EOGN Forum

The EOGN Forum has evolved into a rather impressive discussion board since it was created in October. It now sees many new messages per day covering a wide variety of genealogy-related topics. It is a place where newsletter readers will tackle your questions on a wide range of genealogy-related subjects.

The EOGN Discussion Forum is available FREE of charge to everyone. In fact, everyone may read messages in the forum without registering. However, in order to post a new message or to reply to an existing message, you must register first. Registration is free, and you are never asked for a credit card number. As always, I will never share your registration information with any vendors. You will not be spammed because of participation in the EOGN Forum.

Three months ago I wrote the following words in an article at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/10/eogncom-adds-a.html that introduced the EOGN Forum for the first time:

I plan on keeping the Discussion Forum in operation for ninety days, then reviewing its operation. If the forum provides a positive contribution to the genealogy community, I'll continue its operation. However, if after ninety days or at any time in the future it has degenerated into a general "complaints board" with constant bashing of vendors and similar non-productive messages, I'll delete it.

Well, ninety days has passed and there is no thought of deleting the Forum. It has blossomed into a very useful resource for genealogists. Have a question about genealogy or any genealogy-related topic? Ask it in the EOGN Forum at http://www.eogn.com/forum.

If you have suggestions for improvements, please post them in the "Messages About This Message Forum" section at http://www.eogn.com/forum.

Comments

[Joan Miller]

Hi Dick,
I'm thoroughly enjoying the forum and the helpful links to various resources that are being posted. Thank you for hosting it!
-Joan Miller

[Cleta Terrell]

I've tried to register for the forum but I get the message that my email address needs to be verified.
I clicked on the need another activation email. It's
been about 15 minutes and I still have not received
any email about the forum.

[Dick Eastman]

Your e-mail provider is blocking those e-mail messages.

Those conformation e-mail messages always get sent within one or two seconds. If you don't receive it within a minute or so, it is because your Internet provider is blocking it. I know that AOL and Comcast always block them, I am not sure about the smaller e-mail providers.

If you have a second e-mail address (Gmail, Yahoo, etc.), use that. It will work. Another method is to send a message to us (I have one assistant) and we will manually register you. You can contact us at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy//contact-us.html

[Cleta Terrell]

Thank you, Dick. That may explain why I'm getting very few e-mails since changing providers. I'll use my Yahoo address instead.