Planting Your Family Tree Online - Companion to Chapter 6

Planting Your Family Tree Online - Companion Web Site

		Planting Your Family Tree Online: How To Create Your Own Family History Web Site A BRAND NEW book by Cyndi Howells Creator of Cyndi's List Published by Rutledge Hill Press A Division of Thomas Nelson, Inc. PO Box 141000, Nashville, Tennessee 37214
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Companion to Chapter 6

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Figure 6.2

Ancestral Quest, www.ancquest.com
Ancestry Family Tree, aft.ancestry.com
Brother's Keeper, www.bkwin.org
Family Origins, www.formalsoft.com
Family Tree Maker, www.familytreemaker.com (Updated)
Generations, www.genealogy.com
Legacy Family Tree, www.legacyfamilytree.com
The Master Genealogist, www.whollygenes.com, Second Site www.johncardinal.com/ss/
PAF-Personal Ancestral File, www.familysearch.org/eng/paf/
Reunion, www.leisterpro.com
RootsMagic, www.rootsmagic.com

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Figure 6.2
Thomas Clough's genealogy site (www.tomclough.com/SS/p33.htm#i815) (Updated)

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The GEDCOM Standard Release 5.5, homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~pmcbride/gedcom/55gctoc.htm

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GEDCOM-to-HTML conversion programs

GED2HTML: A GEDCOM to HTML Translator
www.starkeffect.com/ged2html/ (Updated)
Ged2Web
www.wtoram.co.uk/ged2web/ged2web.htm
GED2WWW
www.lesandchris.com/ged2www/ (Broken, unable to find new address)
GED4WEB GEDCOM to HTML Genealogy Webpage Software
www.ged4Web.com/
GEDCOM to HTML service on rootsweb.ancestry.com
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~nozell/gedcom-service.html
GedHTree
www.gedhtree.com/gedhtree.htm
Gedpage
www.gedpage.com (Updated)
Genealogy Site Builder
www.bargeron.com/software/gsb/index.htm (Broken, unable to find new address)
GeneWeb (in French, Dutch, Swedish and English versions for Unix and Windows)
pauillac.inria.fr/~ddr/GeneWeb/
Indexed GEDCOM Method for GenWeb Authoring
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~gumby/igm.html
Kinship Archivist
www.kinshiparchivist.com
Oxy-Gen: The Ultimate GedCom Converter
www.oxy-gen-soft.net/index_en.php (Updated)
PerlGed (a shareware Perl script that generates Web pages on the fly from a GEDCOM file)
www.etgdesign.com/perlged/ (Broken, unable to find new address)
phpGedView
phpgedview.sourceforge.net/
Publish Your Own PDF Genealogy Book Electronically on the Web
www.ldpierce.com/publishpdf.html
"Relatives" Genealogical Software
www.genealogysoft.com/en/about.html (Updated)
RootsView
www.natural-software.com/rootsview.htm
Sparrowhawk (a GEDCOM-to-HTML conversion program for the Macintosh)
bradandkathy.com/genealogy/sparrowhawk.html
uFTi homepage (Windows software for creating HTML Web pages)
www.ufti.com/ (Broken, unable to find new address)
UncleGED
uncleged.codeplex.com (Updated)

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Figure 6.5
Don Knibbs' genealogy site (knibbs.family.users.btopenworld.com/fam010.html) (Broken, unable to find new address)

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Supplemental Software Utilities - Text-Replacement Software

NoteTab Pro
www.notetab.com
TextPipe Pro
www.datamystic.com/textpipe.html (Updated)
XReplace-32
xreplace.vestris.com

To learn more about genealogy software, go to www.CyndisList.com/software/

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Family Group Sheet (myweb.cableone.net/treeclimber/pedigre2.htm) (Updated)

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Using HTML Editors

Arachnophilia
arachnoid.com/arachnophilia/index.html
BBEdit
www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/index.shtml
Coffee Cup
www.coffeecup.com
Dreamweaver
www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver/ (Updated)
FrontPage
www.microsoft.com/frontpage/
HotDog
www.sausagetools.com (Updated)
Macromedia HomeSite
www.adobe.com/products/homesite/ (Updated)
NoteTab
www.notetab.com

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Figure 6.8 (copy and paste family group sheet)

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Your Name">
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Insert your list of surnames here">
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Insert a one line description of your site.">
<TITLE>Insert the title of your site-Insert the name of the chapter or page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
<H2 ALIGN=CENTER>Insert Title of Page Here</H2>
<DL>
<DT><B> Husband's Full Name </B>
<DD>b: date, place
<DD>d: date, place
<DD>Parents:  <B>Husband's Parent's Names</B>
</DL><P>

<DL>
<DT>Spouse:<B>Wife's Full Name</B>
<DD>b: date, place
<DD>m: date, place
<DD>d: date, place
<DD>Parents:  <B>Wife's Parent's Names</B>
</DL><P>

<B># Children:</B><P>

<DL>
<DT><B>Full Name of 1st Child</B>
<DD>b: date, place
<DD>d: date, place
<DD>Spouse:  <B>Spouse's Full Name</B>
<DD>b: date, place
<DD>m: date, place
<DD>d: date, place
<DD>Parents:  <B>Spouse's Parent's Names</B>
<DD>Children:  # of children
</DL><P>

<I>Sources and more detailed information are available upon request.</I><P>

<HR SIZE=1>
<ADDRESS>
Your Full Name <BR>
Your contact information with e-mail address <BR>
Updated (last date here) <BR>
Copyright and disclaimer statements <BR>
</ADDRESS>
</BODY>
</HTML>

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NoteTab Pro (www.notetab.com)

In the <FONT> tag, you can specify a font name, color, or size attribute:

<FONT Name="Arial" Color="#000000" Size="+1">

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HTML Tutorials Online

Barebones Guide to HTML
werbach.com/barebones/
HTML Help by the Web Design Group
www.htmlhelp.com/
Writing HTML-A Tutorial for Creating WWW Pages
www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/tut/index.html

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Figure 6.11 (copy and paste basic page)

<HTML>
<HEAD>
<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Your Name">
<META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Insert your list of surnames here">
<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="Insert a one line description of your site.">
<TITLE>Insert the title of your site - Insert the name of the chapter or page</TITLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY>
Title of the Site
Insert graphics, text, data, etc.
<ADDRESS>
Your Full Name <BR>
Your contact information <BR>
Updated (last date here) <BR>
Copyright and disclaimer statements <BR>
</BODY>
</HTML>

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Getting Help from Friends and Professionals

Freepages-Help (for anyone whose site is hosted on RootsWeb)
lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/RootsWeb_Support/Freepages-Help.html
GENCMP
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_computing.html#GENCMP-L
GEN-COMP-TIPS
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_computing.html#GEN-COMP-TIPS
GEN-WEB-DESIGN
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_computing.html#GEN-WEB-DESIGN
HTMLHELP
www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jfuller/gen_mail_computing.html#HTMLHELP

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