Genes Reunited Member?

[Elliebob]

I do think that there are a lot of people on GR who are not very committed to family history and only have their immediate family recorded.  I have been in touch with a few who are "researching" the same lines as me and have virtually nothing on their tree.

I have only the bare bones on GR but if anyone gets in touch with me I am prepared to share from my main one.  I have had a couple of really good experiences.  Very annoying though when you get no reply!

I have recently had contact with someone who was almost certainly my first cousin's daughter. It turned out that I was correct. My aunt, her grandmother died when she was only 26 so she hasn't got much info from her grandmother's side and I was able to help her.  Our family was last in contact more than 30 years ago and that was only a very brief vist from her uncle to my mother, before that it was more than 50 years. 

So GR can be good!!
Ellen

[wrjones]

As for people replying to queries you send to people on GR,whilst there are always those who you might be waiting as if forever for a reply,there are also those who you wish hadn't bothered to reply!As a general rule I always used to give access to my Tree when sending a query of a person in someone's Tree;However as may be the case sometimes you may be enquiring about someone you have not as yet added to your tree,and I got fed up with receiving that literally stupid reply of;"This is not my relative"!So now I have changed tactics and unless there is an obvious connection no longer grant access to my Tree ,and no longer receive such replies.

Regards
William Russell Jones
Cefn Mawr
Wrexham.

[Alienangel]

A GR member contacted me a few months ago and I replied that we did in fact have a match (cousins by marriage). I have not heard anything from them since. Which is a shame as it is on my late Dad's side of the family who we have not seen/spoken to for many years.

Angel

[polidor]

My latest G.R grouse is that recently i was contacted by a very young member [ i was allowed to see their tree] they had over 3 thousand on their tree and i found that a bit 'iffy' at such a young age but nevertheless the person they where enquiring about was deffinately 'one of mine' so i offered to send them more info about this person. Offer accepted and i sent quite a bit of information on to them. Haven't heard a dickie bird since. Their tree has vanished and not a 'ta' in sight. To add to that, the fact that i didn't have time to note anything from their tree from the short time i had access 

[meles]

That's a new trick. And a nasty one. 

What is it with some people? 

meles