Google Group Tips

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Contents 1 Changing Your Subscription Options 2 Changing Your Group Display Name 3 Starting a New Thread 4 Replying to a Thread 4.1 Each Email 4.2 Digest 5 Subscribing to a Thread

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Changing Your Subscription Options

There are several options for how you receive messages (Each email, Digest or Abridged) To change your settings, you need to go to the Google Group page.

1. Look for a link at the bottom of an email you received from the group. The text at the bottom will say either: "To view this discussion on the web visit" or " You can change your settings on the group membership page."
2. On the Group page, from the left-hand panel, select "My membership settings"
3. Scroll down to find the drop-down menu for "Subscription"

See Google's official help instructions here.

Changing Your Group Display Name

For the PGM General Group, we ask that you update your display name so that its easier to recognize you, as your email or Google Account name may be different from how we know you on WikiTree.

1. Go to your Google Groups Page.
2. On the let side go to My Groups
3. Select "WikiTree's PGM General Group" in the right side pane
4. Once your on the Group Page, on the left panel, scroll down and select "My membership settings."
5. Type in your new display name

Starting a New Thread

• To Post a New Thread Send a new email to wikitreepgm-general@googlegroups.com (or whichever group. This will be the email that you receive all the emails from.

DO NOT REPLY TO ANOTHER THREAD AND JUST CHANGE THE SUBJECT. If you reply to another thread, even if you change the subject, it will be threaded under another discussion which can be confusing. You must send a new email to create a new topic. You can also start new threads from the Google Group Page.

Replying to a Thread

Replying to threads depends on which subscription option you are using.

Each Email

If you are receiving each email individually, you can simply reply like you would any email, and your message will be threaded with the original one. (DO NOT DO THIS IF YOU WANT TO START A NEW THREAD) You can also navigate to the Google Group Page and reply there.

Digest

If you are receiving the digest, it's best to click on the title of the thread. This will take you to the thread in the Google Group page, and you can respond from there. If you just hit reply to the Digest email, your message will be sent to the group, but you will start a new thread.

Follow Thread to Google Group page

Subscribing to a Thread

If your Group subscription is set to Abridged, Digest or No Email, you can still subscribe to an individual thread if you want to receive responses directly to your inbox. This is particularly helpful if you are helping with the PGM Activity Feed Check, and need to receive and respond to the daily tracker, but don't want to receive every email from the PGM Comments Group (see the example below). Buti the same process will work for any thread in any group.

1. Go to your Google Group Page, and find WikiTree's PGM Profile Comments Group.
2. Locate and click on the thread you would like to subscribe to.
3. Click on the subscribe box on the right-hand side. (If your Subscription setting is to receive "Each email" you will not see a box. Go to My Membership Settings to change).