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Topic: Publishing One's Own Family History - any advice? (Read 1679 times)
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Gamone
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The hybrid approach outlined by "glenidol" for her friend's birthday, combining several kinds of documents (text, photos and video), could be used to present results of everyday family-history research.
With free webspace becoming more and more readily available, we can think about storing high-resolution photos (capable of being transformed into images on paper) in this way. But we must not forget that only people with rapid Internet access and an excellent printer will be able to take advantage of such photos. A friend of mine has helped me do this (since I'm stuck with old-fashioned Internet access) for a few personal portraits at the following Flash site:
http://grafton.nsw.free.fr/portraits
A common challenge when using old photos is to call upon other researchers in an attempt to identify individuals. Here again, a website can prove useful, since it lets you enlarge parts of the photo, to help in the identification process. Here's an example of a Flash site of this kind:
http://grafton.nsw.free.fr/atalanta
(I hope I'm using tags correctly in this message. If not, please forgive me. I would have egg on my face if I made a blunder that displayed the entire RootsChat forum in green italics!)
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Gamone
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Marie said:
Haven't plumbed the mystery of gedcoms yet, particularly for Macs...
The first time I received a big mysterious gedcom file from a friend, I could make neither head nor tail of it, literally, since I couldn't figure out where it started and where it ended. Fortunately, that initial state of confusion didn't last for long, and I now think of gedcoms as the greatest invention since sliced bread. They're so light-weight that you can attach them to emails in the hope that your receiver will know how to handle them, which is unfortunately not always the case.
Macintosh users have the advantage of being able to get totally involved in the gedcom phenomenon by means of the extraordinarily well-developed GEDitCOM tool, which actually uses the gedcom format for its internal data structures. What I am saying about GEDitCOM might look like a shameless plug, but I truly have no contacts of any kind with the brilliant fellow from Utah, if I remember correctly) who built this software, Having worked on Macs ever since 1984 (and written a book on this subject), I've rarely seen a simple product, in any domain whatsoever, of such high quality from a user-friendliness viewpoint. You can actually exploit GEDitCOM to test the validity of gedcom files exported by other tools, from non-Mac platforms.
These remarks might prove useful to Marie and others, but I do not wish to start any kind of war about genealogy tools.
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Berlin-Bob
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Database error came up on that link --
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Just tried it, it worked fine !!
I think the server had hiccups just now, I couldn't get back on site for a while, maybe it was something to do with that.
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Gamone
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Mike speaks of
click of death syndrome
Yes, this is one of the most frequent mortal afflictions you discover, along with relatively mild things such as plagues, when browsing through transcriptions of the UK census that appear to have been produced by Bombay typists. 
I agree with Mike that paper has a good future in front of it. That's why I prefer to use the Internet as a vector for distributing family-history stuff in a form that can be printed out on paper rather than simply looked at on the screen. Here's an example of this approach, based upon the use of Flash and downloadable PDF files, which I'm working on at present:
http://grafton.nsw.free.fr/mother
This kind of website is not very sexy to see on the screen, because it doesn't tell you anything at all, but it provides you with a lot of nice stuff to download, print out and read in bed. And that, to my way of thinking, is a better place to delve into genealogy than in front of a computer screen.
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MarieC
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How does a very untechnological Mac user find out about this GEDitCOM, please!
I am truly delighted to see a couple of Mac people on this thread, most things revolve round PCs and that of course is useless to me!
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MarieC
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Thanks, Jude, from another Aussie!
(but one with minimal technological competence!)
Have had a look at those sites you gave. I have been hearing about Reunion for awhile, and think that might be the way to go. It seems to do lots of things, and to be not too difficult to use. I'll save up and buy it!
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