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Wildgoose

Wildgoose Report 17 Jan 2010 22:50

Not a strange question, at all.

When I first chipped in someone asked 'have we met' and I ran scared into my corner for a while as I thought I had spoken out of turn!

My grannie used to say 'children should be seen and not heard'. She was hoping; I was such a noisy kid!

Birdi

Wildgoose

Wildgoose Report 17 Jan 2010 23:09

Sylvia - I was talking 'tongue in cheek'; I wasn't really scared!

This is all in fun, you know.

Smile, you may be on Candid Camera.

maggiewinchester

maggiewinchester Report 17 Jan 2010 23:52

I've only met (as far as I know!) one person off this site - no,, maybe two, perhaps three - I find it difficult to associate board names and real names!.
But what the hey!
You get to know the 'foibles' of people (as they appear online) and go with the flow! They may be totally different in real life - nicer than you thought - but that's what the 'meets' are for!


.....actually it may be four people I have met!

Dillis789

Dillis789 Report 17 Jan 2010 23:59

i met a few and to be honest, they all lovely as they are on here

and i nice too lol, im quiet away from here lol xxx

Patricia

Patricia Report 18 Jan 2010 00:18

Hi all , i was just searching for the illusive family and was getting so many different dob's that i thought i might as well just adopt them all lol ,anyway i just dropped into chat and you all uplifted me ,,,,your mad but i love it !!!!!! thank you for being you xxx

Alison

Alison Report 18 Jan 2010 09:43

Hello Charlotte,

See we are all pretty nice folk and you can just talk to anyone at all. Have fun on here.

Alison

SearchingC

SearchingC Report 21 Jan 2010 21:11

Hi just found 'my thread'. Didn't know where my post was that I'd put on to make friends! Found it so there you go. Just started my family tree, well two weeks or so ago. Found a half uncle, very reassurring, when i've felt quite alone sometimes in life/family.

Muffyxx

Muffyxx Report 21 Jan 2010 21:17

Aw that's nice Charlotte.

Glad you've had some success.xx

SearchingC

SearchingC Report 21 Jan 2010 21:19

yea it is, he's a nice old chap, feels like a pal now lol

Wildgoose

Wildgoose Report 21 Jan 2010 21:38

How lovely to have started your tree! You will have great fun and should make many friends.

My husband is an only child; both parents long dead, so he thought he only had us lot and two cousins.

His father had three sisters and a brother and they are all passed on too.

He was pretty amazed when I found that his grandfather was one of 14!

He feels less lonely now! :-)))

Birdi

SearchingC

SearchingC Report 21 Jan 2010 21:42

it's nice to know there are more of you, when you're lost faith in your family anyway, through deaths, funerals,etc, you know what that does to people, and i've seen the worst of my family, lost respect for aunties and uncles that i've always looked up to.

Julie

Julie Report 21 Jan 2010 21:46

Hi Charlotte

& Welcome to the boards

They say you can choose your friends but you can't choose your family
So far i don't talk to my Mum, Brother or Sister....but i ain't bothered

SearchingC

SearchingC Report 21 Jan 2010 22:00

Well i'm ok with my mum, only met my dad about 3 times, no interest either way, just feel sorry for my son whos only 2 and done nothing wrong to be ignored by a grandad! Step sis will do anything to get one up on me or hurt me, but stay in touch for kids sake, have regular contact with one auntie!
Feels good to let it out lol, could be more to come!

My dear old nan n grandad died in 07 and 08, grandad within a yr of nan, couldnt go on without her!

TessAkaBridgetTheFidget

TessAkaBridgetTheFidget Report 21 Jan 2010 23:00


Hi Charlotte, I am another one who talks to myself!

I don't often start a thread, but have joined in threads that interest me.

After a while you tend to get used to the names. Find myself saying to (real lfe friends) " I was chatting to so and so the other day..." she was saying that the weather in Canada, or New Zealand or Cardiff was..." and it is only when they quiz me about being able to chat to people in other places, that I explain that I mean "chat on the boards"

What I mean is, as names become more familiar it really does feel that you are having a face to face conversation tp people in different parts of the world.

Isn't the internet great!!


Enjoy yourself doing your tree and chatting on the boards.

Tess