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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

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

Today at 00:06
Thomas Back 1838-1902
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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

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


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

LOL I think i love you Wayne lol

(same SOH)

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

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

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

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?

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.

Well, Im off to bed now too - I expect this thread will disappear into the ether that is the "abusive postings" bucket.

I hope the majority of people on here dont take offence as members love to help others and we do appreciate that its all new to some people but if only some of the posters would put everything they know in the first posting it would make life so much easier all round.

Nite guys, bed is calling :)

OK so i havent gone to bed.... yet lol

One last moan...

Why do members ask a question....then go to bed?!!!
Also....they never come back to the said thread!

Do they think it is the norm to get a PM?

Are you listening GR?

Too many newbies are also putting thier e.mail addys on threads. Tut tut!

Really really going now......

Gerri x<<<<<gone

thats it leave me here alone......

Ha. We Canucks can outlast you limeys any night. But watch out for the Aussies, they'll be trampling around the threads soon, and asking their strange foreign questions ...

I agree about email addresses in two respects:

- privacy -- bad bad idea to make one's identity public and also to expose one's email account to spam

- overhigh expectations -- I'm for sure not going to go opening up one of my appropriately anonymous gmail accounts and putting together info to send to someone I don't know and have no desire to enter into correspondence with

But that said -- I think it's fine to post an *anonymous* net-based email address in a post, so it's there if anyone ever comes along in future and wants to get in touch.


"Do they think it is the norm to get a PM?"

In the old days that's the only way it worked, right?

But turnover here is so high I can't imagine many people posting now have any idea what the old days involved.


I really think what it is, is that first-time posters expect only to hear from someone who is actually related to them, someday in the distant future ...

And if they took 5 minutes to step outside the surname cave and read the boards first, they'd see how much better their prospects might be.

bumping it up for the topsy turvy people.

Re the race/contest.

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

I win. And I am so funny I leave myself gasping for air.

But hey, I was already a bit breathless:

Wayne: "I get the feeling it relates to a previous post where someone called jaqui asked a question like... whats his name and when was he born?"

Kathryn

Great thread!!


Just back from holidays ............ a train trip right across Canada, and then back again!



And we still have the same old problems on here!




Hope you are well, and had no problems with the wind storm??????




sylvia

When I came next door to the office this a.m. there were chunks of shingle all over the sidewalk. I assume they came from my roof ...

At least a fellow Canadian thinks that thread was the funniest thing on skates. I especially liked the username of the person who decided to play it straight.


So how come you didn't stop in for a visit?? I've always wanted to take that train trip -- hasn't everyone in the world, of course. Did drive from southern Ontario to Winnipeg in February once. The heater in the U-drive car died in the wee hours of the morning north of Superior ...

hmmmmmmmmm .............. that could have been a cold drive!

Hope there wasn't too much damage to the roof.

Does the train stop near you???? Could I have met up with you on the train platform?


We did the same trip in 2004 ..... temps of -35 to -40C meant there were some problems on the train. Like the drains from the showers freezing closed!



Just had pouring rain here, with some wind. Had an earthquake (6.1) off the QCI yesterday and 2 last Saturday in the same area (one apparently 6.5). We didn't feel anything this far south from there though.


sylvia

good evening everyone how are we all tonight?