Articles RSS FeedOne of the best tools for any genealogist is their own web site. Not only can you better interact with members of your own family, but who knows what knowledge other genealogists looking at your site will share? There are many ways to make your own free genealogy websites. Here is a quick rundown:
This is not as hard as it sounds, if you are willing to take the time to learn basic HTML, the main dialect of Computerese. There are many free “learn HTML” websites as well as books in the library and your bookstore. You can often set up a framework and add information from other sources – such as from genealogy software that you fill in the blanks – that you can copy and paste into your free genealogy websites. If you have Internet service, you should also have some free Internet space as part of that service.
From Webpage Services
With a little bit of homework, you can find many online companies offering free “build-you-own-webpage” services. You often get a free address, too, so they can send you ads (this is how they can afford to keep it free). Your free genealogy websites will also be framed by ads.
From Blogs
The absolute easiest way of making free genealogy websites is with blog tools, found for free on the internet. The most popular is also the original at Blogger.com. At first, you needed to know a little HTML to really jazz up your free genealogy websites. But recently, Blogger has made things more automatic, so you don’t have to use HTML code to get the look you want, but you can still use HTML if you want.
Blogs are extremely popular partially because they are free. You have the basic template for a webpage and then you add in whatever text or images or links that you want. It is perfectly okay to have more than one blog for different subjects. Depending on the Blog service you use, you can choose to have ads or not. Whatever you choose, free genealogy websites are a great resource for your family and a great outlet for your creativity.
