Alley wrote:
My wills,deeds, etc. are all mixed in with the one msg. board. What a mess.
My major problem is that those posting those wills, deeds, pensions, etc.
thought that they were posting the info on my county site. They believed
those postings would stay put. The posters are not interested in
GenConnect, RootsWeb, GenWeb, who owns what......they only want to retrieve
and get information. Therefore, they never went to
Ancestry.com nor
RootsWeb to read about mergers and who owned what and had assumptions they
should not have had. I, too, assumed the GC boards would always stay put
even after reading about the mergers.
Question 1: How do I retrieve the wills, deeds, etc. so that I can
permanently place them on my county site? There are 2177 msgs. for my
county. Wading through these and then sorting the categories would take an
enormous amount of time. Is there an easier way?
More questions: I no longer wish to manage these boards. They obviously
can be moved at will by the true owner/owners. I prefer to have my own
query board in the future, owned by me. I wish to delink from
GenConnect/Rootsweb boards and put up a system for queries but it will take
some time to do that.
Can I have a period of time to be without a query board while I search for
another system and then get it set up on my site?
Are query boards still a requirement for county sites now that so many query
boards are available through Roots and also GenForum and others?
If required, would a link to GenForum satisfy that requirement as a link to
GenConnect satisfied that requirement?
Alley Blackford
Shenandoah Co Co CC
Well my obits and bios weren't even included on my new board, so I guess
they were just thrown away or something and I had quite a few obits on
that board. Luckily I placed all my wills and deeds directly to my
county page and also keep copies for myself so I don't have to worry
about them disappearing.
I'd also like to know how I can retrieve all the obits & bios that have
been lost so I may place them directly on my county page. I recall when
the GenConnect boards were created we were told that should we ever want
the messages they would be available to us.
Also, I personally find these boards very limited and much more
difficult to use compared to the GenConnect boards. I have begun
receiving messages to the same effect from people who use my county
site. Below is an example message that I received today.
Is there any way that we could get the old GenConnect boards back!
Michael Dye
Russell Co. Coordinator
Subject:
New Russel County Query Page layout
Date:
Fri, 22 Jun 2001 18:27:06 -0400
From:
William Willis <wmwillis(a)earthlink.net>
To:
madye(a)fuse.net
Michael
I'm sure you're being inundated with comments on this---but the new
Rootsweb layout for the Russell Co Query page---well I don't use
language like that.
For my part, I thought the old layout was far superior to the new.
I don't particularly like having to "Sign up" in order to do all the
various things like searching for old messages, or posting new ones.
And when I tried to post a new query, the new package kept telling me
that I was posting an empty document.---i.e., I couldn't post the query
The last item will (I presume) go away as they work the bugs out of the
system.
However, my other concerns are not likely to go away at all.
The original layout was clear, straightforward, to the point, and easy
to use.
The current layout is none of the above.
The original layout was designed by someone who understood what they
were doing.
If that can be said about the new layout, then it was designed to
achieve purposes that have nothing to do with helping us do genealogy.
Bill Willis
Subject:
Re: New Russel County Query Page layout
Date:
Fri, 22 Jun 2001 19:58:57 -0400
From:
William Willis <wmwillis(a)earthlink.net>
To:
Michael Dye <madye(a)fuse.net>
References:
1 , 2
Michael Dye wrote:
Bill,
I am in agreement with you totally on this. I don't like the new query
board at all. .... If it's alright with you, I would like to forward a copy
of your message to the coordinators list I'm on so they can see that
users are also not happy with the new system.
Its certainly alright with me. The previous boards had a few very minor
faults, easily ignored---this has many major faults, which render the
board virtually useless.
Bill