Genealogy Chat

I have not tried Tribal Pages at all. Here on GR in my family tree I have a few splinter groups. They happen to have the family name of Buckle. They happen to come from Stillingfleet, Yorkshire (or very close to it). They happen to appear on the on line records at more or less the same time. Infuriatingly we can not either prove they are related or are not! Naturally I have the same splinters on my own computer where I use RootsMagic with PAF as a standby so that I can talk to rellies (who won't pay for a programme) and say 'click on this' followed by 'now click on that'. Clive

My mistake, Clive - she is George's brother.

Penny Yes, I think FTM has the same capability. Clive Tribal Pages is very simple to use - and free. You can password it and give the password to contacts who can then view the tree without a lot of palaver.Or you can leave it completely open. And you can give REALLY trusted contacts an edit password, so that they can add/alter information, although I don't do this myself. It is easy to change passwords if you get a rogue contact! OC

An addition - there is a niece, Emma Sadd, too, who married Robert Woodard, but they did not arrive in Swefling until 1881.

there`s only 6 surnames registered on www.ancestral-villages.co.uk so maybe you can update it clive with loads of info...regards..allan

hope it works have made a start at http://sweffling.tribalpages(.)com Clive

Well done Clive See you in about 40 years, when you come up for air, lol. OC

OC What is the rush ? Clive

Clive LOL! OC

nudge for Beverley Thanks for pm Clive

Strange, I'd never heard of Sweffling until I started doing ft - I know I have come across it, trying to remember which surname it was that I found there - if I can only just find the paperwork I'll let you know!! I can see a whole bunch of people coming in white coats!! ha, ha

D Thanks for message - will try to do as you asked. All a bit new at present Clive

clive,do you mind me asking,how far are you from sweffling?? i have 5 generations from a small village in herefordshire...my prob;em is that i`m 200 miles from there..i would like to do my ancestors village,but would presume it would be difficult being so far away...regards...allan

Hi Garstonite Oakesy I have visited Sweffling which is close to the Suffolk coast. I live near Portsmouth so it was a passport job to go North of the Thames to reach Sweffling (and record office). In at least three villages there was quite a population shift between 1851 and 1861 so I guess distance to village is not too important. My family is from Scotland, Suffolk, Goucestershire, Yorkshire, Devon, Dorset, Middlesex, and West Sussex. I have managed to find out information about them all. Does distance matter? Clive

Well, Clive, you could end up writing a book! The reason I say this is that when I started researching my great-grandmother Elizabeth Stillwell, who was born in Shottermill, Linchmere, Sussex, I found a lady Greta Turner (who I believe works in the Record Office and the Haslemere Museum, but I might be wrong) had written TWO books on Shottermill (which is tiny) from early times to the 1700s and from 1730 to the early 20th Century. My Stillwell and Harding families are mentioned in both. I wonder if she started looking and it just snowballed!

OC (and perhaps others?) I have just looked at the Over the moon thread. There is talk of what you can not do on the free option. Have I hit lucky or has there been an update on the site? I have just done an update by uploading a GED file and nobody has asked me for money as far as I know. Clive

Clive I am not the best person to ask, as I have two FREE trees on there, lol. But I THINK with the free tree you can upload a GEDCOM but not download it. Perhaps someone who isnt quite such a cheapskate as me will know the correct answer! OC

Nice to know I am not the only cheapskate ! With RootsMagic and PAF family tree programmes it is possible to easily create new files with say just ancestors of one person. Can anybody tell me if this is also the case with FTM and any other tree programmes? What I want is for people with Sweffling connections to send GED files with (a) only the relevent family and (b) no living people ( or living with all details stripped). That way I can merge into the Sweffling tree with the minimum of effort. Clive

Thanks MGH S What I was asking is it possible on other tree programmes (eg FTM) to make a selective GED file to send to me. One or two people are not very familiar with IT. I would like to be able to say 'You can do this and then that to create an extract file.' I can do that for RootsMagis and PAF 5 but ..... Clive

MGH S Thank you - just like PAF. With RootsMagic you have two tree open at the same time. Drag one person across to new tree. Select ancestors and the job is done. That way you can see it is right before making a GED file. Clive