WorldConnect Suggestions - Family History & Genealogy Message Board

Help --- I need to delete a profile

murphysmomma1 — 1 Oct 2008 6:43:03 GMT

I'm pretty new to ancestory.com and am officially "hooked" on geneology. I'm having trouble trying to delete a profile from my Roney tree as it is a duplicate. Can anyone offer any advice on what I need to do?

Unknown Spouse / Half Sibling

david_orleyhouse — 17 Sep 2008 7:46:46 GMT

I would be pleased if I can find out where I am going wrong. I have entered all the family. Then gone back to Tree Summary -People with hints, Then added these hints to the family, only to find that I have created an (Unknown Spouse)in the family. And if I click on a child in the family it's showing Half Siblings at the top of the rest of the children.

Should ignore trailing spaces

dav4is — 4 Oct 2008 12:14:20 GMT

The database search field (on the home page) should ignore trailing spaces. At present, it does not, producing a "does not exist" error message.

Trailing spaces are easily picked up if copied from another source and pasted in, where they may be easily overlooked.

New users find WorldConnect difficult to understand

aancestorsearch — 16 Sep 2008 7:47:23 GMT

I regularly point people to the index page of my database on WorldConnect ( http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=ancestors... ), but several have come back to me unable to understand how to find data within it. A message received to day is typical.

"I don't know how to view your tree on rootsweb's I did try but I couldn't find out how to look at it. If you can explain how I can see your tree I would really appreciate it. Thank you."

I suspect the problem comes when just a surname is entered into the search box. The result is just that name with a figure in brackets after it. There is no instruction to click on that name to get a list of all the individuals who have that surname.

Can a bit more text with instructions be added to the page?

Marriage title on World Connect Page

Rosalie Bisconer — 28 Jul 2000 12:00:00 GMT

If this title were changed to spouse, it would help to keep from misreading the following information as a marriage date, when it really is birth, or death etc. Spouse would be more descriptive and less prone to errors.

Multiple Trees

compudrill — 7 Sep 2008 9:34:51 GMT

I have created multiple trees for different branches of my family. Trouble is that I have to update each one individually. I want to combine the data for each family onto just one tree and delete the other trees that the data was transfered from. How can I do this. Any help will be appreciated.

info please

robbiejackson1965 — 28 Aug 2008 10:02:37 GMT

i want to do a note book for my 2 sons on the ancestors so they can keep it,, the problem is if i use the ahnentafel i can only go back so far as you told me ,, if i use my family tree builder it really dont come out right it showes too much info ,, i not really interested in 6th and 7th cousins,,so anyone got any info on what i can use,, maybe there is a different tree program ?? , i even tryed to copy and paste the ahnentafel severl generations,, but it dont come out right with the numbers .
so anyone have any ideas ??

thanks robbie

Ahnentfel help please

robbiejackson1965 — 27 Aug 2008 12:39:17 GMT

when i click on a person and click on Ahnentafel it shows me my tree but it only goes back so far is there a way to have it go back as far as have it done back ????

thanks robbie

living person

robbiejackson1965 — 25 Aug 2008 10:32:20 GMT

how can i remove the living person name and have the real name instead ???

thanks

ERROR OPENING JED COM FOR RETRIEVAL

DELPHINELARGE — 17 Aug 2008 2:39:05 GMT

Please explain the problem. I have been over this several times. Somewhere I noticed a message that indicates Family Tree Maker is the culprit and one can go to them for software. However they do not have anything listed at present. Any other answers? I have the GED COM and the TREE but nothing happens. I am anxious to get it on line.
Thank you.
Delphine Large

Totally Frusterated

sleeplessinnevada1 — 15 Aug 2008 4:09:48 GMT

Have I just forgotten or has something changed?

I'd like to update or even delete my family tree at
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~markblais/...

It seems no matter what I try I can't do a thing with it.

Can anyone help me out? Walk me through it?

Why would someone Submit my fam. outline - Incorrectly.

smithmisskaye — 10 Oct 2007 3:04:38 GMT

Hello fellow rootsweb persons:

Just wanted to share breifly the woes of sharing your
FAMILY TREE ( your hard work) with other genealogy
people. ( I have mainly run into great people involved
in the hobby of genealogy).

On this website, the information I emailed ( a few
years ago) to a lady was a quality outline - something that didn't at all need tweeking.
But low and behold I see the lady I emailed is a
rootsweb contributor and splashed my family tree outline
( the one I emailed to her - NOT an outline she put together herself) on the World connect webpage.
I guess its not extremly terrible - I didn't have
living persons listed. Just imagine if I did.
My aggravation is that I see my family tree online
at ROOTSWEB.COM and I wasn't the Contributor of it -
this other lady was. That seems creepy.
I have contacted the Contributor to ask her to make
ONE correction to the Online family Tree - the one
she POSTED. But nothing has happened. I have been polite
about it. The Correction DOES make a difference.
I know some things about a Family Tree doesn't really
matter if they are incorrect or off.
But the type of correction I requested DOES matter. She has it strangely wrong.
And believe me it is Strange how this person twisted my Family Tree and made it in a way that was never meant to be. ( wrongfully tweeked information )
It is really creepy. My polite request(s) for her to make ONE significant correction is ignored.

Just wanted to tell others the woes of sharing
your family tree. Because over zealous people can tweek it in a way that makes you aggravated and Post it on Rootsweb.com.
This sort of thing just about deters me from genealogy.

GED COMS

DELPHINELARGE — 7 Aug 2008 4:16:34 GMT

I tried in vain to let you know I did not want the 2007 one you insisted I have. It turned out to be incorrect content (just as I thought). I wanted ONLY descendants of the CAMERONS. The one you allowed was the early one before I had new info. I tried VERY HARD NOT to have that, but WC insisted and would NOT accept my NEW info. I have had to cancel.
I shall try once more.
Delphine Large

Trial pages off line?

georgesus — 4 Aug 2008 10:12:50 GMT

I have a free family history database program (Family History .paf) with which I am very happy.

