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Ah Joonie, but your info was very useful as it helped me find the census which I'd been struggling to find as the poster's dob given for the woman was a couple of years out.

If I posted something with no comments e.g. just a bald c&p of a record (which would be unusual for me as most here know I tend to justify, hypothesise or just plain waffle) then I may delete. Personally, I regard duplication of info posted to be verification of same.

But, although a new name to this site you're obviously well versed in other forums and no doubt have your own preferences. :-)

I did what jax does there - 'The only time I delete is if I have posted the same info as someone else...so it is not needed' :-) the poster posted info that answered my question when she answered the first post, giving the information I had just posted about where the family was and where the husband was born, and then another poster found the marriage I had just found and was about to add .......... so my post was not needed :-D

but you're right, it is still there in my threads :-(

Joonie, I'm very intrigued to see your comments about people deleting posts and altering the context of a thread. You pick things up very quickly as I now see you have done it presumably to see if it removed from your threads? :-)

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/1333970

Oh this is all so very interesting and all I wanted to do was delete a thread no longer of interest to me on My Threads.

I love the way we all get involved and I must say I have never met such a nice open minded and helpful group of members.

I got my answer from genes, but many really good points have come out of this discussion. Thank you very much and off to bed now so...........

Goodnight to you all

Sappho ;-)

that little paragraph appeared about 4 months ago ......... very quietly, without any fanfare!


I did come across another little glitch from GR today.

I got 2 emails from GR to say that there had been postings on this thread, with the notation "this is being sent to you as you have the thread marked as to be watched"


I had not marked the thread to be watched.

However, when I checked My Watched Threads .................. sure enough, this thread was there, duly ticked.


a little gremlin around methinks!

Yes it is a good idea..don't think it has been around that long.

I have 350 pages of threads and less than 2 pages started by me....so trying to find them would be difficult

I have just discovered something that I am sure everybody else knows but just in case ... I read this in a stickied thread by AnnCardiff on the Find Ancestors board and I checked when I clicked on 'my threads' (because I was obviously not paying attention before) and it says this:

You are looking at all threads that you have either started or contributed to. If you want to just see threads you have started, click My Threads - Started. If you want to just see only threads you have contributed to but not started, click My Threads - Contributed To.

and that is tremendously helpful really, and it's one way of sorting one's own wheat from other people's chaff. :-D

I didn't mean to send anyone on a goose chase :-) I just couldn't understand the reference in that thread to 'According to info Crista found on them in 1891 census' - Crista is a member of this site I believe, at least the search function (when I finally got some version of it to function) found a Crista who had written posts in the same year, and I assumed Crista must have posted the 1891 census info, but it was gone.

In any case that was just meant as a case in point, the one that really struck me (that I can't remember now because it turned out not to be a thread of interest so I didn't 'watch' it) did have a series of at least three posts in a row by the thread originator saying 'thank you' and other comments on things that simply were not there, so they had clearly been deleted by whoever had posted them, I understand now from this thread. :-D

Oh and yes, I will certainly remember to copy anything I encounter that could be useful, and replies to anything I post!!

I've also just looked at that thread.

Star was the lady's board name, but she "signed" her posts as Cherry, so other posters then referred to her as Cherry.

The convention on here is that you address other posters by the Board Name they use, UNLESS they "sign" with another name. Then it is acceptable to use the "signed" name



I don't see that any posts are missing!

Joonie I think you will find with that thread you have given the link to...Is Star used to be Cherry....If you change your name it will change your name in all the posts you have made....except for the one that shows on the boards...if you get my meaning

Sylvia

If someone deletes their account all the posts on the boards stay only pm's disappear (don't they?)

Edit - Just read it again...and yes there does seem to be at least one post missing

Joonie

lots of people did used to remove their postings after a certain length of time ......... which is why we always used to advise members to copy and paste information into their own computers.

Some still do remove posts.

Also, if you decide to leave GR, and do so by contacting GR and asking them to remove your tree and your membership ..................... they do tend to remove all trace of your membership on here


If you no longer wish to be a paying member of GR, you can just not pay your sub when it is due, GR drop you down to being a free member. Your tree remains, and all your posts remain.

Thank you Sylvia, but I didn't mean no replies, I meant replies where someone says 'thank you so-and-so' or 'yes that is them' but there is no post to which they can be replying! An example is this one I have just posted in

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/ancestors/thread/882974

(which is from 2005 so it must have been earlier than that that it was not possible to reply maybe?)

