Friday, October 15, 2010

Your family tree - four tips on creating a family tree online.


If you plan on creating a family tree online, here are a few questions very important to think before starting. Internet has allowed individuals to easily find the information of genealogy and documents, history and more. However, it has also helped the spread of the placed information, errors, legal data on the lives of people and more. First - or if you have already started - decisions on the following advice:

1. The living people

Remember that living individuals may not want be found online, with their data readily available for anyone to see.'Mother's maiden name' is a common identity question, it should not be added on Internet.En in addition, you can have stories or details are unaware of some members of your extended family or do not have public no façon.Respectueux members of your family, make sure that your tree online has no children, members of the family living or juicy stories that would disconcert more.

2. The documents and data

Details on your family tree must have excellent sources to support the accuracy of the information .the may include certificates, registers, records, legal documents, photographs, wills and the like. When you place your family tree online, add details of documents that support your data. You do not need to digitize online, but to register that you have a copy of your files, or save it is what it is your source.

3 Popular other Trees, information other people's

Unless you can see that there is material main source (i.e., documents or records made at the time of the event), do not use trees family or information of other people in your family tree online.You can be simply repeat the mistakes of others.And then someone is going to copy, and someone will copy this person and so on and so forth. Don't make this erreur.Si you find a very likely match, but with no sources listed, contact the person who has made and asked what specific sources, they used to support people, the source familles.Aucune data?They copied right tree of someone else?Sigh.Back to your recherches.Utilisez info as a guide summary only.

4. How to share your family tree

Usually if you have a family tree online, you can share with friends, with an "invitation" to access view tree. make sure that you are the only person to have authority to change or modify tree .you don't want any other 'correction' tree putting in what they think, that is true, when you find really documents showing a well-sourced detail!Of course, if another parent is enthusiastic of genealogy and likes to work with you, which is the great - two of you can figure how and when to modify the tree that either you find more information.

You can send a GEDCOM your family tree at any time with a parent, as long as they have a family tree software on their ordinateur.Il has several free versions available for download on Internet.Tout software you use will be able to "import GEDCOM file" easy dedans.Très to faire.Utilisez your help in the toolbar of the software, button and it will guide through you the process.

Enjoy your family tree discovery!








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