Google Search: site:boards.ancestry.com "become an admin"

Google Search: site:boards.ancestry.com "become an admin"

which is how to check out where help is needed.

Using attachments to post a source

When posting a new message it is easy to overlook the function :-

Attachments: [ Add ]

which is one line above the >> [Post Message] << href="http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p=localities.scan-balt.faroeislands.general&m=10">Hans Petur Ellingsgaard in Faeroe Islands

>> You may only upload GEDCOM files or graphics files.
Graphics files will be converted to .JPG or .GIF upon upload.
Other files types are not accepted.<<

obviously any text should be in the body of the message to which URL may be added as hot links leading to other stuff.

Hugh W

Schleswig, Holstein and Denmark or Germany?

RootsWeb Message Boards - Message [ Sonderjylland ]:
"Schleswig, Holstein and Denmark or Germany?"

the sort of stuff I scribble before breakfast with the help of google and some copy pasting with attributions as URL

I am basically adding background data for the family historians and knowledge geography is important in understanding which archives, or film, to search, and in reading names of places.

Find a Board Results: 17 matches for "denmark"

Welcome, Danish Genealogy (my latest handle)

You are registered to administer the following [except the 4 marked NOT] :

NOT 1. Boards > Localities > Scandinavian and Baltic States > Denmark > General

2. Boards > Localities > Scandinavian and Baltic States > Denmark > Counties > Bornholm
3. Boards > Localities > Scandinavian and Baltic States > Denmark > Counties > Frederiksborg
4. Boards > Localities > Scandinavian and Baltic States > Denmark > Counties > Fyn
5. Boards > Localities > Scandinavian and Baltic States > Denmark > Counties > Nordjylland
6. Boards > Localities > Scandinavian and Baltic States > Denmark > Counties > Ribe

NOT 7. Boards > Localities > Scandinavian and Baltic States > Denmark > Counties > Ringkobing

8. Boards > Localities > Scandinavian and Baltic States > Denmark > Counties > Roskilde
9. Boards > Localities > Scandinavian and Baltic States > Denmark > Counties > Sonderjylland

NOT 10. Boards > Localities > Scandinavian and Baltic States > Denmark > Counties > Storstrom

11. Boards > Localities > Scandinavian and Baltic States > Denmark > Counties > Vejle
12. Boards > Localities > Scandinavian and Baltic States > Denmark > Counties > Viborg

NOT 13. Boards > Localities > Scandinavian and Baltic States > Denmark > Counties > Aarhus

14. Boards > Localities > Scandinavian and Baltic States > Denmark > Counties > Kobenhavn [Copenhagen]
15. Boards > Localities > Scandinavian and Baltic States > Denmark > Counties > Vestjalland

16. Boards > Surnames > Denmark

17. Boards > Topics > Census > Denmark > General

all very quiet but it is nice to be back after a holiday

Boards > Surnames > Schultz

Messages posted to this board also appear in the "SCHULTZ" mailing list.

Boards > Surnames > Schultz

this is a good busy board

eg " Born: Russia,
Parent's born: Russia,
Language spoken: Jewish,
Immigration date: 1907"

USA and Prussia and Germany too

but not so much Denmark
so outside my scope
all cleaned up to about (1550 messages) May 2004

this was the first major board I "cleaned up"
which means editing the headers to the correct standards ,
and moving, or deleting, off topic messages

It took one afternoon.

so please take it on by clicking on Become An Admin

put it in "My Notifications"
and you get an email evry 24 hours
listing what's new on the boards you read.

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I do, I do, and I was an early adopter, and therefore I am an evangelist for ancestry.co.uk and as an old guy at home they bring the archives as images to me 24/7 in my own home.

Exploring Ancestry dot com and co uk
- blogging my own blog - but the two sites are so closely linked

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which is why I need the two blogs to explore these immense sites.

Ethics and genealogy

Start at RootsWeb Message Boards and then click into browse all topics

follow the snail trail Boards > Topics > Methods > Ethics in Genealogy

anf you will find some of my stuff on applied philosophy (which I studied in evening classes of the Open University (Humanoria) of Copenhagen University as part of my preparation for old age, retirement, and a final career as a writer).

Norway Seamen Research

Mariners in Norwegian Archives

from

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Browing RootsWeb: Mariners-L Archives

one of my efforts searching ancestry gets archived

RootsWeb: Mariners-L HMS Bullfinch and PAYNE and schooner JULIA and HMS Unknown was Re: [Mar] Danish Monarch

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one of the best lists

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This board is a help list on how to use the message boards from the administrative point of view.
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DO read the words of wisdom by Joan Young

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I use a google site search to look for vacancies

Google Search: site:boards.ancestry.com "become an admin" and add keywords

eg Google Search: site:boards.ancestry.com surnames "become an admin"

Google Search: site:boards.ancestry.com topics "become an admin"

I see Boards > Topics > Census > Denmark > General
still needs an ADMIN but
Boards > Topics > Occupations > British Mariners is OK

both boards were created at my request.

About my blogs

• GENEALOGE

This is my oldest blog and I use this for news and notes about my site
Danish Census and Church Books, other sites, and my daily surfing of the net.
The blog has been rightly criticised as chaotic but googling will discover some pearls.


• Exploring Rootsweb

I spent a lot of time adminstering message boards and will build up a guide to Rootsweb.


