A daytime telephone number where we can reach you if we have any queries.If possible, parent's names, as these help us double-check the records to make sure we find the right one.Date and place of birth/death/marriage.
Full name of the individual(s) concerned.If you’re working on a large tree and have more than one editor, it’s possible for one of the editors to delete information by mistake.
You can fix the mistake by going back up to the tree, selecting the editing tools, and reclassify the relationship, but it’s a hassle that can be avoided if the form used a sticky box that stayed on the screen while you scrolled down.Ĥ) There is no backup option in Ancestry. For example, if you’ve scrolled down on the profile form to enter a child under a parent name, and then decide to enter the child’s spouse or kids, you may not see whose profile you’re working on and inadvertently enter a name as a sibling instead of a child or spouse. If you’re entering a bunch of names, this is time consuming.ģ) The profile form doesn’t use sticky boxes with the name of the person you’re working on. That will display the profile form for that person, which allows you to enter new family relationships and events.
You have to go back to the tree view (one click plus navigate to the person you’re working on) and click on the person’s name. Parents, children, and spouses can’t be specified on this form. The default entry screen only provides for the birth date / location and death date / location. Is there a genealogy program that allows the entire family tree to be displayed without collapsing parts of it?Ģ) Adding information to a new member of the tree can be cumbersome. You can’t navigate through the tree without opening icons, which then automatically collapse other parts of the tree to display, say, three generations of a family. That means you can’t view the whole tree at one time. The children of those children are completely invisible until you click on their parents’ icons. Aunts, uncles and cousins for the first 3 or 4 generations is ok, but after that….stick to parents and grandparents….just to keep your sanity.ġ) As the tree grows past the second generation, the program will collapse children into little icons beside parents names. If you were including aunts, uncles and cousins for each generation….let’s be conservative and say that would amount to 6 additional people per each ancestor in each generation…then you would add 12+24+48+96+192+384+768+1536+3072+6144=12,276 plus the 2,046 for a total of 14,322. Each generation doubles the number of ancestors in the previous generation. Just following the parental/grand parental lines you would have this many ancestors through 10 generations. Records are not always that easy to find, and I have my tree on 4 different sites each with its own available records.Ī little math to indicate how daunting it can be. Along the way you run into a lot of incorrect info and spend time correcting it. It took me months of sitting at my desk for hours every day to build a tree of 3,360 people…and that number is mostly limited to many generations of grandparents and perhaps only 20% including aunts and uncles, cousins, etc.
It takes effort, trial and error, and patience. Some who have posted comments here seem unaware that building a family tree is…WORK.
Image: A group of girl workers in Greenabaum’s Canneries, Seaford, Del.
We also encourage you to check out the many free records found online by reviewing our free genealogy lists here and here.īy Melanie Mayo, Family History Daily Editor To save money, focus and organize your research around specific questions and then subscribe to and use a single site at a time if it offers records you need – or fit as much research as you can into the two free weeks you can get with each site (find links above) and then determine if an ongoing subscription is valuable. Utilizing many search sites and databases in your searches is vital to discovering everything you can about your ancestors. You will need to review all of the differences and decide which ones are worth your money. The truth is, there is no right genealogy subscription service for everyone and not one of these site qualifies as the “best.” Each one of these sites offers different records and tools so they are all worth exploring individually. So, which one of these genealogy subscription companies should you choose? Which genealogy site is the best one?