Genealogy Chat

Brian - I agree with IPG - I have a tree on Tribal pages for that purpose. I imported the gedcom from GR. This way I can either print 3 generation reports and forward by e-mail or copy and paste on to en e-mail or document for forwarding. Notes that you want the other person to have can just be copied and inserted. However, if you add anything on Tribal you cannot send it back to GR but you can always replace and update at anytime from GR or other applications that use gedcom.

Like GR it is on the net and does not take up space.
That way they don't get my whole tree just their particular area and what I will share without any access to my info via password etc.

Cheers Persey

Thankyou all for your help and ideas. The person I want to see the info is a newfound relative and I'm not sure of their capabilities yet. I'm not too savvy myself, but I'll work with these suggestions. Thanks much, Brian

I actually send myself a Gedcom then forward the email.
Then I tell my contact to download a tree program from Familysearch.
The rest is up to them.

No not a good idea at all. Being too free and easy with details such as log-ins, passwords and pins is the biggest single contributor to identity theft.

Why not have a look at Tribal Pages?

I agree, not going that way !

Brian, you could export your tree to a GED file and then the person in question can view the data with a GED file viewer.

If you click on Family Tree on the dark green menu you will see "Gedcoms" - the facility is on there.

If you Google "Gedcom viewer" there are loads of free downloads.

It's not the same as actually seeing a tree but you can read through the generations in an easy format.

The only way I can think of is to allow them access to your account.
Not a good idea!

Is it possible to allow someone who does not subscribe to GR, to access my tree. Something like a guest pass ?

Brian