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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.
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.
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.
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 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.
Please see the Great things you can do at WeRelate article.
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 19:03, 21 May 2007 (MDT)
Welcome! I agree about the pastime, even though you've been at it longer than I have -- love the picture! (Our granddaughter is about that age.) I wanted to mention something that it took me a while to learn but might come in handy as you have time: if you list one surname with just one state, it will be easier for fellow researchers to find your interest. The software can't figure out that "Barrett in Mississippi, Georgia" actually means "Barrett in Mississippi" and "Barrett in Georgia," so we have to make it explicit, otherwise someone who was looking for Barretts in Georgia might actually miss your listing. . . . I guess this is our reward for being here in beta, but I feel like the wiki idea is so good -- we don't have to have everything perfect and other folks can help fix it up -- that I'm happy to put up with some hassles and I hope you will be too. --Hh219 21:36, 21 May 2007 (MDT)
Thanks for the tip. I've updated my page. I agree that using a wiki for organizing family tree information is a brilliant idea. It will take some time to get comfortable with the wiki's features, but I'm looking forward to it. --Moultriecreek 03:19, 22 May 2007 (MDT)
We had an error while attempting to import BarkerBlake.ged. This is most likely our fault. We will review the error and should have your pages ready tomorrow (or Monday if tomorrow falls on a weekend). There is no need to re-import your GEDCOM file.
-WeRelate agent 12:24, 22 May 2007 (MDT)
The pages from your GEDCOM, "BarkerBlake.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 14:49, 22 May 2007 (MDT)
Hi! My name is Christian and I'm a WeRelate admin. I was patrolling the recent changes and I saw the nice work that you're doing. I really like the pictures that you've included on some of your person pages. I had a little tip to help you collaborate with others on WeRelate. In order to help others find existing person pages for their relatives, we try not to include middle names, titles, and suffixes in person page titles. I went ahead and moved your Person:William Henry Barrett, Jr. (1) to Person:William Barrett (7). I understand that you lose some detail in the title, but the page is still as specific, and is easier to find for people who might not know that he is a Jr. or that his middle name is Henry. You might want to check out the other 6 pages for persons named William Barrett. If one of them was made for the same person as your William Barrett, you could merge the two pages together. See Help:Person pages--Titles for person pages for more information.
Thanks and keep up the good work!
Christian--Wrhelp 04:52, 23 May 2007 (MDT)
The pages from your GEDCOM, "Barrett.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 17:54, 25 August 2007 (EDT)
