Genealogy Chat

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See the old thread 'Why do we have to remove the parentheses??' as well.

It really is time that Genes provided us with a better message board, one where we can post actually links so people can click through them.

I'm sitting here...staring at this thread....brain all clouded.....and HEY PRESTO......I think I've got it. I thought I'd gone mad the day I tried to write County Durham.....I must have tried half a dozen times....now I understand....Great Thanks Jean

Oh why do Genes make it so difficult for us....

Hi All you Oldies and Newbies out there, after reading all your replies, I am now totally confused, (.)com, Come on how is an oldie like myself expected to remember all that info, the grey matter just cannot take it all in. LOL. Barbara in Suffolk.

Julie The point is, (excuse pun) there is no need to put in all those *'s www*ancestry*co*uk www.ancestry*co.uk will do, then the person copying and pasting the URL doesn't have to keep replacing all those stars with dots!! Regards Kat :)

hiya'll I just think its easier to use the * instead of dots and brackets, and then just add, something like www*ancestry*co*uk replace * with dots Works for me!!! Julie :)

bumped for Michael!!

Sorry if I sound stupid but why do we need to put (.) in at all? I'm glad it doesn't have to happen but I just don't understand it in the first place. Toni

Thanks Kat I knew you could do this but could never remember what is was that would show up without getting garbled . Germaine x

time to nudge again methinks Kat

and another thing-whats wrong or detrimental to gr in showing links to other refence genealogy sites ??This site is just the start and these sites that cant be advertised form the backbone of the information that is used to help people here which in turn makes this site popular because people are helped-their stance makes no sense and is self contradictory.

its all well and good genes doing this but it affects our ability to write other things with c o in them,for instance a sentence beginning with the word conversely or contrary etc.

I agree with Helen it would be great if GR put helpful info on the site, as it would save people having to tell me where to get things from! excellent idea - perhaps someone should start and thread and we all sign up to it???

I did send a complaint about this to GR, but have not yet had a response. However, I won't hold my breath as they still have done nothing about problems we have complained about 2 or 3 years ago.

nudgy nudge nudge

...... and why, when I want to type quotation marks, do I have to type them twice ??? ie '' (twice) ' (once) :-)

How come GR can organise it so that we cannot post certain webaddresses without resorting to ()* etc and yet they can't put all the useful info they have on their site somewhere so people can easily access it? all the everyday questions we get on the boards about when was the census taken, where do you get electoral rolls, where to get a Scottish birth cert etc need not be asked any more freeing the boards for more difficult queries. OK, moan over, I'll get off my hobby horse. nell

Nudge! we seem to have alot of addresses being posted with brackets and docering that don't need to be again.