Message Boards and Forums

There are various options available for the posting of messages pertaining to our mutual family research.

The first is to use a Mailing list - this has the advantage of immediacy - your enquiry goes out to all subscribers either immediately or with the next digest edition (usually within 24 hours). It's disadvantage is that it is not seen by later subscribers unless they start browsing through the message archives.

The second possibility is that you can contact a message board / message forum service. This type of message forum allows you to post questions and then collects answers to each question in a group, these answers may have further answers or comments added forming a tree like structure from the original question. Unlike a mailing list, the whole thread of a discussion is available to be viewed at any time. However the constantly growing amount of current data can get a bit unwieldy and time consuming to load, so older messages are sometimes cleared from the system or archived. This method relies on people checking regularly to see if there is anything of interest to them, something many users get bored with after a series of attempts that produce little or nothing of relevance to them. Some services notify you when someone has posted an answer or other comment against your message.

Genforum have four forums of interest to us - to access one of them, click on the name below.

CRABB
CRABBE
CRAIB
KREBS

There is also a free message board service from Rootsweb / Ancestry - this contains the following forums that may be of interest to one of our families:-

CRAB
CRABB
CRABBE
CRABBS
CRABER
CRABLE
CRAIB
KRABBE
KREBBS

The third is that you post a query via the "Guestmap/Guestbook" on the first page of the website - the following queries have been submitted via that means - some are quite old and may have been answered long ago - if you want your query deleted from here please let me know. You send them in, I'll try and get them on show here as quickly as possible.

Please note:- The whole of the following table is displayed as a series of graphics - this means that you cannot click on the email addresses, only retype them yourself - whilst this is a small nuisance for the user it avoids a much greater nuisance for the people listed as this method means that their addresses cannot be harvested by the spammers of this world. This principle is used throughout this website.

Special Note

From Barb Curley: - we have started our own "Crabby Cuzzin" research group for the descendents of Edward Ralph Crabb I, b. 1737-47 in England. Anyone interested in joining please contact me at . We welcome all descendants of Edward.