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| 1 | This from a trademe email..... We just wanted to give you a heads up about a change we're making to our message board. On Tuesday 25 February, the following topics and threads will be closed: • General discussion The message board was originally introduced as a way for members to help each other use the site. Over the years things have moved away from that, and we want to bring it back. Going forward, the message board will be a place for general trading advice, category suggestions, or anything that helps inform others about something Trade Me related. Chat outside of this will be removed. We know we have a small group of dedicated members who post in these topics regularly, and we hope you can keep chatting with each other about general life in established forums. Edited by nbrob at 9:01 am, Wed 12 Feb nbrob - 2020-02-12 09:00:00 |
| 2 | Most of them are. Grab any links you can find now while you still can. What a silly retrograde idea. Those of us here before the extra categories were made will remember what a boring wasteland it was and how little incentive there was to come and look, and that often drove our purchasing. morticia - 2020-02-12 09:09:00 |
| 3 | so how do we protest that not everyone who uses Trademe message boards are on Facebook to use that Genealogy service available, it seems all they are interested in is making money out of the site Edited by crab2 at 9:13 am, Wed 12 Feb crab2 - 2020-02-12 09:12:00 |
| 4 | I wonder if a website for Trademe Genealogy board is needed to be created crab2 - 2020-02-12 09:14:00 |
| 5 | I suggest checking out some of the great genie boards on FB.They are a great bunch of folk always ready to help. carbs51 - 2020-02-12 09:16:00 |
| 6 | Having received a message about the closure of message boards in cluding genealogy.... There is a genealogy mailing list for New Zealand, filled with very helpful people. This new list replaces an old mailing list called rootsweb. Just click on this link: https://groups.io/g/newzealand/ there is a join button down the bottom. Hugh Winters kopuru - 2020-02-12 09:22:00 |
| 7 | Parenting stays??? corogirl - 2020-02-12 10:17:00 |
| 8 | corogirl wrote:
Yeah, there's a few reasons why that might be desirable, especially from TM's shallow, profit-driven standpoint. morticia - 2020-02-12 10:22:00 |
| 9 | There is also an excellent NZ genealogy group on Rootchat https://www.rootschat.com/forum/new-zealand/ Edited by nandag at 10:50 am, Wed 12 Feb nandag - 2020-02-12 10:49:00 |
| 10 | Trademe continues it's downward spiral.... aaronat - 2020-02-12 11:12:00 |
| 11 | Gutted & they are stupid doing this and some other boards as well Bloody sad day really. anne1955 - 2020-02-12 11:15:00 |
| 12 | crab2 wrote: anne1955 - 2020-02-12 11:18:00 |
| 13 | crab2 wrote: nat103 - 2020-02-12 11:25:00 |
| 14 | More links to some of the other forums, please. Or facebook gene links. Edited by wenpen at 12:52 pm, Wed 12 Feb wenpen - 2020-02-12 12:49:00 |
| 15 | kopuru wrote:
I wouldn't join that one as it is all there for others to see your email address even without being a member, the easiest way for spammers to spam you Edited by crab2 at 1:05 pm, Wed 12 Feb crab2 - 2020-02-12 13:03:00 |
| 16 | crab2 wrote: Edited by aisling8 at 1:26 pm, Wed 12 Feb aisling8 - 2020-02-12 13:24:00 |
| 17 | nandag wrote: wenpen - 2020-02-12 13:26:00 |
| 18 | this is the crowd that scrapped old school friends,maybe they were adopted next-to-normal - 2020-02-12 13:54:00 |
| 19 | aisling8 wrote:
just put in Genealogy and Beyond History and Genealogy crab2 - 2020-02-12 14:20:00 |
| 20 | next-to-normal wrote:
I believe there are new owners of Trademe and they are UK based crab2 - 2020-02-12 14:21:00 |
| 21 | Proboards is a free forum and free message board service, should we create a new site there??? Genealogy-NZ tal5 - 2020-02-12 16:27:00 |
| 22 | I would be really sad to see this helpful message board scrapped - the people on it are so great & go to great lengths to help anyone starseeker - 2020-02-12 16:53:00 |
| 23 | On facebook there is jhan - 2020-02-12 17:57:00 |
| 24 | nat103 wrote:
Please I need this board I read lots learn lots and post little, this board is a anchor for me Edited by mnkool at 7:24 pm, Wed 12 Feb mnkool - 2020-02-12 19:23:00 |
| 25 | lots of tmmb peeps moving to this site .... you can keep your tm name or create a new one... https://********.com/Community/index.php?threads/the-first-o neon2k - 2020-02-12 19:40:00 |
| 26 | mnkool wrote:
There are a LOT of great FB groups giving loads of leads and ideas and help with finding people. Join a few of them and broaden your pool of assistance. morticia - 2020-02-12 21:08:00 |
| 27 | NO dont get rid of this board!!!! karee.bell - 2020-02-12 23:16:00 |
| 28 | nbrob wrote:
