I can't find anything that refers to family trees on the home page of www.myfamily.com Am I looking in the right place? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Carmen M. Johnson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, January 30, 2004 10:17 PM Subject: JFMF & My Family Site > Hello Everyone, > > Those of you who have contacted me and have been signed up for the My Family > site - I hope you are enjoying yourself! Those of you who haven't contacted > me - what are you waiting for??? I thought I would answer a few questions > in general for everyone so you might understand better what is going on. > > > > Barbara Pennington and Gene Pennington sent me a spreadsheet of everyone who > has paid their dues. I filtered out those who had email addresses and sent > each of those who were up to date a message inviting them to the website and > asking them to agree to some Terms and Conditions before they were allowed > to join up. So that is how I started. I have gone in and added each person > who has replied and gave them Guest Rights so they are allowed to browse to > their heart's content but can't change the data. I am keeping track of > those who have contacted me on the same spread sheet! > > > > Back to the My Family site - some of you want to know where the JFMF > database is. If you go down the page, you will find something that says > family trees. Click on All Family Tree's and you will see all of the > gedcoms that have been uploaded. To look at one of the gedcoms you would > click on the link and it would open up with a window on top of your browser. > This is a browser window - if you have a Pop - Up blocker and it is coming > up, try holding your Ctrl key when you click on the link. > > > > Most of the gedcoms will show up on your screen as a pedigree. This isn't > really the easiest method to see all of the good stuff. Play around a bit > and look at the toolbar items and menu items. You will probably see > something that will show you the gedcom in Family View, Pedigree, or Family > Story. I prefer Family Story myself - it is much easier to see a bigger > picture. > > > > Go and check out your line - is everything correct, up to date, etc. Do you > have data that you can provide? Please make sure you send it to your Family > Group Leader. You might want to share it on the PRA newslist as well. > Remember that this newslist is a wonderful resource. Everything that gets > posted to the newslist is part of the archives. As a member, you can search > the archives and sometimes find some wonderful information. Please keep > looking and exploring. If you find some interesting info, or you want to > share a point of view or idea - post it to the newslist. The DNA project is > a wonderful resource and we hope that it will give us a lot of information, > but it can't take the place of good old fashion research. It has been > pointed out that the DNA test does us females little good unless we can rope > some poor unsuspecting male relative in getting tested. We need to still do > the research and share our ideas. > > > > Carmen Johnson > > Assistant Research Director - JFMF > > www.penningtonresearch.org > > PRA Family Group 7 Leader > > http://carmenj.my100megs.com/PenningtonPage/PRAGroup7.htm > > > > > > > > ==== PRA Mailing List ==== > ==== PENNINGTON RESEARCH ASSOCIATION ==== > PRA publications are available at the PRA Web Site at > http://www.penningtonresearch.org >