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Offline jonw65

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Re: Message boards missing on Ancestry
« Reply #9 on: Saturday 04 November 23 20:52 GMT (UK) »
The Ancestry message boards are simply useless and a total waste of time.

Just look at the age of posts for which there is no response.

If anyone has issues posting on Roots Chat will elicit far better responses.

Bit harsh, Biggles.
It's more the lack of response/gratitude from many of the OPs on those boards that deters some of us from helping them nowadays.
A lot of the zero reply posts are of the kind that are unlikely to get much of a response anywhere.
There are still some wonderful people on the ancestry boards.

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Re: Message boards missing on Ancestry
« Reply #10 on: Saturday 04 November 23 22:41 GMT (UK) »

Bit harsh, Biggles.
It's more the lack of response/gratitude from many of the OPs on those boards that deters some of us from helping them nowadays.
A lot of the zero reply posts are of the kind that are unlikely to get much of a response anywhere.
There are still some wonderful people on the ancestry boards.

And don't forget one of our biggest bugbears,where you spend ages answering a query.Only to find an over zealous moderator has moved it to another board,never to be seen or found again. ;D
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Re: Message boards missing on Ancestry
« Reply #11 on: Tuesday 13 February 24 07:57 GMT (UK) »
When I go to the Ancestry message boards I see no way to respond to a posted message.
There is a button to create a New Thread, but I have never seen any way to answer a query!

Any ideas?
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Re: Message boards missing on Ancestry
« Reply #12 on: Tuesday 13 February 24 08:00 GMT (UK) »
The Ancestry message boards are simply useless and a total waste of time.

Just look at the age of posts for which there is no response.


Maybe because it is unclear how to respond. I have never seen any way to do so.
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Re: Message boards missing on Ancestry
« Reply #13 on: Tuesday 13 February 24 09:04 GMT (UK) »
On the bottom right of each post, there is an arrow, a flag, and a printer icon. Click on the arrow to respond
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