Bad Query Karma

"Bad" genealogical queries reduce the chance that someone is actually able to help you on your problem.

Here are a few of the more blatant ones:

• I'm looking for Grandma.
• Send me everything you have on the Jones family in St. Louis, Missouri.
• I need an obituary for Henry.
• My Great-great-great-grandma came from Germany in the 1830s. Who were her parents? I don't know where she was born.
• Can you send me a list of all the cemeteries in your county?

And so it goes.

Here are some better queries and some suggestions for writing your own.

Add your own bad query in the comments.