Genealogy Chat

please help, my great great grandmother has implanted herself as the sister of my great grandad, her sn, and whenever you click on her it takes you to the tp, like on a loop. I cannot delete any of them because they 'have either both parents or children' and because it is on a loop I'm stuck. I;ve e-mailed gr but no lick as yet.

If you have a gedcom on your computer that is correct you can upload and it should replace this one

i don;t have one - don;t understand how it all works...

Do you have Familytree? If so you can go into save and save as a gedcom,real easy. I guess any genealogy program would have one

no i don;t. itt's all on different types of flow charts. I'm very unorganised. I really do need to get one though. Any ideas of the best programme to use?>

I like familytree,you might be able to get it on e-bay or Amazon.com, they might have the 2005 cheap then you can upgrade to 2006. This program is very informative gives you kinship too which is nice, It also gives you a web page that you can upload to and they do it for you just make sure you click on the do not include living rellies.

I;ve ordered family tree maker 2006 deluxe. Hopefully it will come soon and i can sort the mess out.

That was quick,did you get it on Amazon? I saw a few there at a good price

Yes I did - found it to be the cheapest. Have been meaning to get one but just kept putting it off - would rather have bought certs, but needs must, thanks for your help

If you want something quick the best thing to do is download the one on LDS site. http://www.familysearch.org It's free and simple to use. I'm still using it two years later! From the home page go to order/download products Click software downloads free Click on PAF 5.2, the top one

Helen, if i use that programme does it put all of the info onto the website?

I got my tree up to date on my software, then uploaded it via a Gedcom onto here ... and it's gone haywire! Besides being married to my husband, it also has me married to a distant cousin in Australia, 30 years before I was born. I'm going to 're'-upload in the next few days and if it's still barmy, will email GR. Tom - definitely get your tree onto some software, DON'T have GR as your only base! Mandy in Somerset

Tom Sorry for the delay in getting back to you, my two kids had cooked a lovely lasagne and salad for my tea as it's Mother's Day. Glass of red to go with it too! The software from the LDS is your own personal tree and is not connected to the website in any way. It's like any other software, you can create Gedcoms, print various charts etc. Owt for nowt, got to be worth a try?

INdeed iy has, many thanks, I'll try i out, but I have ordered FTM 2006 so am looking forwrd to that arriving. What with that and my 5 (or is it 6?) certs due to be despatched last Wednesday I'm going to be rushing hime to see if anything has arrived.

Good luck, I hope you have ordered all the correct ones and find lots of useful information.