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I appreciate that you all have a legitimate 'gripe' and I certainly don't want to excuse those who abuse your generosity. I now subscribe to Ancestry and 1837 and have found numerous free genealogy sources and still occasionally fall back on this site when I am stumped. However, I still remember a time when I was new to both genealogy and computers and relied almost completely on genes-re. It would have been a great help if someone had told me where-else I could find information. So, to help any newbies, just google 'genealogy' (it will come up with about 30,000 sites!) or, to make things easier, google the particular county you are interested in, ie.: 'Lancashire genealogy' or even the surname you want, eg: 'Smith family genealogy.' Good hunting, but take note of the comments on this thread. I, particularly, don't want to lose any of these good people. Diane

Hi Bernice, seen it happen to you thats why i nudged it. It is not fair ! regards June

Worth a nudge June

Well said Janet. And Reggie I have a crystal ball as have all of us who offer lookups,haven't you got yours yet???? Mary

A round of applause for Janet, well said!!! Margaret

As someone who has had several look-ups done for me, may I please reinforce your message and ask people NOT to do it. I would like to remind them of how generously you all give of your time and that you go to a lot of trouble to help those of us who do not have access to Ancestry. May I also point out to them that until relatively recently, (pre home pcs and the internet) tracing your roots involved traipsing round record offices and libraries, gleaning what you could, where you could - often you had to wait months to find out one new snippet of information. Those days have gone, to some extent, but that does not give us the right to expect an instant answer, especially when you are asking someone else to do the wotk for you. Our ancestors are long gone, so waiting a few hours for a reply is hardly a matter of pressing urgency. I am also disconcerted by the number of people who post a request and then clear off from the boards, presumably hoping that when they come back the next day, their tree will have been done for them, by someone else. At best, it is thoughtless - others may consider it discourteous or even plain selfish. So come on, play the game - have a little patience, the people doing look ups have a life of their own and are not there to solve all our queries. Jay

Jeanette -only some of them - those with the info on, (naturally!!)

Mary........ How did you guess?? Reg

I find it unbelievable that people do this. I have been so humbled by the generosity of people on this site when I've hit problems and the helpfulness and patience in my first weeks when I was finding my feet and working out where to locate information. Can you report them to someone?

they have been deleted jeanette

Well spotted Jess,I knew there had to be one. Will remember the name!!!!!!! Mary

close call.... I have a good memeory for names and sometimes i just know i've seen it before - which is what i think Reggie means !

Thanks Reggie,you been caught too? Mary

A timely nudge..........

Nudge as its happening again Asking on tips + record board June

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they might Mary if its at the top **Whack it back there!**

Oh dear just been caught out so not a happy soul. Going to have to start a black list of names to avoid. Maureen

And though I dont come in the super star league like you looker-uppers, I get really peed off if someone asks for a bmd and I assume (my fault I know) that they have tried the free sites (cos its alway HELP, Ive looked everywhere, isnt it) and after spending units on familyrellies someone else will say, here it is on freebmd. SCREAM. Ive just seen a lot of people had looked up census results for someone that I looked up for over 2 hours last week and the person has asked again. STILL, as we always end up saying, the majority of people are brilliant!

nudged up for the multiple requesters to read HA HA m