How to create your Family Map

The Family Map creation requires several steps

1. Collect the data on paper
2. Organize information on your PC
3. Export information in GEDCOM format
4. Upload file to our Family Map Viewer r
5. View and share your Family Map

• Collect

  Well, you need to have some information about your relatives first. No, we do not provide a search engine for genealogy searches. We suggest that you start with people around you whom you can remember off the top of your head. If successful, you can add members of your extended family at a later point.

• Organize

  Next step is to organize your data into a sort of database. Yes, of course, you would like to keep it on your PC. There is plenty of software that will help you do that, some of it free, some rather inexpensive. I personally recommend an excellent package Brother's Keeper for Windows that can be downloaded from http://www.bkwin.com for free. You can do a lot with it, and the amount of genealogical information that is considered to be "valuable" is really great. You do not need the Family Map Viewer to see the data on your PC, because Brother's Keeper has plenty of internal reports and data presentations.

• Export

  When you decide to share your findings on the "family intranet", you should export the data from proprietary formats into a GED file. GEDCOM standard allows applications to exchange genealogical information. On Brother's Keeper for Windows, it can be done by clicking on File > Gedcom > Export. Save the file elsewhere on your hard-drive.

• Upload

• View

• To share your map, just cut and paste the URL from the address bar. We are not using cookies, POST form and commercial advertisement, so anyone who follows the URL will see exactly the same Family Map as you do. If you are sending the Family Map to someone who is on the map, you would probably want to start with him/her as a key.