My next step is to try and generate the information in web page format (like on rootsweb). I especially like this format - The font; the layout; the link default colours etc. are all perfect! not to mention the index; pedigree; ancestor list etc. (I may be wrong but the same format seems to be used for all trees and I imagine the rootsweb software generates it automatically).

My first question is this - is the rootsweb software available to generate web pages "off-line" as it were. The webpage format is a helpful way of arranging material - including that which is still to be verified - but I can't seem to find how you might generate web pages "off-line" and use rootsweb a 'working tool' before it is published publically. What software does rootsweb use? Is it available to make web pages outside the rootsweb site? If not what is the closest equivalent of a program that generates web-pages from your databases?

My second question is this - nice as the apparently automatically generated pages are, is there scope for adding the odd personal link on a web page?

How to I list ALIA (alias, AKA) correctly?

SLFeller — 30 Jul 2008 11:57:18 GMT

In my software, Family Tree Maker version 16, I list AKA. My downloaded gedcom file shows it on the individual's page under ALIA. But when I do a global search it doesn't show, only shows as a surname. My example is: AKA: Doc - the search only shows as the surname Doc. (database Teters3 name is Uel F. Roberts). How do I get this to show under searches for Doc Roberts?
Thank you,
Sherri

Living spouse not showing

ChasCornell — 3 Jul 2008 7:46:11 GMT

I've seen living spouses on WC, but mine don't show. Example:
living Smith's wife, living Jones, should show but doesn't. Is there a way to change this? I use PAF.

Why are Living Individuals Displayed? WEBER, LANDERFELT Tree

aztextor — 29 Jun 2008 1:19:42 GMT

I am seeking some help from some of you who have had their trees up for a while. First names of my living individuals are displayed. I used Family Tree Maker to create a gedcom file. When posting to Rootsweb I have tried both the "clean" and "remove" options with the default 1930 cutoff date. I have no entries of any sort in the death date or place fields in FTM. Interestingly, birth dates for living are not shown, but first names are. I would sure appreciate any suggestions for a fix.

Putting Information on line

DonnaWright65 — 25 Jun 2008 3:38:50 GMT

I just found when I did a search that someone has on line that my mother in law and father in law are cousins. This could not be further from the truth. I wish before people put information on line they would pay attention to what they are posting. If you haven't done the resarch yourself and know something to be a fact your work is basically useless. Please think about what you are posting and go over it before you just send in something that you have no idea whether or not it is correct. When people post something they got from someone else who got it from someone else it is irresponsible and defeats the purpose of actually finding out what is correct. As for the post-it- notes if I send 10 I am lucky if one person responds to find out if I know what I'm talking about. I understand we all make mistakes doing genealogy but we could certainly avoid a lot of them if we verified information before posting it all over the internet.
Donna Wright

Roots Web offline?

adbraley — 4 Jun 2008 11:41:36 GMT

As of 7:39 EDT I can't get any family tree to come up, and I can't get the Home page to come up, or Searches. Earlier today it was working OK.

Unusual message following upload

robtbehra — 22 May 2008 2:33:26 GMT

I uploaded a revised version of my main WorldConnect file this morning, went to check it a bit later and was perplexed to find that the additions that I expected to be there weren't showing up. I checked the GEDCOM file on my memory stick and it was the one I created last night with new data, so I logged in again and once more uploaded my file. This time I got a message I don't recall seeing before:

Upload complete. Saving files...
'Behra 2008.ged' already exist!
Renaming to 'Behra 20081.ged'.
'Behra 20081.ged' was saved successfully.
Transfer complete!

This time it did work -- additions all present. Question: why didn't the first upload (which the system apparently registered, given the message above) take?

Server Offline

randy_winch — 15 May 2008 8:48:27 GMT

The server is offline for some unscheduled maint and should be back online shortly.

Suggested Feature: search databases for two "unrelated" names

GeneResearcher — 28 Mar 2008 4:11:00 GMT

IT'd be great if we were able to do a search as follows:

Find Database that has
A- John Doe (1900-1940)
B- John Smith (1500-1560) his probably 8th g-grandfather

These two people are related, just not husband/wife/kids

This would make it easier for people to identify researchers who have both individuals in their database and may have found the linking ancestors

Main search swtiches to Global search

lakebay4me — 11 Apr 2008 5:31:58 GMT

Randy,
Yesterday and today, when I search for a surname from the main screen where you also upload, I don't get a list of names, it switches to Global Search http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi
and I have to search again.

Thanks

Formatting Question Regarding Notes in Family Trees

sharonhoferer5 — 20 Apr 2008 9:32:38 GMT

Is there any way to make the formatting in the notes sections on one's family tree on rootsweb match the formatting from the genealogy program that the gedcom was derived from? When I'm in my genealogy program, each note has a line between each note with the source linked to each note. When I see it on my family tree on rootsweb, all the notes have been combined into one paragraph with the sources listed before the note(s) so one can't tell which source is connected to which note.
Anyone else have this problem? Is there a way to fix this?
Any example of this would be on this page:
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...
The "note" is actually 2 separate notes that show up as 2 completely separate paragraphs in my genealogy program.
Any help with this would be appreciated.
Thanks,
Sharon

Names showing for Living?

ajobebrown — 16 Apr 2008 11:29:12 GMT

Just noticed that in one of my files the names of living individuals are showing instead of changing to living. I thought that I had the same settings in this file as the others that I have posted which are changing to living. The file that I'm referring to is at

http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&d...

Ann

I'm having trouble uploading and updating my database

adbraley — 11 Apr 2008 1:56:15 GMT

Database; adbraley_01
This morning I tried to upload a new GEDCOM and it seemed to upload just fine, but the system did not go into the updating process. It allowed me to view my file with no waiting, but it did not update it with the new information. Is something broken?

Christening Dates in Register Reports.

andrewgough — 21 Dec 2005 6:14:11 GMT

I sometimes ask people to link to my WorldConnect database, as a superior option to copying the data and republishing it elsewhere in a corrupted and subsequently out-of-date form.

