Cyndi Howells of Cyndi's List wrote, Planting Your Family Tree Online (How to Create Your Own Family History Web Site), pub. in October 2003 and I have referred to it a lot lately. I remember ordering it even before it was available to the public, and had to wait a few weeks before it was actually shipped. My great intentions to have a Web Site were forming in my mind, and I thought the book would solve all my unknowns of how to do it. Unfortunately, It was right about that time that I was going full steam ahead with discoveries found through Google, so soon, any Web Site of mine would have to wait. I wanted my research to be absolutely completed and perfect before I posted anything for the world. Well we all know, that never happens. Time marched on, and now we are in the world of Blogs. Hum, the nice little unopened book remained in my bookcase until a week ago. And it has been so useful the past several weeks.
Even though her index doesn't list the word blog, she does cover topics that have helped me.
Example Chapters:
Leave a Trail for your Cousins to Follow
Find a Home for Your Web Site
Select the Contents for Your Genealogy Web Site
Enhance Your Web Site with Extras (such as photographs, scanned documents and links.
Check Your Work and Give Your Site a Trial Run
Publicize Your New Web Site
Very nice book Cyndi, and one way I decided to publicize my site was by putting it on her site. So my new blog is one of the first submitted for November 2009. Why not visit her new entries are at: http://www.cyndislist.com/new1109.htm
3 comments:
What a surprise to see this this morning, it was scheduled to be posted Thursday, and here it is a day earlier. Anybody know how that happened?
Barbara....I just noticed the date on it as well & thought ???? Weird! Sorry, can't help you as to why it did that.
Anyhoo, I used to have my own genealogy web site, that is until Yahoo decided to stop offering that service. And I've been kinda throwing the thought around of putting another one up. Though it came out pretty good, I wasn't exactly 100% happy with it. I was wondering how well you liked Cyndi's book. Does she give a lot of good tips & such?
Later, Deb
Deb, thanks for writing. I heard about Yahoo not offering that service. Last year they did away with Briefcase, which I really liked and used a lot.
Cyndi's book is good and I've gotten good information, but it isn't written for a blog, just for a web page, and it was written in 2003. I got the picture icon copied from Amazon, and saw that the book was really inexpensive. Why not see if a library has it.
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