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Offline EdCan

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Message boards missing on Ancestry
« on: Friday 03 November 23 02:16 GMT (UK) »
For some reason when I go into message boards I am able to see only 10 boards. Does not matter whether it is Canada, USA or Europe. How do I get all boards showing? This just started today.

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Tindall Greater London
Edmonds Greater London
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Chappell Somerset
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Re: Message boards missing on Ancestry
« Reply #1 on: Friday 03 November 23 09:11 GMT (UK) »
This is the listing that I get. Notice that there are many sub boards too.


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Re: Message boards missing on Ancestry
« Reply #2 on: Friday 03 November 23 10:59 GMT (UK) »
That is what I get also. Go into Canada then into Ontario and there are only 10 counties showing. Similar happens with United Kingdom and Ireland. England shows only 10 counties.
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Re: Message boards missing on Ancestry
« Reply #3 on: Saturday 04 November 23 12:47 GMT (UK) »
You mean like this? With no counties except Yorkshire to Somerset?
Website: http://freepages.rootsweb.com/~towcesterfamilies/genealogy/
Towcester - anything, any time
Cheshire - Lambert, Houghland, Birtwisle
Liverpool - Platt, Cunningham, Ditton
London - Notley, Elsom, Billett
Oxfordshire - Hitchcock, Smith, Leonard, Taunt
Durham - Hepburn, Eltringham
Berwickshire - Guthrie, Crawford
Somerset - Taylor (Bath)
Gloucestershire - Verrinder, Colborn
Dorset - Westlake

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Re: Message boards missing on Ancestry
« Reply #4 on: Saturday 04 November 23 12:55 GMT (UK) »
The Boards are hierarchical so that you have to work through the categories/boards until you find the one you want.

I think these are a left over from the old Rootsweb boards.
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Re: Message boards missing on Ancestry
« Reply #5 on: Saturday 04 November 23 14:46 GMT (UK) »
If I wanted the Devon England board how would I go about getting it?
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Re: Message boards missing on Ancestry
« Reply #6 on: Saturday 04 November 23 15:01 GMT (UK) »
Quote from: EdCan on Saturday 04 November 23 14:46 GMT (UK)
If I wanted the Devon England board how would I go about getting it?

guessed the correct URL based on the other entries :

https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/localities.britisles.england.dev.general

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Re: Message boards missing on Ancestry
« Reply #7 on: Saturday 04 November 23 16:00 GMT (UK) »
Tried it for Halton co, Ontario, Canada with variations but kept getting message stating that domain name not available
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Chappell Somerset
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Re: Message boards missing on Ancestry
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 04 November 23 20:07 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.
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