However WorldConnect has one small but significant defect, namely christening dates are not shown in Register Reports (and similar).

See for example this report from my database at http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=REG&... - this is almost entirely my original research. Most of the individuals shown have no known birthdate, but their christening dates are included in the underlying database. Elsewhere on the web you will find http://www.gravesfa.org/gen736.htm - an old copy of my data at WorldConnect, put there without my permission and with no clue as to where it came from, and now incomplete and uncorrected.

However it has to be admitted that the copy is superior in one respect: the christening dates are visible (even if they look like birthdates).

This improvement has been requested before, and even promised - see eg. these threads:
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=rw&p... ,
http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/rw/topics.rw.world... and http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/message/rw/topics.rw.world...

Please could this be given some urgency, as (apart from the problem of duplicate data) it is the only significant defect of WorldConnect?

Fake family

ChasCornell — 19 Mar 2008 3:42:00 GMT

Has anyone else noticed that the fake family phenomenon has infiltrated WC? Fake family users create fictional family trees that they use to get traffic (ad revenue) thru their site. http://tinyurl.com/3brlls
I've noticed unfamiliar names in a county that I'm very familiar with. The individuals birthplace is in the county but there is no connection with KNOWN county families, and the individual usually ends up migrating to some possible but unlikely places. So far I haven't noticed the fakes being duplicated by others.

People NOT updating email addresses

cornishpasty — 3 Mar 2008 6:56:28 GMT

After spening many hours of searching, I will type an email to people listing my information that matches with theirs only to find that they have NOT updated their email addresses and their emails "Bounce". It is SO frustrating. Is there some way that members can be reminded to update email addresses??

Entire Family Line Just Disappeared - HELP!

stormy138 — 11 Mar 2008 3:49:38 GMT

I was printing out a family sheet - when I went back to the tree the entire family line from that person on was just gone - disappeared - removed from the tree!

What am I to do now? I have no back up!

Now that the board has changed I don't know how to connect other trees to my tree so I have to reinsert the individuals one by one and we are talking from the 1600's to the time of time of Christ!

HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

no contact information at all

lakebay4me — 4 Mar 2008 9:52:13 GMT

My Family Tree Project
Entries: 116359 Updated: 2008-03-03 17:41:33 UTC (Mon) Contact:

Clicking contact tells you cnayres1 has not created a profile.

Is there some way to force a gedcom to contain a name, email, something to tell us who uploaded the gedcom?
There is more than enough undocumented, no source listed garbage online now, but most have a way to contact the gedcom owner, or leave a postem.

Thanks.

Follow-up on too many trees

vipmiller — 25 Feb 2008 8:40:30 GMT

Several individuals I know have uploaded their genealogy database many times without replacing the existing one (one person has over 32 trees with virtually the same data; and none have been updated in 3 years!). When doing searches for individuals who happen to be in their data, the information that is retrieved is clogged with the repeated data.

I have emailed a couple of these individuals asking for their help in maintaining the quality of the database by deleting outdated information and even offered to help them find out how to do it; however, neither of the two I have emailed are interested in doing that.

Is there any way to monitor or keep this type of thing from happening? If something isn't done, this database (WorldConnect) will become so clogged that even searching for unique types of data combinations will result in thousands of pages of data that must be waded through as we did the census records in the 1970s!

I solicit responses from others - including anyone who has multiple repeating databases, as to your thoughts on this.

Editing individuals

ltboehmke — 22 Feb 2008 9:57:55 GMT

I have been unable to figure out how to edit indviduals on my World Connect tree. When I click the edit button, it says to leave out the locality. But I don't know where to go so I can leave out the locality. Do I start with the form that is used for adding a new Gedcom?

help w/too many trees, please

emjayhayes42 — 13 Feb 2008 9:01:25 GMT

I blithely offered to help a friend delete his several family trees on World Connect & upload one current tree. And demonstrate to our computer genealogy group how to do it.

It recently hit me that most, if not all his trees, are Ancestry World Trees or Online Family Trees & must be deleted thru the Ancestry site using his password etc.

Using search, I found the following excellent explanation in:
RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Weekly E-zine Vol. 7, No. 6, 11 February 2004, Circulation: 878,929+ (c) 1998-2004 RootsWeb.com, Inc. http://www.rootsweb.com/

Things are not so dire as previously tho't: he has 2 Online Family Trees submitted 2001 & 2 so we should follow the procedure for elimination as discussed in this article. Has there been an update for this procedure since 2004?

His 3rd gedcom on World Connect was submitted thru World Connect in 2000 & has only 200 or so individuals. Is he better off deleting the tree entirely & submitting a new tree using the new method or following the "replace tree with new" procedure?
Thank you for your help, Emjay

ans to WC/Rootsweb access problems

emjayhayes42 — 13 Feb 2008 5:01:03 GMT

"WorldConnect is being rebooted and should be up later this evening. We apologize for the inconvenience."

Spotted this as I was rummaging thru their 203 help questions. http://rootsweb.custhelp.com/cgi-bin/rootsweb.cfg/php/enduse...

Emjay

is WorldConnect having problems today?

grannydjc — 12 Feb 2008 9:38:08 GMT

is anyone having any trouble looking at trees? Every name I click on a name I get this message "Database (name of file) doesn't exist or has not been configured.

I can't get into my WorldConnect Gencom to update!

Tree4us — 12 Feb 2008 3:48:42 GMT

I posted my gencom on WorldConnect some time ago. I no longer have the same email address, password and have not been able to get into my data for sometime. I am now a member of Ancestry.com and would like to get into my data base to update, change, correct my WorldConnect gencom. I understand that the old gencom will disappear if I upload new information, but I just need to get into it. What do I do and how can I get into it? Thanks

Upload time

ChasCornell — 8 Feb 2008 2:26:10 GMT

I uploaded my data on Feb 2 or 3. It still hasn't appeared on WC yet. I've been uploading for years and it usually takes 48 hrs. Is there a problem - should I do it again or wait?

