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Here is a growing list of articles on various aspects
of creating a genealogy website. Each article can be viewed
by clicking on the link to open its PDF. Be sure and check
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Why Have a Genealogy
Website? |
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The
"e" Imperative
This
article defines what it means to “publish” and
gives an overview of the different ways to publish your
genealogy on the internet with a discussion of the corresponding
level of technical commitment required (including time,
expense, and expertise). |
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Getting Started |
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Overview
- Getting Started on Your Genealogy Website
This is the first chapter from the
book "Getting
Started on Your Genealogy Website." This first
chapter contains a complete overview of the process of planning,
designing, and building a genealogy website. |
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Stake
your Claim with a Domain Name!
This article discusses the topic of domain names for genealogy
websites. We discuss their purpose, strategies for obtaining
a meaningful domain name and how to register a domain name
at www.genealogyhosting.com. |
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Domain
Forwarding (Have Your Cake and Eat it too)
This article shows how to use a domain
name to access a free genealogy website such as provided
by Rootsweb.com’s FreePages services. This is possible
using a technical feature called domain forwarding. Domain
forwarding is a standard feature provided by any domain
registrar such as www.genealogyhosting.com to forward all
network messages from a domain name to an existing website. |
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Instant
Genealogy Website
When you
register a domain name at www.genealogyhosting.com, you
receive a free, ad-supported website. This article is a
summary how to quickly create a genealogy website using
your free website by exporting your data from your genealogy
software program to a series of HTML web pages. Any modern
genealogy software program is capbable of this and the exported
HTML files are a complete "mini-website." Then
you upload this mini-website to your free website. At that
point you have a genealogy website and for the small yearly
fee of a domain name! |
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How To |
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Your
Lifetime Email Address (How to End Email Chaos)
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This article shows how to use
your domain name as your lifetime email address. This is
possible because of the technical feature called email forwarding
that can be easily implemented on any email account at www.genealogyhosting.com.
Also, email forwarding is very useful to convert from an
old eMail account to a new eMail account . |
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The
Genealogy Road Warrior
This
article explains how to adapt your computer tool set for
use on a genealogy research trip. We will show you how to
use your hosting services at www.genealogyhosting.com to
make the research trip as effective as possible. |
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Sharing
a Hosting Plan (Many Websites - One Hosting Plan)
This article explains how to share
a hosting plan among several websites. Sharing a hosting
plan has the advantage that the cost of each individual
website is prorated and there’s a central control
point of the shared websites. |
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Theory |
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Using
the Multilayered Structure to Design a Genealogy Website
This article explains how to use a
multilayered structure to design a genealogy website. A
multilayered structure is a theoretical construct to organize
a body of information. |
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The
Three-Layered Genealogy Website (Simple and Very Effective)
This article gives an explanation
of how to create a three-layered genealogy website. Not
only is this form of a genealogy website easy to create,
it is also a very effective way to organize any genealogy
website. |
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Sample Genealogy
Websites |
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Surname
Website
This article
explains the surname website
www.mannigel.org. A surname website focuses on one surname
and presents genealogy information and biographies of the
author's ancestors with that surname. |
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Elusive
Ancestor Website
This
article explains the elusive ancestor website www.poill27.info.
An elusive ancestor website attempts to prove the genealogy
of a very difficult ancestor in which the author must piece
together scrapes of information to prove the theory of the
ancestor. |
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Genealogy
Workbench
This article
explains the genealogy workbench www.martygale.name.
A genealogy workbench does not contain genealogy information
but is rather a tool for the genealogist to perform genealogy
research. |
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The
Genealogy Essay (A Website with Meaning)
This article explains how to publish a genealogy essay as
a single-purpose website. The genealogy essay is a high
quality literary work that captures some of the meaning
of the author’s family heritage. |
