Genealogy Chat

nudging this thread for any others to see How things are done and to ask for help in doing GEDCOM of one part of family;; Sorry;;;;;;;;;;; Babs

So youve managed to export it to tribal pages? Have you done the cd? I would if I were you, just in case you have a computer melt down. The other thing is, click on the Internet tab at the top and godown to create family page (or something like that!). A box and dialogue shoots up and it really is just a matter of clicking a lot of 'nexts' to make your own family home page which your friends can access by typing in the web page addy. It can also be found if someone on the net does a surname search for one of your names. I have received a few mails from people who googled and found my webpage (dont put your home address on it!) I have just an email addy on there and Ive received useful contacts through it. I update mine just by clicking the nexts a lot every time I add a few people.

Hi JingleBellsBabs, That's good news! You deserve to succeed because you persevered and didn't give up! WELL DONE!!! Cheers, Horatia

Well done!! :-) Joy

Nudging to thank you all Babs

Thats very true Ann, it never ceases to amaze me the amount of help the people on these boards and the patience of them if helping people like me. I think I would be screaming go away if I got someone like me to help;; lol Babs Ps still havnt won yet;; they will know whenever I do

If you don't mind Babs I am adding to this thread so that I can find it in 'my threads' when I want to do the same. Hope you get it all sorted soon, good job you can laugh about it and thank goodness for so many helpful pople on here. Ann Glos

Thanks for that Kat, I thought they sent it when it was up-loaded;; Not that anything is uploaded yet, think the problem was it was making the GEDCOM from the back up file not the original so that is getting done now;; Babs taking ages though

Hi Jingle Just to say when you load up to tribal pages it can take only a short while to actually upload BUT it can then take them up to 24 hours or even longer for them to configure it before you can use it. You will get an email from them when it's ready. Kat.

Thanks for that Lee, will print of;; but as I have said I think I managed to do one just waiting still for reply from Tribal pages to see what they have to say first;; Many thanks for your help;; Babs

when i first started a couple of weeks ago i had trouble uploading a gedcom to GR. i use ftm2006 this is what i do and it works with GR but the only web browser that works is IE which i dont like to use. anyhow 1 file 2 export file 3 entire file put a name in save as set to GEDCOM small box pops up Export to gedcom Destination PAF Gedcom 5.5 Char set ANSI hop this helps lee

Jinglebabs, Well done! Good for you for perservering!!! Maybe it is the website rather than your gedcom. Have you thought about contacting Tribal Pages? Best wishes, Horatia (Gedcom Tester Extraordinaire) LOL!!!!

Heather well I wondered and thats why I did it to Tribal pages because only me goes on my page , can you inagine my face lat night beaming when it said uploading Gedcom, then again this morning when it still didnt work;; well at least I can laugh about it now all in the learning curb;; But thanks a lot for all the help from you and Horatio and others;; Babs ps I will not give in , it wont beat me one way or other;; lol

Im sure privatising it wouldnt be the problem! It only takes off the details of living people, not the whole tree.

Yes yes yes;;;; I made a GEDCOM;;; Dont laugh , managed last night 12-45, went to Tribal pages to up-load and waited and waited, till 2-15 left comp running ;;; ohhh nice surprise for in the morning;; hehe well yes there was it was still running, got in touch with them they said most should take 10min, do it again ; so shut down all windows reopened did again 20 mins, gave up been back in touch with them so AAAAAaaaarrrrrggggggggghhhhhhhhhhh still a dumbo;; Babs

Thanks very much , your help has been really appreciated;; Babs PS wil let you know if I win the battle;;

Jinglebabs, Give it a go but if you are worried about your details being seen by all and sundry just save it to a floppy disc or a CD. At least we have proved that you definitely have created a gedcom and it will import to a family tree programme. Good luck and let us know how you get on! Cheers, Horatia

Its all built on the FTM and Heather told me to privatise it wounder if thats the problem;; or is the GEDCOM suppose to be listed under some other initial to export it other that FTW;; what I'm thinking of doing is deleting the 2 GEDCOMS I have and taking off the privatiasion and see if that works Babs

Hi Jinglebabs, I can only think that a lack of birth data might be causing it; but other than that I have no idea. Did you use GR to build your tree or some other programme? You could look many of the birth years up for Free on Free BMD without sending for certificates - that would enable you to enter a birth year at least. Or was it the more modern ones that you didn't enter a birth year for - a lot of the birth years seem to be private so whether that's causing it I don't know. Cheers, Horatia PS Have deleted your Gedcom now because I only wanted to see if it was saving as a Gedcom and turning up on other people's PC's as a Gedcom - it is!

Horatio;; sorry been seeing to the dog;; Yes that would be right some are just birth years as I have loads of certs to send off for;; what I can't understand is why the likes of Ancestry and Tribal pages say its not a GEDCOM ;; any suggestions;; Babs and once again thanks for your patience;;