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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. To get started:
If you need any help, I will be glad to answer your questions. Just click on my signature link below and then click on the “Leave a message” link under my name in the upper left corner of my profile page. Thanks for participating and see you around! --Ronni 08:55, 19 November 2007 (EST)
Hi Gale... I'm a volunteer for WeRelate and just wanted to point out some changes I've made to some of your page titles. We believe that consistency makes the system easier to use and easier for our cousins to find our Family and Person pages, therefore, WeRelate suggests the following naming conventions when creating page titles:
For Person page titles on WeRelate, use only the GIVEN name and SURNAME. Do not use middle names or suffixes.
For Family page titles on WeRelate, use only the husband’s first GIVEN name and complete SURNAME, followed by the word “and”, followed by the wife’s first GIVEN name and complete SURNAME. For example, "John Doe and Mary Johnson".
Using these conventions, assures that your pages get indexed and categorized properly. Thanks for contributing to WeRelate and if there's anything I can help you with, please let me know! :) --Ronni 19:23, 22 November 2007 (EST)
Thanks for your help. This program is a bit confusing, but I think I'm getting the hang of it.--GaleB 05:54, 25 November 2007 (EST)
Hello Gale, I am an admin for WeRelate. I patrol pages and help people learn the system. From time to time, people create family pages entitled with only one spouse's name. It shouldn't be possible. I have been trying to find this bug for some time. Would you mind telling me what steps you took to create your "Family:Lovey (1)" page. You were supposed to see a pop up box with fields for the husband's and wife's names. We name family pages in this way because it makes it easier to search them and connect with cousins on common ancestors. I renamed your Family:Lovey page to Family:Moses Driskill and Lovey Unk (1). Let me know if you have any questions, I would be glad to help/ :)--sq 23:08, 24 November 2007 (EST)
That little pop-up box does not always appear. Also, sometimes, the husbands name automatically appears after the wife has been entered, and saved. Other times, not.--GaleB 05:50, 25 November 2007 (EST)
Hi Gale! :) I was reviewing changes to the site this morning and noticed that the pages you create are not being watched by you. Is this something you have set in your preferences? That is, you are *not* wanting to watch pages you create? From my side, it looks like no one is watching the pages, but from your side, it might show something different. The reason I ask is because I believe the same thing is happening to me. New pages I create appear not to be watched by anyone until I add it to my Tree. I wanted to check with you before I made a bug report to Dallan. Thanks! --Ronni 09:58, 26 November 2007 (EST)
Not a problem. I'm still trying to understand this program. I kept selecting minor edit and unchecking the watch pages box. I didn't understand, probably still don't, what the differences were.--GaleB 19:56, 2 December 2007 (EST)
Hi Gale, when you check the minor edit box, it means that others watching the page won't be notified that you have made this particular edit to the page (unless they have checked the "E-mail me also for minor edits of pages" checkbox in their preferences, which is unchecked by default). I check the minor edit box when I make an insignificant change, like spelling or grammar or small style changes.
When you uncheck the "watch this page" checkbox, it means you won't be notified if someone else edits this page in the future. If you want to receive an email notification if someone else edits the page in the future, you should leave the "Watch this page" checkbox checked.--Dallan 22:46, 3 December 2007 (EST)
