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Hi Greg

I have PM'd you

You will see my answers mirror what Roy has said in his post

All the best

Lolly

1. Don't mind

2. Certainly the census' might not be as important to those who have been researching for a long time, in that they may have exhausted them for info on their own family...but some of the parish records ( eg for London) have only recently been put on line and are invaluable, so those N/A statistics surprise me.

3. Very important to look at BMD and census for new researchers, because so many start off relying on word of mouth from family, often wrongly.

4. GR community has a wealth of experience amongst the members, it is GR's biggest asset that the members help ( and remember that the site did not hold records initially so people who joined early on joined for the forums ).

5, Other than point 2, the results were as I expected.

I am wondering if the N/A answers are so high because it is in the first column? I ticked the first column then realised that it was the wrong column so changed it to the last column, which was the one I wanted. Just goes to show we should read things carefully before ticking.

Re Americans, many of them arent really interested in genealogy, they just want to boast a tree with large numbers in, preferably going back to Adam and Eve or earlier. (Sorry to those Americans who know how to research and have a real tree).

Having put my tree on GR for somewhere to have it, I found that Hot Matches could be helpful for making contact with distant relatives, i.e. 3rd cousins right back to 6th cousins. Then I found the chat boards and thoroughly enjoy chatting to lovely people all over the world on them. I cant afford a lot of money for joining other websites and GR is not expensive, even if it is very frustrating at times. If I can find the money I will join Ancestry for a year and try to get my sister 'divorced' from John Downing who was b in 1723. But I wont hold my breath on that one as I have tried with a free fortnight in the past. In the meantime the number of people with that error just keeps on growing (about 200 at the last count).

Fascinating results so far

nudge

Roy

Done.

Hi Greg,

Very interesting questions.

Glad to have taken part and I will look forward to more results.

Kind regards
Amanda

Me too, Greg ;-)