Can someone tell me how is Genealogy NOT an established forum???? We have Marymc to thank for starting with her thread "I have half an hour .... and the group just grew from that until Trademe put out word they want suggestions on new Category of which I put Genealogy and alot of members of the thread voted and we got it, it was a great day to see Genealogy with it's own Category, we have seen many members come and go with the establishment of Facebook Genealogy boards growing and continuing to grow as the place to be as it is a faster moving and can contact members instantly via PM which is one thing that annoyed alot of us in here as we had to find ways to get in contact with the member who was reaching out for outside help and many of us did all this for free, I for one am sad to see this go and I'm sure many others will be too as I have gotten to know and have also met a couple of members off line crab2 - 2020-02-13 08:19:00 |
| 29 | You've been a wonderful help to many crab2. jhan - 2020-02-13 09:00:00 |
| 30 | jhan wrote:
Thank you Lyn and I am one of the moderators for your group on Facebook :) crab2 - 2020-02-13 09:18:00 |
| 31 | If they are going to remove Genealogy they have at least left the category it rightfully belongs in - Crafts and Hobbies. morticia - 2020-02-13 09:23:00 |
| 32 | crab2 wrote:
Probably no money for T/M from this topic. While they may think that, people spending a few hours here are more likely to do their buying and selling through T/M. When there is less to attract people here, they will find other sites to spend their time and consequently their money. End result will probably be declining turnover for T/M. amasser - 2020-02-13 09:24:00 |
| 33 | amasser wrote:
exactly crab2 - 2020-02-13 09:44:00 |
| 34 | morticia wrote:
lol we know what to do now lol Edited by crab2 at 9:46 am, Thu 13 Feb crab2 - 2020-02-13 09:44:00 |
| 35 | lol thanks for the idea mortica lol ........ https://www.trademe.co.nz/Community/MessageBoard/Messages.as Edited by crab2 at 9:49 am, Thu 13 Feb crab2 - 2020-02-13 09:49:00 |
| 36 | Cooking, listening to music and watching TV and movies are all hobbies as well. morticia - 2020-02-13 09:50:00 |
| 37 | I have submitted a request to have 2 threads moved over to the new thread in Crafts and Hobbies. They are Getting started with Family History and the favourite websites threads. Fingers crossed crab2 - 2020-02-13 10:08:00 |
| 38 | wenpen wrote:
tmfamtree on Facebook originated from here and the majority of members in that group are from this message board too Its a shame that TM has decided to close this down as certainly has been very helpful at times goldenwillow - 2020-02-13 10:32:00 |
| 39 | wenpen wrote:
Log in to FB. Type genealogy into the bar above your newsfeed. Plenty will pop up below. morticia - 2020-02-13 12:38:00 |
| 40 | What about us that don't use facebook hymac - 2020-02-13 14:30:00 |
| 41 | wenpen wrote:
The good ones are closed groups on FB Both groups have 3 questions to answer when applying to join. carbs51 - 2020-02-13 15:34:00 |
| 42 | hymac wrote:
I've made a thread over in Crafts and Hobbies crab2 - 2020-02-13 15:46:00 |
| 43 | Not sure if this is any use,but quite a few from TM have gone here; it might be possible to start another genealogy forum there,if you ask the admin. https://********.com/Community/index.php?forums/main-forum.2 cronezone - 2020-02-13 19:01:00 |
| 44 | cronezone wrote:
yep I have already suggested one but think there might be problems for the the person who has started up the website if the bandwidth can't handle the load or amount of members that join crab2 - 2020-02-13 19:53:00 |
| 45 | crab2 wrote: Cool. jhan - 2020-02-13 20:25:00 |
| 46 | I have appreciated this group over the years. Crab and others have been great at helping us get started and find things at times. Thank you all you wonderful gene helpers. alinz - 2020-02-13 21:38:00 |
| 47 | crab2 wrote:
Agree Marymc and her just 30mins to help turnt into 11yrs of friends for me I have now also published a book on one line of my family from spending the last 10yrs hard out doing family history karee.bell - 2020-02-13 22:00:00 |
| 48 | for those that want to have access to the Getting Started thread and Our Favourite websites I have copied and pasted to word and created a PDF, let me know if you want a copy and I'll put up a dropbox link crab2 - 2020-02-14 08:02:00 |
| 49 | Our Favourite websites link....... https://www.dropbox.com/s/fnrn422riq635e0/Our%20Favourite%20 Getting Started link.... Edited by crab2 at 8:06 am, Fri 14 Feb crab2 - 2020-02-14 08:06:00 |
| 50 | Just be aware that you cannot click on the links within them but highlight and copy and paste to your address bar, as the threads are several years old they may be some that don't work. crab2 - 2020-02-14 08:09:00 |
