ENH: Improve living relatives board guidance

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Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 21,339 Send Message	JaneyCanuck	Report	18 May 2011 21:51
	Obviously, users of the Living Relatives board are almost all completely new to the site, apparently being drawn in by publicity surrounding a television program in the UK. Too very obviously, none of them has a clue how to use this site. Apart from the privacy violations occurring hourly ... These users evidently have no idea that the site has family trees that can be searched for the people they are looking for. One of the posts on that board that I reported as a privacy violation was talking about the family of a member of this website -- a couple of quick records searches and then a tree search found the family in question in someone's tree here. If people posting on Find Living Relatives are not doing anything as basic as a tree search beforehand, how is this site helping them??? It certainly isn't going to find them their family members from a post on Living Relatives ... A little guidance, maybe? They've paid their subscription fees; give them something in return. At least put information at the top of the Find Living Relatives baord about creating and searching family trees at this site.
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