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I have a new trick.

In the surname filter box on the left of the main TTF board page, type

Posting Tips

Ta da. Now we can suggest that the newbs do that and pick up the tips we'd like to pass on, without constantly having to make new threads and bump them around.

Now I have a request for OLD posters.

When copying and pasting stuff from Ancestry or the IGI, a whole lot of extraneous stuff gets dragged along, like:

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Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Disability:

View Image

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and in the IGI, the unused lines for births, marriages, burials, etc.

It takes about two seconds to block and delete that stuff after pasting it into a post, and also eliminate the multiple line returns that seem to come along with copies from some sources -- big white spaces where little or no space is needed.

It makes it a whole lot easier to follow the info in a post if all that stuff isn't there. In fact I saw a poster once asking what "view record" or some such meant.

So I will just humbly request that we take the bit of time to wipe the bumph out of our posts, for the beneift of newbies trying to absorb it.

Henceforth, this is my reply to all surname-less posts:

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Please read:

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=991602

posts at bottom of first page re missing surnames.

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And gosh darn it I am tired of snooty responses from people who are asked very simply and straightforwardly to provide the missing info.

And do not send the missing info to me by private message! I don't want it! I'm just TRYING TO BE HELPFUL!!!

Time for a bump.

n for Heather

This needs a nudge....

QCI .................. off the northern coast of British Columbia.


Now more correctly, Haida Gwaia



What a pity I didn't know the train stopped near you! We'd have had 2 chances to meet. Bet it would have been the middle of the night though!


xxx

deleted 'cause I put it in the wrong thread

Talking trains. The great Canadian national legend. And cold. The great Canadian identity definer.

Got stuck in a snowstorm just before getting into the station at London Ont many years ago. Apparently the train ahead froze to the tracks while boarding. But nobody told us what was happening. So after a half hour or so we all just started jumping off the train into four feet of snow and slogging our way to a street. Scenes like that always remind me of the closing bit of Fahrenheit 451, with all the refugees walking through the snow muttering their books to themselves ...

The roof should be okay. It's the ceiling in the back room, where the roof isn't okay and the plexi-y roof over the deck that's on the roof got half destroyed in wind last year, and melting snow and rain has been leaking in through the drywall in buckets, that could be problematic.

And yes indeed, I could have zipped down to the station to embrace and then wave fond farewell. ;)

I felt an earthquake here once. For the last several years, it's been piledrivers, ripping into bedrock for new water mains, and a housing project in my back yard ...

QCI is Queen Charlotte Islands for you foreigners. I have no idea where they are, really. I'm pretty much as close to the Hebrides as I am to the Queen Charlottes.

good evening everyone how are we all tonight?

hmmmmmmmmm .............. that could have been a cold drive!

Hope there wasn't too much damage to the roof.

Does the train stop near you???? Could I have met up with you on the train platform?


We did the same trip in 2004 ..... temps of -35 to -40C meant there were some problems on the train. Like the drains from the showers freezing closed!



Just had pouring rain here, with some wind. Had an earthquake (6.1) off the QCI yesterday and 2 last Saturday in the same area (one apparently 6.5). We didn't feel anything this far south from there though.


sylvia

When I came next door to the office this a.m. there were chunks of shingle all over the sidewalk. I assume they came from my roof ...

At least a fellow Canadian thinks that thread was the funniest thing on skates. I especially liked the username of the person who decided to play it straight.


So how come you didn't stop in for a visit?? I've always wanted to take that train trip -- hasn't everyone in the world, of course. Did drive from southern Ontario to Winnipeg in February once. The heater in the U-drive car died in the wee hours of the morning north of Superior ...

Kathryn

Great thread!!


Just back from holidays ............ a train trip right across Canada, and then back again!



And we still have the same old problems on here!




Hope you are well, and had no problems with the wind storm??????




sylvia

Re the race/contest.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=991749

I win. And I am so funny I leave myself gasping for air.

But hey, I was already a bit breathless:

Wayne: "I get the feeling it relates to a previous post where someone called jaqui asked a question like... whats his name and when was he born?"

bumping it up for the topsy turvy people.

Ha. We Canucks can outlast you limeys any night. But watch out for the Aussies, they'll be trampling around the threads soon, and asking their strange foreign questions ...

I agree about email addresses in two respects:

- privacy -- bad bad idea to make one's identity public and also to expose one's email account to spam

- overhigh expectations -- I'm for sure not going to go opening up one of my appropriately anonymous gmail accounts and putting together info to send to someone I don't know and have no desire to enter into correspondence with

But that said -- I think it's fine to post an *anonymous* net-based email address in a post, so it's there if anyone ever comes along in future and wants to get in touch.


"Do they think it is the norm to get a PM?"

In the old days that's the only way it worked, right?

But turnover here is so high I can't imagine many people posting now have any idea what the old days involved.


I really think what it is, is that first-time posters expect only to hear from someone who is actually related to them, someday in the distant future ...

And if they took 5 minutes to step outside the surname cave and read the boards first, they'd see how much better their prospects might be.

thats it leave me here alone......

OK so i havent gone to bed.... yet lol

One last moan...

Why do members ask a question....then go to bed?!!!
Also....they never come back to the said thread!

Do they think it is the norm to get a PM?

Are you listening GR?

Too many newbies are also putting thier e.mail addys on threads. Tut tut!

Really really going now......

Gerri x<<<<<gone

Well, Im off to bed now too - I expect this thread will disappear into the ether that is the "abusive postings" bucket.

I hope the majority of people on here dont take offence as members love to help others and we do appreciate that its all new to some people but if only some of the posters would put everything they know in the first posting it would make life so much easier all round.

Nite guys, bed is calling :)