I made the choice several years ago to use the freepages that was at that time
provided by rootsweb, which now has been sold to ancestry.com, but they
continue to be free. My reasons for this choice:1. I have no immediate family
member that I think will continue with my research, and I've spent years
accumulating family information and I want it to be there for others, .2. Due
to it being free and with genealogy based companies, it's likely to continue to
be there long after I'm gone.
I wanted a website that I could be proud of so I choose to get someone to help
me get it started, the index page that then links to all my Legacy pages. If
you care to look this is the link, clicking on the Surnames link will take you
to the Surname page that was created by Legacy, clicking on one of the main
heading will also take you the Legacy
pages.http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~sybleg/Syble Families
Researching: Cline/Klein, Daniel, Newton, Witherspoon, Perryman, Gilbreath,
Lindsey, Brown, Foote, Curry, Fleming, Glasscock, Edwards, Waters, Wheat
On Tuesday, March 24, 2015 8:15 PM, Pat Hickin <pph...@gmail.com> wrote:
Oops, I should have said http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prickett-120.
Pat
On Tue, Mar 24, 2015 at 8:30 PM, Cathy Pinner <genea...@gmail.com> wrote:
I think you could if you zipped the files and sent the zip file to Dropbox or
Google Drive and the other person downloaded the zip and unzipped them.
Cathy
Brian L. Lightfoot wrote:
I don’t use Dropbox, Google Drive, or any such similar sites but the
short answer to your question is “I doubt it†. And when you say “share
such a file†, I assume you mean to share all of the web pages created
by Legacy. You can certainly share your family database file (.fdb)
but unless they have the Legacy program, then can’t open it. You can
certainly share a GEDCOM file (.GED) but once again unless the other
person has a GEDCOM viewing program, they can’t open it. And the whole
idea is to create web pages within Legacy and then to share them
somehow allowing anybody with a web browser to open and view everything.
Without sounding too geeky, merely sharing a complete set of Legacy
created files on Dropbox or other sites would most likely fail for two
reasons. The first is that the Dropbox server knows nothing about HTML
language. The seconds is due to “relative addressing versus absolute
addressing†. In other words, others could certain open up your main
index.html file but within that index.html file, there are links to
other people, links to photos, links to other pages, etc . and all
those links look something like this, “/graphics/image.jpg†. For
example, in my own web pages that were created by Legacy, here is a
typical line which shows relative addressing in use. Notice the
slashes in the link to the image source (img src). This addressing
tells the web server where to go to find that picture.
<br clear=right><a
href="./pictures/a2_1_lightfoot,_frank_sr__-_1985.jpg"
TARGET="_blank"><img
src="./pictures/a2_1_lightfoot,_frank_sr__-_1985.jpg" align=right
width="200" height="300" border="0" vspace="10" title="Franklin Lee
Lightfoot, Sr. (6328 KB)
That is relative addressing which Legacy uses because it assumes that
all the files are together on one root folder with subfolders all on a
hard drive, even if that hard drive is on your own computer or a hard
drive on a web server. Drop Box is not a web server but rather a file
server. So maybe if you went into your Legacy created web pages and
changed all the paths to something like
“http://www.dropbox.com/smith/sources/1940_census_surprise_arizona.jpg†,
it would be a monumental task that I’m fairly certain just won’t work
unless your files reside on a web server that was configured to
…well…serve up html pages.
See more info about “Relative addressing vs. Absolute addressing at
http://www.coffeecup.com/help/articles/absolute-vs-relative-pathslinks/.
(Warning: Geek stuff ahead.)
HTH
Brian in CA
*From:*Jerry in Michigan [mailto:bearjerca...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Tuesday, March 24, 2015 12:23 PM
*To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Putting Webpages on the Internet
Question for you Brian. I use TNG on the web because of the ability to
make immediate changes that show up instantly. Still wishing Legacy
could be available as a web-based product, but I doubt that will ever
happen. But your point about making a DVD for family intrigues me.
Just wondering, is it feasible to share such a file on Dropbox, Google
Drive, etc., so you don't have to mail DVDs to anyone?
