Hi Diane, Here's where you look to find out about it: http://www.tribalpages.com/about.html Like I said, I started out with a free one and upgraded with a click of a button when I ran out of space for photos. I like the site because I can keep it private with a password which I did for a very long time. Since I'm in my 70s now, I decided that I should share it. I add names of my living family, but did not share their data. If anyone did complain, I can show them as just "living" and add notes that is only visible by me with my private password. Of course that's used for editing and adding. It's so simple and user friendly. I don't know what I'd do without it. It allows me to really branch out. There's not way, I could keep all the paperwork and documents at my finger tips. It started in 2000 and I found out about it in 2005. There's now over 300,000 members, over 80 million names, and 2 million photos. It can be another good resource for all of us genealogists and family historians. If you find a name and the webmaster has a password they will usually give it to you. It's always good to let them know what your interest is and why you want to look. Throwing logs on a fire really appeals to me. I don't have a fireplace... dang! My other favorite website is http://findagrave.com . I have gotten a tremendous amount of help there and love to create memorials. I always leave a token/message for my relatives so others can find me and they do.... ~Blessings, Bev ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Nichols" <150atf@salsgiver.com> To: <paallegh@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [ALL] winter days > Hi Bev, > > I sit next to the wood stove and type in between throwing logs on the > fire. > It's a balmy 80 and I love it. Typing also makes me relaxed. Since I'm > copying another interment book for the cemetery of about 380 pages, it's > good that that relaxing thing goes on. I should be almost catatonic by > spring. > > I have heard about the websites that save things for you. You are the > first > person I ever heard feedback from using one. Is it difficult to upgrade? > I > am happy with my external hard drive. I saved files from an old computer > on > disks (remember those little colored square things?) but now the newest > computer won't read them or some of the old CDs. So my work files are > gone > that I created for my old job, but I still have hard copies in the file > cabinet. I thought computers were supposed to help with this stuff. So > much for planned obsolescence. > > Diane > > -----Original Message----- > From: paallegh-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:paallegh-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Beverly Morris > Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 8:33 PM > To: paallegh@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ALL] winter days > > Hello Diane, > Believe it or not, it's very chilly and yucky here in my part of > California, > > too. We have the heater set at 71 and I'm still bundled up in my fleece > lounge/pajamas with a robe on top. > I usually do genealogy every day... snopping around and finding new info. > I have a tribalpages website. They back it up for me and it only costs > about > > $29 a year, I think. You can get a free one, too, and I slowly upgraded > it, > so I'd have more space. Everything I have is there, so all I have to do is > look when someone wants something. Luckily, I like to type; it relaxes me. > If you'd like to take a look, it's http://osman.tribalpages.com > I usually get a hit from someone now and then and that's the most fun for > me! > ~Blessings, Bev ************************** > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Diane Nichols" <150atf@salsgiver.com> > To: <paallegh@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 5:13 PM > Subject: [ALL] winter days >> Hi Listers, >> The list has been kind of quiet. Since the winter days are keeping a lot >> of >> us at home between necessary visits to work, school and grocery stores, >> what >> is everyone doing for genealogical fun? >> I have been going over my paper files, checking that all my notes are on >> my >> computer somewhere. And I don't mean my on-line family tree, but in >> family >> files on my hard drive that I can back up. Those of us who depend on >> Ancestry, etc for on-line research may forget an occasional census >> record, >> military record or a possible date or name we need to confirm. It's so >> easy >> to download it and forget to make a copy. >> I have had multiple computer crashes because of an accidental button >> pushed >> by a grandchild that deleted a part of a program (how I never figured >> out) >> and it was just fortunate that I have a month old backup on a separate >> drive. It has made me paranoid ever since. This periodical checking >> makes >> me feel better and occasionally reveals something that sets the light >> bulb >> in my head off like a beacon. >> I have also developed a paper for each of my contacts. I copy the >> e-mails >> between us and hold them under the last name in a "Family Research File". >> My memory ain't what it used to be and I always had trouble with it >> anyway, >> so these e-mail copies are necessary when someone mails back a year later >> asking if I uncovered anything new. I would have no idea without the >> mailings kept, but want my e-mail file restrained within reason. >> So tell us all what you are doing. >> Diane

Bev, I checked out the web page for tribalpages, and I agree that it looks interesting as an option for saving family trees. But as I read about it, and started looking at other sites, it occurred to me the one aspect of all of this that bothers me (now 62 and wondering how to leave a mark in the world). All of these sites, including Ancestry, just delete all the info after the subscription runs out. Now, with Ancestry, the info is put onto One World Tree, and perhaps some of the other sites also save data too, but that raises a question. Where in all these files are the sources saved? It frustrates me to no end that the sources are not available. Because..... so many people doing research make stupid mistakes. I have seen people link my great-grandfather to living in Iowa or Arizona when he never left Pittsburgh after the frightening journey over the Atlantic. I have cruised other members trees while dabbling in my Ancestry file to find No One has a source listed for Anything. A person finds a census (or whatever) with the same name as their ancestor and just blindly links to it. Then other people find their data and link to it. It