From: chris@dickinson.uk.net   
      
   On Thursday, 26 April 2018 14:57:35 UTC+1, J. P. Gilliver (John)  wrote:   
   > I thought it would be an interesting discussion to how people go about   
   > two (or more) people working on the same database.   
   >   
   > This is regardless of which genealogy software is in use.   
   >   
   > I suppose one way is to store (or at least share) it in the cloud   
   > somewhere; personally I don't like the cloud, (a) because I don't   
   > consider it reliable, (b) I'm not too sure who has access to it, but   
   > even if you _do_ do that, you need to agree who is working on it when;   
   > if, say, two people are working on different parts of it (they're   
   > pursuing different lines, maybe because they're in different parts of   
   > the country [or world!]), they need some way of combining what they've   
   > found/added. By cloud, I include general cloud (such as dropbox), and   
   > specific genealogy ones (such as an Ancestry tree).   
   >   
   > Brother's Keeper has the facility to compare two similar databases (or   
   > versions of the same one), and highlight differences, allowing you to   
   > move/merge/whatever facts and people from one to the other; I presume   
   > some other softwares have something similar. This does mean both   
   > participants have to go through this process, though, and presumably   
   > they'll still end up with different databases: if, say, they each start   
   > with 100 or 1000 people, and each add 5, then in person A's case, he   
   > will have his additions as numbers 101 to 105 and his co-worker's   
   > additions as 106 to 110, and person B will have the opposite.   
   >   
   > I know moderately distant cousins won't _necessarily_ consider this a   
   > problem: they probably are extending the database - at least, the modern   
   > end - differently anyway, not being _that_ interested in their cousin's   
   > close family. But say a couple of brothers (or siblings) are both   
   > working on different lines of their common tree: say they both take   
   > their holidays around the same time, but go to different places, where   
   > they research the line that is in that locality. How do they merge their   
   > results.   
   >   
   > I _suspect_ it's an intractable problem, especially where (or at least   
   > more so where) the two (or more) participants use different software.   
   >   
   > I don't have a solution; I just thought it'd be an interesting   
   > discussion to have.   
   >   
   > [I don't have the problem _much_ myself - my brother lets me do it all   
   > for our family. And other cousins keep their own, different except where   
   > we overlap, trees.]   
   > --   
   > J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
   >   
   > "Usenet is a way of being annoyed by people you otherwise never would have   
   met."   
   > - John J. Kinyon   
      
   Two people or more working on the same material has always been a problem,   
   whatever the circumstances. In the modern world, it can can even be caused by   
   one person working on two differents browsers, or with duplicate tabs on a   
   single browser.   
      
   I don't know how family tree software handles this, as I don't use any such,   
   but my cloud database provider (Zoho Creator) seems to have a high level of   
   control for multiple users (though you have to pay for it!).   
      
   Chris   
      
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