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Assuming that this is being read by the powers that be please can you tell me why you have never responded to my requests for help? I've sent three emails about a problem in trying to amend my family tree - I know I shouldn't have got it wrong in the first place but it is now a mess. Please can you let me know how to put it right? Thanks Trish ps having read all the other messages if I was you I would consider holding a vote on the name change before you proceed and upset the members. Personally I don't have strong feelings about it.

I've looked at all the replies objecting to the name change, however I have to admit that being a relatively new member to this part of the site - I have always refered to it as Genes Reunited as I simply access my Family Tree through Friends Reunited... No doubt many others do too!

Hummmmm reunited? would rather not be reunited with any of me dead relatives just yet... genes connected made much more sense.. besides I like many others call it the GC site..lame excuse to change the name of the site!

Hi I completely agree with everyone about the name change - firstly, the "research" justification sounds like a complete fabrication, and they're labouring under a delusion if they think we all call it Genes Reunited - that's the first time I've heard that - do they think we're all stupid and confuse it with Friends Reunited? And how much response has there been to our views from the so-called powers (I can think of a far more apt and less polite term) that be at GC (NOT GR!!!!!!!)? They've lit the blue touch-paper and walked away. I find it patronising and high-handed - they should remember who bankrolls them; while I'm happy to pay my £7.50 for what I've always seen as a great site, the money must be rolling in, so a bit of customer service wouldn't go amiss.... What can we do about it? I don't want to leave GC, and although I'm going to e-mail them directly, I think the effect of this is likely to be nil. Has anyone got any ideas? Must stop ranting before the steam starts coming out of my ears and singes my hair. Lysianne

Save our GC nudge

I've been away for a week and have missed all the fun by the sound of things. It took me a while to get back into the site and it was only after sending a stroppy e-mail to the powers that be that it dawned on us (me and my computer-aware son) that my cookies were not enabled! Painful affliction that. Anyway, is it my imagination or is GenesReunited free to register? That's what it seemed like when on one of my attempts to get into the site I re-registered ... Or do I have to continue paying which was what I was doing in GenesConnected? If it's free on GenesReunited I'll just "transfer" everything. Confused of Kent signing off - Oh the joys of being 47. Jill

Hi Maz,Me from a crazy mixed,matched family I just love this site "Worts And All" Lets all get back to the real objective finding the "Links" You got it right in one. Leon.

Light Relief on the subject. My father left home when I was 8 (1948) In later years we found out he was already married with a son. By then my mother had 3 Kids.(Not Married) I went searching in the 80's And would you believe I found him. aged 80 and very happy with his lot. He had remarried a great lass from East Germany. In between times he had a number of relationships. He died aged 84 with a smile on his face. Mum by then had married a great guy from Wales. Who bless him passed on in 1973 . Went on a cruise met a guy from New Jersey U.S.A. Married in 1980. Great guy again but died in 1991. The sum of all this is I have direct and indirect family all around the world. Big Families! By the way mum was an orphan at 5. I am not sure on the debate of GC/RC. Why not "Happy Families" Try sorting my lot out!!! By the way my wife Diana's Family is twice as complicated. Only for "Light Relief" Leon P.S.Mum is still alive and kicking who knows the story could go on

Light Relief on the subject. My father left home when I was 8 (1948) In later years we found out he was already married with a son. By then my mother had 3 Kids.(Not Married) I went searching in the 80's And would you believe I found him. aged 80 and very happy with his lot. He had remarried a great lass from East Germany. In between times he had a number of relationships. He died aged 84 with a smile on his face. Mum by then had married a great guy from Wales. Who bless him passed on in 1973 . Went on a cruise met a guy from New Jersey U.S.A. Married in 1980. Great guy again but died in 1991. The sum of all this is I have direct and indirect family all around the world. Big Families! By the way mum was an orphan at 5. I am not sure on the debate of GC/RC. Why not "Happy Families" Try sorting my lot out!!! By the way my wife Diana's Family is twice as complicated. Only for "Light Relief" Leon P.S.Mum is still alive and kicking who knows the story could go on

Please stick with the Genes connected name. Surely to reunite one has to have been together first. How can this be, with relatives from several centuries.? We will always have family connections though.

Please remove the abusive title of Genes reunited & replace it with Genes Connected. Richard Ager.

how disappointing when I clicked on my favourites page the page can not be displayed. Because they changed it anyway today. Gloria

Well they have done it anyway. Only just logged on for today and link went to home page not my tree as usual. How silly is that Diane

Perhaps like me you should email GC, sorry but there it is, GC and nothing else will do. The question I have asked is Why Genes reunited when you can't reunite with your ancestors, you can connect with the decendants of these ancestors, but you can't reunite with the decendants of these ancestors if you never knew them. I will let you know if and when I receive a reply. Irene

sorry michelle, but you are wrong. we all refer to this site as gc, and when we are recommending this site to friends and family they will have a problem finding you if you start messing about with the name. friends re united is a completely different thing to this site, i dont think your name change will entice them accross, unless they already have an interest in this sort of thing. and surely we, as MEMBERS should have some say in changes like the one you are proposing ? or am i wrong ? mmmmmmm sue. just realised, you have already changed the name, so no point in complaining is there !

Like Nichola said on my thread.. I've nooooo intention of my ancesters to reunite me from their grave! Well... One or two might help me to find the blasted family, but on the serious note.. What IS the point of changing the name? Nothing wrong with GC at all. Get it back to GC Pleeeeeeeeeease?? T

Sorry guys, just another complaint about renaming the site ... Whilst realising you are trying to unify the 'Reunited' brand, it really doesn't work for me. Aside from the fact you already have a mature "GC" following in terms of genealogists and that "GC" has become a recognised way of referring to the site/service, it doesn't make sense as an expression. 'Connected' was a much more positive way of referring to the aspirations that we all have. 'Reunited' has rather sick implications, would you really want to be 'reunited' with an ancestor who had been buried for 200 years? I don't think so. I would much prefer you spent the cash on making sure people enter sufficient info (i.e. places) with their ancestors' names than undertake a ridiculous rebranding exercise. Jane

Hoping everyone has read this -it's already happened! Seems GC admin has the Bush Syndrome - dive in first and think later! Marlene

Why?!!!! I've never heard anyone call it Genes Reunited. That's such a poor excuse for changing it. Keep it the same, we like it the way it is! Amy

What a waste of time and money. I think my views make it 38 NIL.