• Exploring Ancestry dot com and co uk

I log on here nearly every day to surf the census and do look ups for myself and friends, and it is so big that a guide is needed to the many databases.


• Getting to know AOL

America Online has become my favourite ISP in UK and I use AOL for chat and as a BBS.


• Viking

This will eventually include a viking novel in public first draft, but also has stuff about modern Denmark.


• 1805

This started as a project to translate selected pages of the diary of Hans Christian Andersen but he was born the same year that Vice Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson died and I am comparing what UK and DK will celebrate in their 2005 bicentenary .


• Memories

I am living history because I was born in 1936.


• Hugh's Review of Reviews

My first success as a freelancee journalist was in the Record Review in 1960, and I enjoy bring critical and analytical. I have retired as a musician and recommencing my career as a writer, I have decided to self-publish in the blogsphere rather than on paper.


• Hugh's Bloog

This is about blogging - and other silly stuff like my health and web oddities.

LAPHAM surname board and list

Boards > Surnames > Lapham

Messages posted to this board also appear in the "LAPHAM-L@rootsweb.com" mailing list.

RootsWeb: Genealogy Mailing Lists: LAPHAM Surname

• Archives. You can search the archives for a specific message or browse them, going from one message to another. Some list archives are not available; if there is a link here to an archive but the link doesn't work, it probably just means that no messages have been posted to that list yet.
  • Search the LAPHAM archives
  • Browse the LAPHAM archives

always browse any list archives before subscribing - this is a tiny list

Topic: Discussing and sharing of information regarding the Lapham surname and variations and its world wide connections. The list owner particularly wishes to establish the links between the English and United States branches possibly via Devon, Bristol and Gloucester, England.

yes the "list Owner" is me - I prefer to say ADMIN

LAPHAM is my mother's maiden name but the records for seventeenth century England have many gaps an so my LAPHAM are still in Bristol and tailors and dressmakers.


Lapham, Alison Mary (b. Filton May 16, 1908, traines inBrighton, taught in Birminghsm, lived in Solihull as Mrs A. M. Watkins and d. Heartlands Hospital, Birmingham UK, December 22, 1999)

Message Board Post:
I have a copy of a family record prepared by Increase Lapham in 1864 that traces the family back to John Lapham in Devonshire, England in 1634. John came to Providence, Rhode Island and married Mary Mann. They had 4 sons and 1 daughter. E mail me [Author: charlou howald] if you would like a copy.

Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/VZp.2ACIB/197

I am making a very low key LAPHAM one-name study - there are at least 18 000 in USA and in Australia and burials in Tasmania are also noted.

Kilmington parish registers are full of LAPHAM and LAPPAM - but why?

And where does the name originate?

Best way to search census - Help please

Author: Melanie Barr
"Just joined and cannot for the life of me understand how 'Hugh' gets the results of searches that he gets.
What am I missing. Where should I start my search?"

read the thread for some answers
Ancestry Message Boards - Message [ United Kingdom and Ireland ]:
Author: Hugh Watkins

Staying On-Topic from RootsWeb Review Archives

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to serve a specific topic of discussion.

Genealogical discussion concerning your CLAPSADDLE (KLEBSATTEL) family
in Germany would not be a suitable topic of discussion on a list devoted
the USA Oregon Trail Pioneers, for instance. A request for a lookup in a
Philadelphia city directory would be off-topic on a list devoted to
Welsh coal miners.

Most of us recognize the extremes that are obviously off-topic, but with
genealogical matters, it is not always so clear-cut. Some discussion
topics can overlap into another area -- for instance, your CLAPSADDLEs
might have immigrated to Sidney, Australia, opening up a new geographic
area into the discussion. They might have married into the MORSE family,
thus introducing a new surname into a thread or they might have joined
an obscure religious sect about which you'd like to learn more."
read more here:

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ROOTS-L started out as a LISTSERV mailing list at NDSU in late 1987. Yup, that means we just celebrated our 11th anniversary!

Anyhow, after several contented years at NDSU, in August, 1995, we moved to the then new LISTSERV at eWorld. In July of 1996, the list again moved, hopefully for the last time (this business of moving mailing lists around isn't nearly as fun as they say, trust me!), to a SmartList mailing list hosted by RootsWeb. (Not to put too fine a point on it, but that was more or less the formal start of RootsWeb.)

The other major change was due to a poll taken in early 1996, which indicated an high level of support for the screening messages, to eliminate LISTSERV commands, reposted digests, etc. So after redesigning the system we use for screening to expedite the approval of messages and protect against losing them, all ROOTS-L messages are prescreened.

structure and privacy

Rootsweb has three main threads

BBS or message boards

LISTS

and home pages

eg MOUNTAIN TIES: "The people of the Central Appalachians"

Genealogists use RootsWeb and the incredible power of the Internet to learn more about ancestors and to find far-flung cousins. However we are caught in an incongruous position on privacy matters.

Everyone wants their privacy respected, but are you invading that of your relatives? Technology enables us to share genealogical information easily and quickly via e-mail, mailing lists, chat rooms, bulletin boards, newsgroups, GEDCOMs, CDs and Web sites. In our eagerness to obtain and to share data we forget that our living family members have a right to privacy. We also post personal details about ourselves that we would not put on the local supermarket bulletin board.
see Privacy and the Internet

Melungeon Heritage Page

HULLO

I have just ended a stint as an ADMIN or volunteer,
so I am going to blog news and views.

Welcome to the RootsWeb Message Boards!

Hugh W