User talk:Spfrank

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. To get started:

• Take the WeRelate tour to see what you can do
• Watch the "Getting Started" tutorial videos and learn how to make wiki pages for your ancestors
• Explore the Step by step Tutorials, if needed
• Create a User Profile page to tell other people about yourself and the families you are researching
• Read the etiquette page to learn expected behavior on a wiki
• Find other ways to get involved on the community portal
• Ask questions on our Support page

If you need any help, we will be glad to answer your questions. Just go to the Support page, click on the Add Topic link, type your message, then click the Save Page button. Thanks for participating and see you around! --Support 12:19, 21 March 2012 (EDT)

Next step: Review your GEDCOM [21 March 2012]

You're not done yet!

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 Sullivan Family Tree.ged, your next step is to review what your pages will look like, review any potential warnings, and combine (merge) people in your GEDCOM with matching people already on WeRelate. You need to review your GEDCOM before it can finish importing. We will keep your GEDCOM in the queue for two weeks to give you time to review it.

Note: if your gedcom contains many errors or multiple families, we’d ask that you resolve and correct the errors, delete this gedcom and re-submit it without the errors before merging it with families already on WeRelate. If the gedcom is very large, we’d suggest breaking it up into separate files (or families) and importing them one at a time, which makes the review and correction process easier.

Click here to review your GEDCOM

Once you have finished your review and marked your GEDCOM Ready to import, one of our administrators will review your GEDCOM and finalize the import. This usually happens within 24 hours. You will receive a message here when the pages have been created.

--WeRelate agent 09:25, 21 March 2012 (EDT)

Gedcom Import [22 March 2012]

Hello,

I am a volunteer admin and its my job to help people learn to use WeRelate. WeRelate is an active genealogical community. It is not a place to just import a gedcom and go away. We expect people will continue their research and improve their data. Because of this philosophy, we ask members to clean their data prior to import. There appear to be a number of data errors in the gedcom that could be cleaned up before it is imported. Please take a look at the warnings tab and check your files. In particular, "Elisha Blackman" was born in 1647 and died in 1900 and had an event after the death date. We realize that not every warning or alert marks a real error but please give your gedcom a second pass. I am returning the gedcom to user review. When you have finished cleaning it, mark it for import again. Thanks, --sq 15:28, 22 March 2012 (EDT)