Taking a look at a couple of new (to me) things. New tools
for my toolbox. I’m just beginning to give them a try. I wonder if they’ll be
useful for me.
Community
family trees have always been off-putting for me. While I love Family Search, my tree there is
just a stub because I don’t like the idea of others being able to make changes
without my approval. WikiTree, however presents itself as a collaborative world
tree. My present understanding is that I “manage” the people I put there and
others cannot make changes at will.
It
is labor intensive because each person must be added individually – a pain if
you’re doing manual entry, but it is also time consuming if you upload a large
GEDcom file.
That’s
what I did. Uploaded a GEDcom with more than 2,000 people. WikiTree then scans
its database to find who in your file matches someone they already have. So I
ended up with a HUGE table of names from my tree that did not have a match.
The
good news is that you can add people from your file, and all of the information
from your GEDcom is added to WikiTree.
At first glance, I could not figure out how the entries in the table
were sorted. It seemed to be alphabetical, but there were areas that seemed out
of place. I did a lot of scrolling up and down the pages of the table.
In
the end, I added my tree up to and including my great grandparents. My patience
had evaporated by that time. I do intend
to go back and add my great aunts and uncles
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