Planting Your Family Tree Online is designed to take you step-by-step through the process of creating a genealogy Web site.
When people begin their genealogical adventure, they usually interview elderly members of the family and contact other family members. The next step is usually one of organization of the information collected. The third step is usually to share this information with other family members, traditionally by publishing research in a book. However, a family Web site has numerous advantages:
It is interactive so others can contribute their stories and pictures.
It will help you find long-lost relatives.
It is an ideal way to preserve research for the entire family.
It will break down the walls that have stumped you in your research.
It recognizes that family research is an ongoing process,
This book is written by Cyndi Howells, owner and webmaster of Cyndi's List, a Web site of more than 130,000 online genealogical resources. Cyndi points out, "This book is loaded with URLs to Web sites that will give you everything you need to create a beautiful family tree online." However, Web site URLs change daily and some may no longer work. She has created web pages as part of Cyndi's List that correspond to the features of the book so that the URLs will be kept up-to-date.
Customer Reviews:
Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0
Excellent Resource Guide:
I have read and am rereading this book. It has inspired me to start a family history website. But I am working at my layout first and this book opens your eyes to how to properly set up a site like this and all the different options.
Nothing more than common sense:
I didn't find this book helpful at all. The other reviews here made the book sound so great. I wanted to put my family tree online, and needed some guidance on the best method for organizing 600+ names...a baby tree by most genealogist's standards. The book gives only one sample model of how one might do this: Have 8 separate pages devoted to your great-grandparents. It stops there without going into any more detail. So, it did not answer my question that had led me to purchasing the book. Most of the... more info
Planting My Tree:
Great examples, references, a must have for those who want too, but don't know how.
The best thing of its kind, period (and here's why . . .):
Twenty years ago, using only a very simpleminded computer as a glorified typewriter, I put together a thick volume of lineage on part of my wife's family, the result of more than a decade of close research. Because of my very limited budget, the production values were poor and fewer than two hundred copies were printed and mailed. And it took nearly all my free time for a year. Today, I would be able to compile all that data in a computer program, produce text files for further editing, present the final... more info
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