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Suggestions to improve GR
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Eileen | Report | 31 Dec 2004 10:09 |
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Hi, It would be a good idea to put a alphabetical bar on the top of large trees, It would save scrolling through many pages, to find sernames at the end of the Alphabet. mine has over 500 sernames, it must be a nightmare! Eileen |
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Martin | Report | 31 Dec 2004 08:04 |
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I never even look at that figure. I do check regularly (every day if possible), the Names Summary and go through a couple of my main surnames. There is a tendency to get contacts from people with very little information. Often I just get a request to view my tree with no explanation of why they want to view the tree. What is needed is for GenesReunited to stop the stupid policy of corrupting EMail addresses and URLs. Also leave formatting of messages intact. This message is split into a series of paragraphs for ease of reading but GR will probably make into one long paragraph. Forgot this is the third message in a thread so it will not be corrupted! I often paste a report from my family tree program about the part of the family that interests someone. This is made almost unreadable by GenesReunited for no good reason. I also use a MyFamily.com website and their system for displaying my family tree is far superioir but costs more. Martin Briscoe |
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Paul | Report | 31 Dec 2004 00:58 |
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1. every time I log on I see "4689 new surname matches". As everyone knows, this number means absolutely nothing. Why can we not decide on the criteria used to display that number? Personally, I'd want to see (for example) all close matches for the surname Barrow, in the city of Liverpool, from 1780-1895. And I'd enter this info for all my names. Then that number would actually mean something. 2. I never know what to do when I don't get a return email from a member (or former member)- email again? forget it? wait? Would it not make more sense to know if the person you are emailing still has an active account? This would make things so much less frustrating. And if that former member gets emails, GR could email them personally to tell them to register again since they have x amount of correspondences. I've sent these suggestions to GR- but no reply yet. Any other suggestions? |
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