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Welcome to WeRelate, your virtual genealogical community. We're glad you have joined us. At WeRelate you can easily create ancestor web pages, connect with cousins and other genealogists, and find new information.
We strongly recommend that you spend a few minutes taking our video tour. It provides a brief overview of how to use the features of WeRelate. A little time spent here may save you time later. There are also in-depth text tutorials available from the Help button.
The next thing to do is launch Family Tree Explorer, then select File in the Family Tree Explorer menu and give your family tree a name. You can either upload your GEDCOM or create person and family pages one at a time. To upload your GEDCOM, select File in the Family Tree Explorer menu and then click on Import and choose the GEDCOM file to import. The system will create an editable web page for each person and family in your GEDCOM. To create a page manually, select Add in the Family Tree Explorer menu and click on Add new person; enter the given (first name) and surname (last name), select Add, then fill in the blanks and save.
The Family Tree Explorer is a Flash application and will need to use some space in your computer to cache the files. That's computer talk for "If you store some ancestor page information on your computer, you will be able to view more pages faster. Otherwise, the system has to fetch each page every time you edit or look at it. This would make navigating your tree very slow.
You should always sign in when you are editing or adding pages. Use the signature button (second button from the right in the menu bar above the edit box) to sign your comments on discussion pages. That way others with similar interests can find you. If you click on the blue user name on any page, you will go to that person's home page. You can leave a message on his/her Discussion page. The Discussion page button is in the light green second level menu bar above.
Shared research pages act like specialized message boards. Be careful to use only one name spelling and one location in each field; do not use abbreviations. Including postal codes and multiple spellings, names, or locations in these fields will cause your pages to be improperly indexed. It will make it harder for your cousins to find your pages and work with you. For more information see Shared research pages.
Please see the Great things you can do at WeRelate article.
Thanks for participating in your virtual community.--sq 22:15, 18 April 2007 (MDT)
Hi!
I just noticed that you were working on Solomon Lewis, my great,great,great grandfather. I have been doing genealogy research off and on for years. I have posted much of my Lewis research on this site.Let me know if I can help you. -StevenLewis
Hi! Just finally noticed that you might be researching the Lewis family, sprecially Solomon and Margaret Rinehart Lewis, my great,great,great grandparents. I have done extense research on the Lewis family over the last thirty years. Would love to hear from ya.
StevenMichael Lewis
Quite ok.
Hi, I wanted to make sure that you saw the proposal I left for a final place review on WeRelate talk:Place review. I'd love to get your comments on it. Thanks!--Dallan 11:37, 21 November 2007 (EST)
Hi Dallan, I am so sorry I couldn't get the Kenya pages done. Final exams came up faster than I thought they would! I would still like to help with other things if you're still needing help. --Ajcrow 20:15, 18 December 2007 (EST)
I just saw your message to Dallan about cemetery places. My convention has been to put them in at the lowest level of the political division hierarchy as possible. Even below the level of an unincorporated village if appropriate. But whatever you choose, I think it's great to have solid coordinates on a cemetery for the sake of researchers to follow. If a more strict convention develops over time, we'll all convert, but the information will be there. Not sure if you saw the discussion, but Dallan also created a nice template that lets you create a link that opens a map at a location, without needing to create a place. For example, here's a link that goes to the family farm where my Grandfather was born. This can be very useful in narrowing down where a family plot is to be found in a larger cemetery, among other things.--Jrm03063 10:08, 23 February 2008 (EST)
That's what I'm going to start doing (adding cemeteries at the smallest jurisdiction.) I'm hoping to get more photos and GPS coords uploaded, but that's going to have to wait until some things get cleared off my plate. Too many things to do! --Ajcrow 21:26, 23 February 2008 (EST)
