General Chat

My youngest girl is 17 now and I joined when I was newly pregnant, my first post being to ask advice about severe morning sickness which I was convinced was going to kill me off! We all got so close on the boards, and now many have passed away , Clive buckle, dizzi, daff, Jean, to name but a few.

I am Still here. And so are a few others. Is that the same board name that you had then?

I'm still here, been here 20 years.

I have been heee for about 20 years as well

I was Romany star , had a break from here :-D

Sixteen for me :-)

On cold winters nights there would be so many of us chatting , debating, and arguing :-D :-D

Hardly any left now, sadly.

I remember you as Romany star. I joined 15 years ago.

Yes sadly many have passed but there are still some of us left still chatting and putting the world to rights.

Florence in the hebrides

I.m still here too !

Been here for yonks lol

Those names of old friends we lost brings back many happy memories

Met some of them too when we did London meets :-D

I see I'm 18 years here.

I'm still here too :-)

I've been here 17 years :-0

Didn't really venture onto the General Chat board until I retired about 10 years ago as I spent most of my time on the Find Ancestors board prior to that :-)

What I did find back then was that there were several with very strong opinions, people would take sides or gang up on a person and before you knew it there was a right old spat going on :-0. Certainly kept those in GR HQ on their toes....the Report button is very rarely used now and when it is it is normally a mistake :-D

I joined in 2006, I remember you as Romany

LB, when I first joined, I looked at the general chat board and saw many arguments etc which scared me off. It was some time before I plucked up the courage to join any conversation. Yes the RR button was used daily back then.

Gosh today the boards are so calm to back then arent they?

I just checked and it was 2010 before I joined a thread on this board as was just on Find Ancestors for some time first.

There used to be a lot of aggro and intolerance on the genealogy research boards back then too.

Nowadays only occasional slight friction, thank goodness.

I joined in 2006, under another name, looks as though I didn’t start adding to this board until 2008.

Yes, I recall that too AG :-0. Some people seemed to forget that they were beginners too once :-0. I just enjoyed helping people :-)

Hello Romany Star I left for a while but renewed sub this year. You did a reading for me and one for my friend Elsie, which I still have, came across Elsie's the other day. . My son's 27 now lol.

Rambling Rose

I've been around since 2005 though I didn't start using the boards much till 2012. I remember you as Romany Star. Welcome back :-)