We now have our own genealogy viewing hosted on our own site, and which we can all edit! This far surpasses the text-based family tree information. The files as I have done so far for the A.B. Jones & Jane Poindexter Clingman, and also the Guilford line is already in the database.

What can you do with this?

• View the genealogy
• Upload your own GEDCOM files for genealogy data you have created on your computer.
• Edit the data online.

How do you access it?

1. Click on the 'visit' link below or
2. Click on the Online Genealogy link here or in the left sidebar.

How do you get to edit and add data?

You have to register. Yeah, bummer: register on this site, register on the email list, now register for the genealogy database. Just do it. It's a multi-step process so be patient. The system sends you a message to verify and you have to click that, then the system sends a message to the administrator to have you approved, then it sends you back your approval. Complicated? Yes, but necessary in order to protect the data.

Everyone can see the basic data, but you must register and be approved specifically to be able to do any editing.

Eventually I hope that the genealogy program will be tightly integrated with our website software, but right now you just have to register in both places. I suggest you use the identical login and password as you use for the website.

About this program

This is free software that I've discovered. It has quite a few users and appears to be very stable. Let's give it a try. For the curious, it's called PhpGedView. The 'Php" refers to the programming language it's written in, the 'Ged' refers to the 'gedcom' file format for exchanging genealogy data between and among different genealogy programs.