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From: Joy Langdon <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] Genes Reunited - how effective is it?
Date: Sat, 13 Feb 2010 11:23:01 +0000 (GMT)
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I have also made many contacts through Genes Reunited.  I have to say, it has been more successful in the past few years so maybe it depends on when people were members.  I let my membership lapse after hearing nothing and then about 2 years ago I received an email telling me someone had tried to contact me.  I rejoined to contact them and since then I have been contacted by 32 people, including a first cousin.  His parents had divorced and he lost contact with our side of the family over the years. 

I subscribed to Ancestry until about a year ago but was only ever contacted by one person.  I think the problem is that people can view your tree and obtain the information they want but don't necessarily contact you to share any information they have that you don't.  With Genes Reunited your tree remains hidden and you are regularly sent Hot Matches and if you contact the person or are contacted by them you have the option of revealing your trees to each other or not.  There have been times with both Genes Reunited and Ancestry when I tried to contact someone but got no reply.

Joy




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From: Trena <>
To:
Sent: Saturday, 13 February, 2010 1:48:07
Subject: Re: [CHS] Genes Reunited - how effective is it?

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Pete Dale
> Sent: Thursday, February 11, 2010 11:36 AM
> Subject: Re: [CHS] Genes Reunited - how effective is it?
>
> The title I think tends to suggest that you think GR is ineffective.  I
> have
> to log a real disagreement about that.  It may be inefficient in that a
> lot
> of the information there lies dormant; it certainly carries its share
> of
> rubbish.  But there is also a large amount of gold-dust.

For me there wasn't gold-dust!  There were blooming big gold nuggets.  For
instance:  within 4 hours of paying to join the site (had been a non-paying
member since beginning), I found a living 2C in Brisbane Au. who I had been
searching 5+ years for.  I had loads of family history to send, plus 8 other
living 2C (into family history) who wanted contact.  Many nuggets since
then, but the one which made me feel my past 12y of research was well worth
the effort and money was finding another 2C1R in Au, who is a 1C1R to the
first lot mentioned above.  Simon had just moved from Sydney to Brisbane.
He also gave me his father's phone number in Lancs.  This was the best part
... Paul had known absolutely nothing about his father's family up in
Glasgow, save his father ONCE mentioned he had a couple of sisters.  That
was it.  Paul (Lancs) broke down and cried on the phone when I told him I
was his 2C, on his father's side of the family, and he had a great many
cousins still in Scotland.

I reckon in the past 3y I've been a paying subscriber I have 'met' at least
200 fairly close cousins (one from Stockport); brought 3 half-sisters
together, which also reunited them with their father (he is my 3C1R), plus
found a half-aunt!

Genes Reunited?  To me it's priceless! 

Toni


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