General Chat

Thank you Sylvia. will just keep my eye on my GR account later in the year. re payments & charges .see what happens Barbra :-)

That's true, Sylvia, but I can't see anyone saying it right now, thought I must have missed it.

Guinevere ....


I don't know how many people are saying they are leaving right at this moment ...... but a lot have certainly left already.

Just cast your mind back 2, 3 or 5 years, and try to remember all the ones who were on then and had been for many years but are no longer members.

Barbra .............

I don't have auto renoew, never have had. I always make sure that it is turned off before my sub is due ............... unfortunately, GR did not send any email this year to warn me that my sub would be up in 4 weeks time (as they say they will do) :-(

Luckily, I did happen to look along the line at the top and say RENEW in caps, so managed not to miss renewing in time ..... but Ialso get up to 4 weeks after sub is up to renew at my old rate ..... as I think most people do?

You must have broken your standard membership at some point wither by upgrading or by not renewing for longer than that 4 week period.

Mind you ........... I see your membership apparently started in 2009, and membership fees had gone up quite a bit by then

Each to their own .My subs were over £11 for.6 months because I didn't have auto renew ..not expensive .but we all have a choice as to stay or not Barbra . :-)

Agree with the Ancestry comments...the trouble is as the adverts suggest they give you so many hints and suggestions but people take them as gospel .... I gave up explaining to one woman that her facts about my immediate family were wrong, she kept saying but Ancestry tell me it's this.....it's a good site if you're ready to double check everything.

I have had continuous Platinum and later Parish Subs here since 2011.
I can honestly say, I have not regretted a penny of it.

I shall be downgrading to Standard Subs for the first time in September as I tend to use the boards more now than research.

Like the rest of you, I really value the friends that I have made on here <3
So even at the full Standard Rate of almost £20 a year ... that works out to just 58p a week. You couldn't even meet a friend for coffee at that price.

And I'm with Sylvia about Ancestry Trees. Many of them are just fairy tales lol :-D

I joined in 2005 and think it is really value for money and will be forever grateful for the hot matches I got in the early years which got me back on the maternal side to the late 17th century.which is pretty hard on maternal side with surname changes.

I found a second cousin who sent me loads of photos and I helped him to identify.

I was housebound for over 3 years caring for my husband and while he was watching all the sport he could find on TV I was busy with either Family history or on chat boards
I don't come on as much as I did,but think the small subs are worth while and enjoy the occasional chat with people I have come to know.

But you said people said they were leaving because of slow threads, Barbra. I wondered which people.

Shirley, I feel my sub is worth it also for those gotcha moments for other people's searches :-)

My gt grandmother's 2 youngest sisters were BHC in 1884.

My subs are low because I joined in the old days !!! Before it was called genes reunited

I.m not leaving because how would I use my subs to Ancestry and FMP . I only occasionally find new info on my own tree so I use my subs to do look ups
Get the gotcha moment when finding for others just as much as my own gotchas

Am helping too on Facebook for the BHC site. My mums elder half sister was a BHC in 1909

Most enquiries on there are Canadian descendants and have no or very little info on the family of their BHC

£19.95 Rollo ;-)

Never let your sub lapse!

Why should Gr shut down?
The marginal cost of running it is minimal while Web stats suggest it remains a popular minority site with plenty of people shelling out up to £ 16 PA for basic and a lot more for census etc.
The main threat to its existence would be any changes to browser technology which force major updates. BS would be unlikely to fund a big re write. For a couple of years at least Gr is safe.

You lot don't get rid of me that easily ;-) :-D :-D :-D. I cannot forsake the really great people I have met and talk to on here <3

Hello just said my Membership is up in December .so might not renew* Les * bless you x Thanks for your comments Barbra :-D

Who's said they are leaving, Barbra?

Darling Barbra--Please don't think of leaving...I've only just found you in the darkness of G R...All of you light up my day so I'm always in sunshine now.....LES...

I joined in 2003 and still have cheap membership. I also have ancestry and FMP but while GR is cheap I'll stay a member. I've still made more connections via GR than any other site but not for some time now.

I stay in touch with friends who've given up GR via other sites or facebook.

GR won't be around much longer.

I also have been a member since 2004, never had mor than the basic 12 month sub, and it is still low :-)


Barbra ................ be very very careful of those Ancestry trees. More of them are wrong than are correct.

One person puts up a tree and 10, 30, 100 or more people copy it without checking.

That's how my gt aunt and her husband who married in 1902 and emigrated to the US 2 days later got to be the parents of children born in the 1830s in the US :-S :-0 :-D

My subs are still low and I have no intention of leaving. I still find lovely people to chat to and interesting subjects as well, occasionally people 'call' in who are members and who don't post and it is like meeting old friends, like Joan I would really miss it, even though I catch up with some on Facebook.