User talk:Jengoddess

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 17:31, 26 April 2007 (MDT)

johnshepard.ged Ready for Review [7 July 2009]

Welcome to WeRelate! WeRelate is different from most family tree websites. By contributing to WeRelate you are helping to create Pando for genealogy, a free, unified family tree that combines the best information from all contributors.

Now that you have uploaded your GEDCOM, your next step is to preview what your pages will look like and combine (merge) people in your GEDCOM with matching people already on WeRelate. When you have finished your review, your GEDCOM will be imported. Click here to review your GEDCOM.

--WeRelate agent 18:18, 7 July 2009 (EDT)

johnshepard.ged Ready for Review [25 July 2009]

I wanted to let you know that I improved how we import free-form sources from Reunion, and re-imported your GEDCOM. Yhe work you've done so far to match your GEDCOM to existing pages has been saved, but if you click on the link below to review your GEDCOM and then click on the "Sources" tab, you'll see that the sources are more-intelligently named. It looks like you've matched about a quarter of the families in your GEDCOM already; if you don't want to match a family line, just right-click on the family in the "Family Matches" tab and select "Exclude". Let me know if you have any questions.--Dallan 14:34, 25 July 2009 (EDT)

Welcome to WeRelate! WeRelate is different from most family tree websites. By contributing to WeRelate you are helping to create Pando for genealogy, a free, unified family tree that combines the best information from all contributors.

Now that you have uploaded your GEDCOM, your next step is to preview what your pages will look like and combine (merge) people in your GEDCOM with matching people already on WeRelate. When you have finished your review, your GEDCOM will be imported. Click here to review your GEDCOM.

--WeRelate agent 14:25, 25 July 2009 (EDT)

johnshepard.ged Imported Successfully [26 July 2009]

The pages from your GEDCOM 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.

For questions or problems, leave a message for Dallan or send an email to dallan@WeRelate.org.

--WeRelate agent 09:51, 26 July 2009 (EDT)

Houghtaling - small edits [26 July 2009]

Hello Jengoddess,

Welcome Cousin. I hope you do not mind my small edits on the few Person pages on the Houghtaling family we share. I am glad to find some else that is a Houghtaling researcher. I did change one of your MySource on one of the Person pages to a Source. It can be changed back easily. I hope you do not mind. It was the Houghtlaing Family website. Do you want to keep it as a MySource or would you like to change it to a Source? Debbie Freeman --DFree 16:48, 26 July 2009 (EDT)

William Minor (17) [5 September 2013]

Morning, Been adding references and updating William's page. Not sure how to handle the reference re: Mr. Brand's letter. Seems relevant as a MySource, but no longer correct as worded since additional references were added. What do you think?--Frank 08:33, 5 September 2013 (EDT)