I was just poking around with the search engine as I sometimes do and wnet down a path that petered out in the new boards system. Here is what I did: At http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/metasearch entered "Ahern" At http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi?surname=ahern&given= chose an Ahern born 03/15/1941 who died in San Joaquin Valley At http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/CA/SanJoaquin/ I clicked on a link that said "San Joaqun County Obituaries" which took me to http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p= which doesn't have any mention of obituaries. What is the new board system going to do to handle all these links that have been constructed and now broken? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Dennis Ahern | The Ahern Family Genealogy Website Acton, Massachusetts | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
I realize that this is old, but I did hear that the Resource pages were going to be updated, today. Also, someone has figured out how to link to just Obits, or just another of the Classifications: This is part of a post by Denny Shirer to Boards-Admins: "Link for obituaries for Shirer surname board http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?f=setsessioncookie&r=rw&p=surnames.shirer&ONOK=http%3A%2F%2Fboards.ancestry.com%2Fmbexec%3Fhtx%3Dboard%26r%3Drw%26p%3Dsurnames.shirer%26type%3Dobituary&cookiename=CLASSIFICATION&cookievalue=obituary Link for obituaries for Somerset Co., PA board http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?f=setsessioncookie&r=rw&p=localities.northam.usa.states.pennsylvania.counties.somerset&ONOK=http%3A%2F%2Fboards.ancestry.com%2Fmbexec%3Fhtx%3Dboard%26r%3Drw%26p%3Dsurnames.shirer%26type%3Dobituary&cookiename=CLASSIFICATION&cookievalue=obituary Just replace "obituary" in the link with one of the following to pre-filter the other classifications: bible biography birth cemetery census death deed immigration lookup marriage military obituary pension will Leave it blank to choose all. You will have to edit the value of "p" to match your boards directory but this should work for everyone who wants to maintain some resemblance of the old system to help ease the transition for the users." I hope this helps somebody... Valorie Dennis Ahern wrote: > > I was just poking around with the search engine as I sometimes do and wnet > down a path that petered out in the new boards system. Here is what I > did: > > At http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/metasearch entered "Ahern" > At http://vitals.rootsweb.com/ca/death/search.cgi?surname=ahern&given= > chose an Ahern born 03/15/1941 who died in San Joaquin Valley > At http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/CA/SanJoaquin/ I clicked on a link > that said "San Joaqun County Obituaries" which took me to > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p= which doesn't have any > mention of obituaries. What is the new board system going to do to handle > all these links that have been constructed and now broken? > > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - > Dennis Ahern | The Ahern Family Genealogy Website > Acton, Massachusetts | http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~aherns/ > - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -