From: G6JPG-255@255soft.uk
In message , Keith Nuttle
writes:
>On 2/3/2019 1:35 PM, pete wrote:
>> For the past year I have been working on my wife's family tree. I now want
to
>> upload the tree to some where her extended family can look at it and edit it
>> for any mistakes etc.
Do you wish to retain control (e. g. arbitrate between two [or more!] of
the family who disagree about something)?
Ancestry (and some of the other similar companies, I think) let you
upload a tree, and then invite other people to access it: you can choose
what level of access you grant to each person you invite, from read
only, to add comments, to full edit. If you've been working on the tree
on your own computer using any software other than Ancestry's preferred
one, though, you can only upload a GeDCom file - not links, pictures, or
more or less anything.
>> I now have iCloud working. Can I utilise iCloud to do it? If not, how can I
>> do this? pfj
>> Depends on what you want to let them do and see; and the format the
>>data
>is in on your computer. It is also dependent on what the person looking
>at the data has.
>
>If you want to present it so they can see it, create a PDF book of the
>family or families. I use FTM to create books that have the main line
>family with each maternal family. I include a table of contents and
>and index and print it as a PDF file. In PDF format it can nearly be
>read by any one with a computer, tablet, or smartphone.
Using a .pdf "printer" (I use pdf995, but there are plenty), you can
produce .pdf versions of the data in any form that your genealogy
software can print - books, group sheets, Ahnentafel lists, fan charts,
tree charts, ancestor charts ... (what genealogy software _have_ you
been using?)
>
>The book contains all of my notes, comments, and all of the facts on
>each ancestor. It also contains text documents with discussions of
>problem connections, and stories of the family.
>
>If they all have a copy of some genealogy program like Family Tree
>Maker or Rootsmagic, then you could just put your database on line and
>let them down load it.
Though you then do run into the problem/question mentioned above: who do
you want to be the master controller/coordinator? Otherwise, each person
who downloads it - if they alter it at all - will end up with their own
version, and they'll all differ in different minor respects. It's a
problem shared by all genealogists who share a tree/database. Some
genealogy softwares have a database compare function, which can be used
to bring divergent versions back together (at least the one I use,
Brother's Keeper, does, and I'd be surprised if it's the only one), but
I've not used it in this way, and I suspect it'd be hard work.
>
>You could put it online as a Gedcom file, it can be read by something
>like Windows Notepad, but is not very user friendly.
Or as a series of HTML files: there are utilities that will convert a
GeDCom file into such (i. e. a mini-website), which are more
user-friendly. Uploading a GeDCom to rootsweb (free) does this, though
I'm not sure if rootsweb is allowing uploads at the moment.
>
>A slightly more user friendly presentation would be jpgs on each person
>in your tree with the facts and figures.
>
Lot of work though, and people couldn't cut and paste text from them.
>
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