The best way I've found to get information from people is with a paper chart at a family reunion (not an option for everyone, but an annual event for my wife's family and it's only a couple of hours away). If their family pictures are missing or the dates are missing/incorrect you get immediate corrections. Probably worth the cost of a printed chart (either the money for commercial printing or the time for taped-together pages ;-)
There are some free survey sites online, where you design the survey, email the link to people, and the results are made available to you (optionally to the participants). This may not cover all that you want to ask, but the cost is typically only a couple of hours of your time. I use qualityhostonline.com for web hosting and godaddy.com for domain registration. http://qualityhostonline.com/personal_hosting.htm has an $18US/year hosting package that will be more than adequate for most family trees. godaddy notifies you when your domain registration is expiring and will hold it for a couple of weeks if you don't renew immediately - not all domain registrars offer these services (I missed renewing with another domain registrar by a few hours and the domain was sold to someone else). The Legacy web group that's been mentioned many times (http://ukgroups.yahoo.com/group/WUL/ ) will have more information about hosting companies and genealogy software for the web. Start simple: one line, only those dead for at least 50 years. There's unlikely to be much personal data that needs security. After you find the glitches in the initial site, you can make chnages as needed. John > Thanks to all for your comments. > > I knew there were going to be problems with a lot of family members when I > sent out the family questionnaire via E-Mail and several responded back > with > "how do I fill out the questionnaire and send it back to you" or "how do I > attach a picture to an E-Mail". > > Agreed that most are only interested in a finished product or single click > approach. I am trying the CD option from the tips section that you told me > about. Only a select few will be interested in this approach. However > those > select few will most likely be my best source of additional information. > > As suggested by this wonderful group maybe putting something on the > internet > would require the least handholding. > > The only real reason that I haven't started down that path is that I > haven't > researched the different options and costs for the different internet > providers. Any suggestions on who to use here in the USA and how much > space > I might need. > > There is not doubt in my mind that once I start down that path, I will > quickly get into programming and web design. Mainly because I want to. > > I know there are internet sites that will publish the data for you, but I > am > a little uncomfortable that approach. My lack of experience leads me to > having my own domain name and some control over who sees what data. > > So, help me jump into the fire with your suggestions on providers and if I > worry to much do to lack of experience. > > Thanks > > Wayne Boian > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> > Sent: Saturday, March 08, 2008 4:22 AM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] family updates > > >> Generally, i find family are only interested in the finished product. >> If i tell them to first download the family tree program, then they >> are not bothered, if i supply the family tree program, its still to >> much effort. >> >> I've realized that you have to give it so that one click and its all >> in front of them. >> >> The question is, how do you combine everything? - tree, docs & >> photos? Because ultimatley, if all this could be viewed via PDF, it >> would be perfect for me. The photos and the tree is no problem for the >> PDF, but the docs only appear smallish, and they need to the FULL SIZE >> PAGE for sharing with family members so they can see it properly. >> This is the only snag i'm facing with this scenario. I have tried to >> get the docs bigger when doing saving the tree to PDF, but it doesnt >> work, unless i'm missing something here? >> >> >> >> Legacy User Group guidelines: >> http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >> Archived messages: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ >> Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp >> To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp >> >> >> > > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > Archived messages: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ > Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp > To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
