Genealogy Chat

No I'm afraid not.The gremlins must be at work here,if I take the year 1935 out of the box,I only get 35 in total!I've got more than that in my own tree!

William Russell Jones/

Are you putting a space at the end of the names?

If I do that there are no matches unless I remove the year, in which case there are 55.

Well its certainly something to bear in mind.

William Russell Jones.

Many thanks.I'm wondering why the gap should affect the search?

The truth is I'm having to use the on screen keyboard as l'm having problems with my ordinary one.

William Russell Jones.

Glad you're sort William. You sometimes have to play about with the details you put into the boxes in order to get a result.

eg.....don't always put the exact date of birth as others with him in their tree may be slightly out with their dates...always -/+ a couple of years.

Play about with the place of birth - put the county instead of the actual place.

A lot depends on what others, who share the same person as you, have put down in their facts.


Cx

I've been looking for some advice Cynthia as I've been adding over 13,000 names to my tree!lol

William Russell Jones.

Do I detect a note of sarcasm William or are you just a name collector?

He's not a name collector, Cynthia; I can vouch for him :)

So he was just being sarcastic then I take it Joy?


I was only trying to help - I remember when William first started to use the boards.


To be honest, I just cannot see why people have to mention the number of names they have in their tree, unless they are simply trying to impress one.

It was said with a touch of humour.Of the 13,000 names I mentioned I have individually added all but 300 of them .

William Russell Jones.

I must have missed the humour - which is unusual for me. As I said, I was simply trying to help.


There are many of us who help on the boards who only work spasmodically on our trees, and then we keep to the most immediate of direct family lines. We also have our trees on other sites and offline.


Each to their own I guess.

Been getting Error 503 all day when trying to access my family tree, anyone else still experiencing this problem? :-(

Posted by BM at 00.00 today


'If you go to open your tree, it will open a new window. Click in the URL and change the 3.3.3 to 3.3.1 and press enter, this works for me'


It works for me too.

Yay, success! THANKS CHOCCY!! :-D

Don't thank me, thank BM :-)


I only copy and pasted his/her solution, which works for me!

On Annoucements

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/announcements/thread/1316168

A thread originally posted on 21 Dec has had the title editted to read

Tree problems - Wednesday 2nd January
Hi everyone - we are really sorry that the tree is currently unavailable. We are looking into this and hope to have it fixed as soon as possible.

Posted on Announcements at 11.09 am today:


Hello everyone, we are really sorry that you have been experiencing problems with the tree again. We have been having problems with one of our servers, which has overloaded and caused the error message.

This has now been fixed and you should be able to use the tree again.




Good news for those experiencing problems...... :-D :-D :-D

I'm getting a 503 error on my normal computer, a laptop. This has stopped me getting to the site all day, however an old desktop gets on with no problem and I can Logon. Weird !

Have done a Norton scan and tried restarting several times.

Any suggestions please.

Sally - have a look at this thread. Just click on the link to open in a new tab

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/general_chat/thread/1334369

Apparently the error is caused by a recent update to Windows IE11. There are instructions on that thread on how to revert to an earlier version.

If you can't understand them, add to THAT thread and someone more knowledgeable will come to your rescue

Is this a problem again because I have error 503 for over a week now. Just renewed my membership, got an email to confirm but cannot get on.....Help. Got onto this page through Google