This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BF.2ADIAE/1020.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2.1 Message Board Post: Joan, Have the powers that be confirmed that there will still BE a "Links and Announcements" on the new boards? I've asked several times and still don't have an answer. Rel@ively, Patrice

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BF.2ADIAE/231.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Is it the links & Announcements? for this list I find under that heading: Welcome to the RootsWeb Boards Administrators Board This board is a help list on how to use the message boards. This board is NOT for queries, gedcoms, family group sheets, or other chart type information. Go to the RootsWeb Boards Administrators Board Administrator's Contact Information: Name: RootsWeb Content-Team E-mail: * *email is a graphic

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BF.2ADIAE/1086.1.1.2.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: Since the new boards haven't been launched yet any anomalies you see at present cannot be attributed to the boards that are not here yet. :) Joan

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BF.2ADIAE/1086.1.1.2.1.2.1 Message Board Post: That's okay, Lisa. Because the dates were so similar (but a year apart), I thought perhaps there was a glitch with the new boards. Hannah

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BF.2ADIAE/1086.1.1.2.1.2 Message Board Post: Hi, Hannah, guess that was my mistake in replying to an old, resolved thread -- sorry for the confusion -- and apologies to the mailing list for clogging up the gateway, too. -- Lisa

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BF.2ADIAE/1086.1.1.2.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Thank you for responding, Joan. I stupidly said "notification", but I actually received the message via the mailing list. Confirmation that this was a new message and not associated with any changes being made to the message board is reassuring. Hannah

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BF.2ADIAE/1020.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.4 Message Board Post: My thanks to Joan, Lynne, Jackie and for telling me that the link for the board administrator "Info Page" pop-up was replaced by a link for "Links & Announcements" on pages that have an administrator in place. For boards without an administrator, the "Links & Announcement" link is "Become An Admin." Of course, all this may change when the new board system is implemented. :)

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BF.2ADIAE/1086.1.1.2.1.1 Message Board Post: You received the notification because a new post was added to a thread in which you had previously posted a message. This has nothing to do with any changes in the message boards that are coming. This has been how the notifications of replies have worked since the current board system was launched in June 2001. Joan

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BF.2ADIAE/1086.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: The message from Lisa is dated 16 July 2006, but the thread to which she's responding seems to have come to an end in 2005. Have I received a notification of this message as a result of changes being made to the boards, or has someone just made a mistake in responding to an old post about a problem that has already been resolved by staff? Hannah

If you have a board and are logged in as the administrator, click on Edit Links and Announcements and you can put all the information in there that you would like to have displayed. Steve ----- Original Message ----- From: <LMS6@georgetown.edu> To: <BOARDS-ADMINS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, July 16, 2006 10:54 AM Subject: [BAd] Re: admin tutorial "info page"? and moving message threads > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BF.2ADIAE/1020.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2 > > Message Board Post: > > I agree that the pop-ups must be out of date. For instance, it says that > an Admin can fill out an "info page" for a board with their own name, and > with additional resources for that surname. > > If such a thing as an "info page" still exists, I am unable to find it. > :( Searching this board using that phrase doesn't get me anywhere. > > A basic tutorial would really be a help. Because I kept getting error > message when trying to move a message, I surfed this board today and > learned how to do it manually by inserting periods instead of angle > brackets > > to get the message to move. I had to hold my breath and > cross my fingers to see if the subsequent messages in the thread would > also move. (Yes, they do -- but there was nothing to tell me that in > advance). > > Argh. > > > ==== BOARDS-ADMINS Mailing List ==== > If you want off this list, click this link: > mailto:BOARDS-ADMINS-L-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > > ============================== > New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors > at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: > http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&targetid=5429 > >

