User talk:Debbie V.

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Create Webpages

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.

Connect with other genealogists

You should always sign in when you are editing or adding pages. Use the signature button (second button from the 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

Shared research pages act like specialized message boards. Be careful to use only one name spelling and one location in each field, do not abbreviate. 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.

Great things you can do at WeRelate

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Thanks for participating in your virtual community.--Dquass 22:48, 7 April 2007 (MDT)

Dog Prarie

Thank you for adding the Place:Dog Prairie, Franklin, Illinois, United States article! Please feel free to add other places you know about.--Dallan 15:14, 12 April 2007 (MDT)

how to list former places

I love it that you're adding "former" places like Abe in Franklin County. (I didn't grow up *far enough* downstate to be personally familiar with that one, though!) I am wondering what you think about a possible ambiguity here. I see you've listed these places as formerly contained in Franklin County, which makes sense except that that designation is also used for places that changed counties due to boundary changes, rather than going out of existence altogether. (Thus in Switzerland I've had some places that were in the Canton of Bern until part of it broke away to form the Canton of Jura, and now they're in the Canton of Jura but are also listed as "formerly located in the Canton of Bern," and unlike Abe they still exist.) Of course, if we say that Abe is now in Franklin County (because you could take me there, and then we'd be in Franklin County, it's just that no one lives there any more), then it seems funny to call it an "inhabited place" if it's no longer inhabited! As far as I know this hasn't been settled yet, so it should probably be kicked upstairs to Solveig and Dallan (maybe they'll think it's too nitpicky for words!), but I was curious what you thought would be a good solution. --Hh219 20:19, 2 May 2007 (MDT)

Hi back!

Aha -- Debbie, I remember the correspondence of course, but hadn't made the connection! Great to see you here and thanks for the update. I think your work on Franklin County places represents one of the underrated pleasures of genealogy -- the chance to pay really close attention to one thing at a time. I'll mention our discussion to dallan, the idea of "historical places" sounds perfect if the programming isn't too complex. I bet his to-do list would make mine look tiny, but mine keeps me busy enough. This weekend at last I'll get to see the new Allen County library building (and research in it, so 20th century) -- I can hardly wait! --Hh219 12:17, 3 May 2007 (MDT)

Error importing John Walker Woods.GED

We had an error while attempting to import John Walker Woods.GED. This is most likely our fault. We will review the error and should have your pages ready tomorrow (or Monday if tomorrow falls on a weekend). There is no need to re-import your GEDCOM file.

-WeRelate agent 14:07, 8 May 2007 (MDT)

John Walker Woods.GED Imported Successfully

The pages from your GEDCOM, "John Walker Woods.GED" have been generated successfully. You may view them by launching the Family Tree Explorer and opening the family tree into which this GEDCOM was imported.

-WeRelate agent 15:16, 8 May 2007 (MDT)

Funny arrow

Hi Debbie, The funny arrow means that the link is taking you "off-site" to another website. It's a convention that Wikipedia uses and we just adopted it as well.--Dallan 20:42, 10 May 2007 (MDT)

Simmons.ged Imported Successfully

The pages from your GEDCOM, "Simmons.ged" have been generated successfully. You may view them by launching the Family Tree Explorer and opening the family tree into which this GEDCOM was imported.

-WeRelate agent 15:19, 25 May 2007 (MDT)

Thomas Lefler, Civil War Veter.ged Imported Successfully

The pages from your GEDCOM, "Thomas Lefler, Civil War Veter.ged" have been generated successfully. You may view them by launching the Family Tree Explorer and opening the family tree into which this GEDCOM was imported.

-WeRelate agent 15:27, 25 May 2007 (MDT)

Watching [2 August 2007]

Hi Debbie,

Thanks for watching my page. I am glad to see that I got noticed. I am still in the process of cleaning up the gedcom down load pages but so far I really like the site. I am sure our path will cross again.

I live in the St. Louis area so I have access to a lot of resources through the library and other places.

Take care - Pam Draper--Pjdrap 07:39, 2 August 2007 (MDT)

whaley2.ged Imported Successfully [4 September 2007]

The pages from your GEDCOM, "whaley2.ged" have been generated successfully. You may view them by launching the Family Tree Explorer and opening the family tree into which this GEDCOM was imported.

-WeRelate agent 12:42, 4 September 2007 (EDT)