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]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/genealogy-blog-starting-with-a-purpose-and-a-plan/#comment-933299 Thu, 11 Nov 2010 16:23:20 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=1016#comment-933299 There is a lot of clunk in phpGedView, but it does work as a good start. I agree with the privacy issues, so ensure you don’t upload anything that could put your family, or yourself, at risk. This is part of the day to day life of a family historian going public on the web. I need to get back into digging into this to offer more helpful advice to folks, but I was sure that there would be improvements in this by now.

Check the comments above and throughout this series as others have offered some better solutions. If you find one that works, please let me know as that might be incentive to get cracking on this again. Thanks!

]]> By: Bill Kaiser http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/genealogy-blog-starting-with-a-purpose-and-a-plan/#comment-933280 Wed, 10 Nov 2010 14:10:53 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=1016#comment-933280 Lorelle,

I am looking to switch over from the ancestry.com format to a website I manage. In the last couple of days I too have found PhpGedView, which is wiki and seems capable of doing everything I would need it to do (including allowing other family members edit the data)

One part than I am worried about is that it forces the master data to be the online database, instead of my desktop software. I think I am OK with this, just need to be more careful backing up the data.. unlike my other web data – this information is too critical to me to just let hang out there. perhaps you still plan to use your local software to be the master, and just send updated gedcom files to the online database? One of the reasons I was hoping to avoid this to I wanted to add a lot of images and so forth – gedcom being just a text file.

The css for PhpGedView seems rather clunky and difficult to integrate into the rest of my website. Have found some kind of plugin to utilize your WP to display? I am not a css master by any means and it takes me a long time to get the static pages to seamlessly integrate with the WP section and the wiki section. If I could just not display the wiki portion that would help immensely.

]]> By: Lorelle VanFossen http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/genealogy-blog-starting-with-a-purpose-and-a-plan/#comment-933042 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 17:00:51 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=1016#comment-933042 The old adage of when in doubt don’t holds. In general, while current family members are often featured in a family history blog, nothing is said to indicate personal and private information such as social security numbers, addresses, birth dates, nor mother’s maiden names, a challenge for family history bloggers. The focus is on the past, and current information is often in private blog posts available only to family members with permissions.

A “complete” site in family history terms is one that focuses on the “complete” family history of your ancestors, not those currently living. There is enough past history to fill ten blogs on every human living, so most of us spend more time with the past rather than the present.

These rules apply to EVERYTHING (including email) on the web. Don’t publish anything you don’t want found or revealed. Family history included. :D

]]> By: Robert Storrs http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/genealogy-blog-starting-with-a-purpose-and-a-plan/#comment-933034 Thu, 28 Oct 2010 13:05:15 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=1016#comment-933034 I am just starting consideration for a family web site and find your blog article invaluable. One question has bothered me however. I guess I am somewhat paranoid about privacy but I don’t want to post information about people without permission. However, that would seem to be a major roadblock to a complete site.

I have considered only posting information about persons who are deceased unless an individual grants permission. But even that raises questions – can a parent grant permission to display information about his/her children?

Perhaps in this time of FaceBook and Trittter I am going overboard but I am not sure I would want my information posted on someone elses site.

Anyway, have you given this any consideration?

]]> By: Dustin http://lorelle.wordpress.com/2006/07/27/genealogy-blog-starting-with-a-purpose-and-a-plan/#comment-928603 Mon, 19 Apr 2010 00:49:37 +0000 https://lorelle.wordpress.com/?p=1016#comment-928603 great post I’ve been considering doing this for some time, my uncle has already filled a whole room in his house with our history and I want to put it into a blog soon thanks for the tips

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