Genealogy Chat

Ian quote ......lots of old farts who sit there all day keeping up with the threads and posting replies ......it takes one to know one !!!!!!!!!!!!

This board has been a great help to me. I've got further than I would have believed possible when I started all due to the help and advice of very generous people and the tips I've picked up on other threads. And don't we all need a laugh sometimes? I just wish I was witty enough to add to some of the more humourous threads! I will definitely renew. Moira.

:) I understand some of you oldies might struggle at first to understand a new forum however if you can manage a search in ancestry and make your way through thousands of pages of mistranscribed pages then I'm sure within a little time you'd manage it. I think the sheer number of people on here posting is the major problem. The system they have is fine if you only have a few members or not very many posting but when you have lots of new users and lots of old farts who sit there all day keeping up with the threads and posting replies then it proves difficult to follow the threads you are interested in if you return 10 hours later. I have seen a forum elsewhere which is the perfect answer for the researchers/genealogists on here but they never go there because we are all here fumbling about with a really badly designed board. In my oppinion they should integrate a more powerful board to GR. It would be a lot tidier and easier for all users to get to grips with. I dread to think the amount of posts i've missed that would be useful because it's so difficult to navigate and find things. Yes you probably would need a moderator or two BUT if they made it so that only the paying registered users could post here they would cut out most of the trouble in one fell swoop. Thanks for listening, Ian PS, the ageist comments were just humour and not seriously meant by the way. But you do know who you are. ;)

Scuse me a sec just till I unclog Meercats furball....ok done XXX

I have never been able to understand the way you move from one message to the reply and so on, on other forums......and by the time you have done it wrong a few times you know you will never learn! I can cope here and also on The Peerage d o t c o m, but on that site you wait maybe a year for a reply!! (literally) Merry

Just lately I haven't posted that much as I am at a stage where I have gained loads of knowledge from reading this board. People on here have been really helpful even doing look-ups for me during their own research time which I appreciate as I know how precious it is. I try and aswer queries where I can and I have been noticing lately that a lot of queries that have been answered previously many times have been popping up but that is as a result of loads of 'new' people coming onto the site. Yes there are some fun threads because the experienced people that help others are still here helping us and lets face it why not let off a bit of steam sometimes. The general board is difficult to post on as people on there do seem to be very close and I feel like (whether rightly or wrongly) I have stumbled into a private meeting sometimes. Just to add the membership fee has been the best money I have ever spent due to help that I have received from other members.

Ooops, just realised it's after midnight. No wonder the eyes won't stay open. Night everyone!! Rebs x *who isn't the least bit sweet*

Ian, some of these new kind of forums put me right off, where there are smileys and pictures and quotes that appear every time somebody posts anything. They give me a headache! And if we had that kind of forum, what is the betting it would be moderated? Well, some people might think that would be good, but we would suddenly have to start behaving ourselves, wouldn't we?! Kate.

Thanks goodness it wasn't the beeb.Every post pre modded and checked before it can be viewed.It could take an hour before you saw a post you placed,then it was heavily altered. Glen

Ian, Just so you know I am not advertising GR were taken over by eye tee vee some time ago, as was FR. Heather x

Ian, Oh, and when you say, ''we are used to forums''......Erm......You mean you are!!!! LOL Merry :o))

furball......lol, pmsl!! Ian, I think it's the company that has a television viewing guide to the right of your screen. Correct me if I'm wrong someone.

Ian, I don't like the board ''style'' much either, but I am too stupid to use anyone elses message boards.....so I would have nowhere to go if these changed to something ''better'' :o(( Merry

Actually Ed has a point about the boards in a way. i have a pet hate with them and that they are just so crap to use. This day and age we are used to forums etc and this community here would be sooooo much better if there was the freedom and ease of use that these other forums use. However I get the feeling that because they want you to pay and register they have kept this really dreadful bulletin board style system to control everything. If they opened the boards into one of the many forum systems they would get used a lot more. So come on GR why not implement a phpBB or even the Invision powerboard forum so we can help each other even more. I'm sure they are making enough money. Oh and can someone tell me who Ed was refering too when he said GR had been taken over by a certain company?

Sweet Alice? lol Meer, what a misnomer. Someone said I had gone all girly on them with the name change. Never though of it that way, just thought Tina would have my a*se if I used Cheshire Cat in any way, shape or form. pmsl!!! ps, why do you love lion? I thought meercats preferred snakes.

Did someone say drinks??? Glen, someone experienced tinsel chafe at Crones Xmas do,(the one she forgot to show up to) maybe they still have some ointment left???

Heather beat me to it.LOL But then again i was just looking at her reference to her lot being in the Domesday Book. More likely that it was the day we all became doomed i'd say. Glen ******now trying to creep away without shimmering,scraping or dropping a turnip!!!!********

It's all right, everyone...... If you remember, Ed said he wasn't looking for any replies, so he won't be reading this!!!! Merry

Oh the irony - look what this thread is turning into!!

Meercat Apologies as i obviously misunderstood the intention on that thread,see how easy it is.Doh. The only suprise with the turnips is that my eyes aren't watering more than they are.The tinsel is starting to scratch and dazzle me in the sunlight too. Glen