Genealogy Chat

This page has been mentioned before but www(.)tribalpages(.)com is a free site which allows you to build your own family tree including adding up to 15MB of photographs. It is excellent. If you want to have a look at my attempt to give you ideas (just started adding photos by the way), look at www(.)tribalpages(.)com(/)tribes(/)rvrord. Gencircles finds 'smartmatches' between your names and the other trees which have been submitted again it is totally free. Gencircles also has message boards for surname and area but it is sadly underused by the 'members'. Check them both out and submit your trees - more ways to make connections!

Have been using it for sometime Russel. It also allows Gedcom backup. Bob

Wow!! Very impressive Russell. Is it difficult to set up? Would like to have my own web page, but my current ISP doesn't give free web space. Debbie

Just a word of warning here - a few years ago, I started a website to cover my other interests. I chose Homestead, because it was free, and very easy to use. Then they decided that they would have to charge. By that time I'd built a huge website, which had had thousands of hits etc., and I didn't want to lose it, so I agreed to pay. Now, its about $85 a year, and who is to say it won't just keep going up every year. So Tribal may be free now, but it might not, once you have committed all your information to it and don't want to lose it. Jan.

As I said above Jan it does allow backup to a gedcom an your own computer(which GC does not). Deborah answering for Russell it is very easy to set up just register and upload your gedcom, it does the rest!. It is very good and there is nothing to lose. (uploading photos may be slow if not on broadband) Mine is on http://www.tribalpages(.)com/tribes?userid=yobert&x=13&y=10i Bob

Ruseel for some reason I can't get on to your site keeps telling no member id or something. Got onto Debbies and Bob's ok tho Shelli

I too have started my tree on Tribal and it is a great site to store information and photos on.

Malcolm, the 2MB is for the GEDCOM, you get an extra 15MB for photos! Gencircles is also excellent and well worth plugging again.

Has anyone purchased gencircles sister product Family Tree Legends? Is it anywhere as good as they claim? ken hastings hunua nz

That is some tree Malcolm! How long have you been researching? Is it the number of family members which makes it so huge or extensive notes? Perhaps if you emailed those at tribal pages, they may be able to accommodate your tree.

Malcolm Your file does seem large for that number of names. There are sites on TB with more names than yours but perhaps they have lowered the limit recently Bob

Just changed the name of the thread in order to keep plugging these sites.

russell im having the same problem as shelli:( no such user!!! susie

Hello Susie, if you just go to the basic url without all the slashes and type in rvrord in the user ID box, it should work.

thanx russell:)) susie

I have noticed that gencircles is a bit hit and miss re getting onto the site over the last few days. Has anybody else noticed this?

Both TribalPages and GenCircles are excellent. Both are extremely easy to use... if you haven't already uploaded your GEDCOM to them, please consider yourself encouraged to do so!! They really are worth linking up with. GenCircles SmartMatches are brilliant - and I keep getting emails congratulating me on all the hard work I've obviously put into producing my TribalPages website (which was produced, literally, at the press of a button!!! Russell, I purchased Legends - but decided I preferred Family Historian, which I already use, so have since received a refund.

Karen If you go to My GenCirlces you will see a list of your files... you can then click on the one you need to delete.

Just resurrecting the plug for these excellent sites for anybody who still is not aware of them :-)

Just re-nudging the plug!