dynastree’s Turkish version, akrabaonline, will be launched tomorrow! We are happy about this expansion and the extended possibilities it offers to Turkish-speaking people around the world. On the occasion of these exciting news, this week’s poll question appeals to Turks and those of Turkish descent.
Today, we celebrate dynastree’s 2nd birthday! We are proud of the great success and happy about the fact that dynastree has been growing constantly, there are more than 9 million members signed up, and over 90 million profiles have been added so far. We would like to thank all our users for joining dynastree and all their input and support.
From now on, dynastree is also present on Facebook and Twitter, check it out!
Have a nice Friday and a relaxing weekend everyone!
A new version (1.04) of dynastree Home Edition has been released today and is available for download:
The help section has now completely been translated to Spanish and Portuguese, and some bugs have been fixed.
To install the new version, download the file via the link above, and then double-click it and follow the instructions.
A complete manual for the program is included under “Help”.
dynastree Home Edition is designed for creating a family tree offline, and can alsobe used to edit back-ups of family trees exported from the dynastree website. It allows for editing a host of different file formats, e.g. the popular and widespread GEDCOM format (.ged), but also .csv, and .xml.
Please visit our Infocenter to find out more.
Tomoji Tanabe, who was said to be the oldest living man of the world, died at his home in the city of Miyakonojo on the island of Kyushu (southern Japan). He was 113.
Mr. Tanabe was listed as the world’s oldest man in the Guiness Book of World Records since 2007, he is succeeded by British veteran Henry Allingham who is also 113 years old. Mr. Allingham is also the last surviving founder of the Royal Airforce, the last of two British survivors of the First World War, and also the last man to have witnessed the Battle of Jutland.
Asked for the secret to a long life on his last birthday in September, Mr. Tanabe gave the advice not to drink or smoke. He was known to get up at half past five every morning, drink a glass of milk every day, and read the newspaper every morning. The Japanese are known for their longevity, the life expectancy is among the world’s highest – almost 86 years for women, and 79 for men. According to recent inquiries, more than 36,000 Japanese are more than a hundred years old. A reason often cited is the very healthy traditional diet including a lot of seafood and rice – Mr. Tanabe’s favorite dishes were fried shrimp and Japanese miso soup with clams.
Quite the opposite applies to Mr. Allingham: the Briton once humorously cited “cigarettes, whisky and wild, wild women” as beneficial to his high age.
Today, we’ve got a very interesting link tip for you: World-O-Meters. This page shows various world statistics in real time. Visitors can observe the changes in world population, how many tons of food are produced or the amount of energy consumed worldwide.
The original idea for a project of statistics in real time has been started by a team of experts and researchers who plan to add the largest number of people in statistics or even to create a tool to measure the planet’s “pulse”.
These are todays statistics of the world population:
WorldOMeter’s data is collected from various organizations and institutions as well as from statistics from around the world. The meter of statistics in real time is based on algorithms developed by the developers of the project, according to their forecasts on the evolution of different parameters.
The new year starts with good news: dynastree will soon be available in Russian, too! Не прекрасные ли это новости?!
The Russian platform will be called semyaonline.ru (Family Online) or семьяонлайн.ру in Cyrillic. Russian will be our 9th language and the 13th country version. The site will most likely be ready for launch by the end of January/at the beginning of Febuary, you can then finally invite all those Russian relatives to your family tree who cannot speak any of our other languages. Until then, you can follow our Russian blog and keep an eye on what our new colleague Anna is doing… 
To get to the poster configurator, click on the poster icon in the upper right corner of your family tree. The configuration and order of a family tree consists of 5 simple steps.
In the first step you set the central person for the poster. Your name is set as default, but you can choose any other person (e.g. Grandpa) as central person. Simply type in the first letters of the person’s name.
Then you have to choose between different tree views. Available are:
Step 2: Wallpaper
In the second step you choose your background wallpaper. So far, there are five templates available, we’ll add more in the future.
Afterwards, you can set a poster title such as “Doe family tree”.
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Step 3: Profiles
The third step deals with the profiles’ looks. Profile images: yes or no, how to treat the birth names? Birthdays and obits on your printout? In the end you set whether wedding anniversaries and -icons are to be shown on the connecting lines.
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Step 4: Format
In step four you choose the printout format. We offer the following formats/prices:
A2 (23.39 x 16.54 in): £ 19.00
A1 (33.11 x 23.39 in): £ 25.00
A0 (46.91 x 33.11 in): £ 45.00
Panorama “Generations” (62.99 x 35.43 in): £ 49.00
Panorama S (35.43 x 11.81 in): £ 19.00
Panorama M (31.50 x 17.72 in): £ 25.00
Panorama L (59.05 x 19.69 in): £ 35.00
Panorama XL (118.11 x 39.37 in): £ 85.00
Panorama XXL (177.17 x 59.06 in): £ 169.00
We recommend a size for every poster. On the right side, you see the entire poster and a profile node with a scale. That way, you can see directly what the family tree will look like on the poster format and the size of the profile nodes. If you switch off the photos in the profiles, a size of 0,7 x 0,8 inch is perfectly alright.
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Step 5: Address and payment data
In the last step you enter a billing address and, if necessary, a delivery address. If you have a dynastree voucher you can enter it here, too. The total will automatically be reduced by the voucher value. Currently, dynastree accepts Visa or Master Card. At the end, doublecheck all data, especially the address and then click “Submit order!”.
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You will then receive an order confirmation and an invoice via email. You can check your order status on your “Overview” page at any time.
Genealogy has become a very popular hobby in the English-speaking world and every day there are new genealogy websites popping out of every corner of the net. But which sites are worth surfing to? Where can I get answers to or at least help with the genealogical questions: "Who are my ancestors?" and "Where does my family come from?"
That is why dynastree is looking for the Top 50 Genealogy Sites on the internet! The sites will be awarded the dynastree Top 50 seal and we’ll present them on our award page.
Now it’s up to you: recommend sites in the comments on this post or send us an email to info@dynastree.com.
Some of you have a very large family tree that traces back ancestors to times before Christ. In the past, these birth dates could not be entered in our system. From now on, you can enter such years simply by adding a "-" in front of the year. Example: To enter the year 128 B.C. you have to type in -128 in the "year" field. So don’t hesitate to add you B.C.-ancestors 
In the past, you frequently wished to be able to delete persons you already invited. From now on, you can delete those profiles! As long as the person has not yet accepted the invitation, you can simply click on the little "x" on the person’s profile.
