Help:Entering a Family on WeRelate tutorial

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Starting Your Family Tree

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  • Click on the My Relate tab in the upper left menu bar and select Trees.


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  • Select launch FTE.

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  • Do you have a gedcom to import? Select no.

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  • Start your tree. Select the X.

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  • Now lets have some fun and add person and family pages to our tree. Do you have your list ready? I want to add Rev. Robert M. Cunningham, D.D.
    • To add a person, click on Add in the upper right menu bar. Next, click on Person from the drop down menu.

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  • If you notice, I didn't add in his prefix (Rev), middle initial (M), his suffix (D.D.), or a second given name. This is because I can add these pieces of information later.

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  • Oops! I almost forgot to search to see if Rev. Cunningham already has a page on WeRelate. Did you forget? This is a Wiki; and there should be only one person page for Rev. Cunningham.
  • Fortunately for you and I, when you click on the Add Person button, WeRelate automatically checks for similar pages. Lets check the results; I hope that the guidelines were followed for entering person and family pages; so that I can find his page if he already has one.

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  • Now we can add the title, middle initial and suffix for Robert Cunningham. Add the birth date, birth place and death date for your person, if you know them.

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  • At the bottom of the editing page select: show preview. If your details were entered correctly select: save page. Here is the image of Robert Cunningham's page.

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  • You may use the pipe symbol to change how your place displays on the page. Use the description field to add any additional information.

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  • This is the image of the new page after the place edits.


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  • Let's add a source citation.

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  • Our next step is to select our source type. Mine was a book, so let's select book for now.

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  • Next, enter in the information that you know about your source.

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  • Once you do that, click on the find/add page button for your results.

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