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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.

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: 14 Send Message	Fiona	Report	1 Jan 2013 20:11
	me too, same thing nowt on tv so thought id do a bit of the old family tree, sadley not to be. will someone please fix it!!!! :-(
	Researching: Gargett, Parkin, Turner
Member Since: June 2009 Posts: 13,368 Send Message	MotownGal	Report	1 Jan 2013 20:09
	Can't load my tree. I agree this is the ideal time to work on the tree. Except that you can't!!! I should have stuck to my guns and not renewed my subscription.
	Researching:
Member Since: February 2009 Posts: 2,387 Send Message	George	Report	1 Jan 2013 19:57
	I'm with you on that James, I have joined Ancestry, yes it costs more, but you get a lot more. They have a good tree that you can link to your FTM program if you have it, and it lets you download all your records and photos automatically. Ancestry has loads of links to others who are researching the same family....Brilliant site. George
Member Since: August 2012 Posts: 7,081 Send Message	OneFootInTheGrave	Report	1 Jan 2013 19:50
	After the total fiasco and lack of communications over the the past 11 days, I cannot put on a public forum any words that could express my real feelings about this;-) This site was recommended to me and after looking at the sites own publicity, I decided to join, the help from the volunteers has been tremendous, but sorry the way management has handled this whole saga has left me totally disillusioned :-(
	Researching: I am researching the Wotherspoon family from the Old/New Monkland areas of Scotland, some moved to the Leslie and Kelty areas of Fife and I'm having problems linking the Wotherspoon's from Leslie and the Wotherspoon's from Kelty. I am also researching the Clusker family from Co. Meath in Ireland who moved to West Lothian and from there to Fife............"Vita non est vivere sed valere vita est"
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 5 Send Message	Peter	Report	1 Jan 2013 18:54
Member Since: January 2003 Posts: 5 Send Message	Been a perennial problem since they created the new tree viewer last year. It attempts to reconcile and index all the entries in the tree which for large trees can take for ever and in busy periods like this holiday period results in the servers crashing due to not having enough available resources. You'll find it better after about 10pm UK time and maybe even working somewhat correctly around 6am UK time when the US left coast goes to bed.
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 20 Send Message	Alisdair	Report	1 Jan 2013 18:46
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 20 Send Message	It goes from bad to worse! This happened over the Christmas period, and was eventually fixed. Luckily for me I haven't trusted GU to add more to my tree in the last 10 days because of the export problem. Oh well, back to old data and "another site that shall remain nameless" ( I won't mention it again, I promise Mr Admin )
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 62 Send Message	Pamela	Report	1 Jan 2013 18:40
Member Since: January 2006 Posts: 62 Send Message	Yes just tried to access my tree and got same message as above. Sods law that this happens when I have nothing else to do at moment and I wanted to work on my tree. Pam
Member Since: February 2003 Posts: 6,330 Send Message	JustJohn	Report	1 Jan 2013 18:35
	There are some great competitions and prizes to be won (see Day One to Day Seven on this thread). And fabulous offers for people to join. And big adverts in my Family History magazines that I got from Santa :-D Not all bad news ;-)
	Researching: Amelie my granddaughter's ancestry. My ban until 1 Jan 2021
Member Since: July 2012 Posts: 30 Send Message	Christopher	Report	1 Jan 2013 18:30
Member Since: July 2012 Posts: 30 Send Message	Yes plus the Gedcom export doesn't work. It has been pretty useless since before Christmas
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 3,555 Send Message	Jane	Report	1 Jan 2013 17:16
Member Since: May 2003 Posts: 3,555 Send Message	Hi and me
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 239 Send Message	welshbird201	Report	1 Jan 2013 17:14
Member Since: January 2005 Posts: 239 Send Message	Hi Yes, me too
Member Since: September 2003 Posts: 9 Send Message	Christine	Report	1 Jan 2013 17:07
Member Since: September 2003 Posts: 9 Send Message	Hi yes again
Member Since: December 2006 Posts: 4,031 Send Message	Mark	Report	1 Jan 2013 17:06
	Anybody having any problems accessing their tree at the moment. All i get when i click on my tree to add new data is this message... Service Unavailable -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- HTTP Error 503. The service is unavailable.