Family Tree

florencebrownblanchard — 2 Feb 2008 11:07:23 GMT

Help.How do I create a Family Tree here,on rootsweb. I can't find any page to click on.

My database online is a garbled nightmare as of Jan 30, 2008!

cplawson — 31 Jan 2008 3:06:18 GMT

Today, while looking at my own file that was just updated yesterday, I discovered that when I kick up a specific person in the search feature, then click on their name it goes to a totally different person in the database. It's doing it with every name in my file. But if I just go directly to my database and use the index to jump to a person it goes where it should. Within the gedcom in my computer everyone is in their place.

WorldConnect treats different gedcoms differently?

Jillaine_Smith — 29 Jan 2008 2:33:30 GMT

I recently moved to a Mac and I'm now using a program called iFamily to generate my family tree files, and my GEDCOM for uploading to WorldConnect.

I just reviewed my recently uploaded GEDCOM
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&...

and specifically, I looked at this record:
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&...

Notice that it swapped the two marriages.
Despite the 1787 date of the SECOND marriage (the first marriage was 1757), it placed the 1787 FIRST.

Why is that?
Why didn't it place the 1757 marriage first?

-- Jillaine

Oddities with WorldConnect last night and this?

Jillaine_Smith — 2 Jan 2008 2:32:07 GMT

While I can do a search in WorldConnect, it appears that ALL of the GEDCOMs are generating the same message when I click on a particular record:

"Database [name] doesn't exist or has not been configured."

This is happening on ALL GEDCOMs I'm trying to access, including my own.

Anyone else having this experience? I tried it in IE and Firefox, both logged in and logged out. Same results.

-- Jillaine

privacy issues

bjwsf — 2 Jan 2008 3:02:27 GMT

I am considering puttin gmy family tree on Ancestry.com and I have been assured (via live chat) that people who do not have a death date listed will simply appear as living Wilson. However, I have people in the tree from previous centuries that I do not have death dates. Will those people really show up as living? If so is there a generally accepted way of dealing with this? Does the birth and death file allow the circa notation?

Glitch in World Connect?

WFields0223 — 31 Dec 2007 6:40:51 GMT

I just updated my gedcom, and it is showing living people, even though I have checked and double checked to make sure nothing is checked that would show thier names. These are people that were definitely born after 1940!! I changed nothing from the way I have uploaded it, and what I allow and don't allow, for several years, and this is the first time this has happened. Help!

Estimating birth date

j9007 — 30 Dec 2007 9:04:30 GMT

I checked my database and all individuals have a birth date. When I upload my gedcom, it shows that the birth date is being estimated for one individual. I have looked and can't find why this is happening. Anyone have some ideas on this? Thanks.

Connecting to message boards

ChasCornell — 29 Dec 2007 4:15:21 GMT

I've been having trouble lately connecting to message boards.
That is, actually getting to the boards and responding to posts. Is there a problem, or is it me? Also is there a message board board that would be better suited for this query?

John F Kennedy's Dead Kids labeled "Living Kennedy"

GeneResearcher — 13 Dec 2007 8:17:10 GMT

First it was people born after 1930, now dead people like
Arabella Kennedy (b.1956 - d.1956)
John Fitzgerald Kennedy Jr (b.1960-d.1999) and his wife
Carolyn Jeanne Bessette (b.1966-d.1999)

are all labeled as "LIVING"

I wasn't aware that Rootweb and Ancestry were able to perform miracles and bring the dead back to life.

But it seems like they're are alive only on some and not all databases:

Dead on:
Aispears
:3178511
:3178517
:2017514
:2735199
:3285988

Living on:
huppe1
lehman-lehmann
penningtonnorris
pierregirouard
ron_custer_m

Is this like Schroedinger's Cat: both living and dead?

SPIRIT OF GENEALOGY

DonMartinThomas — 12 Oct 2006 2:52:05 GMT

What does it matter who gets credit for researching it. What does it matter if ones notes are copied over and over again into new databases. Those who get upset seeing their research in other databases do not have the spirit of genealogy. IN MY BOOK, GENEALOGY IS FOR SHARING. Why have others do the same work of researching and researching, over and over again, when it can be make public and researched once. Who cares where the information comes from, as long as I get the information, and see by my own documentation, that it is done correctly. Don Martin Thomas

Ahnentafel

HughW36 — 14 Nov 2007 7:17:44 GMT

I don't know if it is a bug or not
but Ahnentafel, Generation No. 1

looks very messy with the run on style
http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=hughw36...

is my mother

"Alison Mary Lapham was born 16 MAY 1908 in Rostellan House, Filton, Gloucestershire UK Chipping Sodbury, Births Sep 1908 6a 223, and died 22 DEC 1999 in Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green, Birmingham, West Midlands UK. She was buried JAN 2000 in Ashes scattered between the apple trees back of 230 Widney Lane Solihull B91 3JY. She was the daughter of 2. Alfred Thomas Lapham and 3. Florence Caroline Evans. She married Olive Mandeville Mead ABT 1915 in friends from Brighton Training College, daughter of Edward Mead and Olivia Mandeville Hopper. She was born 11 DEC 1907 in Edmonton 3a 466 Mr 1908, and died 12 MAR 1969 in AML BB. She married Dorothy Hare ABT 1926 in friends from Brighton College of Education. She was born 28 JUN in AML BB B. M. T. C., and died 16 SEP 1976 in Cornwall. She married Alfred Henry (David) Watkins 23 DEC 1933 in St John Baptist Church, Berkswell, Warwickshire, son of Alfred Henry Watkins and Blanche Eveline Jones. He was born 17 AUG 1907 in Usk Monmouthshire, and died 24 SEP 1942 in HMS Somali. He was buried 24 SEP 1942 in Missing in action at sea. She married Joseph Stanley Forman ABT 1944 in friends from about 1944 and a father figure to me HBW, son of - Forman. He was born 20 DEC 1904, and died 9 APR 1994 in AML BB Fulham, london, England 71A 82."

the multiple marrriages are in fact friendships which display correctly in FTM 16

but the exported GEDCOM create this mess

I made an edited version from the Worldconnect page of April 22 2005

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~hugh/ahnentafel_mot...

