Ancestry is a good start. I use it often, and find it intuitive, but...
I find Ancestry is lacking when doing house history research and
street/community histories. It doesn’t manage non-familial relationships,
such as domestic servants or neighbours, at all. And there are no tools to
find people from a known address, even though Ancestry has the data already
indexed. On the plus side, a tree can be exported as a GEDCOM file, for use
in other tools.
Heritage organisations like Yvonne’s (and the one I volunteer at) want help
presenting multiple family data as interlocking communities. That’s to
answer questions like “Who lived in this house?”, and “What became of the
families who lived on this street?”.
If any readers know of tools for organising multiple unrelated trees, that
would be really helpful. I’m minded to have a go at developing such a tool
myself, but it’d be an effort!
Matthew Shaw
On Tue, 16 Apr 2019 at 14:09, Richard Light <[log in to unmask]>
wrote:
> Yvonne,
>
> Arguably Ancestry is the 'worst of both worlds', in that it's not fully
> public (being behind a paywall) but it *is *public to those who
> subscribe. If you're happy for your data to be 'out in the open', I would
> look at WikiTree, which is aiming to build a shared public family tree
> without any limitations.
>
> Best wishes,
>
> Richard
> On 16/04/2019 13:35, Sheila Perry wrote:
>
> Hi Yvone,
> There are quite a few existing family tree databases and you can also
> construct one on the Ancestry website if you don't want a freestanding one,
> though I feel there might be some privacy issues around storing this online
> Personally I use Family Historian software to keep my own family research
> in, but I think Family Tree Maker is the most popular. I found a quick
> summary online of the features of 5 programs including the two already
> mentioned:
> https://www.smarterhobby.com/genealogy/best-genealogy-software/
>
> Best wishes,
> Sheila Perry
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> *Subject:* [MCG] Family Tree database
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> Hi everyone, here at Bishopsteignton Heritage we are receiving a great
> deal of family history material, which cross references with lots of other
> family info. We want to construct a Family Tree type database that is
> easily searchable and displayed in a format that is easily accessible. Does
> anyone know of any such databases already in existence, to save us
> reinventing the wheel?
> Thanks Yvonne
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