Ancestry Message Boards

[MollyC]

Given the number of promotional emails, they could also mention the Message Boards without any trouble, to get them active again.

[sandiep]

I joined in 2003 and at that time found message boards useful even if a bit American focus but suppose to be expected it was an American programme but must admit hardly ever look these days as few replies and I do have a number of other country rellies still its there and sometimes you can just be lucky.
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[jonwarrn]

There are country specific boards.
Here's England: https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.britisles.england

Exactly, you don't have to look at any American boards at all.
You can make your preferred boards your "favourites"
And then go straight to them, and see them, in order of latest post, this would be the link
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/favorites/boards

Of course the volume of traffic on those boards is greatly reduced. Other forums which once flourished are now extinct or virtually moribund.
I don't suppose that even Rootschat has the number of queries and posts that it had, say, ten years ago.

There are some really good people helping on the ancestry boards, as there are everywhere.

[Chris Doran]

The British Genealogy Forum is there and has some recent traffic. Ancestry would have aquired it as part of Forces War Records which they bought a few years back and merged into Fold3.

[Pheno]

There are country specific boards.
Here's England: https://www.ancestry.com/boards/localities.britisles.england

Exactly, you don't have to look at any American boards at all.
You can make your preferred boards your "favourites"
And then go straight to them, and see them, in order of latest post, this would be the link
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/boards/favorites/boards

Of course the volume of traffic on those boards is greatly reduced. Other forums which once flourished are now extinct or virtually moribund.
I don't suppose that even Rootschat has the number of queries and posts that it had, say, ten years ago.

There are some really good people helping on the ancestry boards, as there are everywhere.

Are you saying that the Message Boards have been updated in the recent past.  As I said I haven't been on for ages but I didn't mean the boards were American, just that the enquiries posted there were mostly of an American nature - very rarely a British query.  However, if things have changed then I will take another look.

Pheno

[macwil]

You may have been using the American 'Ancestry.com' version not the British  'Ancestry.co.uk'.
When I was a subscriber 10-15yrs ago I didn't see any US questions. I did find the board cumbersome to use and didn't use it that much.
I have visited it in the last couple of years and it is still as awkward to use now as it was then. I don't use it.