I have a post on the ELLIOTT surname board that says: <Black Rock, Arkansas, now called Hogan, is at the confluence of the Black and White Rivers in Lawrence Co., Arkansas. If anyone has the history and/or genealogy of the first Hogan's living there please contact me > There is NO mention of ELLIOTT in the subject or message. I do not know anything about Ark but it seems I should move this post to an Ark board -- right? Where do I move posts like this if I do not know a county in other states? Judy -- ~My LANEs loved FLOWERS, and some FLOWERS even had nicknames of "Posey" LOL ~ Washington Co PA free Websites: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~florian http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~florian County Coordinator for http://www.rootsweb.com/~pawashin/ Researchers of Washington County PA, join our map: http://www.frappr.com/researchingwashingtoncopa

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I would certainly want to see the names of pallbearers and a good point was made about including the ministers. However, I wish people would not include the names of the funeral directors or funeral home. That information is very easy to come by, and it's dismaying to keep pulling up articles just because someone with the same surname owned a funeral home. Diane Hettrick dhettrick@earthlink.net

In a message dated 8/10/2006 1:09:04 PM Eastern Standard Time, Kaesemein@aol.com writes: <<On my county board, someone is looking for John Smith in my county. Someone replies that they found the family living in another county in another state. Should the post be moved to that county/state board where the family was found, or left on my county board?>> No--the test is whether the ORIGINAL post is relevant to your board and whether any REPLIES in the thread are relevant to the original post. If the reply is about the original family then it is clearly relevant to the original post. It might be a different story if someone posted about John SMITH in your county and someone replied--what a coincidence I'm researching a John SMITH in Timbuktu. If it is clear to you that there is NO connection between the two you might want to make the reply into an original post and break it off the thread on your board and move it to the Timbuktu board. <<Another situation that has come up as I'm getting farther back in years cleaning up my board -- Someone requests information and a reply posts the link to a web site that is no longer valid, should the post containing the web site link be deleted?>> I'd leave it unless the link is the ONLY thing in the post. If the post also contains information I'd leave it--and additionally, I wouldn't go LOOKING for these old dead links. You are going to find more than you bargained for. Any internal links brought over from the old GenConnect boards were lost at the time of the transfer to the current board system--but that isn't a reason to hunt down these old posts and delete them. Joan

Hello All, Thanks to everyone who gave me their thoughts on adding the surname of the pastor, funeral director, etc. Also about witnesses to Deeds and Wills......I haven't come across that situation yet, so I hadn't thought about it, but it's good to know. I have two more questions -- hope you don't mind. On my county board, someone is looking for John Smith in my county. Someone replies that they found the family living in another county in another state. Should the post be moved to that county/state board where the family was found, or left on my county board? Another situation that has come up as I'm getting farther back in years cleaning up my board -- Someone requests information and a reply posts the link to a web site that is no longer valid, should the post containing the web site link be deleted? I'd appreciate your advice again. Thank you for all the help, Marilyn

I do the same thing as Jackie, add family names first, then extras. If I'm lazy I add names in the order they appear - but it still gets family first because the majority of family names are in the obits Same with neighbors mentioned in Deeds. Same with witnesses & the registrar in Wills. Judy On 8/10/06, Jackie Wilson Goddard <jaws64@comlinkusa.net> wrote: > > > Marilyn, > > I include them, as well as the pallbearers, if there's room. In the > case of a long post with multiple items (one lookup volunteer posts a > single message for everything found on that family), there may be > many names, so I add all the family names to the Surnames box first, > then go back and add the "extras" until I hit the space limit.

In a message dated 8/10/2006 11:39:08 AM Eastern Standard Time, Kaesemein@aol.com writes: Hello, When correcting a surname line on an obit, do you also type in the surname of the funeral director and the pastor who conducted the service? (if they are mentioned). Since they aren't members of the family, I thought they should be left out, but after thinking about it again, maybe someone is looking for that particular surname and didn't know their ancestor was a funeral director or pastor. I'd appreciate some advice please. Thanks in Advance, Marilyn Marilyn- If the author of the post included them--leave them. If the author didn't, you have no obligation to add them. Joan

Hello, When correcting a surname line on an obit, do you also type in the surname of the funeral director and the pastor who conducted the service? (if they are mentioned). Since they aren't members of the family, I thought they should be left out, but after thinking about it again, maybe someone is looking for that particular surname and didn't know their ancestor was a funeral director or pastor. I'd appreciate some advice please. Thanks in Advance, Marilyn

At 10:38 AM 8/10/2006, you wrote: >Hello, > >When correcting a surname line on an obit, do you also type in the surname >of the >funeral director and the pastor who conducted the service? (if they are >mentioned). > Since they aren't members of the family, I thought they should be left >out, but after >thinking about it again, maybe someone is looking for that particular >surname and >didn't know their ancestor was a funeral director or pastor. > >I'd appreciate some advice please. >Thanks in Advance, >Marilyn Marilyn, I include them, as well as the pallbearers, if there's room. In the case of a long post with multiple items (one lookup volunteer posts a single message for everything found on that family), there may be many names, so I add all the family names to the Surnames box first, then go back and add the "extras" until I hit the space limit. A few years ago, a gentleman who had been a pallbearer at my grandfather's funeral contacted me after he saw my posting of the funeral memorial card. Bonus for me: he was a family friend as well as the local insurance agent in the community where I was and remembered both of my parents even though we moved away 36 years ago. Without the entry in the Surnames field, he probably would not have seen the posting and I would not have received his memories. Having lost both of my parents now, the memories he shared, particularly those of my mother before Multiple Sclerosis, are even more precious. Jackie -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.8 - Release Date: 8/9/2006

----- Original Message ----- From: <Kaesemein@aol.com> To: <BOARDS-ADMINS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 10, 2006 8:38 AM Subject: [BAd] Correcting Surname Line > Hello, > > When correcting a surname line on an obit, do you also type in the surname > of the > funeral director and the pastor who conducted the service? (if they are > mentioned). > Since they aren't members of the family, I thought they should be left > out, but after > thinking about it again, maybe someone is looking for that particular > surname and > didn't know their ancestor was a funeral director or pastor. > > I'd appreciate some advice please. > Thanks in Advance, > Marilyn > As admin of the Methodist Churches and Clergy board I can tell you that people ARE looking for clergy surnames. Sometimes that is the only clue to the location where their ancestors lived. I know there are divergent opions on this, but I appreciate all the help we can get in finding these elusive clergy. My mom's uncle was Bishop of Sherbrooke, QC, CAN. I'd hope that one day I will see his name on a baptismal record - just because it's fun for me. Regards, Sharyn

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Jackie Wilson Goddard wrote: > > Finally saw it! It's very small, roughly double the height of the > Rootsweb menu bar, pale blue background, font is smaller than the > normal page font, like they don't want to draw TOO much attention to > it. Wording is: > The message boards will be down for several hours Thursday, August 10 > to prepare for the launch of the > <http://workshop.rootsweb.com/boards/announcement1.html?o_iid=24206&o_lid=24206&o_it=24206>updated > message boards. > > Jackie > Yep, saw it this morning. With a notice that small and pale, I bet the Help Desk will be hopping on Thursday. ;-) Will now sit back and await our orientation to the new boards. Lynne

I've been having tempermental responses in uploading to freepages too the last few days. It allows some transfer then wants me to re-sign in when I already am signed in. Sigh. Judy -- ~My LANEs loved FLOWERS, and some FLOWERS even had nicknames of "Posey" LOL ~ Washington Co PA free Websites: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~florian http://freepages.family.rootsweb.com/~florian County Coordinator for http://www.rootsweb.com/~pawashin/ Researchers of Washington County PA, join our map: http://www.frappr.com/researchingwashingtoncopa

At 10:36 AM 8/8/2006, you wrote: >There's a message from a user on (surprise!) Boards Users board that >"the boards will be down on August 10 to prepare for the new >boards." I can't find that message and I haven't received any >notification. Has anyone else seen the message or received notification? > >Lynne Finally saw it! It's very small, roughly double the height of the Rootsweb menu bar, pale blue background, font is smaller than the normal page font, like they don't want to draw TOO much attention to it. Wording is: The message boards will be down for several hours Thursday, August 10 to prepare for the launch of the <http://workshop.rootsweb.com/boards/announcement1.html?o_iid=24206&o_lid=24206&o_it=24206>updated message boards. Jackie -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.1.394 / Virus Database: 268.10.7 - Release Date: 8/7/2006

nls wrote: >Oh, you don't have to miss the debacle. Just visit the message boards for the ancestry site and ancestry improvements. As they used to say in the newspaper biz, "Read all about it!" > >Nan > > > Thanks, Nan, must put on my goggles and dive in. ;-) Lynne