| If you are interested in learning about your family | | | | as a family. You can have a lot of discussion |
| history genealogy is the hobby for you! To make | | | | about this and sooner or later someone will come |
| it even more interesting and give you a tool for | | | | up with something that will be just right for the |
| sharing the family ancestry very easily with other | | | | family. |
| members of your family you can also develop | | | | 2. Your first paragraph should have all the main |
| your own website. In fact you can share it with | | | | surnames within the nuclear family and also needs |
| the whole world if you want to! The internet | | | | to have keywords like family tree, genealogy, |
| makes so much possible. | | | | ancestors, relations, history.... |
| So how do you go about this? Even if you don't | | | | 3. Put some really interesting fact about your |
| have all the bits in place yet you can still get going | | | | family right there on the first page so that people |
| with your own website - in fact having a place like | | | | visiting will be engaged with the site from the |
| that to ask people to visit can make it more likely | | | | word go. Do you have some lovely photographs |
| that you will make electronic contact with people | | | | or a funny story you could feature? How about |
| who can help you build the family information | | | | adding a family digital video to make things more |
| even further. You can submit your family | | | | interesting. Make sure the audio and quality of the |
| GEDCOM file to the many genealogy sites which | | | | video are good. |
| may well lead other people to you who can help - | | | | 4. Make sure that your site has a good navigation |
| or you can build your won site at Yahoo | | | | system by making text links and clear buttons to |
| GeoCities or other hosting websites. | | | | click into different areas of the site behind the |
| You can also of course create your own website | | | | front page. |
| using the WYSIWYG software which has taken | | | | 5. Put metatags in such as the keywords we |
| much of the angst out of website design recently. | | | | mentioned above and also a meta description on |
| This software talks you through setting up the | | | | the site - a short crisp couple of sentences about |
| website step by step giving you templates for | | | | what someone will find on the site. This improves |
| pages and automatic linking functions so you can | | | | your ranking in search engines. |
| have a website up within an hour or so. You have | | | | 6. To get traffic coming to your site make lots of |
| to buy a domain name and hosting for the site | | | | links with other genealogy sites |
| but again this is made so much easier these days | | | | 7. Make sure that your email address is really |
| by many companies offering very reasonable | | | | easy to find so that people can get in touch with |
| packages for doing both these tasks. | | | | you. |
| Here are some tips for choosing a domain name | | | | Following these tips can give you another |
| and host: | | | | interesting and useful dimension to your family |
| 1. Your web page must contain a title that is | | | | history research and give a lot of pleasure to |
| catchy and easy to remember which can be done | | | | your family all over the world. |