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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.

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Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 23,195 Send Message	Joy	Report	30 Jul 2010 09:04
	Brought forward for Julia. I am sure that constructive criticism will be welcomed.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,113 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	30 Jul 2010 04:10
	I've had problems for weeks with envelopes showing pms when there are not any and no envelopes when there are messages but I haven't been white paged before today! so I blame Janey!!! Good on ya for sending in the survey sylvia
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,113 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	30 Jul 2010 01:06
	OK, Janey so you put the evil eye on me did you?? Now all I get when I click on Messages is the white page! waaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh there might be a very important pm for me! s
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 9,548 Send Message	(¯`•.¸JUPITER JOY AND HER CRYSTAL BALLS(¯`•.¸	Report	29 Jul 2010 20:23
	off to do mine i think
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,113 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	29 Jul 2010 20:18
	Janey ............... life is always interesting on here! woody ... glad we helped sylvia
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 21,339 Send Message	JaneyCanuck	Report	29 Jul 2010 15:12
	On and off, Sylvia, on and off. My own private flasher! Nobody else is getting an error message instead of an inbox? Damme, I'm special. Most of the time I get error message (and oh look, the error has been logged!!), occasionally I get the inbox. It's worth hanging around here just to see what fresh hell they've dreamed up today for their paying, contributing customers, eh?
	Researching: Please use the "ADD YOUR REPLY" box below to reply. Please DO NOT click "Send Message" and send a private message (unless info is about living people or otherwise sensitive). THANKS!
Member Since: May 2005 Posts: 2,871 Send Message	Woody's	Report	29 Jul 2010 13:36
Member Since: May 2005 Posts: 2,871 Send Message	I only use facebook to play scrabble so was totally unaware of this survey. Thanks Joy and Sylvia for the thread and address - survey has been duly completed!
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,113 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	29 Jul 2010 05:05
	oh dear so you can't get any messages at all???
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 21,339 Send Message	JaneyCanuck	Report	29 Jul 2010 05:03
	I'm not sure why there was a question mark after your name in my post! I think it was supposed to be one of them -- ! Now me, I'll settle for an inbox at all, instead of an error message, which is what I get now ...
	Researching: Please use the "ADD YOUR REPLY" box below to reply. Please DO NOT click "Send Message" and send a private message (unless info is about living people or otherwise sensitive). THANKS!
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,113 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	29 Jul 2010 01:17
	You're welcome Janey I like what you said!!
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: July 2005 Posts: 21,339 Send Message	JaneyCanuck	Report	29 Jul 2010 00:07
	Ooooh, thank you Sylvia? Anybody wanna know what I just said? ;) I do not use the site for my own research (other than by searching family trees and an occasional request for specific help on the discussion boards, a half dozen times in 3 years). I use it to help others with their research, on the discussion boards, and I pay for the privilege of doing that. The discussion boards are grossly mismanaged. They are the drawing point of the site -- the expertise that paying users offer to other users -- but those "helpers" are treated with total disregard by the site management. The discussion boards are so poorly organized (categories of boards are unintelligible, "surname" subforums to which site management expressly directs new users simply cause confusion) that no new user has any idea how to use them, how they function, or what the rules of use are. The big problem is, of course, that new users, multiple times daily, post multiple threads about the same thing, on various boards or from various perspectives, e.g. separate discussion threads about children of a single couple, or a new thread monthly about something they have already received assistance with, inviting other users to waste their time doing the same rsearch again. Since there is no active moderation (and the reactive moderation that is practised is arbitrary, dishonest and offensive in the extreme), it is left to experienced users to guide new users and sort out the problems they cause for everyone else. Experienced users are then vulnerable to personal attack by individuals with axes to grind or who simply do not grasp the extent of the problems regular users are faced with and point out. This is the single most mismanaged discussion forum I have encountered in 15 years' experience with forums on the internet.
	Researching: Please use the "ADD YOUR REPLY" box below to reply. Please DO NOT click "Send Message" and send a private message (unless info is about living people or otherwise sensitive). THANKS!
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 9,548 Send Message	(¯`•.¸JUPITER JOY AND HER CRYSTAL BALLS(¯`•.¸	Report	28 Jul 2010 23:21
	lmao @BC.XXXX
Member Since: February 2004 Posts: 28,517 Send Message	ButtercupFields	Report	28 Jul 2010 22:50
	*drools,,,,,I would just love a flasher as well...doesnt matter what colour...I aint fussy..... lol BC XX
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 46,113 Send Message	SylviaInCanada	Report	28 Jul 2010 22:36
	I'd settle for a white envelope that shows when there is new mail, and NOT when there isn't!
	Researching: My brother, photo taken in September 1991 just a couple of weeks before he died. ............................................................ To help us and to get better results, please post as much detail as you can, especially name, date(s) and place. Also say what you already know.
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 9,548 Send Message	(¯`•.¸JUPITER JOY AND HER CRYSTAL BALLS(¯`•.¸	Report	28 Jul 2010 15:35
	i,ll settle for that too TW. but a flasher would be nice .prefrably in lilac.[my fave colour]
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 12,949 Send Message	MarionfromScotland	Report	28 Jul 2010 15:34
	Up the top TW. It could flash or show numbers. joy wants a flasher lol
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 12,949 Send Message	MarionfromScotland	Report	28 Jul 2010 15:33
	You want a flasher ? pmsl
Member Since: December 2009 Posts: 3,704 Send Message	TeresaW	Report	28 Jul 2010 15:32
	Just an envelope that appears when there IS a PM, and disappears when there ISN'T would do me lol
	Researching: Lovell, Morse, Baker, Duval, Mortlock, Gibbs and Bristow.
Member Since: December 2004 Posts: 9,548 Send Message	(¯`•.¸JUPITER JOY AND HER CRYSTAL BALLS(¯`•.¸	Report	28 Jul 2010 15:29
	lmao marion .well i sent pms to um no reply as yet.not rockets science is it.it takes ages for me to get my mail up.only to find theres mail ive not answered or no mail..i want a flasher.lol
Member Since: November 2002 Posts: 12,949 Send Message	MarionfromScotland	Report	28 Jul 2010 15:24
	I fotgot to add that Joy. Was nice to see your mail box with something in it. lol

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