User talk:Wrfix

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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.--Kittydoc 12:10, 7 April 2007 (MDT)


Logging vandal account conversion

Hi folks:

I strongly recommend configuring Special:Recent Changes to not include account modification logs. They are, frankly a downer. Chin up! Genealogy is fun! I don't know technically how the logging is handled on Wikipedia except that MW handles it in a separate space of some kind. However they do it, you should too, to keep the substantive stuff away from the account stuff.--Brad Patrick 21:20, 12 April 2007 (MDT)

Done. Had to modify the source code to do it though -- probably a relatively recent enhancement to MW that I haven't gotten yet.--Dallan 16:23, 13 April 2007 (MDT)

Help! Bad changes being made?

(I've sent this same message to Dallan. I wanted to nip this glitch in the bud, if possible...)

A change was made on one of my pages, and the change is wrong. Person:Living Ross (30) (that's my mother, actually) has just been given new--and incorrect--parents. The page she's on where the change was made is the correct page, showing John Ross and Mary Dunn as the parents. But Mary's parents--my mother's grandparents--have now been listed as my mother's parents.

I can just force a reversion to the old page, but I wanted to give you a heads-up. This change is wrong, and whatever prompted this change needs to be reexamined.--KF-in-Georgia 19:05, 17 May 2007 (MDT)