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Welcome to the Genes Reunited community boards!

The Genes Reunited community is made up of millions of people with similar interests. Discover your family history and make life long friends along the way.
You will find a close knit but welcoming group of keen genealogists all prepared to offer advice and help to new members.
And it's not all serious business. The boards are often a place to relax and be entertained by all kinds of subjects.
The Genes community will go out of their way to help you, so don’t be shy about asking for help.

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Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 23,195 Send Message	Joy	Report	5 Dec 2011 13:40
	Home page: "Over 11 million members discovering their past" - IGP: you know what 11 million members are doing?
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 23,195 Send Message	Joy	Report	5 Dec 2011 18:55
	This webpage is not available The connection to www.genesreunited.co.za was interrupted.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,062 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	5 Dec 2011 20:46
	Had to access GR with Mozilla Firefox 5 times over the weekend ...... purely so that I could send pms, which I can't do with my IE6 I got the Error, this site cannot be found 2 times out of 5 I honestly have not had that message when using my poor old IE6 and Firefox is the most recent update. sylvia
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 33,475 Send Message	GlitterBaby	Report	6 Dec 2011 19:20
	Waste of time putting an Annoucement up about the problems with the site after the event. Could not get on site before the notice was posted. Why are you still adding bits to the site, such as Watch This on a thread, when the site problems have still not been sorted.
	Researching: PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,062 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	7 Dec 2011 04:29
	Using Mozilla Firefox ...................... I have just had this message TWICE in less than 10 minutes, once when trying to open the Message Centre to look at new pms, and once when trying to move within a thread Server Error 500 - Internal server error. There is a problem with the resource you are looking for, and it cannot be displayed. Not had that one with IE6!! so a whole new set of problems for me when trying to use the up-to-date browser. and as someone said elsewhere ...... probably another nail in GR's coffin so far as I am concerned :-( sylvia
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 5,249 Send Message	Kense	Report	7 Dec 2011 07:01
	Is it my imagination or is the site really zippy this morning? Have the loading problems been solved?
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 1,434 Send Message	Libby	Report	7 Dec 2011 07:41
	Have not been able to access the ZA site since last night ..... 404 - File or directory not found.
	Researching: Gregory,(Southampton & Liverpool) Cowley,(Cheshire & Liverpool) Irons,(Scotland & Liverpool) Cowan,(Liverpol) Shergold,(Salisbury) Richens+variants, (Wiltshire) Seabrooke (Liverpool)
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 33,475 Send Message	GlitterBaby	Report	7 Dec 2011 11:29
	Get the same error message if you try to access the .co.uk site through favourites No problem if you google for Genes Reunited and access that way
	Researching: PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 7,819 Send Message	InspectorGreenPen	Report	7 Dec 2011 11:46
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 7,819 Send Message	Can you confirm what the url in your bookmark that is failing is set as? Is it to the home page or to another page withing the site? If you right click on the bookmark and select properties you should find it
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 33,475 Send Message	GlitterBaby	Report	7 Dec 2011 16:51
	Already sorted it. Did say something like threaded board. Deleted from my favourities. Then went into the site again and put back into my favourites so it opens on Home Page.
	Researching: PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,062 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	7 Dec 2011 19:23
	IGP as you seem to know so much ..................... what difference do you think it makes if My Favourites or Bookmarks is set to Home Page or to, eg, Community? It should make no difference at all, surely? Just out of interest ........... I have My Favourites on IE6 always set to Community. Mozilla Firefox was set to Home Page, but I changed it yesterday to Community (just to obviate the extra step needed to then open Community) ......... and had no problem the one time I used it. sylvia
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: January 2004 Posts: 5,249 Send Message	Kense	Report	7 Dec 2011 20:26
	Sylvia, Most of the information on Community is fixed and adverts. It only has to calculate the totals for the threads. Home page as well as the fixed data has to access your details to find out updates relevant to you, the information for your birth year, hot matches and site usage figures, twitter notes etc, so it takes longer and if the site is slow is more prone to timeout.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,062 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	7 Dec 2011 20:28
	ah thank you, Ken!
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,062 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	7 Dec 2011 20:32
	It has just taken me more than 10 seconds to open My Threads ............. using Mozilla Firefox Ten minutes ago, My Threads opened immediately when using IE6 ............... but half the thread titles (and names ) on board summaries on IE6 are now showing as white lettering on pale green background. Which, of course, means that they are all but invisible! Meaning that I have a choice ................ peer at the screen and ruin my eyes, or waste time waiting for things to happen sylvia
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: July 2004 Posts: 33,475 Send Message	GlitterBaby	Report	7 Dec 2011 23:01
	Okay so where was the maintenance annoucement on this site. Only just managed to get on the site after trying since 8.20pm this evening. Kept getting the site was doing essential maintenace messages
	Researching: PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,062 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	8 Dec 2011 05:52
	GB There was NO prior announcement of maintenance ......... it just happened! I was on site at the time, went to open a thread and got Sorry We are performing some essential maintenance on Genes Reunited, we apologise for any inconvenience caused. Genes Reunited will be back very shortly Thank you The Genes Reunited Team That was around 1:30 pm. The site seemed to be back working within about 15 minutes. However, I haven't been back on here since about 2 pm my time, and it is now almost 9:50 pm ..... so I have no idea what happened in the intervening time. sylvia
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 23,195 Send Message	Joy	Report	9 Dec 2011 13:17
	Error Sorry. An error has occurred etc when clicking on watch this.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 23,195 Send Message	Joy	Report	15 Dec 2011 11:54
	Error message: http://www.genesreunited.co.za/boards.page/board/suggestions and then redirected to general chat :-S
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 1,047 Send Message	Sally	Report	15 Dec 2011 14:47
	terible today just keep getting a blank page it is the worst it ha ever been dissapointed sally w
	Researching: stephen taafe*muriel denley1917 he died 3 weeks later
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 4 Send Message	Ian	Report	16 Dec 2011 19:27
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 4 Send Message	Agree impossible today. My subscription expires on Sunday - I have deceided not to renew until this long standing problem is sorted.

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