Genealogy Chat

Hope so. Lots of good stuff on here, if I do have a question I tend to look on the boards and nine times out of ten I find something that helps without having to post.

Night all

J

:-)

I won't promise :-D


Anyway glady its seems to have die down now in the past week or so, peace has been restored ;-)

But I will read carefully if I need anyhelp

Hayley Empress of Drama

Now don't start me on recycling....

J ;-)

Jax

Thanks for the welcome. Understand what you're saying but the post and guidelines see to be passing some folk by... Perhaps GR's plans for moving posts to the right place, removing duplicates etc will help.

Have to admit some of it has put me off asking anything - but as someone who does read the instructions before she puts up her IKEA furniture, I'll follow the guidelines when I do.

J

Tin hat :-D a blast form the past there Jacqui, yes I know what you mean, tips & records didnt seem to generate as much uproar as there has been since the change about reminds me of Itsmytelly, and if anyone at home sticks the wrong item in the wrong coloured recycling bin.....3 grains of rice and a kidney bean and you of thought the world was going to end ..*sighs*

Welcome to the boards jacqui

There is a post explaining what this board is for at the top of this page and there are guidelines on Living relatives and Find Ancestors

jax

As someone who's been a member for several years but never posted, reading some of the vitriol that's been dished out by some long standing members recently about newbies (present company excepted!), no wonder there are fewer postings!

I doubt if some of these individuals would dare to speak to people to their face in the way they snip and belittle other members on here...

But, a helpful suggestion for GR and others to consider - how about a para at the top of each board that explains what it's for, with some examples. We all see things differently so perhaps giving the newbies a bit of a hand might make the experience better for everyone?

Putting my tin hat on now, lol :-D

for a look up? :-0

Try suggestions, Hayley ;-)

evening lovely people so where do you ask for looks up as I think my first choice would be here....but I am an oldie reformed newby :-D

Find Ancestors does not sound like a lookup board so probably a new name might help

I think maybe the names of the boards could be made clearer. I remember saying I thought the records board should be changed because it was supposed to be for people offering lookups in records offices and those offers were minimal compared with lookups from commercial sites such as ancestry and find my past. Genes reunited in its reply asked what I thought it should be called and I suggested Lookups.

hi,,,,, i must admit i do post on this board for lookups until today when i was told that i was not allowed to,,,, at the time i was quite upset with the comment

Susan
People have been putting requests on any board all the time that I have been a member.The occasional gripe from rule readers has usually resulted in an argument.I suppose we need guidance from Genes as to whether members are allowed to castigate other members.

I am very sorry.
I am one of those to blame for putting
requests on her.
Never thought about finding ancestors board.
:-(

Good prayer Jonesey.

I try to reply on a thread that has been posted twice just saying that it is a duplicate post.

Other than that I try to live and let live. As Jonesey says - there aren't that many requests on the boards at the moment so I wouldn't want to discourage people by being too pedantic about where they should post. Anyone who has a problem with where a request is posted can always just ignore it.

I, too, hope this doesn't upset anyone.

Kath. x

The Serenity Prayer

God grant me;
The serenity to accept the things I cannot change;
The courage to change the things I can change;
The wisdom to know the difference.

Some of us( including me ) had no choice but to use the genealogogy
board because they could not get on the find ancester board.
maybe thats why ?
Everything is going ok now so i shall be using the correct ones in future.
But i can see both sides of the argument so to speak,
but i must say i am a little drawn to Jonesey side some times there is a reason so best to accept and wait patiently !!

Flo,,,,,,,,,,,, hope i have not upset anyone ?

There is no harm Jonesey, but the board just becomes another trying to find. They may aswell just have one board for all...that will save any arguements

jax

I know that rules are rules but as things stand I cannot see too much harm if some members post their look-up requests on this board. The more important thing is that they do not post the same request on more than one board at the same time.

On one hand there are some GR members bemoaning the fact that there are too few requests about these days and on the other hand we have some members worrying about the fact that a request has not been posted on the correct board.

As Joy says it looks likely that GR will eventually have a mechanism whereby a post can be relocated by them if it has not been posted on the correct board. Until that comes to pass I would personally suggest that people stop being concerned about posts on the wrong board, just accept or ignore them.