Ahnentafel, Generation No. 1

1. Alison Mary Lapham was born 16 MAY 1908 in Filton, Gloucestershire UK, and died 22 DEC 1999 in Heartlands Hospital,Bordesley Green, Birmingham, West Midlands UK. She was cremated in JAN 2000 and at her request I scattered her ashes between the apple trees in the back garden of 230 Widney Lane Solihull B91 3JY. at sunset on a Wednesday to the sound of choral evensong from Worcester Cathedral BBC3 on her radio.

She was the daughter of 2. Alfred Thomas Lapham and 3. Florence Caroline Evans. One of her best friends at primary school was Olive (alias Rougenez) Meade who was to be a life long friend and who was born 11 DEC, and died 12 MAR 1969 the dates are in AMW BB.(which refers as asource to my mother's Birthday Book which she used for the whole of her life from when she was nine years old)

Another lifelong friend was Dorothy Hare, who was born 28 JUN (source) AMW BB B. M. T. C., and died 16 SEP 1976 in Cornwall.

My mother married Alfred Henry (David) Watkins 23 DEC 1933 in Parish Church, Berkswell, Warwickshire, son of Alfred Henry Watkins and Blanche Eveline Jones. He was born 17 AUG 1907 in Usk Monmouthshire, and died 24 SEP 1942 when HMS Somali sank. He was never buried but missing in action at sea.

Later her good friend Joseph S Forman, who was born 20 DEC was a father figure to me HBW, and he died 9 APR 1994 in Richmond, Surrey(ref. AMW BB).

Ahnentafel, Generation No. 2
snip

====================================

whilst worldconnect can not be expected to provide another text
letting in a blank line between each of the multiple marriages looks much better on screen

"Alison Mary Lapham was born 16 MAY 1908 in Rostellan House, Filton, Gloucestershire UK Chipping Sodbury, Births Sep 1908 6a 223, and died 22 DEC 1999 in Heartlands Hospital, Bordesley Green, Birmingham, West Midlands UK. She was buried JAN 2000 in Ashes scattered between the apple trees back of 230 Widney Lane Solihull B91 3JY. She was the daughter of 2. Alfred Thomas Lapham and 3. Florence Caroline Evans.

She married Olive Mandeville Mead ABT 1915 in friends from Brighton Training College, daughter of Edward Mead and Olivia Mandeville Hopper. She was born 11 DEC 1907 in Edmonton 3a 466 Mr 1908, and died 12 MAR 1969 in AML BB. She married Dorothy Hare ABT 1926 in friends from Brighton College of Education. She was born 28 JUN in AML BB B. M. T. C., and died 16 SEP 1976 in Cornwall.

She married Alfred Henry (David) Watkins 23 DEC 1933 in St John Baptist Church, Berkswell, Warwickshire, son of Alfred Henry Watkins and Blanche Eveline Jones. He was born 17 AUG 1907 in Usk Monmouthshire, and died 24 SEP 1942 in HMS Somali. He was buried 24 SEP 1942 in Missing in action at sea.

She married Joseph Stanley Forman ABT 1944 in friends from about 1944 and a father figure to me HBW, son of - Forman. He was born 20 DEC 1904, and died 9 APR 1994 in AML BB Fulham, london, England 71A 82."

Ideally as family history involves friendships as well as genealogy

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=hughw36...

is me and my own three marrriages look fine until you go to this view

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=AHN&db=hughw36...

regards

Hugh W

name and email, again, to add a postem?

lakebay4me — 11 Nov 2007 8:16:55 GMT

I'm signed in. Why am I having to add my name and email to add a postem now? The system used to recognize that I was signed in and add it automatically.
Another 'Ancestry" change?

Content-type: text/html MySQL seems to be down Too many connections

lakebay4me — 12 Nov 2007 9:50:36 GMT

here we go again. I thought servers were added, or changed, or something, not too long ago?

updates?

lakebay4me — 4 Nov 2007 6:11:16 GMT

When I search and want "updated within one day" I'm still getting gedcoms posted last Tuesday.
When will daily updates start again?

Enhanced Image Viewer problems

cjeffreys1 — 30 Oct 2007 10:15:20 GMT

We've recently downloaded the Enhanced Image Viewer only to find that once we've requested for example, a census image, we cannot access the toolbar menu at the top of the page (only the drag icon is accessible).

An image appears on the screen, but we have no ability to move to next or previous image, to magnify etc. We cannot even select the help or options icon to switch back to the Basic Image Viewer (which at this moment would be fantastic!)- any suggestions as to what the problem could be and any solutions?

We've emailed ancestry several times to no avail!

Thanks

How to contact someone re a copyrighted picture?

PinkElephant2 — 25 Oct 2007 3:48:33 GMT

I found a picture of my husband's grandmother's grave. But it's copyrighted. The site did not give contact information, just the photographer's name and copyright date.

This is a general question, so I won't post any specific names.

One World Tree

navretcpoil — 3 Oct 2007 1:08:33 GMT

When I click on "user sumitted trees" the screen flops to a page that used to display all the tree names that have been submitted. Now no longer does that, gives the headings, but no trees. Have complained, but tech support says they fixed it, all they did is elimanated the message that says it didn't download. I can see that without the message. NOBODY ELSE IS HAVING THIS PROBLEM??? Have tried 1 different computer and have same problem, so have hard time believing it is my computer

Older Internet Explorer versions won't login.

doltmann1 — 9 Oct 2007 10:52:27 GMT

Does anyone have any idea why IE6 comes up with an invalid ID and/or Pswd when IE 7 logs-in with the same ones?

