Genealogy Chat

My husband's family has three generations of William Fraser's from Scotland. I know very few extra details. Hot matches have matched me with two or three pages of William Fraser's born Scotland in the appropriate years. I have contacted several people who could be possible relations and as yet have had no reply. If only it were possible for Hot matches to give a few extra details -you would not want to contact every relative of John Smith born in England. I have found several people on the site with birth year 0 or 00.

Olde Crone, excellent point. When I first built my tree in GR I just put in the basic minimum for each person so as to get the tree up and running. I am now slowly working through adding those 'Extra Details'. Because, as you so rightly point out, there is insufficient room in the normal boxes to add clarifying information I have found the 'Notes' box very handy. It expands to accept anything I wish to put in it, e.g. list of addresses, with their sources, garnered from census and certificate entries; occupations, ditto and all those explanatory notes, reminders, cautions about the info in each section. I think it would be a good idea if, for each box, there was a link to a box called 'More' where you could store useful additional info e.g. source, explanatory detail, caveats etc. that pertains only to that item. The 'Source' box at the bottom is limited in usefulness as it only allows for one source to be visibly displayed for what is usually a multitude of info from various sources....J.

BLUSH! RED FACE BLUSH!!! when i first joined and did not know my way around, i started adding to my tree and because i only used guesswork a lot of it was MARY? married to J JONES? children JOHN aged 2? i wasn't aware at that time that all the names were going into a database until a few weeks later when i did a search and it had (MARY? your tree)I have now got all the correct names and deleted the ? and leave it blank if i don't know, so maybe people need to go and check their trees and delete the don't knows and the ???. and then we will have around 1000 names in the database...MOE!

Using another computer, I wanted to check this site but had forgotten my password, so I created a new identity. As a lousy typist, I just used my initials. I've now received two messages with lists of new hot matches!

I have several UNKNOWN on my tree. They all have children, so I have to include them. What I would REALLY like to have put, is UNKNOWN first wife of James Holden,(1824-1898) Lancashire,she dead by 1859 and the mother of Joseph Holden (1855 - 1937)..... but the box isnt big enough! Olde Crone

Michael, did not think about it at the time but yes I did get some Hot Maches sent me a few days before my subs were due for renewal..... nothing since may be they were sent to everyone around 15 Oct

Here's a thing: I have a gggrandfather whose marriage cert. I obtained and on which he is described as a widower, 'of full age'. I have positively identified two of his daughters from previous marriage(s) or liaison(s) and for whom the least complicated assumption, at this stage, is that they were born to the deceased first wife. So far I have been able to find nothing whatsoever about the first wife. Her existence can only be inferred directly from the marriage certificate and indirectly by two children who were possibly hers. However, in order to show the 15 children of the second marriage in my tree and in their proper relationship to the father, their mother and the children of the first marriage I have had to enter 'details' of the first wife as 'unknown' in every category, otherwise the tree will show the first two children as belonging to the second marriage, which is not true. This to me justifies including a completely 'unknown' person for whom no actual details are presently available. What was my alternative other than excluding two proven daughters?....J.

Just exploring the same theme about members & connections. Has anybody whose membership is or has just expired been subjected to a flurry of 'HOT MATCHES',get contacted and then receive no replies after sending them a message in return,or am I a bit paranoid?

Did anyone find my Peace & Harmony ? GUILTY: of not putting my real name on this site. Elaine ;-)

The BIG Q is - if you know someone was born, you dont know their name or where , how on earth can you know 'when' Dont Know 1792 Dont Know Dont Know 1820 Dont Know United Kingdom Dont Know 1832 Dont Know United Kingdom Dont know 1870 Dont know United Kingdom Dont Know 1885 Dont Know United Kingdom Dont Know 1886 Dont Know United Kingdom Dont Know 1890 Dont Know Dont Know 1900 Dont Know Dont Know 1900 Dont Know Dont Know 1900 Dont Know United Kingdom Dont know 1907 Dont Know Dont Know 1909 Dont Know Dont Know 1910 Dont Know Dont know 1916 Dont know United Kingdom Dont Know 1920 Dont Know Dont Know 1923 Dont Know Dont Know Dont Know 1925 Dont Know 1945 Dont Know Dont Know 1950 Dont Know Dont Know 1955 Dont Know Dont Know 1960 Dont Know United Kingdom Dont Know Dont Know 1960 Dont Know Dont Know 1968 Dont Know Dont Know 1970 Dont Know United Kingdom Dont Know 1999 Dont know Dont Know Dont Know Dont Know Dont Know United Kingdom Dont Know Dont Know United Kingdom Dont Know Dont Know United Kingdom Dont Know Dont Know United States of America

It's a shame you can't do a search for birthplaces, as I've got a few 'how the f**k should I know''s or 'could be anywhere''s myself!!

Jess Brilliant!! ROFLMAO!! Lynne

Please don't forget the unkowns plus variants. It would also be interesting to see how many birthplaces are top of the list from a drop down menu. I got so cross with site slowness, changing details for my father, that I gave him a Channel Islands birthplace.

SURELY SOME OF THESE MUST BE RELATED THOUGH? 1566 NOTSURE must be related if even only by marriage to the 2871 UNSURE.with mistranscriptions as they are, surely some of the 42 UNCERTAIN's will be UNSUREs or NOT SURE's. In the same way, the 2 Arse's must be mistrancription of the 2 Arseholes, as we all know and understand how names get changesd over the years. PS Can anyone tell me what county NO IDEA is?

Adding to this thread because I don't want to lose it as I thought the earlier list of unlikely names was quite funny. I tried one myself 'A.N. Other' - and there are an impressive 42 other people with this name that I think are related to mine!!! I must try some other ridiculous and obviously fake names when I get the chance...

I contacted a member recently,who like a few ,havent grasped the essentials of how the site works(through no fault of their own-) and have obviously added a few names based on what they have been told,and family folklore. Her mother was one of 7 children,she being the youngest-my connection is with the eldest born 15 years earlier. Her entries are so inaccurate- her mother has been given the wrong birth year,but her aunt,my connection has the right one.She refers to them all by their slang names,and bizarrely has said that her daughter has informed her that her grandmother was....(but her daughter isnt on the site and obviously knows more) Ive had to pull all the stops out to try and convince her what the facts are - it should be simple-this family were the only family with this name in the whole of the north of england at the time,and her anecdotes match-yet she still says its a shame that blah,blah...as if more proof is needed.I even found out about an uncle she didnt know she had who died in the first world war !!

I found someone who had the same ancestor I've been trying to get details on for ages, it was def the same one - same name and birth date, living in a teensy village. When I emailed the woman, she said 'this is not my ancestor'. Whats it doing in her tree then?!

Hi Kat, I guess your unanswered messages are to members. I have sent five (5) messages to GR about duplications/corruption on this site. NOT ONE RESPONSE AS YET!!!! Makes me wonder if Ill rejoin; yet I like the site otherwise. Robert

did we get an answer from someones question on a thread i've forgotton.....about what happens to all the names on existing lists when the subsciption is not renewed ?? If they are counting all members lists that WERE GR members this would be a tad misleading !! I find ONE person out of 40 million plus.. who has my great grandfather from the 1800's in her tree... and i never get my messages answered... however hard i grovel... xkx

I agree with you Sam, the fee is well worth the money and the help is priceless. I was just pointing out that the claimed amount of records is a little missleading.