Once the Ancestry Tree is established, it'son the Ancestry.com servers - in the cloud, if you will. Then anyone who is invited to join, can access it from their own PC, including you. Try inviting yourself, as an editor, to your tree from your Library account, and see if you then access it and edit it from your home account. I believe you need to have an Ancestry subscription in order to use their tools and look at their records, but an editor can add names, dates, places and attach documents and pictures, without a subscription. Please correct me if this is incorrect. It looks like the next thing to do, is find out who has a large NN tree available to use as a base - it could be on Ancestry, or a GEDcom which can be uploaded to Ancestry to start a tree. Does anyone out there have a good tree to use as a base? Jim Bartlett On 09/24/11, Craig Kilby<[email protected]> wrote: Comments below On Sep 24, 2011, at 8:28 AM, Jim Bartlett wrote: > Craig > > I guess I meant one account. If you want to have control and do the inviting you can start a new tree with any family group and give it a name - say Northern Neck Descendants and Ancestors - or whatever. Although Ancestry sets it up so that everything should be linked, as you point out, it's possible to have disconnected parts. This lets folks work on different lines, until the links are made. Your list of "lessons" is a very good one. > > <<You may also want to adhere to some standards like surnames in CAPS (or not); standardized dates: 24 Oct 2011 (or some other), so the site has some consistency to it.>> I agree. > > I'm not sure if two people can work on the same file at the same time, so it is essential that each editor logs out when done. This has not come up at any time, so I am pretty sure multiple can be working on it at the same time. May be a problem if two or more people are working on the same PERSON at a time, however. I'll add that to my list of questions for George > > You tree may be the one to use as the base. Is there a way to copy, and rename a tree (without slogging through for each element)? Is there a way to add a GEDcom to an existing tree - I'm still learning too. I hope we have some real experts on this list. My tree would be OK to start with except for two problems. (1) I access ancestry through our library account. I have my own free account just for this one tree (2) My data is on a macintosh program called Reunion. When I have exported a ged com and reloaded it to FTM at the library, none of the source citations transfer over. The footnote number does, but not the citation. The notes transfer fine. I'm not sure what other issues it would involve. I can't stand using FTM anyone. It used to be pretty simple our version is #9 and I find it quite cumbersome to navigate. But Reunion really spoils me. It is very well designed and rational. It's only problem is match/merge which is a bit tricky. > > By the way - I can go back on one line to Edward (King), so I am cousin to Thomas JEFFERSON and his cousin Barack OBAMA. No politics, just blood lines. LOL! > > Jim Bartlett > > Jim - Sent from my iPhone - FaceTime! > > On Sep 23, 2011, at 11:17 PM, Craig Kilby <[1][email protected]> wrote: > >> Jim, >> >> Instead of multiple and different trees, I'd rather we have JUST ONE to build upon. As I go through this BALL stuff and start adding to it, I am amazed at how quickly it grows and overlaps and branches out. I was gobsmacked the other day when I actually connected Thomas Jefferson--yes, THE Thomas Jefferson--to the Ball tree. It came about due to some research I was doing on Dr Walter Jones of Northumberland County, a close friend of Jeffersons. They had gone to William & Mary College together. Jone's roommate was (can't think of first name) SKELTON, who was the first husband of Martha Jefferson. Skelton's sister married a brother of Dr. Jones. Jones had already been connected to the tree because his daughter Elizabeth married (2) Rawleigh Downman, etc..... (I intend to write more about this soon. It also carries into the origins of Kinsale, Westmoreland County. I did not know it was Dr. William Flood, whose daughter Alice was the wife of Dr. Walter Jones who gave the pl! a! > ce! >> its name...Ed, any ideas on that?) >> >> Even my relatively small tree could quickly be grown. >> >> I wish I could "SHOW" people how this works on ancestry. It is sort of like a genealogy program but not with so many whistles and bells. some things we QUICKLY learned the hard way were (1) Do NOT delete anybody. Disconnect them, yes, but don't delete them. They probably belong SOMEWHERE; (2) do not ADD anybody without checking to see if they are already in the database. They may be in the wrong place but you can fix that with a little patience and effort and (3) by the same token, check to see if a source has already been entered so you don't duplicate it. It may not be cited the way you'd like -- or as it should be -- but you can change that too! >> References 1. mailto:[email protected]