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I would have preferred not to have received this

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ChrisofWessex

ChrisofWessex Report 9 Nov 2014 14:32

Well I hope they put those where they cannot twinkle.

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 9 Nov 2014 12:17

Oh and I bet that they will soon put some Christmas decorations up......

Researching:
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

DazedConfused

DazedConfused Report 9 Nov 2014 12:17

I doubt if there is a family in the whole of the UK (and ROI) who has not been affected in some way by war.

I consider myself lucky that no direct ancestors have died, but have several more distant ones who died in both WW1 and WW2.

And more recent in conflicts and peace since WW2.

We as a nation respect our war dead, it is such a shame that the staff at GR does not.

Researching:
We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars, Oscar Wilde New avatar, my dad age about 3/4 months, could have been worse, it could have been the awful nude on a rug!!

nameslessone

nameslessone Report 9 Nov 2014 10:59

".may have.." - surely we 'all had' as they were ALL heroes!

RolloTheRed

RolloTheRed Report 9 Nov 2014 10:55

If you contact them and ask that this kind of promotional message not be sent then GRU will stop doing it. Sadly the carnage of the C20 cut a particularly savage swathe through my family. The never ending messages on the lines of "You may have had a hero in your family ...." used to make me feel quite ill and angry. I don't get them any more thank goodness.

They never wanted to be heroes anyway.

<3

Researching:
The Man In the High Castle

AnnCardiff

AnnCardiff Report 9 Nov 2014 10:30

probably the same email I had tho' I didn't bother reading it all

Researching:
Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me

OneFootInTheGrave

OneFootInTheGrave Report 9 Nov 2014 10:28

I really would have preferred not to have received, what I can only describe, as a blatant advertising e-mail from GR - hijacking Remembrance Sunday and the events surrounding those who fought in the First World War and other wars, to promoting this site.

Personally, in my opinion, this news letter only compounds their original insult of failing to put a poppy on the home page.

Researching:
I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"