I am a lurker, but have working on my wife's tree in England and I have been following the conversations on the various sites for family trees and problems with existing trees. I have recently started using a site called WikiTree.com. There goal is one family tree for the world. A bit ambitious, but they make a effort to eliminate duplicates and merge trees. If you put a person on WikiTree, they will stay there, even after you are gone. It is all volunteer, and has a lot of projects that you can join to explore your family in different ways. It does allow you to upload pictures and docs, and it is entirely free. There is the rub. If it is entirely free, when the founders of the site decide to throw in the towel, will it just disappear or be sold to one of the pay-for-genealogy services. I have located other people working similiar lines, and some doing DNA on my lines. I'ts worth checking out. I just never had much luck on mailing lists, even tho I do manage a site for USGenweb. Jerry Rigg/s Standring Stock Wall Talbot Sweetnam

​Right off the top of my head that's doing several things late at night, am I right in saying there are three sites aiming, ultimately, to do one tree for the whole of humanity? One record per person... I think they are WikiTree.com, FamilySearch FamilyTree and Geni.com. In all cases, the major issue is how to facilitate co-operation and resolve differences of opinion. Adrian