Suggestions

Victor, who has access to Gloucestershire records etc. has been in touch with me. We have had reasonably close contact from when I gave him advice when he first joined GR.

He has made the decision to do more work on the Rootschat site than on here.

He is fed up with constantly nudging his thread up the boards on this site so often.

I know his work has been much appreciated by many members and I notice he has even been thanked on the Success Board recently.


Janey has made a good suggestion. It would be most helpful to many people and those who hold discs or have specialised local knowledge could keep their information in one place where it is easily accessible by others.


Cx

In the years that I have been a member on here I have lost count of the number of members who threatened 'jumping ship' just because something didn't suit them. Toys out of pram often sprung to mind.

Helpers come and go, they loose interest and move on to other things, only for their place to be taken by someone else.

Re stickying posts. Question. Who decides what and what not to Sticky or when to remove them. If you are not careful you end up with a clique and all the illfeeling that brings from those who feel they have been overlooked.

I agree with the coment - Janey has made a good suggestion. It would be most helpful to many people and those who hold discs or have specialised local knowledge could keep their information in one place where it is easily accessible by others.

I don't know why a persons membership should even be a topic for discussion - Data Protectionmand all that. If I was Janey I'd be furious.

I have always appreciated the help given to me but it is so off putting the way some of the helpers talk to people that I'm reluctant to ask for help. I help so many people with their trees but I don't crow about it. i don't even care if I'm thanked or not - my pleasure is the help I'm giving. Not everybody knows what is thread or what is a nudge. Does it really matter if one post to a wrong list. I cringe at times the flipant answers & the arrognace of some members

Does it really matter if the topic has come up again. Many people don't know it was a previous topic.The fact that GR have not responded one way or another is the problem not Janey for bringing up again.

IGP.

I feel your comments re 'jumping ship', 'toys out of pram' and 'losing interest' are unnecessary and unhelpful.


As Susanne has just stated, to have a board where people who hold discs or have specialised local knowledge which they are willing to share with others, would be most helpful.


Members could simply contact GR with details of the specialised information they hold and await their decision.


Why on earth you think it would end up being a clique is beyond me.



Cx

Remember the ill-fated Help Clinic?

I do not think you understand what this thread is about IGP.

It is for people like Derek, Victor, Tony in oz who have access to records that most other people do not have, not general look ups

jax

I understand exactly what this thread is about.

I am just waiting for someone to set out in detail how it will work in practice, how it will be managed, without it degenerating into a shambles.

This is what is now needed to make this into a viable proposition, and I am not seeing that at the moment.

The Help Clinic debacle was a complete faux pas by GR and one which was admitted to and fairly speedily remedied.

I don't visualise anything as shambolic as that happening.


Off the top of my head, we have about half a dozen members holding specialised records at the moment :

Derbyshire
Buckinghamshire/Oxfordshire
Gloucester
Australia
New Zealand
Whitchurch-Cardiff



It would, perhaps, be worthwhile GR 'sticki-ing' them to the top of the Genealogy Chat board for a while to see how it works. If they are popular then, perhaps, a separate board would be useful. A case of trial and error with members being kept informed.


The other members who help out would then be able to guide people looking for help in those places, to that board without all the faffing around looking for where those threads happen to be at the time.


The person holding the records could decide whether they preferred to be pm'd or to reply on the thread.


Not that difficult surely?


Cx

IGP I do not see you making any helpful suggestions as to how such a board could be viable. You just pooh pooh any suggestions made without being constructive in any way shape or form.

If I left then that would be no great loss because when I help I am using sources readily available either on free or subscription sites. However I recognise that there are others who have specialist knowledge and sources which are not available on the Internet and as such are a greater asset to the the site, in my opinion, one which GR cannot afford to lose. How embarrassing for GR if Helpers start directing traffic to other sites for the specialist lookups which once was available on it's own site. Surely it is in everyone's best interests to make access to this specialist information as easy as possible.