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Village Tree - Sweffling, Suffolk

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Julie

Julie Report 26 Jun 2007 12:30

nudging

Clive

Clive Report 25 Jun 2007 14:14

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

Clive

Clive Report 25 Jun 2007 13:31

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

Clive

Clive Report 25 Jun 2007 13:02

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

An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 24 Jun 2007 22:10

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

Clive

Clive Report 24 Jun 2007 21:56

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

Elizabeth

Elizabeth Report 24 Jun 2007 11:59

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!

Clive

Clive Report 24 Jun 2007 10:20

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

Garstonite

Garstonite Report 24 Jun 2007 09:45

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

Clive

Clive Report 24 Jun 2007 08:22

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

LindyLoo2

LindyLoo2 Report 23 Jun 2007 22:31

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

Clive

Clive Report 23 Jun 2007 22:16

nudge for Beverley Thanks for pm Clive

An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 23 Jun 2007 20:24

Clive LOL! OC

Clive

Clive Report 23 Jun 2007 20:19

OC What is the rush ? Clive

An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 23 Jun 2007 16:42

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

Clive

Clive Report 23 Jun 2007 16:33

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

Garstonite

Garstonite Report 23 Jun 2007 13:18

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

Joy

Joy Report 23 Jun 2007 10:48

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

An Olde Crone

An Olde Crone Report 23 Jun 2007 10:22

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

Joy

Joy Report 23 Jun 2007 09:47

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