I know I pressed for ages for birth, marriage, death and immigration for Germany but the idea of requiring user-id and password to post.... David Samuelsen JYoung6180@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 6/22/01 1:46:05 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > dsam@sampubco.com writes: > > > I'm going to keep up with you on this one. You will have to bear > > grin and be patient with us even to the point of extracting your > > eye and canine teeth out. ***<<VERY BIG GRIN>>*** > > Ouch, David, that hurt! <giggle> > > > > please list *ALL* the new ones added. > > you already mentioned: marriage, birth, death, cemetery > > What others? > > Okay. The Message Types are the default which is query, and the data > categories which are: Bible, Biography, Birth, Cemetery, Census, Death, Deed, > Immigration, Lookup, Marriage, Military, Obituary, Pension, Will. Keep in > mind that with the drop-down menu feature it will be easy to add other data > types if we later deem necessary--unlike adding new BOARD types themselves. > > > > *STILL* not answered: the option to shut off queries posted to any > > bios, obits, pensions, etc other than the query board itself - > > specifically individually since some CCs allow queries to wills and > > not other boards as long as it is revelant to THAT will (or to THAT > > bio or to THAT obit). > > The new system should solve that issue completely. The poster can reply to > an Obituary and still classify the response as a query. This should > virtually eliminate the unwanted query response to data post problem. In a > search for Obits ONLY those posts categorized as Obits will show up--not the > responses tagged as queries. > > > > The idea of the board admin have to use user-id and password to post > > transcribed bios, obits, etc *EACH TIME* really stinks. It was done > > away some time ago only to see it come back. > > This is for purposes of universal changes--you must have a database in order > to permit universal updating which I think everyone agrees we needed for a > long time. > > > > And what's worse in my case, my user-id and password was not recognized > > and rejected 3 times. I had them with Ancestry.com and still rejected. > > That will be 4th time they changed my user-id if I succeed. > > > Yes--we know--we are working on it right now. > > Joan > RootsWeb