Re: [Gramps-users] Advice on Sharing, Please

[Hans B. <ha...@bo...>]

I've been doing some investigation into WikiTree. I like the idea of a
collaborative endeavour. However, there seems to be issues when dealing
with thousands of individuals. You can upload your Gedcom file, and the
software will tell you of possible matches with existing people. However,
matches are most likely the further back you go, and if you're dealing with
European ancestors, you probably don't have birth dates, just christening
dates. The problem is that Wikitree's GedMatch doesn't take christening
dates into account, just dates of births and deaths. Since Gedmatch does a
less than ideal job, you have to manually go through all your individuals
to see if they already exist. Not a pleasant proposition if you have
thousands of individuals.

The other problem I see is dual maintenance with Wikitree and Gramps. I'd
like Gramps to be my primary genealogy software and have an easy way to
sync my Wikitree data. But it seems all we have is a proposal for software
that can sync up Gramps with Wikitree.

So far, my inclination is to hold off on Wikitree. At some point, I'll
likely use the web site creation tool to publish my data, though.

Cheers! Hans

On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:30 AM, John Tea <j2...@ya...> wrote:

> I have been using Gramps for some time now and I am always impressed by
> how good it is in its comprehensive functions, ease of use, robustness - a
> big thank you to the developers is well deserved.
> For me, there are 2 downsides to Gramps, and they are 2 sides of the same
> coin really: its not possible to display on the screen a full interactive
> tree (as can be seen of a tree on Ancestry) and it cannot be shared with
> other family members (except by sending a file from time to time).
> Many others must have the same issues, and I wonder how people deal with
> this.
>
> I have no idea how to set up a website (I am well past retirement age, so
> don't ask me to learn something new unless it is in words of 1 syllable and
> can be achieved in 3 or 4 steps!).
>
> Possibilities I have considered are putting my family tree on Family
> Search, WikiTree, Ancestry, or some similar place.  I want to continue
> using Gramps and only keep a copy on the website, but is there any way for
> the two versions to be kept in sync automatically?  I am sure if I do it
> manually they will get out of sync very quickly (already I have forgotten
> what I had for breakfast this morning!)
>
> Any help, advice, or experiences will be gratefully appreciated
>
> Many thanks
> John
>
> I am using Gramps 3.4.3-1 on Windows 7, 32 bit
> My tree has 7,000 people; 13,000 events; 1,622 places; 12,000 citations
>
>
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