Genealogy Chat

After 6 years of research on top of work already done by my sister, we are up to over 600 people in our tree, 150 odd names and lots of narrative. I've spent the last 3 months compiling it into a document with photos, family trees, maps etc in word. Now I've tonight worked out how to make it into a PDF (portable document format). I now know I could make my own website and make this pdf available online. has anyone experience of this, what are the pitfalls etc?

I have not tried it but rootschat are offering free web space for this sort of thing. I signed up but could not handle the technology but if you have already created a pdf file you should be able to handle it. I have my tree on tribal pages and have not found any pitfalls.

The thing that concerns me is this is more than tree, it's about the personal lives of people I and others still living knew. All the people mentioned are dead however.

I have over 6000 people on my tree, and my son has put it onto his website. All I did was tell the Family Tree programme I use to export to a website and my son uploaded it to his website. Probably need someone like him who is a Computer buff!

I think you want a site that you can password protect. I have also been told you need to add your E.mail address in fancy type so it does not get picked up for junk mail. The rootschat site has a lot of helpful advice about how to add web counters, web links etc. but I need my son who is home from university after three years studying IT to help me. I have a lot of information about a local village where my ancestors lived and was thinking of creating a local history web site as there does not appear to be much on-line at present but so far have not passed the first hurdle.