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Offline crazydaizy

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Trying to communicate on Ancestry
« on: Monday 15 July 24 10:42 BST (UK) »
Hi, I have messaged someone on Ancestry website, but despite them showing online most days on there, they do not read my message (?)

I have acquired (many years ago when I worked in a Charity Shop) an old family Bible that appears to have belonged in this person's family, and I wanted to try and get it back to them.

Any ideas how I can possibly communicate with them?

Or maybe they've seen the message via email and don't want to know?

What a shame.
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Re: Trying to communicate on Ancestry
« Reply #1 on: Monday 15 July 24 11:03 BST (UK) »
I’m afraid that often happens, a lot of people either ignore messages completely, or read them and then disregard them. Unfortunately we force them to respond if they are not interested.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Trying to communicate on Ancestry
« Reply #2 on: Tuesday 16 July 24 11:58 BST (UK) »
Have you thought about posting on this website in the Family Bibles section? Just a thought...

Melbell

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Re: Trying to communicate on Ancestry
« Reply #3 on: Tuesday 16 July 24 14:46 BST (UK) »
Our longest response period has been 12 years, and no that is not a typo.

It happens probably to 90% of messages sent in that they get ignored.

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Re: Trying to communicate on Ancestry
« Reply #4 on: Tuesday 16 July 24 15:26 BST (UK) »
trouble is I think you will find that even if it says someone has been on that day if they dont log out at all it just shows up as they have been on. also people change email address but forget to change every site. Its very frustrating !
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Re: Trying to communicate on Ancestry
« Reply #5 on: Tuesday 16 July 24 15:53 BST (UK) »
Well it will be their loss if they don't respond so I wouldn't worry about it.

Someone once contacted me through Ancestry for the same reason. She posted me the bible and wouldn't accept postage costs so I sent her a bouquet of flowers instead, which she thanked me for.

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Re: Trying to communicate on Ancestry
« Reply #6 on: Tuesday 16 July 24 15:58 BST (UK) »
You can tell if someone has read your message and ignored it. If you check your message it will say Read and the time underneath. If it hasn’t been read it will just say Delivered and the time.
CHOULES All ,  COKER Harwich Essex & Rochester Kent 
COLE Gt. Oakley, & Lt. Oakley, Essex.
DUNCAN Kent
EVERITT Colchester,  Dovercourt & Harwich Essex
GULLIVER/GULLOFER Fifehead Magdalen Dorset
HORSCROFT Kent.
KING Sturminster Newton, Dorset. MONK Odiham Ham.
SCOTT Wrabness, Essex
WILKINS Stour Provost, Dorset.
WICKHAM All in North Essex.
WICKHAM Medway Towns, Kent from 1880
WICKHAM, Ipswich, Suffolk.

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Re: Trying to communicate on Ancestry
« Reply #7 on: Tuesday 16 July 24 18:12 BST (UK) »
I have sent quite a lot of message on the Ancestry messaging system  and found i got very few replies - according to the number of emails I got from Ancestry telling me someone had replied. But when I went back into Ancestry and actually checked my messages I found several replies people had made, but Ancestry had never alerted me to them.
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Dorset / Hants: Derham, Stride, Purkiss, Sibley
Yorkshire: Pottage, Carr, Blackburn, Depledge
Sussex: Goodyer, Christopher, Trevatt
Lanark: Scott (soldier went to Jersey CI)
Jersey: Fowler, Huelin, Scott

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Re: Trying to communicate on Ancestry
« Reply #8 on: Saturday 20 July 24 15:47 BST (UK) »
Quote from: Melbell on Tuesday 16 July 24 11:58 BST (UK)
Have you thought about posting on this website in the Family Bibles section? Just a thought...

Melbell

Good idea! I will post in the Family Bibles section. 

Thank you everyone for your replies.
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