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Looking for free on-line genealogy site



6 Jun 2006 06:37:47 -0700 soc.genealogy.misc
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steve.button...
Firstly, apologies if this question has been raised recently. I've been
trawling through this group for at least, well, 5 minutes and haven't
been able to find an answer yet.

I'd like to be able to collaborate with my half-Polish family and the
rest of my English family in putting together a family tree, and it
strikes me that the easiest way to do this would be with an on-line
tool. We could then all fill in the gaps, and more information is
likely to get input this way.

Also, we're not going to keep trampling over each others edits as we
would if we keep sending files to each other to update.

Also, I'd like this to be free or reasonably priced.

For now, I just want to be able to go up to my geat grand parents and
(some of the way) back down again. I want to get this done soon before
my remaining grandparents pop their clogs (this is probably not the
correct genealogical term for such an event, I hope that hasn't
offended anyone ;-)

any pointers please?

Ron Martell...
I do not know of any free site that allows you to create and modify a
family tree that can be maintained by a number of different people.

What we (myself and a number of distant cousins) have done is to
create one web site that is maintained by one member of the group
(myself in this case) and all of the others send their additions and
corrections to me; and they also proof-read the published web site so
as to ensure that their submissions have been processed correctly.

In our instance this was fairly easy to do because we all had the one
specific ancestor in common and we agreed that we would base the web
site on the descendants of that common ancestor.

One concern with a published web site is the matter of personal
privacy for persons who are still living. Our published site contains
only the names of living persons, even though the actual data file may
contain considerably more detail.

Ron Martell Duncan B.C. Canada


I'm figuring I'll learn as I go along, but I can see it's not going to
be an easy task putting together all the complex relationships.

Steve Button
(used to be Steve Balazy if anyone is interested, but that wasn't my
fathers surname at birth either, he was a Borkowski)
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