If you want to add content, simply contact me. Technology allows you to send me a GEDCOM, photos, files and PDF's. If you send it, I understand you are sharing to allow me to use it in the study, either as knowledge or display.

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The TNG system can host several GEDCOMs allowing you to access your own tree line using these features. This data will also be preserved forever. Information and photos can be nicely put into a web page that might help others and be interesting. The blog feature is a nice place to create a story or remembrance to share with others. Again, preserved forever.

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GEDCOMS (Genealogical Data Communication) are special output of Ancestry.com trees or of your genealogy software. They are created by either downloading from Ancestry.com or by the process of exporting in your software, these are two main examples. They are current as of the last time you created it; to add more recent information you simply create a new GEDCOM. It can be important to share and preserve your genealogy information using software techniques; these processes are substitutes for the hand-written family trees someone always had at those family reunions.

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The Yates one-name-study will agree to add your valuable work into its collection using this GEDCOM process. A separate tree will be created in the TNG software to host and display your GEDCOM. In this way you will preserve, share and display your valuable work using all the features of the website. There are many features of TNG that prove helpful in understanding our ancestor's lives.

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Easy Share and Manage GEDCOMS Process

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To successfully accomplish this goal of helping preserve your work and do it in a way that is easy, predictable, routine and recoverable a simple procedure has been created:

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1. You create and save a GEDCOM deciding what information will be included. TNG automatically protects the living and marked private individuals.

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2. A tree will be created for you on the TNG system and the tree will be named as follows: yates-?. You can specify what other name is meaningful to you. For example, we have a tree for James Yates and Agnes Webster and the tree name is yates-webster.

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3. A TNG administrator will import your submitted GEDCOM into your named tree. In the background we will save your tree in a folder on the Yates one-name-study website to preserve your current GEDCOM and provide for the ability to recover, if needed.

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4. To give you the ability to upload and attach photos to people in your GEDCOM relevant to this study would require access to the administrative panel of the website. It can be assured that doing so creates an unwanted exponential level of complexity for all. The compromise is this, if you have a Yates relevant image, I will need to add it to the base tree. The reason for this is the image is associated with the person and the media links are imported via GEDCOM. If you want to send one item with a file name including the person and individual ID# I will add it as time allows.

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5. If you want to have a tree via GEDCOM, you must be a subscriber to the Yates io group. It is planned that we will update all GEDCOM's quarterly, if needed. An alert will be sent to all Yates io members that if they want to update their tree it is time to prepare and share their GEDCOM. And the easiest way to do that is via the share function below as many GEDCOM will not move over email because of size.

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As with many things, this process sounds complicated and stuffy; we are trying to keep it easy for all. If you have a question just pop it on over and we will do our best to help.

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To send me something, https://yates.one-name.net/contribute.htm

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It is our name, not mine; everything you see here, or you contribute, will be preserved and accessible forever, by the Guild. This preservation feature is the number 1 reason you might contribute. Many times, our years of collecting are lost when we die. This is your chance to avoid that.