User talk:Jill

Welcome

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.

Video Tour

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.

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 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

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.

Great things you can do at WeRelate

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

Telling others about our project

Please tell others to come here! The more people we have using this project the better. Just tell them to come to WeRelate.org, have a look around the site, and then join up.

Thanks for participating in your virtual community. --Kopuru 22:24, 31 May 2007 (MDT)

Tip for person and family pages

Hi! My name is Christian and I'm a WeRelate admin. I was just patrolling the recent changes, and I just wanted to let you know how you can use the WeRelate place index to geocode birth and death information. When you enter a place for an event, if you type the first letters fot he place name, a list of places in the place index that begin with those letters will appear. Select the appropriate place (usually in the non-abbreviated format: Town/City, County, State, Country) and WeRelate will geocode the place, automatically generating maps and linking to the place pages for the places relevant to your research. If you have any questions, feel free to ask! Keep up the good work! --Wrhelp 15:23, 2 June 2007 (MDT)

Jewish Cemetery

Hi Jill, I moved your Jewish Cemetery page to Place:Jewish Cemetery, Bay City, Bay, Michigan, United States, because our standard is to name place pages with all levels in the place hierarchy. Did I get it right? If not, please let me know.)--Dallan 18:51, 3 June 2007 (MDT)

Rename to Jill?

Would you like me to rename your user name to just "Jill"? Some people don't like to use their full email address as their user name because it allows spammers to see their email address in the recent changes logs. It's up to you.--Dallan 18:51, 3 June 2007 (MDT)