Links

The links are from both the UK and US editions of the book are listed here by the chapter in which they are mentioned. Lists of links organized by topic will be found on the software and reference pages.

1: Introduction

• Genuki
• Peter Christian, "Genealogical Publishing on the World Wide Web"
• Angelfire
• Geocities
• Yahoo's list of free Web page providers
• The Society of Genealogists
• GVU's survey of browser usage
• Browserwatch browser statistics
• World Wide Web Consortium (W3C)
• Introduction to URLs

2: Web Publishing Software

• TUCOWS - UK Mirror
• TERENA's Guide to Network Resource Tools: Web Publishing Software
• Brief comparison of WYSIWYG HTML editors

3: Genealogical Tools

Links to the genealogy packages and GEDCOM converters mentioned in this section will be found on the software page.

4: Designing your Web Site

• The Society of Genealogists' What's New page
• Thumbnails of GRO certificates
• dithering effect - only apparent if your display is set to 256 colours
• browser-safe palette
• Microsoft's Web Fonts
• Font Embedding (Microsoft)
• Yale Style Manual
• Web Pages that Suck
• David Hawgood, Copyright for Family Historians
• Myra Vanderpool Gormley, Exposing Our Families To The Internet

Links for the programs mentioned in this section that remove information about living individuals will be found on the software page.

5: Creating the Pages

• Public Record Office

6: Going Public

• Microsoft Web Publishing Wizard
• David Hawgood Internet for Genealogy
• September 1997 issue of Computers in Genealogy
• Eastman's Online Genealogy Newsletter
• GENCMP-L mailing list
• GENBRIT-L mailing list
• Personal genealogy sites (Cyndi's List)
• Gendex
• AltaVista
• Submit It - this site is not now recommended, as it has a tedious registration procedure.
• Siteowner, now subsumed under Microsoft bCentral's Free Web Tools
• !Register It!

7: Advanced Web Facilities

• Society of Genealogists Calendar of Events
• Image map of London Boroughs with links to their Web sites
• Cornwall On-line image map
• Genuki site map
• Society of Genealogists site map

Appendices

• TUCOWS (UK mirror)
• PC Magazine's comparative reviews of HTML editors
• Yahoo's directory of Web resources
• Cyndi's List
• Cyndi's Genealogy Home Page Construction Kit
• Mark Howells, Transforming your gedcom Files into Web Pages
• Other related articles by Mark Howells
• Mark Knight's page on Gedcom converters
• Surname Web's list of GEDCOM converters, with reviews
• What newsgroups discuss the Web?