Nightly Update

randy_winch — 20 Sep 2007 9:56:41 GMT

There was a small error that kept the nightly update from finishing the past 2 nights. We should get a good build tonight. That'll teach me to get sick and not pay attention :-)

GEDCOM escaping?

ChasCornell — 12 Sep 2007 8:09:58 GMT

I've noticed info that I have on my WC page out on the internet. I don't mind the data being "out there", but it appears that the GEDCOM has become accessible. Since I don't allow the GED to be released, I'm wondering how the data got out. I don't mind folks "borrowing" the old fashioned way - without GEDCOM, but I think the GEDCOM may have become accessible somehow. Is this possible?

Searching for World Connect databases

Nancy_Pelham — 8 Sep 2007 10:31:43 GMT

I have some postems listed on my account page. All that is indicated is a database and an individual for each. These are several years back and I don't recall the particular databases. Is there any way to search for those databases?

Editing or Deleting and starting over...?

pookno — 1 Sep 2007 1:44:58 GMT

If I've posted family tree information and now I've been updated, how do I go in and edit or delete the current post and repost a new one. I'd rather just edit it but I can't locate that option. There is not an option to edit (except while writing) for this post either.
Pook

Liable?

MONTICELLO2 — 29 Aug 2007 11:42:55 GMT

My trees have been "cleaned" for living individuals. The name shows "living" surname, then six or so "living" surnames that this person was married to.
Am I in for trouble with this? Lawsuit is being threatened. Can someone tell me what law I have broken?
Isn't this "public information"?
Need ideas

Erasing an older file from WorldConnect

Alvin Allen — 29 Apr 2001 12:00:00 GMT

I submitted a gedcom file, Allens of the South, in Sep 2000, using the email address of siallen@qwest.net (not now operative). I have recently submitted a revised gedcom using my current email of siallen2@qwest.net. The older file should be deleted, but I can't seem to find a way to do it!
Please help!

Alvin Allen

Trees - and security

Deesfamilytree — 7 Jul 2007 5:33:58 GMT

I would suggest that you check into your security as someone took over my tree database name that I had for over 5 years. When I e-mailed about it, there was nothing that could be done other than tell me to get a new name. I am very leary now on what's going on as I never deleted my tree whatsoever. I contacted the person with the new tree myself since I didn't get any answer other than to tell me to get a new database name. I feel like I am a victim and no one will take responsiblity. I would hate for this to happen to someone else.

invites to tree

hapisusan — 14 Aug 2007 1:05:21 GMT

I have invited six people to share my tree but none has 'responded to invite' the last person has asked me how to access my tree. Is this because he is in Canada?, not so as have only invited him and my cousin from Australia, other 4 are in uk ancestry. Does anyone know answer please?

Gedcoms

athena431 — 11 Aug 2007 3:34:50 GMT

I had a computer crash with my old computer and have a new one. I do not have a family tree program as of yet. I would like to know if it is possible to add family trees files without a gedcom. Is there a form to fill out with family tree information to submit? I looked at the help pages and they didnt mention such a way, but I was hoping by chance that some of you might know. Thanks for the help.
Athena

Problem with servers?

ajobebrown — 9 Aug 2007 11:04:37 GMT

Is there a problem with the servers? Many of the files when you go to them say do not exist or not configured.

OFFINEER Ged Errors

SOFFINEER — 28 Mar 2002 2:31:27 GMT

I came across the OFFINEER ged listings uploaded by ladyt and there is a large discrepancy between her list and mine. To name one, James OFFINEER (wife Catherine Grymm) and all preceding generations back to Johannes Martin should be OFFNER not OFFINEER. James changed his name when he moved to Ohio. Reason unknown. Before Johannes Martin OFFNER, the name was OEFNER. His father and grandfather were Conrad and Andreas OEFNER in Bavaria. I would like to get in touch with ladyt and find out where she got her information. Thanks.

Uploading gedcom problem as of Aug 2, 2007

cplawson — 2 Aug 2007 6:10:30 GMT

Is there currently a problem with gedcom uploads? I have tried several times today to update my database. I know how to do this correctly since I have been doing so for several years.

After I hit the upload file button, the progress box opens, it remains empty of any progress display and then just stays that way and does not upload. Is there a technical issue right now? Thanks for any help!

100 mb software limitation

Dave_Buchroeder — 10 May 2007 9:44:34 GMT

I would like to make a suggestion to either eliminate the 100mb limitation on downloads or increase it. As time goes by more and more databases are going to be exceeding this limitation. I am in the minority in that my database is exceeding 1.4 million. I would like to up date my database and would like to maintain it as a whole unit and not split up. Splitting defeats the purpose. 500MB or 1GB would be great. There would only be a few of us at the moment but I am sure ALL your companies would benefit from my database. I have over 10,000 famous Americans, 50,000 Royalty and 25,000 Famous people throughout time.

Cannot upload Gedcom

Azazella59 — 9 Jul 2007 2:33:05 GMT

I had this problem about a year and a half ago, and managed to solve it by slowing my modem speed, but now it is recurring again at the lower speed.

When I attempt to upload my GedCom it goes for about 2-3 minutes, then suddenly disconnects from my server. This happens everytime I try to upload, and I can never get the process to complete.

I have not changed anything on my PC since the last time I successfully uploaded (a couple of weeks ago).

Search multiple surnames on a database?

ChasCornell — 5 Jul 2007 4:26:18 GMT

I believe there was a feature on WC to search databases by multiple surnames. That is 2 or more surnames could be entered and all databases with those surnames would show. If it exists, how do I get to it again? Thanks

shows name on search listing; "living" when looking at gedcom

lakebay4me — 13 Apr 2007 7:21:22 GMT

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=phillip_walker
In the search for "Stockton", Bernice Marie Stockton, spouse, Earl Johns Eden came up [no dates].
Clicking on Bernice, it changed to "living" Stockton, spouse "living" Eden.
???

