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DNA and incest possibilities

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modified Oct 12 at 2:01

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no tag "cyrillic"?

PolyGeoMod

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modified Jul 9 at 21:30

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1 answer

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Encouraging new questioners to include relevant information in questions?

PolyGeoMod

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modified Mar 9 at 7:55

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2 answers

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Proposed Help Center wording for 'lookup requests'

PolyGeoMod

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modified Mar 9 at 7:54

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Interested in the future of "Help" for this site?

PolyGeoMod

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modified Mar 9 at 7:54

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2022: a year in moderation

JNatStaffMod

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modified Jan 26 at 19:20

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2 answers

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Genealogy & Family History SE is turning 10!

Jan MurphyMod

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answered Dec 31, 2022 at 22:19

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1 answer

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On- and off-topic questions: Asking specifically for free resources

Jan MurphyMod

25.4k

modified Dec 19, 2022 at 22:40

2 votes

1 answer

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Use of the ship tag

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

modified Nov 18, 2022 at 3:02

2 votes

1 answer

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improving our answers to palaeography questions

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

modified Nov 13, 2022 at 11:59

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2 answers

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When should moderators use their supervote?

CommunityBot

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modified Sep 20, 2022 at 12:08

5 votes

4 answers

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Lowering the threshold of votes to close/re-open questions?

V2Blast

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modified Jun 22, 2022 at 23:36

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0 answers

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2021: a year in moderation

JNatStaffMod

101

asked Jan 12, 2022 at 16:04

3 votes

4 answers

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Should we be encouraging/condoning/allowing questions about software piracy?

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

modified Jan 5, 2022 at 18:40

7 votes

1 answer

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Genealogy & Family History is graduating!

CommunityBot

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answered Dec 16, 2021 at 18:48

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3 answers

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Is [onomastics] tag needed?

PolyGeoMod

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modified Dec 3, 2021 at 2:07

1 vote

1 answer

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Contacting people who answered questions on Main site

CommunityBot

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modified Oct 15, 2021 at 12:31

5 votes

2 answers

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Contacting previously unknown cousin privately after discovery through G&FH SE?

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

modified Sep 30, 2021 at 1:16

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1 answer

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Unpinning accepted answer from top of list of answers on G&FH SE

lkessler

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answered Sep 21, 2021 at 14:45

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Should we add the History of Genealogy to our 'on-topic' subjects?

Jan MurphyMod

25.4k

modified Aug 27, 2021 at 0:46

2 votes

3 answers

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DNA Surprise Questions

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

modified Aug 11, 2021 at 23:48

1 vote

2 answers

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Should we have a tag for questions regarding research ethics?

CommunityBot

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answered Aug 9, 2021 at 16:37

3 votes

4 answers

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Ads for G&FH on other SE sites

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

modified Aug 3, 2021 at 11:53

3 votes

2 answers

114 views

Dealing with broad questions that ask for "any information about <person/family/etc>"?

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

modified Mar 7, 2021 at 22:03

2 votes

2 answers

45 views

Reviewing our Custom Close Reasons

CommunityBot

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answered Feb 18, 2021 at 13:08

7 votes

2 answers

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Why is this site so different from discussion forums? (a guide for new users)

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

modified Feb 12, 2021 at 3:18

4 votes

0 answers

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2020: a year in moderation

JNatStaffMod

101

modified Jan 21, 2021 at 12:36

0 votes

2 answers

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Why is this Q&A site still tagged Beta?

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

modified Jan 20, 2021 at 23:01

6 votes

1 answer

59 views

What are the rules about loading images as part of queries?

CommunityBot

1

modified Nov 20, 2020 at 7:36

3 votes

3 answers

67 views

Should We Include Documentation-type Questions?

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

modified Sep 10, 2020 at 3:24

3 votes

3 answers

57 views

Why are there often no upvotes?

CommunityBot

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answered Sep 6, 2020 at 10:12

0 votes

1 answer

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Is it good practice or acceptable that moderators delete comments without notice?

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

modified Jun 6, 2020 at 0:23

1 vote

1 answer

39 views

Is [land] tag named well enough?

CommunityBot

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answered May 14, 2020 at 5:46

3 votes

1 answer

39 views

Making questions more accessible?

CommunityBot

1

modified Mar 12, 2020 at 6:53

3 votes

4 answers

150 views

Asking for genealogy software recommendations?

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

modified Feb 8, 2020 at 9:37

6 votes

2 answers

84 views

Improving FreeBMD results

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

modified Jan 21, 2020 at 2:35

1 vote

1 answer

51 views

Is [complex-families] tag needed?

bgwiehle

7,946

modified Jan 20, 2020 at 13:38

4 votes

3 answers

91 views

Are questions being closed too quickly?

CommunityBot

1

modified Jan 14, 2020 at 10:44

7 votes

0 answers

42 views

2019: a year in moderation

Shog9

101

modified Jan 3, 2020 at 3:31

6 votes

0 answers

45 views

Announcing our newest(?) moderator

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

asked Dec 26, 2019 at 8:24

9 votes

5 answers

149 views

How to handle "look up" requests?

Jan MurphyMod

25.4k

modified Dec 22, 2019 at 3:52

2 votes

3 answers

44 views

Should we close questions with no overt "G&FH content"?

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

modified Dec 20, 2019 at 3:04

1 vote

1 answer

36 views

May I ask about name identificaton here?

CommunityBot

1

answered Dec 17, 2019 at 9:21

5 votes

1 answer

47 views

Would a meta-question about citation expectations be useful here?

CommunityBot

1

modified Nov 21, 2019 at 12:02

4 votes

2 answers

102 views

Does our privacy policy (clearly) forbid naming living people?

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

modified Nov 17, 2019 at 22:51

1 vote

1 answer

24 views

Closing older questions as duplicates of newer ones?

CommunityBot

1

modified Nov 17, 2019 at 10:59

4 votes

2 answers

40 views

What do we want to do with the tag "online"? Should we get rid of it?

PolyGeoMod

11.1k

answered Nov 15, 2019 at 1:24

5 votes

1 answer

97 views

Missed it by that much(

PolyGeoMod

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modified Oct 31, 2019 at 2:46

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