- Sending Additions and Corrections
- Quality and accuracy are very important to us, and we try to follow this Family Trees - Top 10 Tips if you have done similar then it saves a lot of time!
- Sending a GEDCOM is the best way to submit corrections and additions as we have processes in place for dealing with them quickly.
Other formats e.g. text, Word or PDF documents are welcome, but they will take longer to be incorporated into the site.
- Why Join The Family?
- MyVirtualSelf.com is totally free to use and absolutely non-profit making.
- We can help you get in contact with living relatives.
- Get your name and/or website added to the Credits section of MyVirtualSelf.com by helping to improve the tree.
- Get your own website listed in the Links section of MyVirtualSelf.com by providing a reciprocal link.
- Use us as a data-backup! If you have submitted a GEDCOM and then suffer computer problems we can regenerate a GEDCOM containing the data you supplied and send it to you.
We've had contact with about 600 people with definite family connections to the family tree on MyVirtualSelf. Many offered thanks having found the site useful to their research and most were able to provide further information to help us improve the tree. Our aim is to help you with your research, maybe you are already able to help others?
- How Can You Help?
- Share your research with others for FREE by sending us a GEDCOM!
- If you are intend joining/using Ancestry or wish to buy Family Tree Maker etc then please use our links. We get a minor commision to help pay for the site.
- How We Add Your Tree
Experience has led to the following prefered method:
- Delivery: We receive a GEDCOM file via email, thank-you.
- Verification: We chose a random sample from your GEDCOM and check its accuracy.
- Cleanse: We populate any missing data, correct errors, remove redundant and non connected items.
- Standardise:: We amend information such as occupations and locations to match all other similar records on MyVirtualSelf.com
- Merge: We import your individuals into MyVirtualSelf.com and merge the duplicates. We stamp an unpublished user-code against each record you provided.
- Credit: We add to MyVirtualSelf whatever links and credit you want.
- Publishing: We refresh the whole site, now including all the people from your GEDCOM, and with the credit to you.
Another alternative is that we simply create a separate 'tree' to hold your data and provide links to it from the main tree. In this case no Cleansing or Standardisation will take place.
- How We Give You Credit
- The usual method is that on our credits page we list any/all of your name, your email, your website, a summary of your contribution.
- Your email and details will not be given to anyone unless you have specifically requested it. We are willing to forward messages to related members but initiating further contact is down to them.
- If you wish no further contact we simply delete all your contact details and give you a unique user-code, in case you wish to re-open contact where you left off.
- Why We Clense and Standardise
- When presenting a large amount of information it is far easier for the reader if it is presented in a similar manner.
- We map all locations by Latitude and Longitude to allow further anaylsis at a later date.
- We have a number of developments planned to expand the site, including facilities to allow query creation. Without standardising/mapping items such as Occupation and Location queries such as "Distance between places of birth for married couples in the 1850's would be impossible.
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NB. MyVirtualSelf.com do not publish or even store any information on living individuals.
We replace all their details with the word "Living".
