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Hours?? You must have magic powers after all! I could go back through my posts and probably find more than 50% still sitting there with my "Jane who? from where?" from 2 months ago with no answer ... or, conversely, the entire genealogy of a family served up by me ... with no answer ...

Of course I agree with you entirely: "If I don't know how it works, how are new people expected to know?"

On that one -- the surname thing. Absolutely. I usually try to give a brief explanation, because I know my question will look as stupid to the poster as his/her post does to me.

On the multiple posting, the failing to check for answers ... I really do just expect people using an internet discussion board to spend five minutes familiarizing themselves with how it works and what goes on there, before jumping in. But then I've spent far, far too much time on internet discussion boards.

What i find bizzarre is they expect answers in 10 mins... and when we do find answers but also yet more questions we then have to wait days for a response....

How does that work?

And I agree about the PM's. I get ones that say 'He was born c1845 if that helps'.

WHO was? Do you think that you are the only person I have tried to help in the last few days?

If you think I can be bothered to go through 'My Threads' and look for names that look like yours, then you are sadly mistaken. Sorry.

Sam x

Hi Kath,

I don't mind you posting my comments here at all. As I've said, I've been a member here for many years and didn't realise until tonight that this site worked in this way. If I don't know how it works, how are new people expected to know?

It's just very annoying for the people (like me, you and others) trying to help - because new people don't realise that they will get an answer very very quickly, it just seems like I spend hours waiting for an answer to a question as basic as 'Where was this person from?'.

If this info was supplied in the original post, the query can usually be sorted in about 10 mins!!

Sam x

I really must go to bed now as have to be up early.

Thanks for the laughs Wayne and thankyou Heather for allowing me to let off steam.

Nighty night all

Gerri x

LOL I think i love you Wayne lol

(same SOH)

Gerri i have to say you've aso speelt evertything right and youvenotsqueezedwordstogether


^blushes* sorry couldn't help myself.....

Today at 00:06
Thomas Back 1838-1902
Add


Wayne

Request review
Today at 00:09
Thomas was born in 1838 and died in 1902...

But then you already know that.....

So tell me David.... what else would you like to know? Cos right now your not asking any questions?

LOLOL


1901 England Census ???
about Thomas Back
Name: Thomas Back
Age: 63
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1838
Relation: Head
Spouse's Name: Mary Ann
Gender: Male
Where born: Crediton, Devon, England

Civil Parish: Exeter
Ecclesiastical parish: St Mary Arches
County/Island: Devon
Country: England

Street address:

Occupation:

Condition as to marriage:

Education:

Employment status: View Image

Registration district: Exeter
Sub-registration district: Exeter
ED, institution, or vessel: 24
Neighbors: View others on page
Household schedule number: 100
Household Members: Name Age
Charles Back 17
Mary Ann Back 56
Thomas Back 63
Mary Ann Drew 82 lodger

An example....

Proper way ...

May I just add ...

DO NOT TYPE YOUR POSTS, OR YOUR SUBJECT LINES, IN ALL CAPITALS.

Not you, Heather.

Of course, I can't stop there.

If you really really can't punctuate your posts, please please make friends with the "Enter" key and at least break your thoughts up into separate lines ... preferably with some white space in between ...
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NOT the proper way!

May I just add DO NOT TYPE YOUR POSTS, OR YOUR SUBJECT LINES IN ALL CAPITALSNot you Heather Of course I can't stop there If you really really can't punctuate your posts please please make friends with the Enter key and at least break your thoughts up into separate lines preferably with some white space in between

This is very theraputic....

Ok... who wants this thread??

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.asp?wci=thread&tk=991749

Race you to it..... hahahaha

Kath

If anyone goes to a PM with me...I copy n past the replies back onto the thread. I tell them what i have done.

Gerri x

May I just add ...

DO NOT TYPE YOUR POSTS, OR YOUR SUBJECT LINES, IN ALL CAPITALS.

Not you, Heather.

Of course, I can't stop there.

If you really really can't punctuate your posts, please please make friends with the "Enter" key and at least break your thoughts up into separate lines ... preferably with some white space in between ...

LOL Wayne

Your a better man than me matey! cos if i started being sarcastic...i wouldnt know when to stop! so i just ignor lol

BTW I'm not a man lol

Gerri AKA Geraldine

"PM me yes....but please remind me of your original queston?"

Actually -- DON'T pm ME! I hate it!!!!!

My standard answer now is not even to bother trying to figure it out -- sometimes it relates to threads weeks old that someone has just thought to check (and lucky me, I was the one who said JANE WHO?? FROM WHERE??).

Now I just say: Please copy this info and put it in a post in your thread -- click My Threads and you will see it -- type in the Add Reply box -- submit -- everybody, not just me, will have the info then.

Btw, Heather, what happened to your other thread is that it got deleted. Countdown ...

OMG yes Gerri !!!

How many PM's have i had that simply say he was from Lancashire.....

Who?? who was from Lancashire.... is the reply.

Then comes back the reply my grandad....

...well that clears that one up. So i normally reply with something sarcastic like well congrats you now know where your grandad came from, is there anything else i can help you with...

I like the silence....

hahahaha

Sam -- I'm going to put your comment from that other thread here:

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Sorry Kath, even though I'm obviously not, I didn't know you were psychic....(just joking!)

I wasn't aware that Genes worked like that, all I see are the requests looking for "John who married Jane" etc etc etc

This site is rubbish if it doesn't make it clear that even though you are posting on a particular surname board, that surname doesn't appear to most people!

All I can see is "I believe Alfred married someone called Victoria anyone no for sure?"

I have been a member on here now for about 4 years and I've only just learned that it works in that way...

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Explains a lot, doesn't it? A lot of people aren't actually as stupid as GR is making them look!

The missing surname story -- yet another one most of us here have just seen. (Missing a few other things too, but a surname is the biggie.)

The poster gets to a trying-to-find-surname "board" by clicking on the surname in his/her personal list. When the post is composed, the surname is sitting there in a subject line. When the post is submitted, it appears on that surname "board", and the poster thinks all is well.

Meanwhile, outside the surname-board cave in the light of day, we all see it on the general trying-to-find board, with no surname attached. The poster has no idea why we are in a snit about the missing surname: s/he is still using the surname filter and thinks we're all hanging around on the Smith or Jones or Rasputin surname board being fools. What else would the surname be?

What we should do is encourage every poster this happens to, to submit a complaint to GenesReunited. Standard form that could be used:

I posted a request for information about a family with surname [put surname here]. When my post appeared on the Trying to Find board, there was no surname in the post or the subject. As a result, people who could have helped me find information probably didn't bother, because they had no idea what surname my request related to. Please fix this problem.

Good thread Heather!

It NEEDS to be said/told.

I also get PMs saying something like.....
"His name was Smith"

Who?? what??? where???

I, like all of you check ALL the boards and i dont just pick one question and follow that even if it spans a 6 week period!

PM me yes....but please remind me of your original queston?

Phew! that feels better getting that off me chest! lol

Gerri x

For Lynn

Sam,. what I cant understand are those who seem desperate to find people, you give them the census information from 1901-1841 plus all bmds and never hear a word or see them back on the thread!

Or they say they know "nothing" - you produce a page of info and suddenly they remember they knew all of that!