Genealogy Forum??

[njkate]

Count me in....good idea

[Ellwood]

I vote for a genealogy forum!

[NeedToStartOver]

I like the idea too

[mrstewart]

count my vote as a yes!

[linicx]

I am happy to report in the last week 15 new members joined the Genealogy Group in the Social Groups forums. Now, we've run headlong into a problem. Social groups was not designed for several different discussions on several topics at the same time as the regular forums do. A subjject or question cannot be quoted and replied to, thus there is no order to question and answer. Instead a person may look through six pages of conversation and never find an answer to his/her question. On the other hand genealogy forums that have threads, may have 10 or more replies to one thread alone. Can you really imagine scrolling through 50 pages to find ten replies?There is no search feature in Social Groups. Most searcher won't do it because we don't know ten answers exist without the thread. I don't understand the numbering system at all.. It seems the first page is cited as the sixth page in the counter. It still creates the problem of going through six pages to see what questions have been answered.

The best reason to open a Genealogy Forum is this: The parent company of rootsweb and its companion websites are now paid admission. I expect their GenForum to be the next paid forum. Olive Tree Genealogy is going that way too. This leaves the rest of us who caanot afford expensive access to seek new forums.

A good geneolgy forum will give C-D even wider press coverage. The only thing diffeent I would do on this fourm is *not* allow gedcom and full page quotes as it wastes a lot of server space that can be put to better use. Three sentences should be enough for most readers to get the gist of content, and if it isn't enough information they should be able to click on the name of the poster to read the original. And I can see the extra work involved in html anchors. I would volunteer for that job in this forum - only because I've written a lot of code.

We need you more than you need a genea forum .

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[thePR]

I think this is a good idea.

[gardener34]

good idea. I always benefit from learning how others approach their Problems.

[Tiger Beer]

Sounds good to me...as it is, it seems to be randomly across several forums - none of which seem to be used much anyways.

[bjh]

Oh, what forums are those?

[Tiger Beer]

I've seen random postings in 'people search', 'science & technology', etc.

If you do a search for 'genealogy', you'll find people throwing it out in various random forums.