expands over the Net into a giant mistake. Where is the source and justification? Yes, I understand how hard this all is sometimes, as I have been at it for 32 years. But it would all be so much easier if we all just listed where we got the info. I try, but have a few blank spots from my early research. Everybody, go back and meticulously list your source material! Save a direct quote, with page number, name of the book or record, where it was when you found it. And date that source. I'm as quilty as everyone else about this, but we have to do it. Diane -----Original Message----- From: paallegh-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:paallegh-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Beverly Morris Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 10:36 PM To: paallegh@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ALL] tribalpages websites Hi Diane, Here's where you look to find out about it: http://www.tribalpages.com/about.html Like I said, I started out with a free one and upgraded with a click of a button when I ran out of space for photos. I like the site because I can keep it private with a password which I did for a very long time. Since I'm in my 70s now, I decided that I should share it. I add names of my living family, but did not share their data. If anyone did complain, I can show them as just "living" and add notes that is only visible by me with my private password. Of course that's used for editing and adding. It's so simple and user friendly. I don't know what I'd do without it. It allows me to really branch out. There's not way, I could keep all the paperwork and documents at my finger tips. It started in 2000 and I found out about it in 2005. There's now over 300,000 members, over 80 million names, and 2 million photos. It can be another good resource for all of us genealogists and family historians. If you find a name and the webmaster has a password they will usually give it to you. It's always good to let them know what your interest is and why you want to look. Throwing logs on a fire really appeals to me. I don't have a fireplace... dang! My other favorite website is http://findagrave.com . I have gotten a tremendous amount of help there and love to create memorials. I always leave a token/message for my relatives so others can find me and they do.... ~Blessings, Bev ----- Original Message ----- From: "Diane Nichols" <150atf@salsgiver.com> To: <paallegh@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 5:56 PM Subject: Re: [ALL] winter days > Hi Bev, > > I sit next to the wood stove and type in between throwing logs on the > fire. > It's a balmy 80 and I love it. Typing also makes me relaxed. Since I'm > copying another interment book for the cemetery of about 380 pages, it's > good that that relaxing thing goes on. I should be almost catatonic by > spring. > > I have heard about the websites that save things for you. You are the > first > person I ever heard feedback from using one. Is it difficult to upgrade? > I > am happy with my external hard drive. I saved files from an old computer > on > disks (remember those little colored square things?) but now the newest > computer won't read them or some of the old CDs. So my work files are > gone > that I created for my old job, but I still have hard copies in the file > cabinet. I thought computers were supposed to help with this stuff. So > much for planned obsolescence. > > Diane > > -----Original Message----- > From: paallegh-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:paallegh-bounces@rootsweb.com] > On Behalf Of Beverly Morris > Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 8:33 PM > To: paallegh@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ALL] winter days > > Hello Diane, > Believe it or not, it's very chilly and yucky here in my part of > California, > > too. We have the heater set at 71 and I'm still bundled up in my fleece > lounge/pajamas with a robe on top. > I usually do genealogy every day... snopping around and finding new info. > I have a tribalpages website. They back it up for me and it only costs > about > > $29 a year, I think. You can get a free one, too, and I slowly upgraded > it, > so I'd have more space. Everything I have is there, so all I have to do is > look when someone wants something. Luckily, I like to type; it relaxes me. > If you'd like to take a look, it's http://osman.tribalpages.com > I usually get a hit from someone now and then and that's the most fun for > me! > ~Blessings, Bev ************************** > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Diane Nichols" <150atf@salsgiver.com> > To: <paallegh@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, January 17, 2011 5:13 PM > Subject: [ALL] winter days >> Hi Listers, >> The list has been kind of quiet. Since the winter days are keeping a lot >> of >> us at home between necessary visits to work, school and grocery stores, >> what >> is everyone doing for genealogical fun? >> I have been going over my paper files, checking that all my notes are on >> my >> computer somewhere. And I don't mean my on-line family tree, but in >> family >> files on my hard drive that I can back up. Those of us who depend on >> Ancestry, etc for on-line research may forget an occasional census >> record, >> military record or a possible date or name we need to confirm. It's so >> easy >> to download it and forget to make a copy. >> I have had multiple computer crashes because of an accidental button >> pushed >> by a grandchild that deleted a part of a program (how I never figured >> out) >> and it was just fortunate that I have a month old backup on a separate >> drive. It has made me paranoid ever since. This periodical checking >> makes >> me feel better and occasionally reveals something that sets the light >> bulb >> in my head off like a beacon. >> I have also developed a paper for each of my contacts. I copy the >> e-mails >> between us and hold them under the last name in a "Family Research File". >> My memory ain't what it used to be and I always had trouble with it >> anyway, >> so these e-mail copies are necessary when someone mails back a year later >> asking if I uncovered anything new. I would have no idea without the >> mailings kept, but want my e-mail file restrained within reason. >> So tell us all what you are doing. >> Diane ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Visit our Allegheny County, PA Website: http://www.rootsweb.com/~paallegh/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAALLEGH-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message