General Chat

You are the next page Susan :-D

Teresa

lol Foggy, Dracula, I very nearly put 'fresh blood' :-)

here's a <3 for you...but no stake !

I am thank you Foggy :-D and thank you for calling me a lady ..lol

Sue x

Teresa I just read what you said back on the other page about if newbies were made to feel more welcome in the first place

I don' t understand , can you tell me what that is about ?

maybe when people have been giving a newbie a lot of family history help on the 'help' boards like happens all day they should also say 'why not come and join us for a cuppa on the chat board' ? :-)

lmao@Foggy

Evening Sir ;-)

splutters ,,,,,,,,,,,,,Foggy you old charmer..now we wont be able to do owt with SC,

how divil are you luverrrrrrrrly man. <3 <3

Chrissiex, I wouldn't wonder what anything means on here...LOL
Just have a laugh, most of them here are bonkers. :-D

Evening all.....

As you know I havent posted for a while, nearly a year infact, but during that time, I have used FB GR page alot, I hardly knew any of the people, but I just joined in, I personnally always try to acknoowledge newbies if they post on the same thread as I, there are people whom tend to post on their friends threads as I do we all do I s'pose,.....so hello Chrisiex and Daisey I dont think we have met before. :-D

Evening young Muffy,

Hello Kay, I am fine thanks, and you.?

Oi, you ,Foggy you ,,,,,,,,,am confused,,,surely you mean
Hello YOUNG kay how are you am fine thanks top of world.,,,,,,not Muffley....... :-P

yes we need new people,people with a sense of humour would be nice :-D :-D

didnt mean any of you lot when i said that lol. :-D

Sorry Chrissie, was busy on another thread or three :-D

I didn't mean anything sinister by it, all I meant was, if newbies don't feel so welcome then maybe it's time we did soemthing about it. Though it's difficult to involve someone when they haven't posted,

yes that is exactly what I was getting at Teresa !

they _shouldn' t_ feel nervous about posting on "chat'

but if it _looks_ cliquey when they look ........

.......... then they will feel nervous ...........

I feel a chicken and egg dinner coming on :-)

Perhaps we need another introduction thread (or re-introduction) :-D

and you see from what I have read on Susan ( numbers ) thread there really are people who only want to talk with their friends on 'chat' ..... if they have a family history question they want their friends to help them, they don' t want to go to the 'help' boards and ask all the members there for help .... maybe the best place would be Facebook ? :-)

supercrutch I was also thinking that, a meet and greet thread that could be kept in a top position ... or maybe even stickied ?

but on second thought that kind of thread would get very big and intimidating, wouldn' t it ? :-)

maybe a sticked thread with no replies that just said 'come on in the water's fine' and invites newbies to join in a thread or start their own thread to introduce themselves ?

Thing is Chrissie, as I said on (was it this thread or another one), I have asked for help on the 'correct' boards in the past, and first off I got a lot of help almost instantly, and friendly help too, but as time went on, I found those boards to be somewhat less friendly than they used to be. I remember a few times the regular helpers would argue amongst themselves about who found what first! :-) So in the end, I found it more user friendly to just post a general help question on chat, although something that required more documentary search would still be placed on the help boards, if I had needed to.

I,

Chrissie, I am at a stage in my research where I generally need someone to trawl newspapers (Susan with #s) does that for me as she has full editorial rights to my main tree. Other members have the most personal information that helps them to help me and that I wouldn't want posted on a public site.

I don't have many general search questions left.

I can see your point however for newbies.