Posts from 'Background infos'

On Sunday, the photo albums and profile images could not be displayed for about 6 hours. The amount of emails on this topic showed us that you’ve noticed that, too. Whatever the guys over at Amazon were doing, their server where we store the photos was inexplicably unavailable. So please don’t blame it on us, we’re innocent.

But don’t panic in these cases: The images are safely stored and will be displayed again as soon as the connection to the server is reestablished. For those of you who tried to upload a portrait image during the server downtime: Please try again, the photos will now be stored correctly.

It’s been all over the media today: A British pensioner claims to have the world’s largest family tree with 10,000 people and William the Conqueror and Alfred the Great among his ancestors. He spent around GBP 20,000 and 28 years on research. As he started his tree when the word “internet” was science fiction for most of us, he had to follow the paper trail to his family’s past. That is why his work is clearly a remarkable achievement and so the odds are looking good that he makes it to a Guinness World Record. Here’s his homepage.

If you don’t want to enter your email address and password everytime you enter itsourtree.com, you can click “Remember me.” on the login page. Then, you will be redirected directly to your tree when entering itsourtree.com.

Please have in mind that this option is for home use only. For the sake of your data’s safety, this should not be used on public computers like e.g. in internet cafes.

For all those of you who always wanted to know how to rise the percentage of completion of the profile, here’s the answer:

You start with 40% and for adding of information to the categories Basics, Contact, Work, Education and Favourites you will get a fixed number of percentage points. If you upload your profile picture you will also be rewarded. The points at a glance:

• Basics: + 5 points
• Work: + 5 points
• Education: + 10 points
• Favourites: + 10 points
• Contact: + 15 points
• Portrait photo: + 15 points

As it is among the best-known genealogy link sites on the net, some of you will probably know the site. Cyndi’s list has about 264,000 links in 180 categories, being updated monthly since 1995. The links are sorted by country/region (From Africa to Wales) or topics (e.g. adoption, migration, religion, wars…).

Furthermore, you will find information on cities, passenger lists, museums, archives, translations of genealogical terms, mailing lists, maps and much much more. Enjoy browsing through the list!

As announced previously, we’ve been moving this weekend. Beating the odds, we managed not to break anything and all servers are in good condition. We love the beautiful new office that finally provides us with the space our expanding team needed so badly! To prove that we’ve been working, here are some pictures of us moving the office: