Genealogy Forum UK

Hi All,
Trust me to touch a soft spot within a couple of days, sorry

Thanks for all the advice on the forum, time to sort the tree out so head down for a couple of days at least.

Graeme

Thanks for the advice Jo and Mark, soooo.... if I am on Ancestry and find say a census/certificate/photo entry for my relative can I attach / scan or otherwise grab it then paste it in my tree as a source, and can I then show anyone else or send a copy of the tree containing the certificate or whate...

Thanks Jo, will have a look at Tribal Pages, perhaps like you use Ancestry to search a basic text only tree and use Tribal to store and present sources, certificates and photos on the PC and a stick for safety.suppose I have got to add the in laws back into the tree, hay ho!

Graeme

I hear you Jo, Spent the last ten days on this hour after hour, not been this bad since Command and Conquer RED ALERT came out. The bit that put the wind up me a bit was how easy it was to lose half your tree with one mistake. I must admit being new I haven't done the copy all certificates in an A4 ...

Hi, do Gedcom files copy just the typed data only or should it pick up all the source documents, photos etc. The reason I ask is that I have started to use Ancestry and have been searching and down loading like crazy. This prog is amazing in finding people on other users trees and linking them. This...

Thank you all for your welcome, will post question re software in that forum.
Regards Graeme

Hi, just started looking at family trees, I think it's an age thing in that I now have the time and on receiving my bus pass mortality raises it's head. I have a beginners question about which software to use and how to protect the information searched in my tree by backing it up onto hard drives ra...