry where you can click the "Contact this person" link to send a private, anonymous message through the connection service. Learn more about contacting an author

<< simply not true a silly default

Hugh W

UK military message board

britmo — 21 Nov 2006 3:06:43 GMT

Could someone please tell me if there is a message board that is just concerned with UK military questions.

Thanks.