Find Ancestors

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Here's a list of the threads you will see if you follow the directions in the first post here, to see the POSTING TIPS:


Please put a SURNAME in your subject line.

Please check your message for replies ASAP

Tips for New Posters ... and Old

Multiple posts about related people - pro and con

A sample Trying To Find Post

Please be clear about what you are looking for

How to find replies to your posts

Please reply in the thread, not by private message


-- and that last one will explain what a "thread" is, for anybody still wondering. ;)

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may i say thankyou to lots of ppl who have given lots of tips on this post i will certainly be trying them all were possible. i am new to genes reunited, and have been looking for lost family members for 8 years and any tips are greatly received thankyou to all above
Emma

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heh heh, Krystyna -- if you follow those directions and read all the tips, you'll see that there are particular posts about those in particular --

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=993827

"Please put a SURNAME in your subject line."

and

"Please be clear about what you are looking for"
(including the location)


Some other tips in the series so far are:

How to find replies to your posts
Please reply in the thread, not by private message
Please check your message for replies ASAP


The easy way to find the various tips messages is to put "posting tips" in the search box on the left of the Trying to Find board.

If I shamelessly nudge my own tips posts from time to time (or if somebody does it for us), they will appear at the top of the results list.


(I think the posts on this particular board that have people's own names as the subject lines are old, old posts that have been converted to the new system. Unfortunately, other people may see them and follow that model ...)

For people like me, who like to look at the boards for current posts, it would be really helpful if you could put the family name and area in your heading rather than your own name. It's so much easier to whittle down the posts that might interest me. I'm sure others feel the same too.

Krystyna

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Kathryn,

Thanks, I am bookmarking it.

Hey, that's a tip I didn't think of giving!

Bookmark the tips. ;)

Kathryn,

Thanks for your tip, am bookmarking it.

a nudge because it's needed

Please take advantage of these tips that can help you get the most out of requests for assistance.

To read them:

1. Click on TRYING TO FIND on the left side.

2. (only if you see "remove this filter" over on the left side: click on REMOVE THIS FILTER)

3. Under SURNAME FILTER, type in the box: POSTING TIPS -- and click SEARCH.

4. Soak up the wisdom collected from all the "NEW POSTERS, PLEASE READ" threads that people post from time to time here, but few people ever see. ;)

And when you've finished reading the tips of interest to you,

5. Click on REMOVE THIS FILTER to return to the general Trying to Find board.


Loads of useful info about --
what information to put in your posts
how to find answers to your posts
how to reply to posts

all collected from the keyboards of the many helpful people who hang around here and *volunteer* to put their knowlege and skills to use for family researchers!