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.

[ggrocott]

They are a leftover from the take over of Rootsweb.  I think for a while you couldn't use them but they now appear to be working again.  I have left a message on one and will see what happens.  There is some really useful stuff on there.

[Zaphod99]

.  There is some really useful stuff on there.

Well, I certainly think so.

Zaph

[jonwarrn]

Are you saying that the Message Boards have been updated in the recent past. 

Hi Pheno
I don't think so, no. I am just saying that you can see topics only from your preferred boards, whichever ones they are. That has long been the case.

I don't dispute that the UK boards are very quiet, which is sad.
I was on there for years and have several thousand posts, there were plenty of new topics and queries then.

Not sure how many people were/are on multiple forums. Certainly a few from those boards were also here on Rootschat.
I actually first joined Rootschat back in 2010, but my very first post was interefered with by the mods, and I was ticked off for it, despite assiduously following the rules. So I left in a huff!
That post doesn't seem to exist any more
It was a whole five years later until I joined again, under a new monicker!

The British Genealogy Forum is there and has some recent traffic.

It's interesting if some of their members moved to an ancestry message board. Pamela has been there for years though.
I never really looked at the BG forum, where they seemed to have a button enabling them to thank fellow members for their useful posts (we could do with one here, perhaps!)

The only boards I thought rivalled Rootschat for traffic back in the day were those on Genes Reunited.

Leaving aside their shameful treatment of their own wonderful forum...
What are the best UK genealogy forums?
https://www.whodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/tutorials/genealogy-forum-uk

Rootschat is No. 1
Gosh, Family Tree Forum at 4. I am a member, did some posts years back, but I felt that lot were a bit of a closed shop.