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GR how should it work?
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SylviaInCanada | Report | 14 Aug 2015 04:33 |
FYI ................... |
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Kense | Report | 13 Aug 2015 11:39 |
Brightsolid, is no longer in control of GR, it is Findmypast that is the controlling company.. |
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JemimaFawr | Report | 12 Aug 2015 22:47 |
Am I the only poster that likes GR the way it is? :-S :-S :-S |
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eRRolSheep | Report | 12 Aug 2015 22:12 |
faceache appeals to a certain sort of person but it is not for me - I am not interested in how many times my "friends" (are they really?) have been to the loo or what they ate for lunch. |
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BrendafromWales | Report | 12 Aug 2015 22:11 |
When I joined in 2005,I thought it was fantastic.i had some brilliant hot matches,found 2nd cousins I never knew existed and shared info with them as they did with me. |
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DazedConfused | Report | 12 Aug 2015 21:58 |
All the fuss about FaceBook. Even less people on there than on here!! |
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eRRolSheep | Report | 12 Aug 2015 21:53 |
Well they do not exactly do that and as for the maths - there may only be 300 using the boards (I paid a lot less than £20 for a year's platinum membership) but there are vastly more members than that. |
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Rambling | Report | 12 Aug 2015 21:51 |
It's not a question of how many people post on the boards though is it Kense? that is a tiny fraction of the alleged membership... what is relevant though is that however many staff there are they are not fixing the problems to a service that is being paid for and not just by the £20 a year subscribers, like problems on trees, problems with the advanced search, even the home page which new subscribers see first is hopelessly out of date. |
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Kense | Report | 12 Aug 2015 21:39 |
I don't know how many staff you think these boards pay for. I reckon there is at most 300 who use the boards and most are paying less than £20 per annum. That's about £6,000. |
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supercrutch | Report | 12 Aug 2015 20:50 |
Naughty Bro! lolol |
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MR_MAGOO | Report | 12 Aug 2015 20:22 |
And his brother Itchy ......... :-S |
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supercrutch | Report | 12 Aug 2015 20:11 |
Agrees with Sue, I don't use the search facility on here and when my latest hot match was..................................... Julian Crutch...........................I really had to fight to control my bladder! |
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Sue In Yorkshire. | Report | 12 Aug 2015 16:42 |
Joy,no they don't but as we pay the wages you would think they would actually come on the site and let us all have an inkling of what is going to happen. |
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JoyBoroAngel | Report | 12 Aug 2015 16:30 |
Do you all really think they care what we think or want :-( :-( |
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Sue In Yorkshire. | Report | 12 Aug 2015 16:08 |
My personal opinion is the boards should go back to 2003/4 when Steve had the site. |
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Rambling | Report | 12 Aug 2015 15:55 |
namelessone, I am not certain whether the comment I saw about how to manage the boards was on Facebook or on here .... but if it is any consolation, other than the odd photo, GR staff don't seem to be doing anything on FB either :-D |
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nameslessone | Report | 12 Aug 2015 15:45 |
RR |
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Rambling | Report | 12 Aug 2015 15:41 |
Pat they haven't asked on FB, they (GR) haven't asked at all, it was my question just based on a few comments here and there and on the obvious lack of any presence on the board and any resolution to the ongoing problems that have been reported, eg the advanced search not working for months on end. :-) |
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PatinCyprus | Report | 12 Aug 2015 15:36 |
I won't answer until they address us on here. We pay to be on here how dare they put it to a free site first. We pay their wages by our subscriptions so they should take care of us first as if we all leave they'll be up the creak without a paddle. |
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nameslessone | Report | 12 Aug 2015 15:29 |
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