About
webfam.net is a wiki where anyone can enter and update his or her own genealogy data in order to print a family tree book from it. The books make nice gifts, and cost about $25 each, depending on size and print quality. If you'd like to order a family tree book, email patrick@webfam.net.Inviting Relatives
It is very useful to invite relatives to help you fill out and correct your family tree before printing a book. When you add a living relative to your family tree, you can also enter that person's email address. If you then click "invite" under that person's name, the relative will get an email from webfam.net with an easy login link. The relative can then help you input and correct family data for the book.To add a child to someone who does not yet have a spouse entered, you must first add a "spouse" to that person, and then add the child to that marriage, to record who both parents are. The marriage need not be a legal marriage. For the purposes of this site, having a child with someone makes you "married" to the other parent. Genealogy is all about who had children with whom.
If you want to explicitly point out that no marriage occurred, start by creating a marriage, and then edit the marriage and put "true" in the field "marriage never happened". Then the other parent will not be referred to as a husband or wife on the site or in a book made from the site data.
Privacy
The public can view and edit only dead people. Logged-in users can view and edit their own living blood relatives as well. Spouses can also view and edit their husband's or wife's living relatives. Addresses and phone numbers are not allowed on the site or in the books at all. To order a book with living people listed in it, you or your spouse must be related to them by blood.The books are printed on a one-off basis with the latest data each in each printing.