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MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 13 Nov 2012 20:43

It seems that if you post on this board you don't get the option to mark the thread as answered.

Being nosy I've got to test it!

Researching:
Love your enemy but keep your blacklist updated - Paulo Coelho

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 13 Nov 2012 20:44

Yep! There is no facility to mark as answered on here.

Obviously we're not supposed to ask questions! :-)

Researching:
Love your enemy but keep your blacklist updated - Paulo Coelho

JustDinosaurJill

JustDinosaurJill Report 13 Nov 2012 21:56

Hi MC.

I hope you are in fine form tonight :-P :-P :-P :-D <3

I found this out yesterday when I wanted to mark my request for Newspaper Archive look up.

It does seem strange that we ask questions on GC but no facility to mark as answered. Do you think that we should only talk on here but ask all questions on FA?

xJill

Researching:
Birmingham: Wood,Benson,Eadie,Wassall. Barnsley: Eadie. Whalsay,Sheltland: Polson,Poleson. Chipping Norton: Busby. Winchcombe: Goodall/Goodhall. Kate MM (Eadie) Meteyard. Sidney Herbert Meteyard - English Pre-Raphaelite Painter and member of the Birmingham Group. Meteyard/Meatyard family.

Reggie

Reggie Report 13 Nov 2012 22:15

This is a CHAT board............

It was NOT intended that it should be used for dealing with lookups......read the post by GR

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1270268

Researching:
I am in no way related to anyone for whom I do lookups To acknowledge any info I may post, please do NOT click on my name. There is a large white box entitled 'Add your reply' for the purpose.

JustDinosaurJill

JustDinosaurJill Report 13 Nov 2012 22:48

Reggie.

Good evening. It's good to see that you are as ever, on good form. ;-)

J

Researching:
Birmingham: Wood,Benson,Eadie,Wassall. Barnsley: Eadie. Whalsay,Sheltland: Polson,Poleson. Chipping Norton: Busby. Winchcombe: Goodall/Goodhall. Kate MM (Eadie) Meteyard. Sidney Herbert Meteyard - English Pre-Raphaelite Painter and member of the Birmingham Group. Meteyard/Meatyard family.

mgnv

mgnv Report 13 Nov 2012 22:59

So suppose I wanted to know the minimum age at which a girl can get married in Victorian England. It's 12. I would think this is the board to post that query.

It seems really silly that this cannot be marked as answered.

Reggie

Reggie Report 13 Nov 2012 23:02

Tell GR...............it's their system

Researching:
I am in no way related to anyone for whom I do lookups To acknowledge any info I may post, please do NOT click on my name. There is a large white box entitled 'Add your reply' for the purpose.

lancashireAnn

lancashireAnn Report 13 Nov 2012 23:02

I agree

I have posted general questions on here which do not fit into 'find ancestors' (or at least I did not think they did) and have wanted to mark them as answered.

I probably ended up deleting the post instead

Researching:
Liverpool (Cartwright, Chambers, Miller), Todmorden (Sutcliffe, Mallison), Abergavenny (Watkins, Prosser)

JustDinosaurJill

JustDinosaurJill Report 13 Nov 2012 23:05

Well you would think so mgnv as it's not a Find Ancestor question; the same as my request fo someone to send me a copy of an entry wasn't.

Maybe GR should keep FA but change this or start a new 'Any Other Questions'

Sometimes my brain hurts :-S :-S :-S

Researching:
Birmingham: Wood,Benson,Eadie,Wassall. Barnsley: Eadie. Whalsay,Sheltland: Polson,Poleson. Chipping Norton: Busby. Winchcombe: Goodall/Goodhall. Kate MM (Eadie) Meteyard. Sidney Herbert Meteyard - English Pre-Raphaelite Painter and member of the Birmingham Group. Meteyard/Meatyard family.

Reggie

Reggie Report 13 Nov 2012 23:06

Conversely, the 'marked as answered' tag is almost always misused anyway.

Most people haven't a clue.........and tag posts to which they have merely responded, thus meaning that they miss out on further help as the tag is intended to show that the query has been fully resolved

Much more sensible when the accepted practice was to add 'closed' or something similar to the title

BUT......no matter how often GR are asked to do away with the tag....they won't. It's one of their 'babies'

Researching:
I am in no way related to anyone for whom I do lookups To acknowledge any info I may post, please do NOT click on my name. There is a large white box entitled 'Add your reply' for the purpose.

MarieCeleste

MarieCeleste Report 13 Nov 2012 23:14

Reggie - just to keep you quiet ;-) ;-) I've marked it as closed!

But, don't tar me with the same brush as any numpties - I do actually have a clue.

Researching:
Love your enemy but keep your blacklist updated - Paulo Coelho

Reggie

Reggie Report 13 Nov 2012 23:33

Don't be petulant, MC..............I know you're clued up

Researching:
I am in no way related to anyone for whom I do lookups To acknowledge any info I may post, please do NOT click on my name. There is a large white box entitled 'Add your reply' for the purpose.

JustDinosaurJill

JustDinosaurJill Report 14 Nov 2012 09:06

Reggie, you can't call MC petulant when you've plainly said 'most people'.

most (mst)
adj. Superlative of many, much.
1.
a. Greatest in number
b. Greatest in amount, extent, or degree
2. In the greatest number of instances

If you are going to make such sweeping statements about GR members then you must expect some offence to be taken.

Oh and this is the dictionary definition of petulant.

pet·u·lant (pch-lnt)
adj.
1. Unreasonably irritable or ill-tempered; peevish.
2. Contemptuous in speech or behavior.

Researching:
Birmingham: Wood,Benson,Eadie,Wassall. Barnsley: Eadie. Whalsay,Sheltland: Polson,Poleson. Chipping Norton: Busby. Winchcombe: Goodall/Goodhall. Kate MM (Eadie) Meteyard. Sidney Herbert Meteyard - English Pre-Raphaelite Painter and member of the Birmingham Group. Meteyard/Meatyard family.

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 14 Nov 2012 12:48

All you have to do is go back to your original post and modify the header with the word COMPLETED added to the end.

I wish more people would do this.

It is done far more regularly on Rootschat

Researching:
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars