General Chat

My tree is on Genes and has full details of myself and all my family.

Have nothing whatsoever to hide, and very happy to share my research. But I would hate to think of some irresponsible toe-rag getting hold of those sort of details without letting me see their tree first ;-)

I agree Ann :-)

That's why I think it should not be there Rose. :-)

Mine IS on paper :-) many people who come new to genealogy are older, they may also be new to computers, hence they may think the GR standard message is the 'appropriate' or at least the 'official' one to send.

I think this is because people are using the auto generated messages instead of writing their own. In my opinion these should not be available, if people are too lazy to write a message then it is not worth replying.

OK I am another person who doesn't understand changing things to make them worse! My career is built around change, but it has to bring improvement. All genealogy sites, including Ancestry and LDS Family Search have made changes that make it more difficult to do an educated intelligent search with known criteria. They have sort of "dumbed it down."
But Genes Reunited seems to have done something different. I have a large tree, resulting from years of work. I post it on Genes to make contacts, and I used to receive very interesting messages from people who may be related or may require some assistance. I enjoyed that. Now, I don't even open messages from Genes Reunited anymore - and will be cancelling my subscription. Every single message says "May I view your tree." No 'Hello" . No info on who they are or why they may connect with my tree. I always wonder if they are genealogists using my research for free to make money. If nothing else it just sounds RUDE. They never give access to their tree and if you ask, they say theirs is on paper somewhere OR it is for a friend!
Goodbye Genes Reunited.