imcon (9/28/2005)
I'd like to know how other people work with the database (
tree) "on the way"? Do you visit your relatives? How do you collect the
informations? Maybe I just missed something.
If I visit my relatives, I typically take my laptop with me. If need be, I'll create a screenshot of the tree and zip the html report pages together and send that to the person who I want to check it or add new info. (Especially since I am using around 60 different Genomaps, one for each one of the different last names.)
However, I find it easiest to directly input all the results from my visits into Genopro, since it allows me to do additional checks. Often I found out that nephews were of slightly different parents that the interviewed people said, which I can then immediately check with them.
imcon (9/28/2005)
And I ask myself another question: Ronald said that his relatives regularly look regularly at his pages with the
genealogy. That's nice and I wish my relatives will do the same. On the other hand - do you think they will do the same within next 30,40 or 60
years? Some of my ancestors I have in my tree are from 1650 and I want that at least part of my work will last (will be accessible) many years therefore I need to redistribute it to many
places (relatives) the way that our descendants will be able to read it in 2100, 2200..... (hopefully).
My ancestry tree now goes back to somewhere around 1550.. The way I save the data is by doing the following...
- provide a copy of all images, html, GENCOM and genopro .GNO and .XML file on a DVD (it doesn't fit a CD anymore) and provide that once to my relatives. It will happen this year during our family reunion. Besides that, I have a password protected website which has the whole tree including low-res fotos etc on it, so people can check the tree themselves. This allows them to quickly check whether I put newly provided data properly in the tree.
- Once I am happy enough with the whole thing, I'll start looking at an HTML2PDF converter (I know they exist) and will probably move everything into an PDF every now and then. However, even then, I won't have everything I have in the PDF. since that would also be an PDF file which doesn't fit a CD....(Most photos maps etc I have are around 600 KB jpegs, and I have a lot of those :-) )
rgds,
Ronald