This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/SRB.2ACE/11992.1 Message Board Post: Dale, you raise a good point, but on balance, it is far better for us to have too many postings than too little. I have a different viewpoint on this, based on from my own personal perspective and many others' perspectives, since I coordinate a volunteer effort on a different board. Actually - posting so many obits increases the odds of many more people finding information about family members they would never think of making a request for. Most people aren't going to be making a request for obits of their 2675 favorite family members - and many can't specify a year or place of death to make a request in the first place. Frequently, because other surnames may be mentioned in the obits, people discover a name they have been researching for many years. I wish I could tell you how many family members I've stumbled upon when doing a search because someone took the time to post an obit that stays on the board forever, available to me and others years from now. The Cattaraugus county board volunteer team also posts many obits, and it is sometimes stunning to see how many emails come in from folks so excited to find a family member "hiding" within one of those postings - often one they have spent 20 years trying to find. These boards are specifically for researchers to exchange information with other researchers - and obits, bios, and other such documents are the best way to do this. From the feedback I've gotten from many - posting random obits has proved to be one of the most successful avenues for finding family history. Limiting the posting of information to be only in response to a specific request would severely curtail the odds of other researchers finding their own family history. In our experience, when random obits and bios are posted, it stimulates even more queries on our board - which gives people like you who are so kindly willing to help other researchers more chances of doing just that.