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I had to sign in today, for the first time in about a week.

:-P :-P :-P Error Message :-P :-P :-P

The last line reads: To return to the home page, click on the Genes Reunited logo.

It doesn't - yet another :-P Error Message :-P

It also suggests contacting "support" :-S - good idea!! If you can get on!!

About time that message was reworded :-P

Yes

All this has happened to me. I have been researching since 1980, long before interent. I found my name online in a researchers site who I gave access to. Not on, as I emailed him only take the family ( before 1800 ) you need.
I don't want to copy others work, I just wanted to know where the paricular information came from, as it was not on the marriage certificate and the death certificate did not have a mothers name. We also know that death certifcates are the most unreliable for information, especially if this person died in another country, and arrived her as an adult some 60 years before. If the person I contact through G R can say, fromthis parish record or oneworld tree ( very unreliable) then I can go to the source and check for myself.
Yes there are many "number grabbers" out there. I have also seen site where my grandfather had married some one other than my grandmother. This reasearcher told me I had hte wrong family. No I knew my granparents. have wedding pics with his parents. I don't have the wrong family.
A simple question to folk researching the same tree, where did you get the information from. Never had any replies from all the persons I sent emails too.

Ros

Yes

All this has happened to me. I have been researching since 1980, long before interent. I found my name online in a researchers site who I gave access to. Not on, as I emailed him only take the family ( before 1800 ) you need.
I don't want to copy others work, I just wanted to know where the paricular information came from, as it was not on the marriage certificate and the death certificate did not have a mothers name. We also know that death certifcates are the most unreliable for information, especially if this person died in another country, and arrived her as an adult some 60 years before. If the person I contact through G R can say, fromthis parish record or oneworld tree ( very unreliable) then I can go to the source and check for myself.
Yes there are many "number grabbers" out there. I have also seen site where my grandfather had married some one other than my grandmother. This reasearcher told me I had hte wrong family. No I knew my granparents. have wedding pics with his parents. I don't have the wrong family.
A simple question to folk researching the same tree, where did you get the information from. Never had any replies from all the persons I sent emails too.

Ros

Catherine, this happened to me as well the 'researcher! 'pinching' my rellies right down to my grandchildren. He got rude too when I asked him to remove them. Fortunately or not, he copied some of it incorrectly so his tree is not accurate.

I was so incensed, I stopped sharing my tree with anyone after that, although I do give information if I feel the request is for a genuine connection. I hate people collectors too.

Elizabeth

The site wanted me to log in (kindly having put my email address and password for me) - I clicked on sign in once, twice, three times, and it worked.

I'm in shock


first visit today ....... had to sign in, and took time, but got in with no other problem

second visit ................. got in right away

third visit, just now ........... got in right away.



and that was on .co.uk



Have had problems during the other visits with slowness, and unable to open My Threads


so we'll see what happens this time.

got in first time, no waiting, about an hour ago :-D

I left the site for a while. I returned (not having logged out) and had to log in again- very slowly, second attempt it worked.

Earlier today I did not have to log in. Just now I had to input my email address and password, and three times after I had clicked on sign in, both the email address and password disappeared! :-|

6 error messages to get in.

Sylvia, I had a similar experience.

Someone (no idea who, I'm more careful these days) gave lots of my family tree to a total stranger. This stranger (who uses GR) added half my tree to his (my tree has grown since then). Connection? His brother's wife's great-grandmother is the sister of the woman who married my great-grand uncle!

He copied about 100 names - none of them are related to him. Why would anyone want non-relatives? Number Gatherers!! I sent a contact message, asked why he had my rellies and he was extremely rude, told me to "get a life" (that was the not-so-nasty one). He had ME which really annoyed me, also my parents & both sets of grandparents, so GR told him to remove living people from his tree. He was very annoyed when I told him to remove great-uncle who was 97.

just had to sign in again .............

................. but I did get onto .co.uk after only 1 very long wait. :-)

But, folks, GR did post a performance issues update saying that we should be seeing improvements. OK, the update is almost 3 months old!

Gee, my dictionary says that an update is the most recent facts.

C'mon GR, get you a** in gear!

throws up hands in disgust !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


:-D :-D

Sylvia my problems signing in are to the ZA site. :-D

Roslyn

welcome to the Boards!


Your problem with return of messages is often discussed, especially on Genealogy Chat or General Chat.


I don't think it is so much discourtesy .......as the fact that

.......... members have died
.......... members have become seriously ill and can no longer use the site
......... members have lost interest and no longer use the site
.......... some members only return to the site once a year or 2 years
.......... members have changed their email address, and NOT notified GR

GR never removes any member from the site .......... a paying member who does not renew is just dropped down to Free member status.

Only a member, OR someone who has his/her password, can remove a tree ....... many members have died or become incapacitated without having given the password to a relation or friend ................... those trees just remain on here for ever.


Have you checked your Sent Messages to see whether your message has been opened?? If a green envelope is showing, then the member has not opened it.



Regarding your other comment .............. I think that the numerous TV shows, such as WDYTYA, have a lot of blame for this. They make it look too easy. WE know genealogy is not!! But a lot of people do seem to think that they can take everything from anywhere.

In fact, anything which is on the internet IS fair game. It is not protected.

Sites such as ancestry do not help with their "leaf" symbol suggesting a connection between your ancestor and one on another tree. GR does the same thing with its "Is this your ancestor?" emails

I think people take these "hints" to be the truth, and add them immediately without doing any checking.


The fault lies with people who do not carefully check any information received from anyone else, no matter HOW they get it.


For this reason, I do no have my full tree anywhere except on my PC. I have only about 130 names on the GR tree, and very little other information. My ancestry tree is larger, but is Private .......... people can connect with a name on there, but have to send a message to me to see any more. That way I can control who can and cannot get more information


As to "it was different in the old days" ...................... well, it really wasn't all that different!!!


I know of one person who worked for years sorting out his ancestors in the 1980's ................ then a relation stole all that work from him (notes and everything). The relation then presented that as all his own work ....... even to the extent of having a One Name Study and organising a conference on the surname

How do I know this?

Well, I have the evidence of what happened!!




sylvia

Tried to enter the site just now, using .co.uk

................... sign in, wait and wait, Please sign in, wait


get so fed up, open another tab, try .co.za

got in immediately!


am now also in via .co.uk!




so why should the two addresses for the same site be so different???????????


:-S :-S :-S

I don't want to repeat a posting, please read my last few posts on "This site is rubbish"

I am REALLY fed up. :-P

IGP thank you for that, yes, browser is set to remember passwords and ticked on here. But why can't they admit that it is their problem not ours? :-S