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I'm nearly redundant............wheeeeeeeee.


Funnily enough Janey, I was going nudge this thread up and ask if you had heard anything. Didn't want to send a pm and spoil your day though! Good for you and your new BF.


Waiting with bated breath................Cx

I've replied that she can't be nearly as delighted as I and the rest of us are.

Glad to see that you, unlike many others one sees, haven't baited your breath, Cynthia. ;)

A drop down!!

Is that something that will go along the top like search trees and messages that newbies dont see either?

jax

'Bated/baited" breath - Is that like my grandad's dog 'Kim' (WHAT a strange name for a dog ???) used to breath on us when he had eaten the cat's 'whiskers cat food ' - He did it with a BIG smile on his face, knowing it smelled awful !!!

Dea x

That's it, Dea. Fish cat food was exactly what I had in mind. ;)

jax, I dunno, I'm having a hard time picturing a "drop down" appearing when one clicks a button. Maybe it means a pop-up??

Have a bit of 'vision' Janey !! (Optomistic vision NOT 'smelly-vision!)

Forget the 'fish smell' and see what they come up with !!

Dea x

Why only on TTF and Surnames,why not all?

Well, I can certainly wait 5 days to see. ;)

Me too - If it is an improvement, it seems we shouldbe able to take it from there ??

Dea Xxx

sounds interesting



and shows they are listening!!

FBG -- certainly agree, all the help boards.

Thought I'd wait and see what it actually is before clamouring for it to be expanded. ;)

A nudge to share the news with the upsy downsy crew.

Topsey and Turvey?

And exactly when did they marry, Ms Gaslight, and are those their given names or their surnames?

And if you want some help, you really might try saying "pretty please".

Sheesh.

I do beg your pardon Miss Canuck..please..very pretty please.

It is believed that Mr Topsey married Miss Turvey sometime in the 1800s and they may have had a child called Mopsey.
All this is supposed to have taken place in Australia somewhere going on family stories.

Thank you for your interest,but it may be some time before I can get back to the computer to answer anymore questions as I am on the other side of the world and now have a hot date with my electric blanket which is warming my bed for me.

Hmm, now I seem to recall you had a thread about their son Cottontail about three years ago. As Agatha in her dotage said: Elephants never forget ...


Say goodnight to your hot date for me, and tell him to give your electric blanket back. ;)

oh!


THAT thread ......... I remember that well

Nudging on to my threads

New dropdowns - how exciting

By Erikka Askeland
Business Correspondent
ONLINE publisher brightsolid has won a further three-year deal to manage the family history site ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk.


The contract will be seen as another key milestone in the development of brightsolid's position in the growing genealogy sector.

The site, with almost one million registered users and growing currently by more than 10,000 per month, is run in partADVERTISEMENT

nership with the General Register Office for Scotland (GROS).

Brightsolid is among the major online publishers specialising in family history and genealogy sites. It has operated the ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk site since 2002 and also owns the genealogy site findmypast.com. Last month brightsolid completed the acquisition of Friends Reunited, including Genes Reunited, from ITV.

"This new contract to manage ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk in partnership with GROS is a significant one for brightsolid," said brightsolid chief executive Chris van der Kuyl.

"ScotlandsPeople is a world-leading website that has built a real community of users worldwide, with that number rapidly approaching one million people."

The site contains more than 50 million records dating back to when statutory records of births, deaths and marriages began in Scotland in 1855. It also includes parish records, dating back as far as 1533, as well as other data including wills and testaments.

Paul Parr, deputy registrar general of the General Register Office of Scotland, said: "We are very proud of ScotlandsPeople.gov.uk. It is one of the leading sites of its kind worldwide."

The deal coincides with plans by van der Kuyl to develop the Friends Reunited site ten years since its launch by husband and wife team Steve and Julie Pankhurst. The firm ushered in a mania in the UK for hooking up with old school friends. In a bid to dominate new media, ITV paid £175m for it.

But the broadcaster was criticised for failing to innovate and introduce "sticky" applications and for continuing to charge for use while other social networking sites were free. In its heydey it had 24m registered users but traffic has dwindled to about 2m users a month.

Van der Kuyl admits it is still early in the firm's planned renaissance. Brightsolid has been running the business for only five months following a Competition Commission inquiry over the sale.

He says the firm still has 13m to 15m active users against Facebook's estimated 19m UK users. Friends became part of a stable of businesses run by brightsolid which will add to options available to users.

Genes Reunited, launched in 2003, is seen as a good fit with Brightsolid's other genealogy businesses: 1911 Census, Findmypast and Scotlandspeople.

All the more reason to be impressed with the pretty quick response once the lack of effective guidance problem was brought to their attention! They're juggling a lot of balls at once, it seems.

What's a "sticky" application??