Death specified with a Y

Rakowb — 26 Jun 2007 2:22:19 GMT

On at least one of the people in my tree, death is shown as Y. He is not dead and this resulted in his birth date being shown. How do I correct it?

error in CONC in middle of html statement

engstromde — 23 Jun 2007 6:19:22 GMT

A GEDCOM creates a CONC when a note is longer than 75 characters. When the note is a long html statement, WorldConnect combines the two lines with "%20" between the two parts thus invalidating the statement as a link to another website.

Help in removing a living person

starrman82143 — 22 Jan 2007 6:26:13 GMT

Hello

Would someone please tell me how to remove a living person from the rootsweb genealogy files.

Jim Starr starrman821432AOL.COM

User Rating Feature?

Jillaine_Smith — 10 Jun 2007 12:27:41 GMT

Increasingly, commercial online sites enable the user community to rate or otherwise comment upon the resources being (in most cases) sold.

Ebay encourages people to rate the trustability of other sellers.
Amazon allows users to write their own reviews. And Amazon then encourages readers to rate these user-submitted reviews.

The closest thing Worldconnect has to this is the post-em feature, but this is specific to individual records within a file, not the entire file itself. And I can't search WC for all files that have a post-em, and frankly, that's not really what I want. I do, however, want to be able to search or otherwise identify higher quality files from others.

A really wonderful feature on World Connect would be some sort of rating feature that allowed viewers to rate the quality of the overall quality of a particular file.

I can imagine at least a few of you shuddering at such an idea, but it has proven successful in other venues as I've mentioned above. And I think it could work here.

If WC had such a feature, and if its search results incorporated the rating results such that those more highly rated floated to the top or were otherwise marked (or one could search on: show me only 3 stars and above), it would help TREMENDOUSLY in the weeding out of the INCREASING cacophony of duplicate and clearly badly researched trees on WC. Especially since Ancestry.com has made it so easy for people to copy each others files and data, resulting in the proliferation of badly researched files.

While WC does enable to search for only those records that have SOURCE information, the results are increasingly bad. A "source" of smith.ged or ancestry.com is simply so unhelpful.

The system would need to have some sort of either staff- or (better) community-generated ability to report abuse to thwart attempts to use the user rating system for malicious purposes.

What do you think?

-- Jillaine

post-em edit passwords

xandervan — 27 May 2007 6:56:04 GMT

Used "Manage Post-ems" to edit several post-ems attached to my tree. Was able to delete post-ems using any string of garbage characters for password. Obviously password is not needed since I'm already signed in .... looks like you need to update the post-em edit screen.

account update problem

xandervan — 27 May 2007 6:44:40 GMT

Created new MyAccount username with new email address, associated WC tree with that new info (linked & confirmed). I did not use the MyAccount change username option. "Owner Information" on WC tree does not reflect new email address.

Tree karl-dane exists but is not attached to your usercode

HughW36 — 24 May 2007 6:51:07 GMT

my other seven trees are fine in the new system

Hugh W

Should I upload my tree

holerj — 21 May 2007 5:13:11 GMT

I used to have a downloadable gedcom of all my data on my webpages. Someone downloaded it and uploaded the whole thing to a commercial site. I got it removed and since then I only post the web pages, no gedcom.

Recently I've discovered that someone has loaded all my data to WorldConnect as part of their own data. I've emailed them asking for it to be removed for several reasons:
1. It is very out of date and very inaccurate in some places.
2. I want to be the first point of contact for my family tree.
3. I have never uploaded my data to sites like WorldConnect because I was not sure it would not be used for commercial purposes. I have spent thousands of hours researching my family tree and I am not going to put it anywhere where it is not free. In most cases I have found that some subscription sites have provided access to the data. Even if elsewhere it is free and there is no guarantee that the free sites will stay free. So I do not agree to uploading to sites like these.
4. My own website is the obvious place for people to come to look at my data. A google search for any person will normally bring up my site within a few hits. Unfortunately it finds Rootsweb first so they get the inaccurate version.
6. I can tell that you are related through Mary Hole who married James Farmer in 1780 but many of the people you have included are not related to you. I could understand it if you had only included the descendants add ancestors of Mary Hole but most of your database seems to be sourced from mine, including people unrelated to you, e.g. everyone on my mothers side.
7. You have duplicated data on WorldConnect. A search for Jemima Gwyther on WorldConnect brings back 6 times hits for the same person: 3 in database farmerj and 3 in database farmerjr.

I am waiting for a reply.

I am wondering what to do about this if I don't get a reply and am considering uploading my data to WorldConnect so that there is a least one up to date version. I might get more collaborators with the extra exposure. However I am still concerned about who owns the data and whether it will sold on. Where can I see the terms and conditions relating to this?

Is there anything else I can do to get data removed from someone else's tree if I don't get a reply?

Any other creative ideas?

Changing the order of trees in wcus Tree Administration

adbraley — 24 May 2007 2:50:40 GMT

Is there some way to change the order of my trees in the wcus Tree Administration page?

Most of my trees are comparatively stagnant, I am working with one almost every day. I would like to make it number 1 in the list and the others below it.

Error gedcom does not start with 0 HEAD: level=

CRybin — 12 Apr 2007 8:37:37 GMT

Tried to upload twice and received the same error?

Any suggestions?

Problem with new tree management -- contact info

dav4is — 18 May 2007 6:31:35 GMT

1. Contact info is initially taken from account NICKNAME. Should be from full name.
2. Contact info on extant trees not changed when account NICKNAME is changed. If Separate Owner Info=no, changing the account info should change the tree info.
3. Display of the contact info is a link, but the link is just a copy of the url of the current page.

Update is stuck on this database

adbraley — 16 May 2007 4:18:35 GMT

I have been checking with this database all morning, and it has been stuck in update all morning. See: http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=apriljb...

Note that it has not been updated since 2001. This is not one of my databases, but we share some folks.

