Hello, all. I'm wondering if any of you have been experimenting with online collaboration on your family trees, and if so if you have any recommendations either pro or con. This has come to the forefront for me recently as another family member has become quite interested in genealogy. It would be great to be able to work off of one central file, rather than create redundant data. In my ideal world: -- the data is viewable/editable by invitation only. Perhaps with different levels of permissions for different viewers? -- some sort of version control/list of most recent changes would be excellent -- there is a robust system for attaching sources to material -- it is possible to generate reports -- it can handle thousands of entries -- it is an actual active working space, as opposed to a static HTML export from paf/ged/etc. -- one can import/export gedcoms, etc. -- Free is always nice, but not mandatory -- other considerations? I don't have this fully fleshed out in my mind yet. Thanks! I appreciate any perspective you can bring to this as I try to narrow in on some best practices for this. Best, Suzanne

You might want to look at The Next Generation (TNG) software. This requires some computer knowledge in that you require a hosting site and need to install the software. Once done and your domain can be purchase you have the ultimate in online collaboration. I have been using this for some years myself at http://www.cowie-rohland.net/ It's password protected for family members only but it can be made open to the wider world too. See the TNG site below for screen examples and more about it http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/software.php regards David -----Original Message----- From: aberdeen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aberdeen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Suzanne Walker Sent: 19 November 2009 02:16 To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com Subject: [ABERDEEN] Online collaborative family tree tools Hello, all. I'm wondering if any of you have been experimenting with online collaboration on your family trees, and if so if you have any recommendations either pro or con. This has come to the forefront for me recently as another family member has become quite interested in genealogy. It would be great to be able to work off of one central file, rather than create redundant data. In my ideal world: -- the data is viewable/editable by invitation only. Perhaps with different levels of permissions for different viewers? -- some sort of version control/list of most recent changes would be excellent -- there is a robust system for attaching sources to material -- it is possible to generate reports -- it can handle thousands of entries -- it is an actual active working space, as opposed to a static HTML export from paf/ged/etc. -- one can import/export gedcoms, etc. -- Free is always nice, but not mandatory -- other considerations? I don't have this fully fleshed out in my mind yet. Thanks! I appreciate any perspective you can bring to this as I try to narrow in on some best practices for this. Best, Suzanne ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message