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Well said. Unfortunately, the people it is aimed at probably won't read it.
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....shown by a small number of people coming onto this forum and being pompous or argumentative towards those of us who keep an eye on various threads to answer queries or locate information.
I see this happening more and more which is why I feel the need this evening to post this thread. For example, just this weekend gone and several weekends ago, a number of GR members endured personal insults and abusive comments that were wholly undeserved.
The more experienced of us on here have a lot to offer to get those less experienced much further with their tree but if we all get fed up of the responses we get, you will be on your own. A lot of the 'older' names on here are no longer seen when it comes to being available to help for this very reason.
I am sorry, but I see the ungrateful replies and I know if I look at the number of posts made by that person it will be very few. And it doesn't matter how many years someone has been a member for either. It is obvious by the nature of the question that the poster is inexperience and looking for the knowledge of others to solve their problem.
So please, before you decide to critisise or object to our replies in some way, remember this about those you seem to think so little of.
We are not employed by GR
We are members of GR
We pay our subs too.
We get no concessions on them for helping out here
We are doing our own tree too
We help others when we could be doing our own tree
We offer you the benefit of information from other sites that we also pay subs to
We have our own lives.
We have jobs, committments, our own families, health issues, other issues
We DO NOT have to help others but because we have been helped oureselves, in this way we return the favour and pass on our knowledge
We DO NOT expect an outpouring of gratitude but a thank you is always welcome
We DO appreciate that the information you have maybe sketchy or speculative or based upon some old family legend
We ENJOY a challenge but what you do give us to work with should be at least reasonably accurate
We CANNOT work miracles if the information isn't there to be found
We DO NOT offer to do your tree for you
We DO NOT need to be insulted
We will choose NOT to help you in future
So if you don't like the us or the replies you get, you are welcome to try another genealogy site and see if you find others so eager to help you. This will leave us more time for those people who actually value the help we give.
Thanks
Just Jill
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