User talk:Knittingrandma

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.

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.

Great things you can do at WeRelate

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

Shared research pages

Shared research pages act like specialized message boards. Be care to use only one name spelling and one location in the title. This will help your cousins search the page. For more information see Shared research pages.

Thanks for participating in your virtual community.--Dquass 10:45, 7 April 2007 (MDT)

peterrentfrow.ged Imported Successfully

The pages from your GEDCOM, "peterrentfrow.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 13:51, 13 April 2007 (MDT)

MNHogue.ged Imported Successfully

The pages from your GEDCOM, "MNHogue.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 16:58, 13 April 2007 (MDT)

Chicksaw vs. Chickasaw

On one of your pages you mention the Chicksaw territory. Could that be Chickasaw?

How to do merges [20 July 2009]

I moved our discussion here so you can keep this for reference. On your MyRelate menu, select Show Duplicates. This will show you all of the pages which "appear" to be duplicate families. I just checked yours and you have a number of them. Perhaps you uploaded a gedcom twice? The advantage of using a wiki for genealogy is that we can have just one page for each person and each family. So this feature is here to show you those that may need to be checked and combined.

When you click on a family you will get a side-by-side view to compare the two. If you decide they are the same, check the Match box at the top and then click on the Prepare to Merge button. (If you decide they are definitely not the same family choose the Not a Match button instead).

You will then see another side-by-side view with all of the items attached to the people. If there are duplicate events (such as births) you can uncheck the boxes for any that you want to remove. Sources which are exactly the same will be combined automatically by the system. Click the Merge button when you get to the bottom and you are done.

It's harder to describe than it is to do. You can do a few when you have a spare minute. The list is regenerated at night so the ones you just did will not go off the list until the next day. Volunteers (like me) are working our way through a huge list of duplicates. But if you know these people it is better if you do them. You can make better judgements what to keep.

Thanks for trying. You can leave a question here if you get stuck. The Help page is Help:Merging pages. --Judy (jlanoux) 02:04, 20 July 2009 (EDT)