Is Genes Reunited a purely English site?

[mistral]

Anyhow, I will stop complaining and try to think of yet another strategy for finding my John and Mary MacDonald. :)

Andrew, If it's any help, I have just found out from another topic that the index for the 1841 census for Scotland is available to search free on Ancestry. I have already found some long lost people!

Best wishes
Mistral

[scml]

Hey guys,
take into consideration us poor Aussies, down under I find Genes Reunited good for having your family tree there and finding other names that match. It can be helpful. But I find the US sites frustrating when you do a search for a name and all you get is US hits even though you specify a different country And you would be surprised the number of US citizens who don't even know where Australia is !!
Ya gotta still love them

[nellie17]

There is nothing worse than typing in a name knowing there couldnt be that many and you get 100's upon 100's of the name but none are yours and they all live in the states.

I mean how many Keegans could there have been in 1800's not many but for some unknown reason the states have 100's of them.

I to find Genes to be good for us Aussies as it gives those who can access their roots to maybe find a connection with us here in down under.


Nellie

[scml]

You know what we have to do, don't you we have to get our family trees up there online so when others search on Ancestry, there is more aussie info for others to find.
Mine is almost ready to go, just have to get permission from two family branches so I can include them as well. (tapping my fingers as I wait patiently )The more the better and I have been very lucky in finding other distant relations with whom I have been able to pass on and also receive lots of family research. So my family tree is turning out pretty good and now covers Scotland, Australia and the US.
So get to it and we can make a difference

[nellie17]

I have nearly 9000 people from Tasmania on my tree and i tell you it grows by 20 a day and there would benothing better to have it on its own web page but havent got the faintest clue as to how or where to put it and who to go through.


One day i will get it there and have it done i would love for our main lines to be on there but somefamily memeber will not allow their details on here i can understand that but that means it is incomplete and i miss huge bits if i am to add it to the web.

Nellie

[DavidWW]

Hi Andrew

But it is incredibly frustrating to search for Scottish BMD records for people with common names

On any site which works on a pay-per-view system, I think this is true of any indices - Scots, English or anywhere else for that matter. A frequently occurring name is always going to prove expensive unless you can narrow down the age, area and time window to a narrow field.

Best wishes
Lesley (with quite a lot of experience of "Smith" in English and Scots records )

See the John MacLEOD in Lewis example elsewhere, - it all depends on the available information, knowledge of the registration system and how to optimise searches on SP.

David

[scml]

Wow, Nellie, that is a fantastic effort. You would just about have all of Tassie, wouldn't you haha.
Yes, we need to respect people wishing to keep there privacy, but do they realise how serious you are about the family history?
I had a sister of my partner, who just wasn't interested, and didn't want to give any information at all, until she visited us, and I showed her what I had on my own family, and then she realised what I really was doing, and now is all for it. So perhaps you need to make them realise what you have already done
And also, perhaps you don't need to enter that last couple of generations, as anyone in the family can find that out for themselves, and just see if you can upload the older generations, of people who have passed on, and so who are the real ones that are needed to be documented, so they aren't forgotten
If you are using a genealogy program on your computer, you should be able to upload the complete file, usually a GEDCOM (which I have) or the other one is PAF I think?
But when you are ready to do it, you will be able to ask for help from here for sure. And also, online sites that you can upload to shouldn't show any living persons in your file anyway. As they are protected in that way, but I believe you can upload your entire file, it is just you who will see it all, and anyone online looking at it will only see those that are deceased, if you see what I mean.

Happy hunting,