Good morning, I also don't have time to check out all the Message Boards which would probably be helpful to me. I've know for a long time that there is a way to have some of the Boards become your "Favorites." But, I just haven't taken the time to do that procedure. Actually, I do try to remember to visit the KIDDER Board, and I just went there and tried to find the place where I can make it one of my "Favorites." It's not an obvious thing. I had to look around and found the instructions at the bottom of the page under "Board Help." You get a little box where you can click on "My Favorites." Or, you can click on "My Alerts." I just tried to do this, and it appears you have to use your own "Add a Favorite" tool. As far as "Alerts," go that is a little more difficult. The instruction says to use your own "Alerts" feature, but I'm not seeing that function on my "Outlook Express." Does anyone have more experience with Message Boards than I do? Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) P.S. This year I have discovered that, when you do Google searches, more postings to the Message Boards are showing up in the search. A good example of this happened yesterday. There are 2 books I've wanted to look at for a long time. When I Googled, "Yesterday's Naughty Children," yesterday, I found a posting on the subject from 6 years ago on the Lancashire, England, Message Board. It had information that I could use. That Message Board is one that I would never remember to visit. I did respond to the old posting, and discovered this morning - that the Board is "gatewayed" to the Lancsgen List. You very rarely see the Board postings on the List, so probably most people don't remember to visit it. I'm told that every Board which "is" gatewayed to a List has a note about it at the bottom of the page. I personally don't mind it when I post a query on a Board and then I post the same query on the List -- thus my query appears twice on the List. It's only a slight inconvenience to some. But, I know there is a lot of researchers who don't participate on the Lists and "only" participate on the Boards. So, I want those researchers to see my query. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cynthia Phillips" <cphillips59@gmail.com> To: <can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 4:02 PM Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] Message Board > tha'ts my problem if it doens't come to my email i don't remember and i'm > on so many boads and lists now id on't have time to flip thru them all > > I prefer they come to the emial lists. > > cindy >

Morning Betty The alert/favorites seems to have changed on Rootsweb boards- making a board a favorite or setting up an alert was there where it now says 'board information' or something like that. I tried starting a new thread on a board, and found the links to the favorites and alerts I'd already established and then when I went to a new board the options to make it a favorite or set up an alert were there in a box labeled 'board tools'. I don't understand why this has changed, or why 'they' are making it so difficult to find the links. Maybe with all the upgrades and changes they created their own glich! I hope someone knows an easier way, as this could be a real user deterent! faye ---- Betty <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> wrote: > Good morning, > > I also don't have time to check out all the Message Boards which would > probably be helpful to me. I've know for a long time that there is a way > to have some of the Boards become your "Favorites." But, I just haven't > taken the time to do that procedure. > > Actually, I do try to remember to visit the KIDDER Board, and I just went > there and tried to find the place where I can make it one of my "Favorites." > It's not an obvious thing. I had to look around and found the > instructions at the bottom of the page under "Board Help." You get a > little box where you can click on "My Favorites." Or, you can click on > "My Alerts." I just tried to do this, and it appears you have to use > your own "Add a Favorite" tool. As far as "Alerts," go that is a > little more difficult. The instruction says to use your own "Alerts" > feature, but I'm not seeing that function on my "Outlook Express." > > Does anyone have more experience with Message Boards than I do? > > Betty (near Lowell, MA, USA) > > > P.S. This year I have discovered that, when you do Google searches, more > postings to the Message Boards are showing up in the search. A good > example of this happened yesterday. There are 2 books I've wanted to > look at for a long time. When I Googled, "Yesterday's Naughty > Children," yesterday, I found a posting on the subject from 6 years ago on > the Lancashire, England, Message Board. It had information that I could > use. That Message Board is one that I would never remember to visit. > I did respond to the old posting, and discovered this morning - that the > Board is "gatewayed" to the Lancsgen List. You very rarely see the Board > postings on the List, so probably most people don't remember to visit it. > > I'm told that every Board which "is" gatewayed to a List has a note about it > at the bottom of the page. I personally don't mind it when I post a > query on a Board and then I post the same query on the List -- thus my query > appears twice on the List. It's only a slight inconvenience to some. > But, I know there is a lot of researchers who don't participate on the Lists > and "only" participate on the Boards. So, I want those researchers to see > my query. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Cynthia Phillips" <cphillips59@gmail.com> > To: <can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, August 23, 2009 4:02 PM > Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] Message Board > > > > tha'ts my problem if it doens't come to my email i don't remember and i'm > > on so many boads and lists now id on't have time to flip thru them all > > > > I prefer they come to the emial lists. > > > > cindy > > > > When you want to respond to a query or comment posted on this List, I find it MUCH easier to post a new message -- remembering to include the SUBJECT from the post you are responding to !! Please make sure there is a SURNAME or place-name in the Subject. > > To search the archives: > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=CAN-USA-MIGRATION > The information page is: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Immigration/CAN-USA-MIGRATION.html > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CAN-USA-MIGRATION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Faye, I did some investigating a few minutes ago and found out there is a Board for ... "Board Users." So, I posted a query about the "Page Tools." I found out that some Boards have the little "Page Tools" box where the Alerts and Favorites are mentioned, and some "Page Tools" box do not have them mentioned. So, I don't know why that is not consistent with all Boards. If I have time, I'll go find the page which list all the responsibilities of an Administrator of a Message Board. Betty ----- Original Message ----- From: "Faye" <fmrees@nycap.rr.com> To: <can-usa-migration@rootsweb.com> Cc: "Betty" <bbffrrpp@comcast.net> Sent: Monday, August 24, 2009 8:12 AM Subject: Re: [CAN-USA-MIG] Message Board - functions > Morning Betty > The alert/favorites seems to have changed on Rootsweb boards- making a > board a favorite or setting up an alert was there where it now says 'board > information' or something like that. > > I tried starting a new thread on a board, and found the links to the > favorites and alerts I'd already established and then when I went to a new > board the options to make it a favorite or set up an alert were there in > a box labeled 'board tools'. > > I don't understand why this has changed, or why 'they' are making it so > difficult to find the links. Maybe with all the upgrades and changes they > created their own glich! > > I hope someone knows an easier way, as this could be a real user deterent! > faye