Upload/Update failure

CCooper0355 — 11 May 2007 11:02:14 GMT

I've tried for two days to update one of my WC files. It reaches 84 percent and stops. Get a message that it's failed. I tried all the suggestions - disabled firewall, etc. I have a high speed Internet connection. Contacted the help desk. Got a reply telling me how to access my account. Been there, done that. Just before WC changed to the new system, I updated with no problem. Any suggestions?

Thank you Randy - flashing, blinking, ads stopped

lakebay4me — 15 May 2007 2:02:23 GMT

I've had a wonderful day without blinking, flashing, rolling ads! They sat there, quietly, until just now, 7pm PST when the "pick a degree" ad showed up.
Maybe things are getting better!
Thanks

Unexpected notice after upload of new GEDCOM

adbraley — 14 May 2007 1:02:14 GMT

This morning I uploaded, to adbraley_01, a new copy of my BraleyDeming.ZIP GEDCOM file using http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/wcus. I have done this several times in the last few days, with no problems. This time as the upload completed I got a message that "BraleyDeming.ZIP Exists - Writing BraleyDeming2.ZIP" That has never happened to me before.
Yesterday, when RootsWeb/Ancestry was very busy, I could not upload a ZIP version because it reported that it was a bad GEDCOM file because it started with the wrong beginning. I then uploaded the GEDCOM file unzipped, which worked fine. Today the ZIP file loaded correctly, and was accepted, but gave me that message that I do not understand.

Add online analyzer to file management features

robtbehra — 7 May 2007 2:47:05 GMT

Randy,

I like the new file management features available through the beta version of WorldConnect Tree Administration

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/wcus

I am wondering whether you could add to them the online analyzer

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/analyze.cgi?db=

This has helped me clean up problems with my files that I would otherwise not have been aware of.

Thanks.

Can't access my tree to make changes

T_McRobert — 6 May 2007 4:15:53 GMT

I have attempted to access my WC online tree to make a few changes but I'm getting a message "You currently have no trees on WorldConnect". I can still view all the individuals with no problems. It doesn't recognize my user code '3201375' and my password anymore when I enter it also. I'm not sure if I'm doing something wrong or is there a problem with my account? Please help..

Header and Footer request

pgoldenman — 3 May 2007 11:19:08 GMT

Could the text box size be increased please? Some of us include html there (like pointers to multiple relevant surname associations), and the only way to see things as a whole is to copy+paste to a document file, then copy+paste back to the text box *and* hope it fits in the allotted characters. Actually, if the number of allowed characters could increase some too, it would help. Thanks!

Marissa

WC updates stuck?

lakebay4me — 13 Mar 2007 7:05:34 GMT

no updates for a couple of days. fix in the works?

new tools still has bug

xandervan — 3 May 2007 3:34:15 GMT

Previously reported that when checking "Save as default for new trees", the checkmark does not stick. Returning to the same screen later, it is impossible to tell the status. This happens on all the options pages, and tested with Firefox and IE6.

If you mean this to be an automatic override action, then get rid of the off/on is/isn't do/don't checkmark type box and replace it with a simple pushbutton that automatically saves whatever is showing.

Beta setup has no box for "notify of postems"

lakebay4me — 30 Apr 2007 10:35:14 GMT

I just ran across a woman who had a note on her gedcom saying not to use postems. When I asked her why, she said she was not being notified when one was posted.
I told her about checking box #4, but she could not find it.
Turns out she was using the new Beta setup.
Is there a way to put that option back in?
Thanks

Maximum Number of GEDCOM Downloads in a Day?

rpope98155 — 12 Feb 2007 11:40:00 GMT

I have been getting this message for the first time within the last day or so:

"You have exceeded the maximum number of downloads allowed in a 24 hour period"

Every single GEDCOM file I attempt to download now says it is only 77 bytes and contains only the text indicated above.

Is there really a limit on the number of GEDCOM files that can be downloaded in a day? Or is that something that is the result of moving to a new server?

I cannot find any documentation on this problem anywhere.

Finding Post-em

michaelmahaney1 — 1 Apr 2007 4:28:06 GMT

I got an email stating a post-em note was attached to my worldconnect tree... I somehow lost the email and cannot remember what ancestor the email was about... is there anyway to search for the post-ems that are attached?

Correcting information on OWT obtained from WorldConnect

Tfulton6575 — 18 Apr 2007 1:41:54 GMT

Does anyone have a suggestion as to how to correct information now contained in OWT on Ancestry that was obtained from my former file at WorldConnect?

I have since deleted my file at WC (in late 2006) and changed my email address. So my email address as listed in WC is incorrect. Also I need to make corrections to the information in OWT.

Thanks

WorldConnect Tree Administration beta part 4

randy_winch — 11 Apr 2007 6:17:07 GMT

More cleanups and usability changes. Improved logging.

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/wcus

Comments and/or suggestions welcome.

children not connected with parents on my family tree on ancestry/rootsweb.com

jeremy2feathers — 13 Apr 2007 1:57:56 GMT

I submitted my family tree to rootsweb and ancestry.com and I finally was able to view it on ancestry world tree and worldconnect, only to find that the people are not connected to each other like they should. Example: Search for William Burton Steele born 27 Aug 1875 in Danville, Vermilion County, Illinois. When you click on the family, he's not connected with his parents or his wife or his children. His parents are Joseph Hampton Steel(e) and Nancy Jane Arbogast. His wife is Blanche Hyacinth Householder. How do I go about fixing this problem. Because the tree I submitted he was connected with his parents, wife, etc.

Sincerely,
Jeremy Millard

WorldConnect Tree Administration beta part 3

randy_winch — 9 Apr 2007 8:30:42 GMT

Hopefully I can get the url correct:

http://wc.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/wcus

Quite a few changes to get closer to validation. Added ability to manually attach a tree. Added ability to save user preferences.

New WorldConnect User Setup Beta part deux

randy_winch — 3 Apr 2007 4:16:54 GMT

We've added Post-em Management to the new user setup beta.

http://wc.rootswseb.com/cgi-bin/wcus

Please give it a good workout and let us know what you think.