Should we have an additional forum? (General)

by reporter, Tuesday, November 10, 2009, 20:42 (5566 days ago) @ admin

Hi David

I take your point about keeping the website specific to Fod......but the new Community does expand it a lot! My point about having a forum is that MEMBERS (ie people with an interest in/connection to FoD) can share other genealogical and family research matters.

An example - today I used Ancestry to upload a WW1 record, and it duly added an image as part of the citation. It failed to recognise, and I had not noticed this in the past, that there were 9 subsequent pages, containing very interesting and potentially valuable info, which needed accessing manually. I would like to be able to pass this tip on, and other experiences, but it would be, in my opinion, best kept separate from the existing forum which deals almost exclusively with actual people and places and events.

I feel supported in my family research here, but sometime lonely when it comes to records and data handling. I've been doing some reading about source citations and it makes me feel inadequate!!

Could the existing forum have a sub-section, perhaps? - "General Genealogy"

Keep up the excellent work - a most appreciated site.
Bob Jenkins


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