[LINK] RFI: Setting up a Family Website

[Ash Nallawalla]

I installed TNG http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/software.php last weekend. I
placed it inside Joomla but you don't need to. You can grant access to
others to edit their branches, which appealed to me. Details of living
individuals are blocked from public view.

You can Google "pgv tng" without the quotes (set to 100 results) to read
some opinions. I picked TNG as the price didn't break the bank.

I am not aware of identity theft being a problem specific to people who are
listed in genealogies online and it is not stopping people enjoying this
hobby. 

My previous tool was Parsons Family Origin for Windows but it predates NTFS,
so I stopped using it some years ago. I found out by sheer brainwave that a
USB drive is not NTFS and I was able to get a GEDCOM export by writing to
it!  The thought of loading Windows 98 on a spare PC had prevented me from
going there all these years.

The other problem is that FOW used custom fields that were very useful, e.g.
Residence, Employer, etc but are not part of the GEDCOM spec, so they get
imported into fields where you can't edit them further unless you "complete"
the new program's field.  In my case, this often did not make sense but I
needed to get the data online and up to date and could later migrate it via
GEDCOM should something better come along (and which didn't need an annual
fee).

Ash

> -----Original Message-----
> From: link-bounces at anumail0.anu.edu.au [mailto:link-
> bounces at anumail0.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Roger Clarke


> So I'd greatly appreciate advice for people who want to put up
> representations of quite complex and very specific kinds of
> data-structures, and who have considerable skills and tenacity
> (because family researchers have both), but whose web-publishing
> expertise is limited.