Is there a place on Wikitree where I can store a tool I developed to aid in the study of a specific family line?

Question

I have built an Excel workbook that is taken from the "Ray of Denston, etc" genealogy book available at FamilySearch.  I have extracted the Ray line only, but have organized it to show the pedigree of the Rays from the initial Ray of Denardston (Denston), Suffolk, England, showing the text as depicted in that book.  The workbook makes it easier to trace specific individuals than is possible in the original text.,

Comments

Perhaps this could be incorporated into the Ray Name Study.

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Thank you Nelda.  I have communicated with the study's leadership to request membership and guidance.

Answer 1

While I imagine the Ray Name Study would be interested in the data you've collected, I would love to see an Excel workbook format that might help organize the study of a family line. Mine is a mess LOL. 

Although you can only upload Adobe PDF file or an image in GIF, JPG, or PNG format to WIkiTree, you could upload the document to Google docs Sheets, then make a free space page here on WIkiTree - something like "Family Line Study Tool: Excel Workbook."  On the page you could describe what the workbook is, perhaps add some screenshots of how you used it for your Ray line, instructions on how to use it, and place a link to the google doc workbook for download. 

Alternatively, perhaps someone on the apps team has an idea for a repository for items like this?  Perhaps if you add an "apps" tag to your original post it might get their attention.

Comments

You said "I would love to see an Excel workbook format that might help organize the study of a family line."

The only problem is that everything depends on the goals of the One Name Study. There is not a single way to "study a family line", so there's not going to be a standard format that one can create.

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There is truth in what you say, and it is also true that there may be a format that would be a good starting place for others to adjust to their own needs and save a lot of design time, and that may work for others as-is.

Som other truths: :-) 

• "The best is the enemy of the good."  Voltaire
• "Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without."  ~Confucius
• "Striving to better, oft we mar what's well."  ~ Shakespeare

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You have probably envisioned something that is well beyond what I have actually done.  That said, the url is in my scratchpad on my homepage.

Best of luck!  Contact me anytime with questions.  

Answer 2

You really want to use Google Sheets for this. It's a free spreadsheet tool that works with all of the other Google tools (Drive, Docs, Slides, Calendar, etc.)

You can, if you want, also share it with anyone, and people can work on it collaboratively at the same time, anywhere in the world. You control all permissions to the file, whether view only, or edit access.

Then you can keep a link to this Google Sheet on your Scratchpad on your home page in WikiTree.

I've done this a lot.

Edit: Oh, and Google Sheets can read in an Excel spreadsheet. So you don't have to worry about converting it or re-building it from scratch.

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Thanks for correcting that.  I tend to use the name  Google "Docs" as a general term for all of them, and I keep forgetting that it is not.

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Thanks,  eric.  I'm trying it out now.