Should we have an additional forum? (General)

by admin , Forest of Dean, Thursday, November 12, 2009, 07:03 (5565 days ago) @ tonyjenkins

Tony

Thanks a lot for your comments. I'm sorry but we will not be spreading our wings any further away from the Forest than that what we do now. However, we have always been a little flexible here in the forum with regards to helping tracing peoples direct ancestors that have either come into or left the Forest and we seem to have found a happy mix of how far we sometimes stray away from the Forest.

To give you an example, I will relate to my own great grand-mother Elizabeth Mills who lived the majority of her life in Ruardean but with the help I got in the forum it was discovered that her family came from Clifton, Bristol and then going further back that I had direct ancestors from West Knoyle, Wilshire. You will notice by reading the various posts in the forum that we have helped many people in the same way who had direct line ancestors from other areas.

Here is what I would not find as an acceptable type of post in the forum, it is again an example of my own family. My father Harold Watkins and his family moved from Ruardean in the 1930s to Manchester. Dad later married my Mum, Cecilia Thornton who was a Manchester girl. In would be inappropriate for me to post a message in the forum seeking information on my Thornton line. If I want to get help on my Thornton line I need to join a Manchester mailing list or forum which covers the Manchester area as there is no core connection to the Forest of Dean with the Thornton family.

The new forum I have planned will not be for assisting in Family History Research as that is well taken care of in this forum. It will be a place where people can discuss other related matters like Bob has mentioned above.

Have a Good Day!