Genealogy Chat

Val, its 1013 now - surely Glen hasnt been there 8 times since last night?

OOOOOOOOOOOooooooooo Heather, Thank you !! It worked ! I added a photo (& learned how to THAT in the process!) then stuck the code thingy in the description box & I've now got a counter - it's at 1 !!! (perhaps I should have started it at a thousand too!! - It'll probably stay there a while! Though if I don't get any visits I'll change it otherwise I'll look like Billy-No-Mates!!!)) Sarah :-)))

Not been yet Heather,still trying to find the site you mentioned,must be miles down the google list. Glen

Just had a thought,i would definately be Billy No Mates,cos my site must be so far down a search,and none of the names in my tree come up when googled. I wonder if my site would ever get found or just be via invites. Shame really cos i did quite a lot to it in the past few days,i even managed to copy and paste some baptism and census source info (getting the hang of this now!!) Glen

HELP!! I´ve been to xcounters(.)com - clicked on Create Account Now - put in my username, email and password - but keep getting the following error message - your login must contain alphanumeric(abc138 etc...) characters only Anyone else having problems? UPDATE - sorted - but will leave my message here in case anyone else has problems For login was putting my first name, then space, then surname. Have now left space out and it has accepted it.

Does anyone know if you can do this on Tribal Pages?

DONE IT!! Waiting for next FTM tip from Heather!!

Me too,done sorted and running. Next question,going back to my previous post,how come a google doesn't bring any of my names up.Do you have to link into search engines or what?My world family tree still isn't registered,but submitted a while ago now. Glen

Glen, I just tried googling a few of my names & nothing comes up either..... not sure how it works, the tree's been on there a while now (a couple of months on the FTM site) Sarah :-)

Mine took a couple of months before google picked it up I think. Give us some of your names Glen

I know what you mean Sarah,mine has been up and running for about 3 months,and submitted to World Family Tree for about two months now. I tried a very rare name in my tree and still nothing,trouble being if you don't have a connection to that name you would never search for it anyhow. My name brings up 50,000+ matches,i don't know about you but anything over 500 results usually gets a quick look and nothing more. The x counters e-mail does say how to improve your google and yazoo rating,but i'm not sure if i really want to go down that road just yet. I know Heather has had contact from someone via her site.Wonder how? Glen

Robyne tribal pages already has a web counter and guestbook and you can add up to 5 links to other sites.

Glen, What's World Family Tree? is it to do with FTM? (is it that thing that comes up every time you put a ?00th person on your tree?) Does it work like Ancestry's One World Tree (where everyone can enter & change everyone else's data??) - didn't like the idea of that when I saw that I could alter someone else's entry... Sarah :-)

Okay then Try some of these Thorbon Elmer Daft Pogson Jane Muir Hannah Curson William Hay Bet if the URL had 'tinsel knickers' in it,it would show up!! Glen

Glen You made those first two up!!! I'm off to try them now! Sarah :-)

That was fun. Well I found me a few times. The first time I clicked and it just didnt happen. Then I found a ref to a pdf on my site clicked and yep, that came up with a tree and then I found some of the details of photos on there. Then I got bored looking for me BUT then I found a message from someone trying to contact me re my Horsteads in Norfolk. It was a few months old, but Ive just mailed them. So that was a fruitful little exercise!

can I ask a very daft question how can people visit your FTM do you have to give out a password or somethjing ??? and dont forget Heather I am still in credit so dont charge me for this.

OK Glen, Your two made up ones gave 0 hits ! (surprised?) Jane Muir gave loads of site about a ceramics artist (mosaics) Hannah Curson gave a lot of genealogy-related hits & there were alot of William Hays: neonatal clinics, one (born 1761) in a school..... etc etc How does it work? Will wa actually get any connections from the names in the tree or is it through the site's name/title? is your site called 'tinsel knickers'? sarah :-)

Blimey, I fed in Elmer family and there are millions of them - all over the world. I didnt specifically find one that said Glen tinsel in the hit so I abandoned it. Why dont you email the techi peeps at familytreemaker and demand to know why your page isnt picked up by google search? Val, Im not sure about the credit - I think may be you are now in debt. I dont know how it happened Val, I know I just did my homepage then after a few months or something I had a mail from someone who said they had found my site very interesting and had found a connection. Not sure - perhaps you have got a password on yours, I havent. Also if you put a message on another site, like rootsweb or something add your tree url and I guess people pick that up? If you mean you want your auntie or neice or something to be able to see it you can just give them your url (if you go to your program and click on internet and then view my homepage it will go to it and your url is up in the address box. Or you can go to your homepage, click on edit and on the right hand side is a box that says something like email my mates or somesuch and you click on that and it gives you a panel to invite peeps to come and see your page and they email your mates and give them the link. I might email ftm to ask them aswell. I just looked at my home page and its gone up another 3 notches on the counter!

I just put my name into Google & my FTM thing is the 4th on the list (with an award-winning teacher & a 16year old cheer-leader from San Antonio) BUT that's just MY ,married, name; which is no good to anyone, it's Spanish & fairly untraceable, I won't get any connections from that. Sarah :-)