Some people encounter difficulties when trying to upload their GEDCOM file, especially when the file is REALLY big and contains a lot of information on relatives and ancestors. If the server returns a timeout or any other error message, try to zip the GEDCOM file and choose the .zip file for the upload. The server will automatically unzip the file and continue with the GEDCOM import.
This week, we beat the records regarding profiles worldwide!
That’s quite a lot, thank you for your faith in itsourtree.com! So far, more than 5 million families collaborate on their family trees. Our country sites in 9 different languages support international families all around the world, and this makes us the fastest-growing family network worldwide!
If you want to know more about something you probably google it or look it up on Wikipedia, “the biggest multilingual free-content encyclopedia on the Internet”. Have you ever tried to look up itsourtree.com? You’ll find all the important facts about the site and our company in a nutshell. As always, everyone’s invited to add information or images to the article as we can’t do it ourselves, of course. 
You’ve got your own blog or homepage and would like to show itsourtree.com on your site and recommend it to others? Why don’t you use the banner below to show your love!
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It’s really easy: simply download the .zip file below to your computer and show the world where you’re tracing your roots. In the file, you find the Wordpress-Code and the HTML code for your homepage.
Earlier today, one of our switches broke down so that the communication between our servers was severely disturbed. That is why we had a longer downtime today. A new switch has been installed and everything’s back up and running.
When you ask a genealogist for the reason why he dedicates himself to genealogy, he’ll probably come up with the following answer: “I wanted to find out about my roots, who I am and where I come from”. When it comes to the catalyst of genealogical research, the answers will surely be more individual. So: what made you passionate about genealogy?
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:
