In a message dated 4/7/2008 10:58:33 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: You might want to pay a visit to the obit board to take a look around and read the Board Information page. Don't know if the rules on the info page are official or have been devised by the board's admin. ------------------------------------------------------------- While going to the obit board to take a look, I also saw that there are two other obit boards: Topics > Military > World War II > Obituaries Topics > Ancestry.com > Obituary Collection The WW II board gives this description: << This board is for obituaries for persons who actualy died in combat during World War Two, or died a short time after discharge from service related causes. It is not for an obituary for someone who had served during that time and DID NOT die from service related causes. All such obituaries will be moved to the appropriate surname board. >> but the ancestry.com Obit collection doesn't give any guidelines so I'm wondering what that is for? In looking through the posts, it seems like the queries/obits could just have easily been posted on the surname board or county board where the person died. Is there such a thing as having too many choices/boards? Marilyn **************Planning your summer road trip? Check out AOL Travel Guides. (http://travel.aol.com/travel-guide/united-states?ncid=aoltrv00030000000016)
[email protected] wrote: >While going to the obit board to take a look, I also saw that there are two > other obit boards: > >Topics > Military > World War II > Obituaries >Topics > Ancestry.com > Obituary Collection > > >The WW II board gives this description: > ><< This board is for obituaries for persons who actualy died in combat >during World War Two, or died a short time after discharge from service related >causes. It is not for an obituary for someone who had served during that time >and DID NOT die from service related causes. All such obituaries will be moved >to the appropriate surname board. >> > >but the ancestry.com Obit collection doesn't give any guidelines so I'm >wondering what that is for? In looking >through the posts, it seems like the queries/obits could just have easily >been posted on the surname board >or county board where the person died. Is there such a thing as having too >many choices/boards? > > > Marilyn, as far as I know, every board under topics/Ancestry.Com is for Ancestry subscribers to discuss a (dis)function/service on the Ancestry site. Thus, the Obit. Collection board would be to post problems or comments about Ancestry's Obituary Collection, not a board on which obits can/should be posted. If there are obits posted there, they should be flagged via Report Abuse so they can be moved to the correct board. Yes, it is definitely possible to have too many choices. Except when it comes to ice cream flavors. Lynne