Question: What happened to all the "obits" that used to be on the county pages? Try this. http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.georgia.counties.macon This is a very long address, so you may have to copy and paste it into your browser. **This URL is for Macon.....but you would substitute any county name. When you're on that page... JUST before the queries actually begin... CHANGE the "View Message Type: box to: Obituary. You have to use the arrow to scroll down. Then, as soon as you choose it should pull up ALL the Obituaries. You can do the same thing for any category, i.e. Bible, Cemetery, Pension POSTERS NAME While you're there, CLICK on anyone's name....and you will see the listing of EVERYTHING the person has ever posted by County and State. Macon has a very long list....in fact, you'll need to click NEXT on the lower right hand side....it takes you to the rest of them. Let me know how this works for you..... We want to help people get comfortable with these new boards... there are lots of +s to their use. Please ask a question about anything that you can't work on the Boards, or don't understand. At 04:23 PM 11/13/2001 -0500, you wrote: >Virginia, >I still would like to be the list administrator for both pages. > >The problem with the lack of interest,is that nobody can figure out how to >use the pages. They have lost their personal touch We use to be one big >family who communicated about our families. We had a separation of >queries, wills, obit, etc, where we went and put our information, when >someone had interest, they would inquire within the subject area. This is >a cold approach to genealogy. It's lost it's charm. In fact, I would >like to see our pages withdrawn from rootsweb, and cranked up again in >it's original format. Of course, it will never happen, but I can dream, >can't I? > >I will encourage Margie to move when she returns. Something needs to be >done to try and get people back to the pages. I personally believe that >this will become a pay for use project. Ancestry.com is not in it for >charity. You might say that they have stolen all of our hard work, and >some of us resent it. Davine Campbell put over 2000 obits on the Macon >County page and "poof" they are gone. Scrambled into the vast maize of data. > >Millie Virginia Crilley

It would be nice if it was that simple, but it is not, at least not for all of us. The new ancestry boards make it impossible for me to use them with my web browser. Plus my name has desappeared from everything I posted to the GenConnect boards. Where my name used to be, it now says "Nobody Owns This." To me, that seems very unfriendly. David On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Crilley wrote: > Question: What happened to all the "obits" that used to be on the county pages? > > > Try this. > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.georgia.counties.macon > > This is a very long address, so you may have to copy and paste it into your > browser. > **This URL is for Macon.....but you would substitute any county name. > > When you're on that page... JUST before the queries actually begin... > CHANGE the "View Message Type: box to: Obituary. > You have to use the arrow to scroll down. > > Then, as soon as you choose it should pull up ALL the Obituaries. You can > do the same thing for any category, i.e. Bible, Cemetery, Pension > > POSTERS NAME > While you're there, CLICK on anyone's name....and you will see the listing > of EVERYTHING the person has ever posted by County and State. > > Macon has a very long list....in fact, you'll need to click NEXT on the > lower right hand side....it takes you to the rest of them. > > Let me know how this works for you..... > > We want to help people get comfortable with these new boards... there are > lots of +s to their use. > Please ask a question about anything that you can't work on the Boards, or > don't understand. > > > > > At 04:23 PM 11/13/2001 -0500, you wrote: > >Virginia, > >I still would like to be the list administrator for both pages. > > > >The problem with the lack of interest,is that nobody can figure out how to > >use the pages. They have lost their personal touch We use to be one big > >family who communicated about our families. We had a separation of > >queries, wills, obit, etc, where we went and put our information, when > >someone had interest, they would inquire within the subject area. This is > >a cold approach to genealogy. It's lost it's charm. In fact, I would > >like to see our pages withdrawn from rootsweb, and cranked up again in > >it's original format. Of course, it will never happen, but I can dream, > >can't I? > > > >I will encourage Margie to move when she returns. Something needs to be > >done to try and get people back to the pages. I personally believe that > >this will become a pay for use project. Ancestry.com is not in it for > >charity. You might say that they have stolen all of our hard work, and > >some of us resent it. Davine Campbell put over 2000 obits on the Macon > >County page and "poof" they are gone. Scrambled into the vast maize of data. > > > >Millie > > Virginia Crilley > > > ============================== > Visit Ancestry's Library - The best collection of family history > learning and how-to articles on the Internet. > http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library > [email protected] David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dmorgan/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm