User talk:Hbyrne

Welcome

Welcome to WeRelate, your virtual genealogical community. We're glad you have joined us. At WeRelate you can easily create ancestor webpages, connect with cousins and other genealogists and find new information.

Create Webpages

The first thing to do is launch Family Tree Explorer, then select File in the Family Tree Explorer menu and give your family tree a name. Then you 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 a 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 and surname, and 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 caching is not permanent and only lasts as long as you are at WeRelate each time.

Connect with other genealogists

You should always sign in when you are editing or adding pages. Use the signature button to sign your work (the swiggle, second from the right, above the edit box). 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 second level menu bar above.

Great things you can do at WeRelate

Please see the Great things you can do a WeRelate article.

Thanks for participating in your virtual community. --sq 20:38, 17 February 2007 (MST)

Your gedcom will be processed on Tuesday

I just looked at the server log and noticed that we were unable to process your gedcom today. This usually means you have some tags in your gedcom that we didn't expect. Our goal is to preserve all of the information in imported gedcom files, so we need to review the gedcom to determine what to do with the information in the unexpected tags. The programmer working on gedcom uploads has tomorrow off, so we will look into this on Tuesday and hope to have your gedcom uploaded by Tuesday evening. Thank you.--Dallan 15:05, 18 February 2007 (MST)

GEDCOM uploaded

Your GEDCOM has been uploaded! Let us know what you think or report bugs on Dallan's discussion page.

Fones typo

Hi, I moved your page from Elizabeth Jones to Fones. The move button is in the green button bar. If you encounter a typo in the title again, just click on the move button and enter the correct title. If other pages are linked to it you will need to check the links :-) --sq 23:43, 10 April 2007 (MDT)

Thanks. There are portions of my file, including this one, which were transcribed from fan charts created by my great-grandmother some 80+ years ago. They are in various states of decay, and sometimes difficult to decipher.

Townsend stuff [11 January 2009]

I believe you uploaded the page Family:John Townsend and Elisabeth Montgomery (1). It appears to be somewhat erroneous.

It shows a birth for John in 1579. It is likely this is one generation off because his birth is probably closer to 1600 or 1610. One source says he died 1669 at the age of 60. In any event, since he was a member of the Boston Artillery Company in 1641, your date wouldn't work as he would have been too old to serve, being over 60 in 1641. Also his second son Thomas was baptized 1642 which and he would have been 63, a little old to be having children.

You also show him being a son of Family:Thomas Townsend and Unknown (1), Thomas listed as born 1551, died 1580 in Lynn, MA. There was no Lynn, MA in 1580, 40 years before the Mayflower landed. If this is supposed to be Thomas Townsend of Lynn, his son John was born in 1640 and married Sarah Pearson of Lynn.

The John Townsend who married Elizabeth Montgomery and settled on Long Island appears to have emigrated from England about 1640, first to Boston briefly, and living at various locations on Long Island, dying 1669. One source, Source:Cocks, George William. History and Genealogy of the Cock, Cocks, Cox Family: Descended from James and Sarah Cock, of Killingworth Upon Matinecock, in the Township of Oyster Bay, Long Island, N.Y. seems to have traced the family back to England and say John was the son of Robert(view here), thus a nephew of Thomas, and not his son.

The settlement of John's estate lists Rose as his fifth child, out of nine total: John, Thomas, Elizabeth, James, Rose, Ann, Sarah, George and Daniel.

--Jrich 18:40, 11 January 2009 (EST)

Richard Trapnell II, III and IV [2 July 2011]

Hello -- I'm wondering whether Richard Trapnell (4) might be one of the three 'living Trapnell' people associated with Richard Trapnell (2); see Category:Trapnell_surname. Also, is it possbile that Richard Trapnell (2) might be the son of Richard Trapnell (3)? I am not related to this family; I've expressed my interest / focust on my personal page. Thanks. --ceyockey 14:34, 2 July 2011 (EDT)

Henry, Vivian, and Eugene Lerner [3 May 2020]

Hello,

I am new to genealogy, but I found the pages on Henry, Vivian, and Eugene Lerner and saw that you are watching those pages. Are you a descendant? I am a descendant of Henry Lerner's sister Miriam, who married Jack Schwartzman in Secureni, Bessarabia where this whole crew was from. They also lived in Brooklyn and my grandpa used to visit the Lerners at the mansion at 1019 Bushwick Ave. If you have information, I'd love to connect. I'm at toby.schwartzman@gmail.com.

Toby--TSchwartzman 19:39, 3 May 2020 (UTC)