Tony, This is not an easy one to answer, and in fact I have both types on more than one site!
To start with, I asked myself why did I want to go on the web at all, one reason being to get as much exposure as possible and another because I enjoy writing web pages. To get maximum exposure then it is obvious that the best chance is with hosts which already have a large catchment, ie. Rootsweb and Ancestry - and for the UK, Genes Reunited. So I created a GEDCOM and put it on all three. These have brought in many leads, and some corrections, more than my own sites. The above sites suffer from the limitation that one can only use the design tools which are inbuilt into the site, and these are not many, and one really does need to read the terms and conditions. to ensure that you retain the copyright on your own stuff (where applicable). Hence, my desire to create my own site where I could select my own style and add things like tutorials, biographical pieces, and whatever I might want. Although I have chosen to use the the Pedigree pages from Legacy (which has bugs in it btw. - they only cause problems when you do anything fancy and can be resolved) and the Family Group pages for another site. There is also another format called TNG which also uses a GEDCOM and allows much more of your own design input than those mentioned above, but I have not tried this - others can help here, but it is well liked by those who use it. In a nutshell, then, the choice is yours depending on your needs and tastes. Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________ New Tutorial: Embed Blogger RSS feed into your Website http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ ____________________________________________________ tbbstny wrote: > If I'd have asked a pros and cons question or a vs question about a > competitor I'd understand the hostility. But, I did not. My OP > stated I was looking for info. on the best partner products to be > used with Legacy. Thanks for bringing it back around to that. > > So, yes, what I'd like to get a feel for is why one would use the > GEDCOM upload vs the roll your own site approach. Seems like > comments along the lines of 'ancestry does a better job uploading a > Legacy GEDCOM than Roots Web because ...' or vise versa would be fair > game. Or perhaps a 'hey, have you heard of this hosting site made by > a big fan and user of Legacy that is the best tool you'll ever > integrate with' tip would be great too. > > It could be that Legacy does nothing whatsoever to help with moving > data online. It's left as an exercise for the user of Legacy. > That's fine too. I'm just trying to find the best way to use it. > > Thanks, >> >> Tony, Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
