Genes Un/united

[ambers]

Hi Kerry,

I took me ages to realise that I could travel up the line person by person.

I had to do that for a Tree with 3000 names but they were very closely connected otherwise I would have given up 

Ambers

[kerryb]

I now make a habit of asking the contact which parent or grandparent the person we might have in common comes from so it makes it a bit quicker.

I wish GR would actually care about whether the system they adopt works or not. 

I also direct people to my tree on tribal pages these days and keep that one as the updated tree.

Much quicker and better all round IMHO

Kerry

[ambers]

Hi Kerry,

I will get around to putting my Tree on Tribal Pages soon.... can you just upload from GR or do I have to type everything in again

GR is very handy for contacts, although it's me giving all the information to people who married into the family. Hopefully one day I will make at least one contact with the same Greats as me.

I only keep the background of two of my grandparents on it, the other side are Davies and Evans....can you imagine the Hot Matches I would get if I entered them

Ambers

[kerryb]

Hi Ambers

You can upload any gedcom to Tribal pages and it is really easy.  There are instructions on the site somewhere.

Kerry

[M.Ann]

Hi 'chatters
Yes I take on board all that is said. Yes it is the large trees that give the problems, they just dont load at all or take forever. My computer usually gives up. Some of these trees run into hundreds and one I was trying to view had over 2000 names!! Its shouldnt be a problem to pan around these trees zoom in and out...I know its not 'Google earth' and I do fine with that ...so it has to do with the site. The simpler the tree and the smaller it is the better for this site.
They have contacted me and told me to ensure that I have the mowst up-to-date macromedia flash player. Thats on, I've checked. But YOU MUST ALLOW POP UPS apparantly and I dont as my machine is on a home hub connected to my husbands who works at home and I cannot compromise his security and I dont want the annoyance of pop ups. The site relies heavily on advertising...naughty when its subscription based, so someones making money out of this site.
The 'Tribal pages' site looks interesting but the trees dont show sibling relationships but there are lots of nice features in there. I might explore this and the rootsmagic one also
We Sands have a ning site which allows us to invite fellow researchers with our name interest but it would be nice to post a link in our site to access each others trees, we do file reports there but sometimes its good to show spatial generational relationships graphically. Genes R is good for messaging but the interest is too big for it to cope with large trees and there it falls down and I rest my case. I'm glad to find some agreement. M.Ann

[kerryb]

Hi M.Ann

Tribal pages does show siblings but it depends which setting you have on.  For instance if you look at descendents, the siblings are there.

I wasn't aware about having pop ups switched off on GR, that's probably why I have so much trouble with the trees, I have all adverts and pop ups switched off.  That is very naughty and very annoying 

Kerry

[ambers]

Thanks Kerry,

I will give Tribal Pages at go.

That's funny because GR have never mentioned pop ups to me when I have complained. As we pay a subscription, why do we have to accept pop ups to be able to view other people's Tree's

Ambers

[Nick29]

If you post your tree on Tribal Pages, make sure that you set the viewing permissions up correctly - there has been a few people complaining that they have had their trees "stolen" when they have failed to set access rights correctly.  Personally, I would NOT use them, because they seem pretty clueless - although I had my access rights set correctly, TP hadn't stopped search engines like Google from accessing and publishing data on living people 

[kerryb]

There's a simple answer to that, don't put them on your tree 

Kerry