Once
upon a time,
families were close-knit communities, living on the same street, even
next door but times have changed. Today's world often finds family members
living far afield from one another. What better way to keep in touch than
to have a family website. Especially if you are actively researching
your family tree.
A custom designed family genealogy website
can preserve family ties, memories and history, and there's no easier
way to share the fruits of your genealogy research with photos, census
images and vital records. A genealogy website is also a wonderful way
to provide a loving tribute to your ancestors.
There
are several
ways to publish your genealogy on the Internet.
You can go the route of a communal
genealogy website service, some for free and others for a fee. When
you upload your family tree to an existing genealogy website service,
you get a generic webpage that is maintained in a huge database along
with countless other trees.
An
important part of genealogy is sharing which can lead
to unearthing valuable information about a cherished ancestor. However,
on these communal genealogy sites, your family names cannot be found
through Internet search engines and thousands of potential visitors
will never even find your genealogy information.
Another
thing to consider
is that these genealogy sites, such as Ancestry.com, Genealogy.com and
Rootsweb.com, will use and publish your genealogy for their own purposes
including CDs which they in turn sell to other customers and they do
so without your permission.
The
disadvantage of Genealogy
softwares that generate webpages
is unless you're an experienced web developer, as a stand alone application,
there's no way to customize the webpages they generate. The result is
a cookie-cutter website that does not reflect your personal tastes and
ideas let alone your ancestors.
Origins
Website Design knows
that one size does not fit all and will build a custom
designed site with your family and ancestors' heritage in mind.