Star whose thread it is says 'According to info Crista found on them in 1891 census' but there is no 1891 census or message from Crista in the thread :-S Or maybe in that case Star was referring to something else, but I have noticed the same thing in other threads, one was a series of posts by the person who asked for help all in a row, saying 'thank you so-and-so' to different people and referring to information that just wasn't there ...

Anyway it is certainly a good thing if you used to have to reply by pm that this isn't the case anymore!

Joonie .........


there might be one other reason why you are picking up old threads with no replies showing.


Before 2007, Find Ancestors was not a Board on which one could reply.

A request was posted, and all replies then had to be done by pm (private message).

I did loads of help that way between 2004 and 2007 ................ heaven alone knows how many pms each requester would receive for each question! :-D

and probably all helpers gave more or less the same information

Yes Joonie there is nothing worse than picking up an old informative thread where someone has deleted their posts, so it no longer makes sense.

People have returned to their old threads a year or so later to continue to find half of it has gone and just a load of 'thank you's' from the original poster.

The only time I delete is if I have posted the same info as someone else...so it is not needed

I am so glad I saw this discussion, I thought it was me going mad! The other night when I joined so that I could contact people about a DNA project, I was reading old discussions related to the name in question and I saw messages saying things like 'yes Sue you have found the family' ... and thought think Sue? Who is Sue? and What family? because the person seemed to be talking to a ghost and there was no family there to see, and there would be a whole series of messages addressed to an invisible person about invisible information! Well I reckon whoever posted the information must have got bored of seeing the thread in 'my threads' and deleted the messages .............. and that means that when I read the discussion now I have no idea what the information was and whether it is related to the families I am searching for.

Nothing that we write on the internet is stored on our own computers ........... unless we copy it there. :-) In fact I am grateful for the 'my threads' feature because I am used to another family history board that doesn't have it (and before that I had been used to other kinds of internet forums that did have it so I miss it there!) .......... and also does not allow for deleting messages. That makes it a treasure trove of information that people do find when they search the internet too. And I am also grateful for the 'watched threads' feature because I found I could mark a very old thread 'watched' so I can go back to it and not have to put a message in it to get it in 'my threads' ......... because I discovered that if you put messages in old threads it makes you look like an idiot. :-) Anyway it just seems a shame to me to keep information that is in one's own threads but delete information one has given in someone else's threads because along comes someone like me (or maybe even the person whose thread it is herself because she thought the information was safe there) and it's gone .......

Just to keep you informed: My reply from Genes:-

"Thanks for your email

I'm really sorry if we have misunderstood your query.



I'm afraid this is actually a bug with the site.



GR_B-67 My threads - if you delete your post from a thread- thread still stays in my threads



the developers are aware of this problem and hope to resolve it soon.



Kind Regards,"

Received yesterday.

Sappho
:-(

Thank Sylvia,

That really is appreciated. Thought they may be there just to answer my queries - how wrong can you be !!!!

What this about banking hours. Spent 24 years in Banking and we worked 8.30 to 5, but UK 10 to 3pm?

Thanks you are all so helpful and understanding and good to know that I am not the only one who would like an answer.

Just off to visit a friend in hospital. Its a lovely Spring day here - 22 degrees.

Thanks again.

Getting to know things better as time goes on.

Sappho

Sappho


it's the weekend in London :-D

They do not seem to have staff in the office from about 4 or 4:30 pm on a Friday to 8 or 8:30 am on a Monday morning capable of answering questions, reviewing posts, etc etc


My dad would have called it "working bankers' hours" :-D


You SHOULD get a reply sometime after 8:30 am Monday morning, UK time

Yes, fully understood Jax - my point exactly - the whole things is a bit of a pain in more ways than one.

I think we cannot be please with genes on this one and still no reply - 24-48 hours and we shall see. I do think they will reply and then I can let you all know - but when??

Thanks for your input Jax - appreciated, but when you say I may as well leave them, it is just that which irks us.

Sappho

But to delete that comment or comments in the thread you would have to find them and then delete...as the system does not work you may as well leave them

I have loads of posts on a Long running thread and there is no way I am going to go through it all to find them all to delete...I am talking a couple of thousand

The only way they would go is if the OP deleted the thread