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julianb
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I'd like to get family tree charts (direct ancestors only) onto my site.
While I have some trees at the moment they are not very good - I used a Microsoft excel template and converted them into web pages and imported them into my site.
I've looked at http://www.ida.net/users/elaine/pedigre2.htm and had a go but I don't like the typeface. I couldn't work out how to change it!
Anyone got any suggestions?
JULIAN
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Essex - Carter, Danns, Mason, Middleditch, Pond, Poole, Rose, Sorrill, Surry, Theobold Kent - Luetchford Nottinghamshire - Baker, Dunks, Woodward, Price, Priestley Suffolk - Rose Surrey - Baker, Bedel, Bransden, Carter, Coleman, Gibbs, Luetchford, Quinton Sussex - Gibbs, Langridge Wiltshire - Brice, Rumble http://genbires.blogspot.com/http://genbires-networking.blogspot.com/Any census info in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Paul E
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Hi Lyndon
I liked your chart and the general approach on that page. I have adopted a similar approach - save my report from the family history software as a jpeg, tidy it up (a background fill) and then just having it as a static image on the website - http://etherington.rootschat.net/html/arthur_etherington_s_direct_an.html But I like the interactivtiy on your page.
However, I read a review of http://www.dftcom2.co.uk/ in Family History Monthly and, looking at it, it seems to be a useful way of uploading a tree to a website.
Having said that - I haven't worked out how to do it yet (!) - managed to import my gedcom into dft, but couldn't get the files to sit on the web properly.
cheers
Paul
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Berlin-Bob
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Hi Guys,
I've merged these two topics, as they have the same theme.
This is something I have been thinking about since starting my family history CD/Website, and it will be my next big project for my website.
So if anybody has any tips or examples, add them here, .... please !!!
One program I looked at was "Adam" which also exports trees in HTML format for webpages. I'm off to work now, but I'll post an example tonight.
Bob
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Berlin-Bob
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I have now uploaded an example of the HTML output from "Adam"
Input was an (incomplete) GEDCOM file.
you can see it at http://boco.rootschat.net/COMM/adam/index.htm
(Firefox is showing a lot of the table borders, whereas Internet explorer is showing a "clean" version without the borders  )
Adam gives you quite a lot of choices, including whether to have names and/or images in your chart
it is a complete family history program, but I have just been using the "Import GEDCOM", "Export as HTML" features, without actually entering any data in the program.
see more here: http://www.use-adam.com/adam.html
It's .... well it's OK, but it's still not exactly what I want !
I may end up having to write a program myself !
Bob
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Searching for Coleman, Moore, Kallnung in London; Margulies, Remenyi in E. Europe; Ancestors of Hessie Stevenson-Coleman-Baxter (Ireland, 1861) and, of course, any other ancestors for my web-site http://boco.rootschat.net All Census Data included in this post is Crown Copyright (see: www.nationalarchives.gov.uk) |
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Paul E
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And wasn't it nice to see Amy again? I'd forgotten what she looked like... 
cheers
Paul
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julianb
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Berlin Bob is referring to another thread where he said
At the moment I am using Excel to draw up trees, one tree pro A4 page. The (preview) results are viewable at http://boco.rootschat.net/i-trees.php It's a lot of work, but as Amy has said about PowerPoint: ... you can get your tree to look exactly how you want it. It takes a lot of time but I think the end result is worth it. ... the next stage is to "clean up" the background colour, and then I want to add hyperlinks to the names, so that I can jump straight to the biographies. I haven't decided yet how - the PowerPoint idea sounds good, or I may try "drawing" the tables in HTML (Eeeek !!). I also tried converting the excel tables to HTML but that didn't work properly, so I shall keep trying. I'll post here if I find a good soöution, and I I shall continue to monitor this posting in case somebody else does !
I started this thread because I wasn't happy with my static excel-based trees on my site. (I think I want something more interactive)
This url points to the worst case page on my site
http://juliancbaker.rootschat.net/html/walter_joseph_carter_family_tr.htm
Berlin Bob's post on the other thread refers to cleaning up the excel pages. My first attempt at saving the excel chart as a web page ended up with the cell references on. I then tried "preview web page" and this produced a chart without the cell references on so I saved those versions as html, and I was away.
The problem with pages like these are (a) they are bigger than the browser (so I guess I could try again with the smallest possible typeface, but my eyes are starting to go!), and (b) I'm not sure how I can set up hyperlinks as Net Objects Fusion (my web package) doesn't actually display the page, and I'm not HTML-savvy at all so don't feel it worth the investment of trying (and failing) to insert links etc in the base code.
Anyway, I thought I ought to post this explanation of my experience with excel for family tree pages, in case anyone does want to have a go.
(There's enough material already here for a major feature in one of the family history mags - keep it coming!)
JULIAN
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Essex - Carter, Danns, Mason, Middleditch, Pond, Poole, Rose, Sorrill, Surry, Theobold Kent - Luetchford Nottinghamshire - Baker, Dunks, Woodward, Price, Priestley Suffolk - Rose Surrey - Baker, Bedel, Bransden, Carter, Coleman, Gibbs, Luetchford, Quinton Sussex - Gibbs, Langridge Wiltshire - Brice, Rumble http://genbires.blogspot.com/http://genbires-networking.blogspot.com/Any census info in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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Paul E
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Which magazine would that be, then, Julian?
Maybe Practical Family History Website Design would be interested
http://etherington.rootschat.net/html/pfhwm.html 
Seriously, though, this was a good debate to have started - shows how we are all grappling with the same problem in different ways.
cheers
Paul
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julianb
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Which magazine would that be, then, Julian? Maybe Practical Family History Website Design would be interested http://etherington.rootschat.net/html/pfhwm.html Seriously, though, this was a good debate to have started - shows how we are all grappling with the same problem in different ways. cheers Paul
You're always on the case - well spotted! Or is it more that you can take a hint!
In the light of:
http://etherington.rootschat.net/html/uktvfamilyhistory.html
I heard a rumour that Lonnie Donegan recorded "Does your gedcom lose its flavour on the bedpost overnight", as well as "My old man's a dustman"
JULIAN
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Essex - Carter, Danns, Mason, Middleditch, Pond, Poole, Rose, Sorrill, Surry, Theobold Kent - Luetchford Nottinghamshire - Baker, Dunks, Woodward, Price, Priestley Suffolk - Rose Surrey - Baker, Bedel, Bransden, Carter, Coleman, Gibbs, Luetchford, Quinton Sussex - Gibbs, Langridge Wiltshire - Brice, Rumble http://genbires.blogspot.com/http://genbires-networking.blogspot.com/Any census info in this post is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.uk |
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