User talk:Jimlatimer

Welcome

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If you need any help, I will be glad to answer your questions. Just click on my signature link below and then click on the “Leave a message” link under my name in the upper left corner of my profile page. Thanks for participating and see you around!--Beth 00:52, 18 August 2008 (EDT)

Place pages [24 August 2008]

Hi, I am an admin for WeRelate. As I was patrolling the place pages, I noticed that you had contributed a number of new pages. I needed to rename several. The place pages are used by the search system and thus need to conform to our place naming criteria. I hope you understand. For instance, I needed to rename you Connecticut(colony) to Place:Connecticut (colony), Kingdom of England. Towns, hospitals, counties, etc. must be attached to a country or the system think that your place is a separate country and will default to your new country instead of the town, hospital, county, state, whatever. You can see why this would be a problem. Hope you understand. If you have any questions or comments please don't hesitate to leave me a message.--sq 21:31, 24 August 2008 (EDT)

Immigrant as a title [4 September 2008]

While I know that some texts use "immigrant" in the name of important immigrant ancestors, werelate custom has been more to reserve that for formal titles, titles of royalty, degrees, etc. Maybe it would be better if the name were duplicated and an alternate form (identical to the actual name) appeared with the informal title added (in that title field).--Jrm03063 14:06, 4 September 2008 (EDT)

Use of asterisks [25 October 2008]

Hi Jim. I'm one of the admin volunteers here and noticed you are renaming your individuals and placing asterisks in the title. Are these temporary "holders" of some sort? Are they to distinguish your pages from others with the same name? Are these pages you don't want merged into anyone elses? Am I way off in left field? :) Just curious. Thanks! --Ronni 14:03, 25 October 2008 (EDT)

Hi Ronni. I'm new here. I found this web page a few weeks back and thought the concept sounded interesting. So I thought I would give it a try. The learning curve here is pretty steep. Also I have come to find that this is not what you would called a done deal site. I have not dumped a gedcom file but wanted to enter people one at a time and try to do a good job and keep tract of who and what I am entering. First I entered a lot of people and along the way I hooked into some pages that were already here. I made what was probably a mistake by trying to "clean up" some of these pages. Even though these pages were all "watched" by one or more people I never received any feed back from any of then. Then one day somebody either merged or returned some of these pages back to what I am inclined to call junk. Shazam, I began to feel like I had made a huge mistake and decided to clear out of here. After a couple of days I decided to try again but I decided, because I think this is a work in progress, that I could try a few things myself. There is no way to follow a family name back through the generations unless you can remember the direct ancestors names. There is no color coding or other method of marking that I could find so I tried asterisks. On reflection I now think that tracing one persons direct ancestors on this site really isn't what you had in mind. I think I should just check out of here and move on. Thank you for listening to all this. I am not sure of just how to contact you and hope this gets back to you.

Hi again Jim. First, I would hate to see you move on. You're right, though, WeRelate isn't a "done deal." It's constantly being upgraded and improved based, in part, on members' suggestions, so you trying "new things" is how we as members find out what works and what doesn't. WeRelate is considered to still be in the beta stage, which I think will continue to the end of the year.

Although I don't know what pages you are referring to "cleaning up" I seriously doubt you made a mistake. Right now, the site is going through what some are calling a "Merge Marathon" :) (check out the Recent Changes Log and you'll see what I mean). Dallan finished the merge tool and folks are busy merging duplicate pages, so what may have happened is the page you "cleaned up" may have been found to be a duplicate and then got merged with another page. Because of that, some of the dates from the other page(s) may have been transferred to the page you had already cleaned up. Just a guess. I honestly doubt anyone was coming behind correcting or changing back what you had done. So don't feel that you had done anything wrong or did something someone didn't approve of.

Your problem of trying to find your way through the generations is difficult I agree. However, using the Family Tree Explorer (FTE) can help you keep track of families you are interested in and can make navigating your tree a lot easier. Using the FTE, you can list the descendants or ancestors of a person and follow them that way. You can't color-code them, but you can "bookmark" them. The Pedigree map is another way to get a graphical view of the generations. Using that in conjunction with the FTE can help you easily bookmark families you are interested in.

I realize there is a learning curve for the new folks that join us but everyone here is willing to help make it easier. Try leaving questions in the Watercooler or you can contact me directly if there's something you don't understand or can't find. Hope I've convinced you to stick around a little while longer Jim. :) I came to WeRelate about a year and half ago and although I'm still learning how to do new things at WeRelate, I volunteer to help others. So, please feel free to contact me anytime. --Ronni 20:25, 25 October 2008 (EDT)

salting the page [23 December 2008]

Hi !--Jimlatimer 12:41, 23 December 2008 (EST)

Vital Data [29 June 2009]

Hello,

I am a volunteer admin. I noticed that your pages don't have vital data. If you would like to add vital data, images, scans of documents, biographies, etc., click on the edit link at the top of each page. The save button is at the bottom of the text box. If you have any questions or comments please leave a message.--sq 17:38, 29 June 2009 (EDT)

Robert Latimer (1603 - 1671) [11 February 2016]

Hi Jim I am researching my Latimer line . Can you help me identify Robert's parents ? Thank you , Mark--Mark S 18:37, 11 February 2016 (UTC)