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    From Geoff@21:1/5 to All on Sun Mar 23 13:03:37 2025
    Where do people go now to discuss UK ancestry? This is virtually dead
    now!

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  • From Charles Ellson@21:1/5 to onlyme101@btinternet.com on Sun Mar 23 19:18:42 2025
    On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:03:37 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"
    <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

    Where do people go now to discuss UK ancestry? This is virtually dead
    now!

    Many to various bits of Facebook for more targetted subjects ?

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  • From Nigel Reed@21:1/5 to Charles Ellson on Sun Mar 23 18:28:15 2025
    On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 19:18:42 +0000
    Charles Ellson <charlesellson@btinternet.com> wrote:

    On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:03:37 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"
    <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

    Where do people go now to discuss UK ancestry? This is virtually
    dead now!

    Many to various bits of Facebook for more targetted subjects ?

    I think when Google Groups shut down it killed off a lot of people who
    wouldn't know how to connect to usenet.

    Probably Discord also, and I'm sure there's still some web based boards
    around.

    It's a shame because there's been a lot of advances in spam killing on
    usenet which has helped a great deal.

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  • From Steve Hayes@21:1/5 to onlyme101@btinternet.com on Mon Mar 24 11:07:11 2025
    On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:03:37 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"
    <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

    Where do people go now to discuss UK ancestry? This is virtually dead
    now!

    Most of my discussions are on email mailinglists for areas I'm
    interested in.


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    Steve Hayes
    Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/
    http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/

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  • From Ian Goddard@21:1/5 to Charles Ellson on Mon Mar 24 16:01:14 2025
    Charles Ellson wrote:
    On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:03:37 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"
    <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

    Where do people go now to discuss UK ancestry? This is virtually dead
    now!

    Many to various bits of Facebook for more targetted subjects ?

    Subjects! Don't you mean adverts?

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  • From Colin Bignell@21:1/5 to Charles Ellson on Tue Mar 25 08:33:35 2025
    On 23/03/2025 19:18, Charles Ellson wrote:
    On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:03:37 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"
    <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

    Where do people go now to discuss UK ancestry? This is virtually dead
    now!

    Many to various bits of Facebook for more targetted subjects ?

    If you have a specific question, the British Genealogy group is full of
    helpful and knowledgeable people. Some of the enquiries can be a bit
    Newby, but I have also seen them dig out some quite obscure answers for
    people.

    --
    Colin Bignell

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  • From Geoff@21:1/5 to Steve Hayes on Tue Mar 25 16:21:11 2025
    Steve Hayes wrote:

    On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:03:37 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"
    <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

    Where do people go now to discuss UK ancestry? This is virtually
    dead now!

    Most of my discussions are on email mailinglists for areas I'm
    interested in.

    Thank you all. I'll give a few of them a try.

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  • From Steve Hayes@21:1/5 to onlyme101@btinternet.com on Wed Mar 26 05:32:34 2025
    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:21:11 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"
    <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

    Steve Hayes wrote:

    On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:03:37 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"
    <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

    Where do people go now to discuss UK ancestry? This is virtually
    dead now!

    Most of my discussions are on email mailinglists for areas I'm
    interested in.

    Thank you all. I'll give a few of them a try.

    It would, nevertheless, be good if there were a bit more activity
    here.

    But I've also cut my genealogy down to pre-internet levels since
    FamilySearch became more difficult to access and use (as in: Your
    browser is no longer supported).


    --
    Steve Hayes
    Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/
    http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/

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  • From Geoff@21:1/5 to Steve Hayes on Sat Mar 29 14:45:25 2025
    Steve Hayes wrote:

    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:21:11 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"
    <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

    Steve Hayes wrote:

    On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:03:37 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"
    <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

    Where do people go now to discuss UK ancestry? This is virtually
    dead now!

    Most of my discussions are on email mailinglists for areas I'm
    interested in.

    Thank you all. I'll give a few of them a try.

    It would, nevertheless, be good if there were a bit more activity
    here.

    But I've also cut my genealogy down to pre-internet levels since
    FamilySearch became more difficult to access and use (as in: Your
    browser is no longer supported).



    I'm guessing that you use Internet Explorer, I don't have a problem
    with Firefox

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  • From Steve Hayes@21:1/5 to onlyme101@btinternet.com on Mon Mar 31 04:38:26 2025
    XPost: soc.genealogy.computing

    On Sat, 29 Mar 2025 14:45:25 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"
    <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

    Steve Hayes wrote:

    On Tue, 25 Mar 2025 16:21:11 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"
    <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

    Steve Hayes wrote:

    On Sun, 23 Mar 2025 13:03:37 -0000 (UTC), "Geoff"
    <onlyme101@btinternet.com> wrote:

    Where do people go now to discuss UK ancestry? This is virtually
    dead now!

    Most of my discussions are on email mailinglists for areas I'm
    interested in.

    Thank you all. I'll give a few of them a try.

    It would, nevertheless, be good if there were a bit more activity
    here.

    But I've also cut my genealogy down to pre-internet levels since
    FamilySearch became more difficult to access and use (as in: Your
    browser is no longer supported).



    I'm guessing that you use Internet Explorer, I don't have a problem
    with Firefox

    I'm using Firefox, and when that stopped working used Maxthon. but
    FamilySearch stopped supporting that and Rootsmagic 7 about 6 months
    ago. More recent versions of either don't work on my rather old
    computer. Planned obsolescence rules.








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    Steve Hayes
    Web: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com/
    http://hayesgreene.blogspot.com
    http://groups.yahoo.com/group/afgen/

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