General Chat

I have just sent the following email to


[email protected]


and would encourage others to also email GR directly, if they so wish


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Dear whoever is on duty today


Read the following thread in its entirety ……

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/general_chat/thread/1346164



……. and then hang your heads in shame


The 100th Anniversary of the start of WW1, and you could not be bothered to put one teeny tiny poopy on the Home Page of your own site.



Maybe you will also get the feeling that more and more members will be leaving GR in disgust ……………………. although perhaps this is also what you would like to happen.



Yours, in shame and disgust

Thank you Shaun,

I think that you have summed up the feelings of so many of us.

I am also dismayed and disgusted at the total disregard and apparent contempt for the membership shown by this organisation, it's beyond belief.

Tec.

Well done Shaun.Totally agree with all you have wrote...

Well said Shaunie, totally agree with every word you have said <3

What you are about to read will probably be out of context and I apologise in advice but I type how I speak and sometimes it does not come over all that good in print. So this could be my first post to be reported.

To say that I’m annoyed with you “GR” would be mild; I’m actually b disgusted with your attitude over the absence of The Remembrance Poppy which we wear with pride.

Our Queen was advised on security issues regarding attending The Remembrance Service at the Cenotaph this morning and declined because of what the Poppy Emblem means to her and everyone else that chooses to wear one and for this act our Queen was applauded.

You “GR” a family history site with Military Records available for a charge of £14.95 “which is an addition to my Platinum Subscription and you could not be bothered to place a Poppy on your home page.

You say that you had to require a technical release and you had no time BUT you could have told everyone instead of members finding out from Facebook which I do not use, I’m a paid up GR member and we should of all been told.

Shame on you, I’m sure that 99.9% of GR members feel the same as I do at your lack of compassion in remembering our war dead by not displaying a Poppy, it’s not just for the Fallen but also the sale of Poppies help to give injured Service Men & Women a better life.

To wind me up even more, you sent me this morning your Nov newsletter “ LETS REMEMBER TOGETHER” with a beautiful banner of Poppies across the top, are you trying to cover up your decision to give Facebook a Poppy and not GR , it will not wash with me, BUT a public apology to GR members might help.

If it was not for a post on the Welsh thread yesterday explaining why we have no Poppy and the added link to this thread I would not of known about this although I did say on the thread yesterday that I noticed there was no Poppy.

That’s it, said my bit, hope peeps agree with the above.

Shaun

Collective relatives from my tree who gave their lives in The Great War.
All were either blood relations or husbands of blood relatives.

John A Allan 1897-1915
Isaac Beattie 1892-1916
Henry H Bell 1896-1916
Robert Burrell 1897-1917
Peter Campbell 1893-1917
John R Christie 1892 1918
James Davidson 1896-1918
Jacob Fyfe 1884-1918
John D Fyfe 1888-1918
Richard Fyfe 1890-1918
Archibald F Hamilton 1892-1918
Patrick Jordan 1897-1918
John AC Lewis 1891-1918
Percy C McCubbin 1893 1918
James B Pollock 1887-1917
Richard F Pollock 1885-1915
Ernest Reed 1885-1917
Alfred Smith 1883-1915
Robert W Wybar 1893-1917

( UK, Canadian, Australian and New Zealand regiments)

Lest We Forget

I agree that the site has gone down hill in recent years, the only thing it has to offer is the invaluable assistance given to people researching their family history, and it is not GR that offers that - it is those members who voluntarily give up their time to do this.

The GR tree facility has serious flaws, support is more or less an autocue, the standard answer when you contact them, is usually along the lines of "we are aware of the problem and are working hard to resolve it" and that sort of response is supposed to help you :-S

This failure to place a poppy on the homepage is just another GR example of how not to cultivate good customer relations :-(

Why couldn't the "techie" who added the poppy to the Findmypast website have edited the GR homepage at the same time - after all both sites belong to the same company? I'm sure they can edit it quite easily and don't need a "technical release". My son has his own website and often edits it within minutes.

This site has gone down the hill in recent times - it's no wonder so few people seem to use it these days.

Kath. x

Makes you wonder if they're so busy 'managing' their FB page, they've forgotten the paying members on GR.

I notice Denis has been a member since 2005 and made 610 posts.
I wonder how many were for help with his tree?

I wonder how many GR members - who are the paying member, but unpaid 'helpers' and the substance of this site - indeed the site would be useless without them - said to him when he asked for help:
'I can't be bothered to help you, and you'd better just get over it'?

GR say "the need enough notice" - well we all knew Rembrance Day was coming, as we do every year - d'you think maybe they've missed the poppy fields at the Tower of London?

well said alan

denis you can show off the dead can not

sally w <3

me too - an uncle aged 19 in WW1

GR don't seem to have got the full message. Yes, it is 100 years ago that WW1 began - but since the introduction of the Poppy & Remembrance Day we have had other wars and other casualties - some so very recently.

The Poppy is for ALL our fallen, whatever the conflict.

Everyone taking part in those conflicts and their families at home were ALL heroes - so no Genes, it is not that I may have had heroes in my family - I DID have heroes in my family.

They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

<3 <3 <3

............................"We will remember them"..........................

I doubt that it will happen AnnC :-| :-|

Today, of all days :-0

well said Allan - an apology might help Denis

For my Uncle who died 26/09/1917 age 25 years


The Soldier by Rupert Brooke

IF I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.

When you go home
Tell them of us
and say for your tomorrow
We gave our today......



Soldiers past and present who lost their lives in order for us to go forth <3

Rupert Brooke
The Soldier


IF I should die, think only this of me:
That there's some corner of a foreign field
That is forever England. There shall be
In that rich earth a richer dust concealed;
A dust whom England bore, shaped, made aware,
Gave, once, her flowers to love, her ways to roam,
A body of England's, breathing English air,
Washed by the rivers, blest by the suns of home.

And think, this heart, all evil shed away,
A pulse in the eternal mind, no less
Gives somewhere back the thoughts by England given;
Her sights and sounds; dreams happy as her day;
And laughter, learnt of friends; and gentleness,
In hearts at peace, under an English heaven.