One advantage to this board is the use of personal messaging (or PM). You can send messages back and forth to other members using the board itself. While we encourage posting of information, there ARE some things that you dont want to post on a forum like this, for example..your name address or phone number (this IS a public forum) Suppose you find someone here that has a copy of a picture or letter or something you would really like to have for your research, what can you do?

Well its really easy. There are several ways to do this, Im going to use discuss one of the easiest.

Imagine you are reading a post, and you want to PM the person. At the bottom of their post you will see a button that says PM



When you click on that it will take you to the message section and the person's name is already filled in the box. All you do is type in a subject and then type your message and hit send!! The person will be notified they have a message by email, if they chose that option or they will see they have messages next time they log in the board by checking the message indicator at the top right of the board under the banner.



You can also click that message link to send a message anytime, you will just have click Compose New Message link and it will take you to the blank form page, where you fill in the username, subject line and your message

There has been a little confusion about PM's so I just want to remind you, if you send a PM the recipient is the ONLY one that can read it, no one else can, so if you're wanting to post your brick wall for everyone to see you must make a new post in the appropriate forum. There are instructions for adding a new thread and replying to a current one in the FAQ forum