There are a number of membership options with
TribalPages.com, which differ in cost and inclusive
benefits. The following lists the available options (the
benefits are discussed in the editors verdict):
- Free
Membership
- Standard
Membership: $1.95/month
- Premium
Membership: $2.95/month
- Deluxe
Membership: $3.95/month
- Free to join, family history and
genealogy site.
- Build your own family history
website online.
- Over 350,000 private and secure
family trees with over 50 million names.
- Invite family and friends to view
and update your family tree and website.
- Automatically generate charts and
reports from the info on your tree
- Privacy and Security - separate
passwords for visitors and administrators.
- Import a GEDCOM file to upload a
partially complete family tree from elsewhere.
- Ancestor, Descendant and Family maps
provide a unique look at where your family came
from!
- Keep track of birthdays and
anniversaries using your tree.
- Maintain contact information on the
site alongside the tree.
- Complete FAQs and online
support.
TribalPages is a US-based site which
allows users to create a comprehensive family history website,
complete with family tree, which can be viewed and
updated by family members and published online through
TribalPages. The site is free to join, though in order to
access the range of features available on the site, it is
necessary to upgrade to one of the paid membership
options. The greatest asset of this site is the sheer
range of editable materials that are included when you
create a family tree with TribalPages - users can include
images, contact details, copies of original
documentation, Reports, Maps, Relationships, Events and
Stories. This creates a really rich and detailed family
history website that is perfect to share with other
members of your family.
There are a range of different subscription membership
options available with TribalPages, though we were
pleasantly surprised to note that none are particularly
expensive compared with other similar sites. Free users
can create a family tree complete with up to fifty
images, have partial access to printable charts, view
pedigree and descendant charts, create photo albums and
slideshows and view the birthday and event calendar.
Standard and Premium membership opens up (to varying
degrees) access to the address book, detailed individual
notes, advanced charts and reports, custom events, online
photo resolution and more. Standard and Premium
membership also allows users to back up their research,
and ensures their sites remain permanently ad-free.
Deluxe membership (the most expensive at $3.95 per month),
allows users access to all of the features of the site,
complete with the capacity to include more than 5000
images on their site. Considering the most expensive
membership option is still relatively cheap, we would
suggest subscribing to the Deluxe membership option to
ensure you have access to all that TribalPages has to
offer.
We firmly believe that this site really comes into its
own when research that has been conducted into a family's
history is accessible by all members of the family. We
were particularly impressed by the complex privacy and
security settings that were featured on TribalPages which
allow users the capacity to vary their privacy settings
depending on who is viewing the page, so that information
viewable by 'guests' is full or partial, and provides
visitors and administrators with different passwords to
improve security. This is a great touch, and we were very
impressed by it!
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