How to publish a tree with extensive notes for free and indefinitely

[grantleydawn]

I have a large tree with extensive notes.

I want to make it available to anyone, especially after I fall off the perch.

Are there any suggestions as to how I am going to do that.

I was using the World Connect Project via RootsWeb, but the wheels fell off that system a year ago and they don't appear to have things working as yet.

[Mart 'n' Al]

Have a look at the Wayback Machine, after creating your own web site.

https://archive.org/web/

Martin

[grantleydawn]

Thanks Martin. That doesn’t appear to be what I am after.

Prior to RootsWeb Worldconnect crumpling in a heap, it suited me perfectly.

All my supporting information appears in each individual’s notes. Therefore, in my tree, the notes are as equally or more important than just the names, dates & places.

I loved the ability to upload a gedcom and their system handled all the searching, intermingled with other people’s published trees.

Plus also, it eventually appeared in Google searches. Available to everyone without the need for fees or logins.

I am guessing that there is nothing equivalent as yet and I must be patient for RootsWeb to sort out all their issues.

Grantley

[Guy Etchells]

I have a large tree with extensive notes.

I want to make it available to anyone, especially after I fall off the perch.

Are there any suggestions as to how I am going to do that.

I was using the World Connect Project via RootsWeb, but the wheels fell off that system a year ago and they don't appear to have things working as yet.

Are you sure all my Rootsweb pages/files are back up again, examples:-

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01p3e/

http://www.rootschat.com/links/01ms6/


Cheers
Guy

[PrawnCocktail]

My Pages are back up, but my one-place tree is not. They keep saying that they are porting it, but nothing happens. Three times I've asked now!

My personal tree is there - but is not indexed. Which is a fat lot of good. And sources seem to have been reduced to a code. "S14" appears to mean a birth certificate! Not to mention baptisms appear to have disappeared completely, with only birth, death and burial listed.

And then there's the lengthy wait for pages to load!

This is simply not good enough.

I am currently transferring mine to Ancestry. Not what I want, but I'd rather have it up somewhere than nowhere.

[Guy Etchells]

My Pages are back up, but my one-place tree is not. They keep saying that they are porting it, but nothing happens. Three times I've asked now!

My personal tree is there - but is not indexed. Which is a fat lot of good. And sources seem to have been reduced to a code. "S14" appears to mean a birth certificate! Not to mention baptisms appear to have disappeared completely, with only birth, death and burial listed.

And then there's the lengthy wait for pages to load!

This is simply not good enough.

I am currently transferring mine to Ancestry. Not what I want, but I'd rather have it up somewhere than nowhere.

Are you not able to upload your one-place tree to the pages yourself now they are back?
I assume you do have a back up available.
Cheers
Guy

[PrawnCocktail]

Of course I have, Guy.

But the general lack of indexing, proper sources etc is off-putting.

I probably will upload again, once I have regained control of my Page, but circumstances ahve prevented that so far.

If I could find somewhere else to put my entire page and tree, believe me, I would! My trust in Rootsweb is somewhere near rock bottom.

[grantleydawn]

Over a period of time, I deleted my old tree and uploaded a new gedcom.

Currently a lot (and I mean a lot) of people appear randomly as "Person Not Viewable. Despite them being born in the 1700's etc.

Children appear in a different sequence to that in my gedcom.

Blank lines seem to have been given the flick, so my notes are no longer spaced as I would like them.

And suffixes don't appear after the names.

But, the system is free and it appears that they are working on it. One must be patient if there is no equivalent facility available.

Grantley

[andrewalston]

The fresh "World Connect" is horrendously poor. It displays virtually nothing of what I upload, omitting ALL the stuff useful to other researchers, such as source info, and events such as baptisms.

The good news is that it is just web pages generated from the ORIGINAL GEDCOM. Once they had "migrated" my data to the new view, I was able to download that GEDCOM from a couple of years ago.

This leads me to hope that we can convince Ancestry that they just need to do more work on it, such as reinstating the original code.

They claimed that the facility was taken down for "security" reasons. Presumably it was possible to upload malicious content. The fresh upload system must have dealt with that problem, so why shouldn't the original display code be reinstated?