Genealogy Chat

If you are using more than one family tree website, how do you make sure they are all uptodate with your own information.
Do you type each one individually?

I suspect most people would keep a family tree program on their PC at home where they update all the info. They would then download this as a gedcom file and then upload it onto each website. That way they can choose which info to upload e.g. no living relatives etc.

I keep my complete list on a spreadsheet - with columns for census info etc so I can spot the gaps easily and not repeat my searches etc.

On GR I keep my skeletal tree. Very basic info. Year of birth etc - not complete date, parents and spouses and whatever siblings I find - in the hopes of catching links. I have my tree, my OH's tree, my son's tree (my ex-husband's tree in other words) plus bits of my OH's cousin's tree and bits of my OH's aunty's tree. So it's very wide, but very basic.

I keep my tree and my OH's tree offline on my PAF files. Full details including notes from wills and other documents along with census info etc.

On Ancestry I keep just my One Name Study stuff - so some of it is part of my tree and the rest is linked and may or may not be related somewhere back there.

All a bit of a nightmare really and I cannot use gedcoms as it would be very confusing. My offline PAF tree(s) are the most up to date version and I just manually update GR when I have the energy - as I find it very slow. And manually update Ancestry in small bursts.

Gedcoms and the same tree on and off line would be easier though!

Jill

Master tree is maintained on my PC using FTM (Family Tree Maker)

Periodically I extract a Gedcom file and upload it to GR, Ancestry and Tribal. FTM will even let you extract different names so they don't all have to be the same.

Simples

Mrs Grumpy, why can you not use gedcoms? A gedcom file is simply a means of transferring data from one place to another. Beats manually updating things.