User talk:Margie Conrad

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.

Thanks for participating in your virtual community.

--Kopuru 00:34, 24 April 2007 (MDT)

Coonradt's & Conrad's [7 August 2010]

Was excited to see someone making changes / additions to the COONRADT family tree, You are the first 'cousin' to do so !!! Since I uploaded the database as described on my Person Page Coonradt--Coonradt 23:40, 6 August 2010 (EDT)

I just hope I am not making a big mess on werelate, I have been doing genealogy on my family for over ll years, Have been out to Rensselaer County (Grafton, Brunswick, Troy) doing research three years ago, hopeing to go back next year. I have been to cemeteries out there and did rubbings . I hope I can clear up alot of mistakes in Ralph Garfield Coonradts genalogy work.--Margie Conrad 00:04, 7 August 2010 (EDT)

Person page titles [7 August 2010]

I see that you were able to rename Mary Shaver. I just have a couple more tips for you on person page names.

WR's naming convention for Person pages is First Name Last Name (index number). WeRelate automatically assigns what we call an index number to make each page unique. So, when you rename a page, like Adam Coonradt, you would not add his middle initial, or a number after his name. This information can be added when you edit a page, and will show up in the blue box towards the top of their page. More details about this can be found on this help page.

I realize that WeRelate can be a little challenging to learn at first. It looks like you are adding some nice details to your pages! Please don't hesitate to ask questions, either on my talk page, or on our support page. --Jennifer (JBS66) 12:57, 7 August 2010 (EDT)