Genealogy Chat

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Haven't seen this idea mentioned before; sorry if it has and I'm repeating someone's suggestion. Since we now have limited "pages" (messages only kept for 15 pages) perhaps once you've received answers to your question, you might delete the message? Some of my messages are tips, but most of my messages have been things like "have you ever heard of this name" and "where is Walworth Road". Once I've received help, I would rather remove my message and leave "room" for someone else. (Perhaps leave the message for a couple of days, in case it might help someone else.) I'm sure there will be times that members have answered and I would still like more information, but if we could just remove messages that have answered our questions it might make more room. PS I may have a bit more time than some people (only work part-time) but since our names are in black, it was fairly easy to take a few minutes to scroll through the pages and remove the "answered" messages.

Good idea Lisa I will try to remember to do that, I think we will have to keep a note of the number of our particular thread else it would be hard to find it. Margaret

Where are the thread numbers? I can't see any numbers or am I looking in the wrong place? help Please, Meryl

Meryl The thread number is in the address bar(where you type in the web address). If you click in it you will see the thread number of this thread. It will say key= and a number. Change this number only, to the number of the thread you were interested in and it will take you to that thread. Clever aint it !!!! Margaret

Message number is the 6 digit number at end of the web address. It sometimes has `surname` after it. This one is 347210

Thing is all of these tips might come in handy for someone else. Before you could just keep going back weel past the 15 page mark. And once I asked a question and about 3 weeks later after I had forgotten all about it it suddenly appeared and someone had answered my question, there are a lot of people that do not come on here as regulary as they would like to and a lot of them go back to see what they have missed. but now its totaly useless and you can only go back about 5 or 6 days what about the people that are away for a 2 week holiday. imagine what they miss. I for one like to read everything. and any small tip or question sometimes come in useful. And can you imagine if I went back about 3 days later to the thread that I thought I would go back to and the person had deleted it. I would be thinking i`d gone mad and spend all night looking for it so no I dont think its a good idea to delete there is room for everyone as long as GC can keep it so we can see further back than 15 pages. Debbie

Thanks Carol and Margaret. Meryl

I've usually deleted my requests for help with family when it's obvious noone can help me as I've had no replies. I don't think Lisa was suggesting we delete tips that may be useful to others, but the ones that won't, like "Where is Timbuctoo?" or "Does anyone know Sherlock Holmes telephone number?" I think it's a good idea, and will certainly free up space for good tips.

I agree and will ensure that I remove any answered questions. Tricia

Diana and Patricia, you're correct, I only suggested deleting messages that clearly could not help most people, like your examples, Diana, and my examples -- AFTER it has been on the board "awhile". Because of the time difference between California and when most people are actively replying, quite a bit of my time reading the messages is done when England is asleep. I enjoy reading all of the responses as I am learning so much about everything: internet sites, English places, records, how to do things, where to do things, why things were done certain ways, etc. The suggestion was only to delete messages that could not really benefit most people, and only to delete them after some time had passed. :~)