Genealogy Chat

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Jacqueline may not yet be completely au fait with GR etiquette


:-) ;-)

Just catching up - I can't believe that someone has had the temerity to contact Jean in such a manner. How ridiculous!

I can only suppose that because Jacqueline is such a new member she isn't yet familiar with the etiquette. ;-)

Not too sure what has happened (re last couple of postings). But even us older members get told off!

About 18 months ago I asked posted a query and was told, that as I had been on here for such a long time I basically should know all about it!!!

Now like most of us on here, we occassionally read a thread title that is about something we have previously had no reason to either read the thread as the subject is not something we either (a) know nothing about or (b) is not of much interest to us. Then that thread will be passed over.

So when I was quite rudely told off, I just removed my thread. Went on to another forum page and was given the answer I needed. I was not looking for 'lookups' just a bit of advice.

So as said, it is not just newbies who get into trouble........

Jean ...............

some members have a very unfortunate habit of doing that.

I don't know whether they are ashamed of their opinions, are afraid that others may not share them, get a kick from telling people off in secret, or that others may tell them off on the thread.

My mind doesn't work that way!


I worry about the new or fairly new members who get a similar email complaining or telling off from these certain few, take it to heart, and no longer post.



Everything should be out in the open, except for obvious pms concerning privacy matters

Thank you SylviainCanada ,

my thoughts exactly,

It just bothered me Jacqueline Pm'd me and didn't air her views for everyone else to see .

Jean


I agree wholeheartedly with your views expressed in the last post :-)


This is a place to exchange opinions and ideas ...............


and this has been a good thread. No-one got too angry or upset :-)

Hello there Jacqueline,

Thank you very much for your PM.
I didn't bother to answer it as quite frankly what you suggested about my thread was STUPID .
This is a forum to discuss all aspects of genealogy , weather people agree on the subject or not .
In fact I thought it was a very lively discussion .
I would like to know what other GR members think .
If you don't want people to discuss matters regarding genealogy why are you on here .

Cheers
jean

You're welcome KenSE .

Thank you Jean.

Just amended the title so as not to confuse people.

God forbid Ancestry should have a freebie every weekend.

Can't wait for the next one !!!!!!

Jacqueline ..................



ouch!



a wee bit nasty, methinks :-)



and unnecessary






also, a bit behind the times





you have raised this thread and thus probably given a lot of people the false impression that the free weekend is this weekend ..............




it was LAST weekend, the UK Bank Holiday





Of course, as mgnv posted ..................


the US version of ancestry IS free this weekend, as this is the North American Statutory Holiday weekend, Labour Day

Jean, as this thread keeps getting bumped up, it might be a good idea to amend the title so it doesn't give the impression that it is this weekend.

Dazedconfused

If you have a gripe with Ancestry, wouldn't it be better to discuss it with them, rather than insulting people who can't afford the sub, and have taken legitimate advantage of a free offer.

Have you never, ever, accepted an offer of something which is free?

perhaps the next time Ancestry have a free weekend in the offing, you could plan to do something else for a couple of days, and thus avoid the frustration you so clearly suffer

I just checked the US site, and they're having a freebie right now thru Labor Day.

http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1344136

Sylvia - I think you're only partly right. Ancestry UK has more freebies, but they're not absent from the US site.
I don't usually bother much as they're mostly US records - the last one I remember was free military records over memorial day weeekend (I think) in 2013.

Ancestry.com makes a bigger play via the WDYTYA series - they're showing reruns right now on The Learning Channel:
http://www.tlc.com/tv-shows
The Rachel McAdams episode has a lot of Canadian content as they investigate an ancestor who was a UELoyalist following the Revolutonary War.
Actually, they're showing 4 episodes tonight (8-midnight) and repeating 2 of them tomorrow (noon-2pm) [all times PST].
There's a full episode video of the McAdams show, but it won't play for me - maybe it's US only (it refers me to http://www.discovery.ca/ but that's not one of their shows).

Strangely, I find I have more problems on Ancestry when it's NOT a free weekend!

littlelegs


just keep on in the way you have been doing



sometimes we, that is any of us, just has to vent about something that is bothering us



The problem was / is that ancestry has been having problems for several weeks, some people have had more problems than others and have been unable to find information


Then came this notice of free ancestry on the Bank Holiday weekend .................... we all know that the site gets overloaded when that happens, and I think the thought of another free weekend with a slow site following on the inability to use the site properly for some time just got to several of us.



After all ..................... ancestry does seem to have had a free weekend a month this year




I might add that it does only seem to be the UK site that offers these free weekends ................... I could be wrong, but I don't think I've ever seen a free weekend on the US one





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oh dear oh dear
sorry but i am as as you call us [a freeloader ] i cant afford to pay for ancestry so i do ask for look ups

i save up so i can travel to the archives i need to go to i have saved up for some cds that help me with my research
but i cant do everything and there is alot of people like me who just cannot find the money to pay for ancestry

i love doing my family tree
but seeing that i am a freeloader may be i will have to stop it now

I like to help but I dont like doing peoples trees for them, when all they have asked for is a marriage.....or finding shed loads of maybe related baptisms from familysearch when they could have found them themselves if only they were given the link.

I dont do a lot of so called helping now unless it is after midnight and can take my time.....but as for all these problems with Ancestry, I have not noticed and have used it everyday for the last four years

I use FTM in conjunction with Ancestry and don't have any problems and I didn't find any problem over the weekend.

I do agree that there seem to be too many of these free weekends but I suppose it must be worthwhile for Ancestry to do them. If they can encourage more subscribers then they will have more resources to add more records which is to our advantage.

I like your post of 24 Aug 2014 12:49 DC. If only more helpers gave advice rather than virtually taking over newbie's trees, then maybe more people would find out what an enjoyable hobby this is.