SlavPolishOrigins Team
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
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Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 1:58 pm
Post subject: Re: Post your remark or suggestion
Ute wrote: |
Zenon,
For those of us who like to help others with their research it would be helpful if there was a way to see a member’s message posting history. Sometimes a member has already received one (or even more) responses to an earlier post. Knowing which information a member has already will help avoid duplication of effort. Genealogy.com, for example, has a link that says “Show this User's Message Posting History” -- for details see here: http://genforum.genealogy.com/ia/messages/20432.html
Ute |
Hello Ute,
I'm going to try to answer that for Zenon. You can search for postings by a forum user by using the search feature at the very top of each page of this site.
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SlavPolishOrigins Team
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Replies: 172
Location: Warsaw, PolandBack to top |
Posted: Mon Feb 27, 2012 2:12 pm
Post subject: Searching the forum for postings by a specific user
Suppose you wish to examine postings sent by Zenon
1. You click the search option
http://polishorigins.com/forum/search.php?sid=27ac2c1928dfb11a0dc73d2b2a14a2f6
(see image #1)
2. Enter the forum name of a user in the box corresponding to "Search for Author" (see image #2)
3. In "Display results as" I prefer the option "Posts" ("Topics" is selected by default). This way, it is easier to reach a specific post.
4. The column on the right-hand side allows you to further select how the results are displayed.
5. Click the "Search" button
6. See the results (image #3)
7. To go directly to a specific post, click the underlined text which is the subject of a given message (highlighted in yellow on image #3)
Ute, I hope it is the solution to the problem you described, and that you will all find it useful. It took me a while to learn this feature while being a member of an internet forum dedicated to blues music.
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UtePO Top Contributor
Joined: 13 Dec 2009
Replies: 593
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Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:06 am
Post subject: Re: Post your remark or suggestion
Hello Slawomir,
Thank you for your very quick and detailed response. I've been using the search box from time to time (e.g. when searching for certain keywords), but sometimes there were just too many results displayed to weed through. Specifying the options for displaying the results as you describe it seems to be a good way to limit this. Thank you!
Ute
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SlavPolishOrigins Team
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Replies: 172
Location: Warsaw, PolandBack to top |
Posted: Tue Feb 28, 2012 2:19 am
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You're welcome, Ute. I was sure you knew the search box function, but I've posted a detailed explanation so that users less experienced with the forum features could benefit from these tips as well.
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Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 12:35 pm
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I posted a message on the forum but I don't see it. In the first place I found it very difficult to figure out how to post.
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ShelliePO Top Contributor & Patron
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
Replies: 998
Location: Atlanta, GABack to top |
Posted: Sun Jul 15, 2012 7:28 pm
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eileen wrote: | I posted a message on the forum but I don't see it. In the first place I found it very difficult to figure out how to post. |
Hi Eileen,
Are you talking about the message you posted on your profile that started with:
I am trying to trace my grandmother's family. Her last name was Zbydniewski
If, so, then that message is only visible when someone clicks on your member name and reads your profile.
If you'd like for the information that you wrote in your profile to appear in the discussion forum, you can post it again here:
http://forum.polishorigins.com/
On this page, scroll down the list of forum sections and choose one that best fits your message. If your main interest is in Poland, click on any line that says "Research in Poland" This will take you to the forum.
Next,
On the upper left of the page, under the words Research in Poland - you will see a button for "new topic." The titles that get the most success are one's that include surnames and village name (if you know it), like this: Figus family from Nowy Targ area
I hope that this information helps you. There are alot of nice people on this forum and I am sure that someone will respond to your posting quickly.
If I've left anything out of the instructions, please let me know!
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SlavPolishOrigins Team
Joined: 26 Sep 2010
Replies: 172
Location: Warsaw, PolandBack to top |
Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 7:17 am
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Shellie, thanks for this explanation. We are working on a "user manual" for new members of the PolishOrigins forum.
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Magroski49PO Top Contributor & Patron
Joined: 10 Nov 2008
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Posted: Tue Jul 17, 2012 8:09 am
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Slav wrote: | Shellie, thanks for this explanation. We are working on a "user manual" for new members of the PolishOrigins forum. |
That could be automatically sent to their email adresses just as soon as they registered.
Gilberto
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ZenonPolishOrigins Team Leader
Joined: 28 Apr 2007
Replies: 1515
Location: PolandBack to top |
Posted: Fri Jul 20, 2012 6:47 am
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This is a great idea Gilberto. Thank you
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SlavPolishOrigins Team
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 3:55 pm
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I sent in some questions some time ago and I have never received a reply. I'm wondering if I offended somehow, but I can't imagine how. I have been working on my family history for about a year now and I am stuck on the Polish side. My grandparents came to the U.S. at the beginning of the 20th century and I cannot get past Ellis Island.
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ShelliePO Top Contributor & Patron
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 4:38 pm
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I thought I was having a conversation with Gilberto. I posted some information about my grandmother, Mary Brykowisz. I can do it again, if need be, but I am handicapped and it is very slow going.
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ShelliePO Top Contributor & Patron
Joined: 18 Feb 2009
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 4:42 pm
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Mary milewski wrote: | I thought I was having a conversation with Gilberto. I posted some information about my grandmother, Mary Brykowisz. I can do it again, if need be, but I am handicapped and it is very slow going. |
Mary,
I edited my response above to include two links, but you replied, I think, before my edits were posted. Was your conversation one of those? If both of those links are related, they can be combined to save you the trouble of keeping track of 2 threads of conversation.
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Posted: Sun Sep 28, 2014 5:02 pm
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The postings were from 2014. I remember one asking where Kociumbince was. This was her place of origin in the Hamburg listing from 1907. I can't remember the other question.
But I did want to pursue what I came up with.
Also, I'm curious if the people who were denied admission and sent back are recorded anywhere. There doesn't seem to be any mention of my great grandfather after they arrived.
I have corresponded with the parish priest from Providence and he is not mentioned at all.
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