For Admins of locality boards like those described below, why don't you ask Ancestry to start "Transferred Posts Notices" just for your type of boards? Ancestry does read suggestions, so just maybe they'd think it was a grand idea to implement. Judy On Fri, Oct 9, 2009 at 10:05 AM, MJDallas <rwlistsboards@comcast.net> wrote: > Tilman Brandl wrote: > > > > for instance Poland General. Reason being that I'm not really > knowledgeable > > with Polish provinces > > I have the same difficulty when someone posts to the Poland board about > ancestors in Ukraine, Belarus, Russia, etc. - all countries that have > territory that was once Polish land. The borders of central and eastern > Europe have changed drastically over the last 200 years. It can be > truly impossible to be able to move a mis-placed post onto the correct > board without knowledge of a particular country's geography and history. > I do my best to figure out what board the post belongs on, but > sometimes a) I can't find any map site in English that gives enough info > for me to figure it out and b) sometimes there isn't a surname board to > move it to either (if any surnames are even mentioned in the post). So, > like Tilman, I move it to the country's general board, even though it > doesn't really belong there either. > > Which is why it would be nice for some sort of notice of when posts are > moved onto my boards, especially the Poland general board. I've been > researching my Polish ancestry for 20 years now, and learning the > geographical history of the country was imperative to my research. I'd > rather spend five minutes figuring out where a mis-placed post belongs > than having another admin waste a half-hour or more of their time trying > to figure it out and still ending up moving the post to the general > board because they couldn't find the answer or gave up trying. >