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    1. Re: [BAd] Deleting & Moving Posts - (was Correcting Surname Line
    2. 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back in years cleaning up my board -- Someone requests information and a reply posts the link to a web site that is no longer valid, should the post containing the web site link be deleted?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

    08/10/2006 07:19:51