General Chat

Thanks, Joy, Have read through all messages and found it very interesting. Like some other members, I am having trouble with second marriages in my tree - my grandfather's 2nd marriage was to his deceased brother's widow. I tried putting this into my GR tree, (original version), but I now have two Thomas Elis, and two Mary Janes ! so where I have gone wrong I do not know. (It was so easy on Family Tree Maker). Cheers, Bea.

Well said Scarlett Willy (oooer sounds painfull lol ! ) Also this is not a suggestion box thread either. Elaine x

Agree we should be able to give country of birth as England, Scotland or Wales - UK just not specific enough. No provision for 'unknown' where we do not know country of birth - and Newfoundland isn't there - may be part of Canada now - but it wasn't when great great grandma Harriet Hiscock was born on Bell Island in 1818!!

my photos are the same louise, diferent people in my tree all had the photo of my grandmother showing. jenny

Have just discovered your new Family Tree Builder ( Beta) and think it is marvellous. Enjoyed using it this morning. Thanks and good luck !

Thank you Genes, appears you have fixed the gremlin with an msn page appearing after carriage return. Jan :-))

to elizabeth anne on the new tree builder there is a link to your shared trees and a search box to find the person in the tree you are looking for. jenny

Dear Team, please could the ability to enter a middle name when doing a name search be reinstated? This would be invaluable when researching a name such as Jones!

STILL no answer to the query about marrying cousins I see?! Mandy, I have a similar problem to you-- I have a widower marrying his dead wife's sister - in fact, they are the parents of one of my sets of marrying cousins! I also have a father and son marrying a mother and daughter but that's another story... Can I second Totally Confused's request? That you can't go 'back' to the previous page after you have done certain jobs (like entering a message on the boards) is a big bugbear on this site. Also, I have asked this myself before and been told it would be dealt with in updates but never is - why on earth can't we have page numbers at the top and bottom of the boards, to save us constantly scrolling up and down? Surely it can't be that difficult? Sal

Can i make a suggestion please? (ooh there goes the pop up blocker!) Can we have a list of members that are logged on at the bottom of the page, similar to the Channel 4 / Big Brother website? It shows who is logged on at any one time and how many guests there are looking at the page. This may solve problems such as the phantom nudger. Please let me know wot you all think to my possibly daft idea and feel free to shoot me down c x

I just thought GR team, it would be everso helpful if you put the numbers of pages at the top and bottom of boards, save having to scroll up and down. Also if you check out the new names in the name summary and its a common name that has several pages, you cant seem to get back to the name summary after you have decided no connections.

Genes support team, When on a page of a thread and press return i get the MSN search page popping up. For example on the 4th page of this thread. Steve.

Thank you, i will take a look....

Could I just ask.............. people have mentioned the facility to add cousins marrying without adding them twice ............. would this also cover a woman marrying her late sisters husband and another marrying her late husbands brother, that was quite common when you get further back in the tree. Mandy

can i have a moan too, it's also happening to me. as soon as i type this letter and press return key, the msn page comes up. it has only happened today on my computer......................thanks, lynnxx

Yes, I like some of the features and the layout. What I find a bit limiting is the keyhole effect that someone else mentioned earlier. Perhaps an option to zoom out would be possible? Also, finding people in this tree could be improved by having a browse feature, instead (or as well as) typing the name in. Even so, I like the layout and not having to switch back when entering or editing details. Michael

That's worse than me then Joy, so far I only get it in a message on the first carriage return. GR - THIS IS SO ANNOYING Can we have an update please, even if you've not fixed it yet at least let us know what's happening. Thank you. Jan

Hello Genes Team Is there an update on this situation yet. I am still getting an msn search page. I do not use msn normally so how could this happen - is it likely you'll get it sorted shortly please. Jan

Hello Genes Team Mine happens when I am adding to a thread and it is ALWAYS and ONLY the first time I do a carriage return Here is the path msn. underneath that among other things is Didn't you get the results you expected. Help us improve LOLOLOL Is that any help team. Hope so. jan UPDATE site wont let me give you the path I'll mail you through Contact us now Jan

Hi Genes support team. I'm sorry, i don't want to be stroppy, but I'm now the 3rd person to ask this, so perhaps you could give us an answer? I have two sets of cousins in my tree who married each other, but this cannot be shown on GR. As someone else mentioned, we have been promised for a long time that this would be fixed 'soon'. Other sites manage it, so surely GR can do it too? Thanks, Sal PS Am I the only person who has had problems scrolling pages up on GR for the past few days??