I have been thinking about this for a while (not that I'm feeling poorly or anything!!!) but it will come to us all sooner or later. I have just read James Tanner's blog to which Caroline gave the link. http://www.familytreeforum.com/showt...the-technology
At the moment I do not have any online trees or information. Not because I'm particularly protective of my research but that's just how I work and Family Historian does not connect directly to Ancestry as I believe FTM does.
I am thinking that at some time I will put my whole tree on Ancestry as a public tree. I would just upload it as a GEDCOM and I know not all the notes and citations will follow. However that's maybe not the point. If my tree (in which I have a fair amount of pride and confidence having gathered many, many documents) gives even hints to other people who come after me it would help it to be perpetuated. I realise some "name collectors" will gobble up names and add them randomly to their own tree. Well, that's their lookout! Proper researchers would hopefully find my tree and use it as a basis to find out for themselves if it was correct.
Another alternative I have thought about is setting up my own website. But a I presume a website will eventually be taken down if its not paid for. An advantage of my own site is that I could include the supporting evidence I have collected.
I know that the Society of Genealogists will give a home to a tree but I'm not sure how 'public' and accessible this would be?
What does everyone else think?
Anne
At the moment I do not have any online trees or information. Not because I'm particularly protective of my research but that's just how I work and Family Historian does not connect directly to Ancestry as I believe FTM does.
I am thinking that at some time I will put my whole tree on Ancestry as a public tree. I would just upload it as a GEDCOM and I know not all the notes and citations will follow. However that's maybe not the point. If my tree (in which I have a fair amount of pride and confidence having gathered many, many documents) gives even hints to other people who come after me it would help it to be perpetuated. I realise some "name collectors" will gobble up names and add them randomly to their own tree. Well, that's their lookout! Proper researchers would hopefully find my tree and use it as a basis to find out for themselves if it was correct.
Another alternative I have thought about is setting up my own website. But a I presume a website will eventually be taken down if its not paid for. An advantage of my own site is that I could include the supporting evidence I have collected.
I know that the Society of Genealogists will give a home to a tree but I'm not sure how 'public' and accessible this would be?
What does everyone else think?
Anne
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