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/RW/BF.2ADIAE/1020.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.3 Message Board Post: Lisa, The "Info page" is now called "Links & Announcements". When you want to move a message to a Topic or Locality board, you should use the "Browse" button because if a board title has a space or non-alpha character in it, simply replacing all the > with periods won't produce the correct path. To move a message to a Surnames board, in the Path field just type surnames.thename replacing "thename" with the actual surname (example to move a message to the SMITH board, type surnames.smith in the path field). The current Help, Rules, etc. are probably not going to be updated at this point. Jackie

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BF.2ADIAE/1020.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.2 Message Board Post: It is really kind of a moot point at this stage of the game with the new boards coming and all. When they arrive there should be a tutorial explaining admin functions. In the meantime--the name of the INFO page was changed to Links & Announcements (and will probably change again under the upgraded system coming soon). For the time being, when moving a message or if you need assistance with other admin functions, you might take a look at a reply I posted on the Boards-Admins list back in May 2002: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/BOARDS-ADMINS/2002-05/1021145315 Joan

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BF.2ADIAE/1020.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2.1 Message Board Post: Hi Lisa "Info page" should actually be "Links & Announcements." Lynne

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BF.2ADIAE/1086.1.1.2 Message Board Post: I agree with you. This was part of history, it's relevant to genealogy, and should stay. If staff deleted it because they feared it might attract inflammatory responses -- that's not good enough. The board admin could be relied on to take care of that. Wiping out the query and its helpful responses is wrong. Did the staff ever let you get it back?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BF.2ADIAE/231.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Does the Admin Info pop-up still exist? It is still mentioned in the Administrator pop-up faq -- but I don't see it on any pages -- not the ones I administer, not the ones I know other people administer. Did Ancestry eliminate the Admin Info pop-up at some point between 2001 and 2006, and just forget to take it out of the Administrator FAQ pop-up?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/BF.2ADIAE/1020.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1.2 Message Board Post: I agree that the pop-ups must be out of date. For instance, it says that an Admin can fill out an "info page" for a board with their own name, and with additional resources for that surname. If such a thing as an "info page" still exists, I am unable to find it. :( Searching this board using that phrase doesn't get me anywhere. A basic tutorial would really be a help. Because I kept getting error message when trying to move a message, I surfed this board today and learned how to do it manually by inserting periods instead of angle brackets > > to get the message to move. I had to hold my breath and cross my fingers to see if the subsequent messages in the thread would also move. (Yes, they do -- but there was nothing to tell me that in advance). Argh.

In a message dated 7/13/2006 11:21:13 PM Eastern Standard Time, unclefvp@verizon.net writes: A board poster wrote: "On 27 April 2006, I posted a question about birth death marriage records on the Clinton County, New York message board. I "ticked" the square to be notified by email of any responses to the posting. Now after many responses later (non of which have anything to do with the original question) I wish to not be notified of responses to that particular posting. IS this possible?" Beats me, any ideas? Regards, Fred, Clinton admin Fred- If the poster is willing to wait until the new boards are launched I suspect they may be able to do this for themselves at that time (to uncheck the box to be notified about new posts in a thread) but currently if they want to change the option they will have to contact message board staff at: messageboards@rootsweb.com and they must be very specific as to what they wish to change with regard to notifications of replies and on which board and which thread. Joan

A board poster wrote: "On 27 April 2006, I posted a question about birth death marriage records on the Clinton County, New York message board. I "ticked" the square to be notified by email of any responses to the posting. Now after many responses later (non of which have anything to do with the original question) I wish to not be notified of responses to that particular posting. IS this possible?" Beats me, any ideas? Regards, Fred, Clinton admin

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BF.2ADIAE/1190.1 Message Board Post: While viewing the message you want to print out, click on the link that says print message with the printer icon next to it. This gives you a printer friendly version of the message to print out. Joan

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BF.2ADIAE/1190 Message Board Post: Could someone please tell me how you can print messages received on the message boards. I received a message with a lot of info on a relative and cannot print it out. Help please. Gloria Robbins at gjrobb@earthlink.net