Publishing Your Family History Online

Publishing options

Pedigree databases

A personal website

Document sharing

• [355] Scribd
• [355] Scribd: Ancestor Report
• [356] Dropbox
• [356] Dropbox: Ancestor Report
• [356] Dick Eastman: Publish Your Genealogy Database on the Web with Dropbox

Family trees for the web

GEDCOM

• [357] Dick Eastman: GEDCOM Explained
• [357] GEDCOM specification
• [357] Cyndi's List: GEDCOM

Genealogy databases

Family websites

• [359] TribalPages
• [359] MyTrees.com

Web publishing basics

What is a website?

Web space

• [361] Open Directory: UK Web Hosting
• [361] Hostratings
• [361] Hostfinder MOVED
• [361] Google Sites
• [361] Request a Web Space Account - currently unavailable
• [361] AncestryHost
• [361] Free Webspace
• [361] Go.to
• [362] Nominet
• [362] Matt Doyle: How to Set Up Your Own Domain Name
• [362] Dick Eastman: Create Your Own Web Domain
• [362] Dick Eastman: Create Your Own Web Domain – Part II

What is a web page?

• [363] Figure 20-4
• [363] World Wide Web Consortium

Software

Editors

• [365] TextPad
• [365] NoteTab

Word processors

• [366] LibreOffice
• [366] OpenOffice.org

Dedicated web authoring software

• [366] EvrSoft: FirstPage
• [366] Nvu
• [366] Blue Griffon
• [368] TUCOWS: Development & Web Authoring (Windows)
• [368] TUCOWS: Development & Web Authoring (Mac)

Online software

Adobe Acrobat

• [368] Adobe
• [369] TUCOWS: PDF Tools
• [369] Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter

Databases and spreadsheets

• [369] Figure 20-7

Dynamic websites

• [370] Free Webspace: Power search
• [371] The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding
• [371] FamilySearch: Community Family Trees
• [371] Peter Christian's Genealogy Pages
• [371] PhpGedView

Uploading your website

• [372] FileZilla

Publicity

Search engines

• [372] Google: Crawl URL
• [372] Bing: Submit your site to Bing
• [372] Google: Webmaster Tools
• [372] Bing: Webmaster Tools

Discussion forums

Cyndi's List

• [373] Cyndi's List: Submit a New GENEALOGY Link to Cyndi's List MOVED
• [374] RootsWeb: Cyndi's List mailing list
• [374] RootsWeb: Cyndi's List mailing list archive
• [374] Cyndi's List: What's New on Cyndi's List?

Requesting links

Preserving your family history

Help and advice

• [375] About.com: Web Design Basics
• [375] Genealogy Web Creations
• [375] Dick Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• [375] British-Genealogy: Web pages design forum
• [375] RootsWeb: GENCMP mailing list

In print

• [376] Peter Christian: Web Publishing for Genealogy
• [376] Richard S. Wilson: Publishing Your Family History on the Internet

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This page was last revised by Peter Christian, December 09 2016.
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