Well after many years I finally felt comfortable enough to upload my tree to ancestry. I need help though, please 1 friends cannot find my tree (Brabon/Markhart) but I can see it 2 it picked a random name as home person. Is it possible to change that? The Gedcom I uploaded had me as home person. I am new to ancestry and only a novice at genealogy. Thanks for any help Teddy Sent from my iPad

On Mon, May 12, 2014 at 08:52:05AM -0700, Teddy wrote: > > I need help though, please > 1 friends cannot find my tree (Brabon/Markhart) but I can see it There are a number of ways to find a tree. first, as someone else mentioned, you do need to make it a public tree, but public only gives paid members access to it. If your friends are not ancestry subscribers, you need to send them invitations. Or, alternatively, you could upload your gedcom to Worldconnect at Rootsweb, which is truly publicly accessible. If your friends are ancestry subscribers, then (assuming your tree is a Public one), once it has been indexed (which may not happen for a few months), they can search for key people in it. Until it gets indexed, if they click on Collaborate in the top menu, if you have given them your username, they can search for you that way, and one of the options in the list (I think your profile) is to see the list of trees that you have uploaded. One advantage of WorldConnect which I like is you can upload a revised gedcom and the tree keeps the same address, with Ancestry Member Trees, you either revise it live on the web or with FamilyTreeMaker, or when you upload a new version, it gets a totally different Tree ID. > 2 it picked a random name as home person. Is it possible to change > that? The Gedcom I uploaded had me as home person. Yes, on the main page, there is a choice to reset that, but I do not have access to give you the details. You click on the arrow by your tree name, and select something like Manage Tree. Or just go to trees.ancestry.com and it may give your tree name and you click on Manage Tree.