On Thursday, April 7, 2005 9:26 PM MDT, Betty White <[email protected]> wrote: > Message Board Post: > > Do you have proof of Zilpha's father being Jacob Hayes? > > I have a question, which I have asked before and thought I understood, > but I don't. The above question was asked on the listings, but I have no > idea who they are talking to or about. I have looked back through all my > mail and didn't find anything on this name. It doesn't seem like we should > have to go to the site and keep going back until we find out who and what > this question was asked for. Hi, Betty, It would be nice if people always preceded their messages with some context, but that bit of messaging etiquette is commonly ignored. So, unless you're keeping a copy of all of the messages coming over this mailing list, you have no choice but to go out onto the World Wide Web to look at the message board post and trace the thread back. So, for example, the message you describe comes with this URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/AWB.2ACE/1652.1.2.1 Usually you just click on this URL and your web browser (Internet Explorer, Netscape, etc.) will open, but sometimes you must copy and paste it into your web browser. In either case, you'll see the original post. It will be preceded by a line that says something like: In Reply to: Re: Hayes Family by: GD Wilson Clicking on the link "Re: Hayes Family" will take you to the message being replied to. In this case it is from a while back, 11 Sep 2003, so it's not surprising that you don't remember it. S R C A cott obert ranston nderson [email protected] Admin, {C{offield,ollosky,ranston,ummins},OHGuerns,USAGen}[email protected] USGenWeb Coordinator, http://www.usgennet.org/usa/oh/county/guernsey/