Please note that with the publication of the 4th Edition of The Genealogist's Internet in February 2009, the links for the 3rd Edition are no longer being updated.

17. Publishing Your Family History Online

Family trees for the web

GEDCOM

• [280] Cyndi's List: GEDCOM
• [280] Dick Eastman, GEDCOM Explained
• [280] David Hawgood, GEDCOM
• [280] The GEDCOM Standard Release 5.5

GEDCOM converters

• [281] Cyndi's List: Cyndi's Genealogy Home Page Construction Kit
• [281] Various Genealogy Presentation Forms
• [281] GEDCOM Conversion Tools

Genealogy databases

Family websites

• [282] Tribal Pages
• [283] MyTrees Online
• [283] Cyndi's List: Cyndi's Genealogy Home Page Construction Kit

Web publishing basics

Web space

• [284] FortuneCity
• [284] Tripod
• [284] RootsWeb
• [284] RootsWeb: Freepages
• [284] Free Webspace
• [285] Peter Christian's Genealogy Pages
• [285] Nominet
• [285] V3
• [285] RootsWeb
• [285] RootsWeb: Cemetery Photos
• [285] RootsWeb: FreeBMD mirror
• [285] Dick Eastman, Create Your Own Web Domain
• [285] Dick Eastman, Create Your Own Web Domain – Part II

What is a web page?

• [287] Sample page (Fig. 17-1)
• [287] World Wide Web Consortium

Software

Editors

• [289] TextPad
• [289] NoteTab

Dedicated web authoring software

• [291] Macromedia (has been taken over by Adobe)
• [291] Netscape
• [291] Evrsoft
• [292] OpenOffice.org
• [292] TUCOWS: Web Building Tools

Online software

• [292] Freeservers
• [292] Tripod
• [292] Geocities

Adobe Acrobat

• [293] Adobe
• [294] Ahnentafel report as PDF file (Fig. 17-7)
• [294] TUCOWS: Image Tools: PDF
• [294] Dick Eastman, What Is PDF and Why Do I Care?
• [294] Dick Eastman, Create Free PDF Files

Dynamic websites

• [296] Free Webspace: Power Search
• [296] PhpGedView
• [296] The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG)
• [297] phpmyfamily
• [297] Advanced Genealogy Tool

Website design

Graphics

• [298] Image Formats
• [298] TUCOWS: Image Tools

Design Tips

• [300] Webmonkey
• [300] Usable Web

Uploading your website

• [300] TUCOWS: FTP (File Transfer Protocol)

Publicity

• [302] RootsWeb: NEW-GEN-URL mailing list
• [302] Cyndi's List: Submit a New Link to Cyndi's List
• [302] RootsWeb: CyndisList mailing list
• [302] CyndisList mailing list: Archives
• [302] Cyndi's List: What's New on Cyndi's List?
• [304] WebMonkey: Authoring. HTML Basics
• [304] Cyndi's List: Cyndi's Genealogy Home Page Construction Kit
• [304] British-Genealogy: Web pages design
• [304] Amazon UK
• [305] Peter Christian, Web Publishing for Genealogy
• [305] Richard S. Wilson, Publishing Your Family History on the Internet
• [305] Computers in Genealogy