Hello Henk I just want to applaud your decision to put your family tree up on the internet, I did so 6 yrs ago and it has been successful beyond my wildest dreams.
For example I had 3,036,060 hits last year, 623,068 visitors opened 2,027,488 pages, 83,420 persons returned two or more times. The family tree has trebled in size from family contacts and contributions see the Contributors page on the Home Page, and I have a mailing list of more than 300. www.thekingscandlesticks.com is the website I chose the family candlesticks as a focal point of the website. To enable an intuitive website I used Xara Web Designer Premium which after a bit of head scratching I learned, it is very simple in reality To the Home page I linked the various exports from Legacy, plus the other data under the black & white buttons. The picture slider was also a Xara feature. If a researcher around the world Googles the name of a person as on the site, it will usually show within the first 3 hits ( Smith & Brown excepted) I am getting due to rework the site a bit, for example in the last 3 yrs I have been putting up images with what needs to be written about them under "Events", which I have relabelled "Other Records" scroll down on my 3xGt Grandmother Harriet Harrold and you will see what I mean http://www.thekingscandlesticks.com/webs/pedigrees/231.html This means all data now is recorded under a RIN file as far as possible and I will be able to remove the Documents button and reduce the photos section. I use DOMAINZ a NZ company but now based in Melbourne for my hosting and while there were a few rocky moments in the past they have settled down to become a reliable provider, you pay but it is a pittance to keep you and your website as safe as possible, domain names are also registered through them. As I see recommended I also use FileZilla as the interface between your PC and your website. My family is a large one at first, I was receiving 4 or 5 new emails a day on [email protected] this has now reduced to a week, but there is continual communication with existing Contributors adding data and swapping ideas. I retired in 1995 and set about compiling the Tree putting up the website has been a most fulfilling experience. My wife put up her website last year www.thelockedjournal.com with a great response, we did not seek to reinvent a success story. Finally I did not want to entrust my work for a lot of reasons to Cloud sites. Please do not hesitate to ask me more, I am in Auckland Cheers Edward Fenn From: LegacyUserGroup [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Henk Sent: Saturday, 6 January 2018 1:50 a.m. To: [email protected] Subject: [LegacyUG] Family tree on the Internet Dear Legacy Users, My name is Henk Bastiaanse and I live in Australia. I have been using various genealogy software programs over the past 11 years and am using Legacy for about 2 years. I am extremely happy with Legacy (9.0). However, the time has come to share all collected information with extended family and post the family tree - containing over 20,000 people and over a thousand pictures and person- and location information - on the Internet. What would be your suggestion how to do this and to which site to post it to? I would really like to keep and share all collected information, including the information in "Stories" etc. Thanking you in advance for any feedback, Kind Regards, Henk Bastiaanse.
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