Genealogy Chat

Margaret I initiate very few messages, but have hundreds and hundreds of people in my contacts list. I prefer to keep the 'no connection whatsoever between your Joe Bloggs born 1957 in Australia, and mine born 1820, cheshire' type messages, so that I do not inadvertently start another lot of fruitless correspondence. I too prefer quality to quantity - but how on earth do you achieve THAT on here, lol! OC

Ozi, not sure if I would be considered 'new'. I've been a member of GR for quite a few years now. I tend to go for quality not quantity. As I said 'different strokes for different folks'. M. Steer

That sounds as if you're a fairly new member with few contacts at the moment. An ideal time to start the reatings. Ozi.

Thankyou all for your replies. Fortunately/or unfortunately I only have about ten people that I share my tree with. I know their names and their connection, I don't need to give them a star rating. Different strokes for different folks! M.Steer

Actually, it is more use than it appears at first sight! I have given my rock solid, known relatives a five star rating. One star means there is no connection between our trees and neither of us ever thought there was - these are chit-chatty messages. Two stars means I am waiting for some kind of feedback - no connection yet proved. Three stars means we do share an ancestor, but a married in one, who is of little interest to me. Four stars means we share a blood ancestor to some degree or other. And five is close relatives of the more recent kind. OC

if you click on to name you want to give stars to then click on star it will turn blue i don't think you can make them go back to black though then you can sort by stars by clicking on sort by. jeanette

Does anyone know/figured out how the new Star Rating works, or, more to the point, is it necessary? All my names have a 3 star rating, even someone who just happened to send me a PM. Is this just a useless gimmick? M. Steer