Thanks,
Jerry Boor
MerriamFamilyTree.org
On 3/24/2015 11:11 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot wrote:
http://www.the-lightfoots.com/
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*From:*Pat Hickin [mailto:pph...@gmail.com]
*Sent:* Monday, March 23, 2015 8:52 PM
*To:* legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
<mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com>
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Putting Webpages on the Internet
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I'd like to see some Legacy-created genealogy websites. Can some
of you post your urls??
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I've uploaded .gedcoms to Ancestry and a bunch of little .gedcoms
to Wikitree, which I'm enjoying a lot -- espcially enjoying doing
the bios, but converting from a Legacy .gedcom to Wikitree takes
some doing -- in part because the idea at Wikitree, as you may
know, is to have each individual in only one time -- so there's a
lot of merging with other people's entries.
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Here's the url for my Wikitree entry:Â
http://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Prickett-122
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Pat
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On Mon, Mar 23, 2015 at 2:09 AM, Brian L. Lightfoot
<br...@the-lightfoots.com <mailto:br...@the-lightfoots.com>> wrote:
The Legacy article about how to create and publish web pages is
straight-forward but the only thing that I would caution users
about is this statement:
"1. Before you try putting your Web pages on the Internet, contact
your Internet Service Provider (ISP). Your ISP will make certain
that you have server space for your pages and will tell you what
directory to use."
I would now venture to guess that the majority of ISPs in the US
no longer offer free web space for its customers. It gets a little
bit complicated but you end up with two real choices. If they
still do, the amount of space is probably very limited and I've
seen URLs that end up looking like
"www.userpages.wavecable.net/smith_genealogy
<http://www.userpages.wavecable.net/smith_genealogy>".
The first alternative is to use some of the free web space offered
by many online web space providers (which have nothing to do with
your ISP). Just google "free web space" and pick one that suits
you. Bear in mind that your finished web site address will
probably look something like "www.freespace.com/smith_genealogy
<http://www.freespace.com/smith_genealogy>" or some other similar
name. This is because you do not own your own domain name and
therefore your web site has to be hosted by some other domain. In
this example, freewebspace.com <http://freewebspace.com> would be
the domain. "Smith_genealogy" is really nothing more than a folder
on the hard drive of that web server. The amount of hard drive
space you get varies widely and usually this free space comes at a
price of having advertising appear on your pages. Sometimes you
can pay to remove the advertising but then it's no longer free, is it?
Another means of getting your web pages on the Internet involves
you actually registering your own domain name and then have some
provider host your domain on their web servers. For example, if
you were to register "Smith_Genealogy.com", and then paid money to
have it hosted on somebody's web server, your web pages would end
up with a URL that would look like this: "www.smith_genealogy.com
<http://www.smith_genealogy.com>". Looks a lot more impressive,
doesn't it. There are numerous providers of web hosting services.
Just google "free web hosting" or "web hosting". You'll find that
the price is sometimes so low, it makes it the only real way to
go. For example, look at www.hostmonster.com
<http://www.hostmonster.com> which for$3.95 per month you get a
free domain name, unlimited web space, unlimited email accounts,
MySQL databases, CGI-BIN, PHP 5, and other features.
Actually there is a third means of getting your Legacy created web
pages out. After the creation process completes in Legacy, simply
burn the entire web contents to a DVD and send a copy to your
friends and relatives. All they have to do is point their browser
to the main "index.html" file on the disc, and then they end up
looking at a "web site on a disc". Hey, it works!
If anyone has any specific questions about these processes,
contact me offlist and I'll be glad to assist.
Brian in CA
-----Original Message-----
From: Sherry/Support [mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com
<mailto:she...@legacyfamilytree.com>]
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2015 6:41 PM
To: legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com
<mailto:legacyusergroup@LegacyUsers.com>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Putting Webpages on the Internet
See the article on our website at
http://support.legacyfamilytree.com/article/AA-00965
Sincerely,
Sherry
Technical Support
Legacy Family Tree
On Sun, Mar 22, 2015 at 5:51 PM, <wedd...@gmail.com
<mailto:wedd...@gmail.com>> wrote:
> Help!
> I have created my web pages now how do I put that on the Internet?
> Thanks for any help you can give me.
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