Suggestions

I've never used all that extra stuff myself, I store my basic trees here but as far as adding docs and photo's etc I have a FAMILY BOOK which everything goes into - searches made, copies of documents, copies of photo's, peoples profiles so that my whole family can borrow it and look at it - that stuff is only any good if you have and can use a computer - my 70+ year old aunts and uncles have no chance !!

I only use / used GR for record searches which is the part I'm complaining about - they have made it very hard work and like I said before, for beginners it must be a total nightmare !! Had I been faced with only this type of searching and search results when I started I would have very soon of given up !!

But all that's no good if you can't actually find the family members to add onto your tree in the first place !!!

In my opinion the site is better now

1) Because the display is now much easier to read than when it was green.

2) You can attach files to messages

3) Keepsafe allows you to put photos on the site and gives you control over who can see them.

4) The tree now allows you to have the same person in more than one branch of your tree without having to reenter their data.

5) You can now use hyperlinks.

That's just for starters.

On a census search you can no longer see in most cases where a person was even born without going into the transcript - totally unpractical when your family moves about.....

You can not narrow down a family by using names of others in the house..........

I'll give them that they've re-introduced the census year list down the side so you can jump from one year to another without adding all the details in again - they obviously realised that that was a mistake when they scrapped it months back !!

Don't no about any tree improvements / problems as I've not even dared go into my trees for fear of what I might find !!!

RolloTheRed

In your opinion why/how is it better ?

Disagree it is a much improved product.

One of the myriad of reasons I no longer have a tree on here.

Only use the Community boards. at far less than 75p per month it is worth it just for the fun on here. Especially when it gets a bit argumentative!!!!
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Glad you all agree, I didn't want to sound like an old winge but I felt I had to vent because if I find this new system impossible then I dread to think how it must look to newcomers.....

I tried to re-trace one of my families last night and even knowing where they were and when they were there and having the names of others in the household it still took me ages - if this was a new family I was trying to find it would of taken me days !!

I know we all hate change but when something changes for the worse it's very very frustrating and I wish GR would stop it - they need to set up a user group of experienced and novice users and trial their ideas with them before they make us all suffer !!

I wish I could challenge one of the GR team to do a full tree for a John Smith or a David Jones and see how they get on using only their NEW & IMPROVED search facility - me thinks they wouldn't fare to well :-D

Totally agree - if someone has moved, you have to have e.s.p. to find them, the search engine wont help you. GenesR have changed their `T & C` and we should all get our money back !

awest6

IF IT AIN'T BROKE, DON'T FIX IT.......

K.I.S.S. - Keep It Simple, Stupid

Genes really needs to think long and hard about both these comments.

And invariably those who make the changes are not those who are using the site on a regular basis. And as techies tend to forget that those using the site are not all computer literate and when designing programmes for general use to have to work from the lowest level of competency, not whizzkids.

Totally agree!!

Have just logged on for the first time in ages as I was getting pretty cheesed off with the sites changes so I couldn't be bothered but what do I find ? Its only gone and changed AGAIN !!!

Bring back the old style census search with drop boxes and boxes for other family names etc.....

Bring back the old style search results - these new ones are a joke - nothing to refine your search and hardly any information given - you can't even see the persons birth area without having to go into them all......

I have been with GR for years and have several accounts - I am still a gold member but have just set my account to ' auto renew' OFF. When it runs out in Sept if there hasn't been significant improvement I will not be paying my fees to you - another site will get my pounds !!!