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InspectorGreenPen

InspectorGreenPen Report 10 May 2013 17:28

What is the BNA? Tried Google but nothing relevant.

Rambling

Rambling Report 10 May 2013 19:02

British Newspaper Archive , IGP.

Roger

Roger Report 10 May 2013 23:08

Well I have just been reading this again - and I notice that a reply about GR not been able to make correction because they did not transcribe the records in the first place but FMP did.

Well I think this reply is wrong because I have found that FMP records were correct from the beinning but the GR are nnot so who has altered the records.

As if GR are using old FMP records they are charging us who are using the site for record collection and cannot make alterations for incorrect records - as fools - and in reality taking our money unfarely IMO.

Lavinia

Lavinia Report 9 Jun 2013 14:54

Having paid my subscription to G.R. would like to view my tree, but after waiting at least three quarters of an hour unable to view, tried several times, having been a member for several years think this is a very poor show.
Lavinia Cooke

Judith

Judith Report 12 Jun 2013 18:14

Please go back to your earlier site - it was much easier to navigate and get records; I don't like this at all! :-( :-(
J

Barry

Barry Report 14 Jun 2013 12:42

The site is now no longer user friendly! If I enter a name I can get 100's but no way of sorting into logical census order - like we used to be able to do. Also, when viewing a census page and a member of the family that you are researching is at the top of the page - why can we not now go to the previous page to view other siblings, parents etc? Most dissatisfied with this latest 'improvement'.

Chris

Chris Report 27 Sep 2014 08:43

Where do I find records re Ireland it seems everything else is there but I cant get any help searching Irish Records.

Chris :-( :-(

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 27 Sep 2014 16:43

I don't think GR carries Irish records, does it?

Kense

Kense Report 27 Sep 2014 19:44

But there is a stickied thread on Genealogical Chat about Irish records.

Thomas

Thomas Report 5 Oct 2014 00:59

I keep looking for Irish records from the period prior to the uprising and do not find much listed anywhere. Anyone have any suggestions where I might search?

all the best.

Tommy K

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 5 Oct 2014 04:01

see KenSE's response just below your question :-)

BrianW

BrianW Report 6 Jan 2015 12:50

Can the Find Living Relatives tab have a field into which the surname can be entered and is then searchable by members.
As it is, unless you check the thread every day you have no hope of being able to assist anyone.

Gerard

Gerard Report 5 Oct 2017 15:24

The GRO birth indexes have had mother's maiden name for births before 1911 for a while now. Is there any chance we can get this, very useful, addition on Genes Reunited?

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 5 Oct 2017 17:20

Gerard .............

First, GR staff no longer pay any attention to any of threads on the Suggestion Board. I am one of a few members who do watch so that we can atleast give some sort of response to others who ask questions
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Second, mother's maiden name are available before mid-1911 ONLY on the GRO Index, which is the official Registration site for England and Wales.

GR would have to pay them for the privilege of adding records to this site ............ why bother when GRO is a free site????????


Third, It does not seem as if GR is adding any records at all, the other site FMP is of more importance to the company.


If you do wish to get a response from a staff member responsible for GR, email them .................

[email protected]

They usually reply within 3 working days

Simon

Simon Report 7 Oct 2017 17:43

Hi Sylvia,

I've just started work again on my tree now that autumn has arrived here in the UK, and thought that I'd look at some of the recent posts in the 'Suggestions' thread.

As you said to Gerard, GR staff have given up any interest in posts on these threads - if they ever actually had any interest in them in the first place! My belief is that they only opened the threads for those of us who were so frustrated with the changes to the tree / website / searches, etc had somewhere to vent our annoyance other than to their 'support' staff (who, incidentally, I have always found very helpful).

I think that you are right in saying that they are more interested in FindMyPast these days and I am beginning to wonder how much longer they will support GR?! Is it time to start thinking of transferring my tree from here to FMP!!??

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 9 Oct 2017 03:33

Hi Simon

Moving your tree is up to you, I can't advise you ........ I only work on my gut feeling!.

I've said for a long time that I thought GR would eventually at the best revert back to what it was when it first began or say about 2004/2007 ............ a place to build your tree for free and to have a Members' area where members could help other members.

At the worst, I've felt that it could be shut down .............. but the owners would have to go before the Competition Board to get permission to do that.

I've never had more than the basic subscription to GR, and have never used any of the records because I already had subscriptions to other sites and/or used free sites before GR began to carry records.

Simon

Simon Report 12 Oct 2017 17:10

Sylvia, I have only had a basic sub as, like you, I use other sites for searching records (the search facility on here is dreadful, imho.) The tree building facility here is, despite all its faults, still about the easiest I've tried. I just wish they'd let us use Upper Case when we want to!

Lynette

Lynette Report 1 Mar 2019 00:53

Can I only add records that are purchased through Genes Reunited or can I add my own records that I found locally or overseas?

SylviaInCanada

SylviaInCanada Report 1 Mar 2019 17:59

Lynette

I cannot help you ...............

but there is no point in posting on this Board.

It is no longer watched by GR staff, so there will NEVER be an answer to your query on here.

Please re-post your question on the Genealogy Chat board where several members will be able to help you.

It is now only members like myself who respond to any of these Boards.

If you wish to contact GR staff, please use the following email address. They will usually respond in 3 business days (Monday-Friday)

[email protected]


NOTE:- I have also sent a pm (private message) to Lynette)