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Susanne stars in first member video!

Roy

Well done Susanne!

All I can say is :-D :-D :-D

If it gets rr'd so be it

Is it just me or is, Adding people to your tree! is that really a "top tip" and was the video promoting adding living relatives with no mention of GR's T&C as regards to you require PERMISSION to add living people to your tree on GR

Roy

I found out two days ago that my daughter had added me to her tree....I did'nt know she even used Genes.....told her to remove it, If I have not added me why should anyone else

Hi everyone - Glad to see people have watched our first member video. I'm sure all of you could offer hundreds of tips that would help new members get to grips with their family history. If you would like to share them as part of a video please email [email protected]

If we could gather enough people we could do a montage of 'Top Ten' tips. Porkie_Pie, maybe yours could be to remind people to get permission from their relations before they put anything on the internet.

Katie

Kate, Thanks for the offer, However I have found fame and fortune elsewhere and have no desire to extend my portfolio

Roy

How very brave of Susanne :-)

GR, there are some very good tips already stickied to the top of several boards - Jonesey's especially. Why not use those?

Don't want to appear in any video - but something I haven't seen mentioned - when adding information from censuses do put in the occupation - it does add a new dimension, quite apart from helping to identify family records. Sometimes the changes can tell a story in themselves - I have one pretty distant ancestor - first he is a theological student, boarding with a minister whose daughter he eventually married. Next he turns up for several censuses as a silk merchant - and lastly as a minister himself having gone back to his original calling. Some of the census summaries on different sites don't give this detail, it is well worth looking at the original, and the occupations for all the family members.

Katie, top tips were submitted quite a while ago.


GR has 20 top tips in:

http://www.genesreunited.co.za/home/index

http://www.genesreunited.co.za/static/syftwtips

Don't think Susanne actually helps much on the boards though....does she?

Certainly not one of the 'regulars' who, in my humble opinion, are absolutely brilliant.

Cynthia, I think you could be correct, I have never seen her? post a reply to any query

If she is the member i think? "pity no board name given" so cannot be sure, then i have often seen her post asking for help in the past so hardly a helpful member

Roy

I always understood Sheila Wray was the first member to do a promo video for Genes. :-S

The only Susanne I can think of is spelt with a Z so maybe it is somebody different.

I really don't know what to say.

Well ......I'll give Susanne a TIP !!

Open your Purple Messages ....no wonder members are frustrated for reply's.

I think I saw 15 unopened.... :-S

Very popular lady then :-D

With 15 unopened messages i wonder if many old opened messages ever got a reply

May be she had 15 messages unopened because she doesn't come on GR very often ?

Roy

I can honestly say that I would never add my siblings, or any other living/recently deceased rellie to a tree. I need permission to do that anyway.

I was at the GRO 2 weeks ago, and wanted to know how old my dad's brother was when he died just a few years ago .
I discovered that he was NOT a brother at all, but had somehow become a permanent family member.
Wait for it... he was the biological great grandson of the couple who informally adopted my grandfather! ( my gf became his adoptive father).
This can wait for about 50yrs before I add it to my tree.