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Last Week at OneGreatFamily
Site Activity Summary
247,644 new individual merges!
67,757 new individual hints!
78,985 new family merges!
26,776 new family hints!
141 average individual merges per group
34 average individual hints per group
41 average family merges per group
5 average family hints per group
If you didn't receive a GenMail telling you about new merges in
your family tree, your tree wasn't affected by this activity. You
may want to add new individuals or information to your family tree
to improve the likelihood of matches and merges taking place.
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How can collaboration help me save time, money, and
effort?
One of the promises of OneGreatFamily is that you can meet and collaborate
with family from around the world. The act of creating or submitting
your family tree using OneGreatFamily is the beginning of a collaborative
experience, but OneGreatFamily provides a number of means for collaboration!
So, what is collaborating? Collaborating is when people working on
the same project at the same time, each making changes to the shared
data, and finding who made the changes and when the changes were made.
Collaboration can be very worthwhile if basic ground rules and common
courtesies are followed. The following are some ground rules to follow:
- Before you collaborate with others, organize any information
you have already gathered and try to validate as much of your
own information as possible. Your collaboration will be appreciated
by others if you have your own information to bring to the table.
- When collaborating, it is important to know the difference
between evidence and conclusions. Instead of entering your conclusions
first, look at your evidence and make assertions from the evidence
and further assertions on top of those. In the end your evidence
should support your conclusions.
- Make sure you have detailed information on how, when, and
where you found your information.
- Invite and accept as many individuals as possible to collaborate
on your tree. The more people that collaborate on the same family
tree, the more accurate your family tree will become.
- Make sure the genealogy program that you use allows you to
add, edit, and delete the unwanted information inserted into
your family tree. (OneGreatFamily allows you to delete any information
you don't agree with without impacting other users.)
- Always check to see if your information is accurate by going
to the original family source if possible.
- You will generate better relationships with the people you
collaborate with by updating them about new data found.
OneGreatFamily is designed to allow members to communicate and work
together to build their family trees. Using the "Collaborate" feature
saves you time and effort. OneGreatFamily believes that collaboration
is essential to prevent duplication.Working on your family tree in
OneGreatFamily is collaborative by its very nature.
Whether or not you communicate with distant family through email,
you are still collaborating every time you use OneGreatFamily. You
are adding individuals to the human family tree that will some day
result in hints, merges, and collaboration for others who are also
using OneGreatFamily. To verify information OneGreatFamily provides
a list of the original submitters you can contact. Collaboration is
an essential tool that will accelerate this process and prevent duplication.
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How can I collaborate with others using OneGreatFamily?
Are others working on your family tree right now? You can find out
by seeing what other groups have family trees that include your ancestors.
Follow these simple steps:
- Launch the OneGreatFamily Genealogy Browser
- Select an ancestor on whom you would like to collaborate
- Click on the ancestor in the Handprint View to see the Individual
Details
- Click on the "Collaborate" button found in the lower-left corner
of the Individual Details box
- Click on the "Owners" tab on the "Collaborate with others" window.
This window will show your group and any other group that has
a family tree with this individual
- Expand the groups to see individuals by clicking on the (+)
sign to the left of the group name
- Click on an individual's username to view the user's name and
email address and to send the user a message
- If you have an email application, such as Outlook, clicking
on the "Send" button will open a new email message to send. If
not, you will need to copy the other person's email address and
paste it into the "To:" field of your email application
Whether or not you communicate with distant family through email,
you are still collaborating every time you use OneGreatFamily. You
are adding individuals to the human family tree that will some day
result in hints, merges, and collaboration for others who are also
using OneGreatFamily.
We hope you enjoy collaborating with other genealogists through OneGreatFamily.
Visit OneGreatFamily today to collaborate
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The following experience demonstrates how OneGreatFamily can lead
to remarkable discoveries about family relationships:
I am the mother of 3 and had a ruptured appendix last
summer just the week before we were going to see my husband's family.
We had always thought that my husband's family was just a few households
of mostly older people remaining. I had hoped to someday make a
family tree to preserve what there was of our history. A few names
that my husband's father remembered were all I had to start with,
as his father died when he was very small and his mother kept few
family ties to them. I was so happy to have survived that I determined
to get serious about this project while I was recuperating.
I was amazed at the progress made once I joined One Great Family.
The information I found also reshaped what we thought was the history
of our family. So many interesting lives!
What was most unexpected though, was the impact of the research
on a stranger.
An elderly lady in poor health visited our little church with her
granddaughter. She thought that she and an older brother were about
the last of their generation. They were orphaned and raised separately
by relatives in distant states. The loss of family was very hard
on her.
When we met, she told me that my name was also her grandmother's
name, and some weeks later brought me papers her mother made for
her, detailing all the family names, dates, relationships and places
that she knew.
I copied it and then got to work. I found one woman from the early
1800s that led me to tie all the family together. Our family is
huge! We had no idea!
Best of all, we both have something we have not had . . . family
right near by. What a blessing!
- Mrs. Victoria Fahringer
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