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Have you ever wanted to start your own family website? You can. It is easy. I will attempt to share what I have learned while starting one for my family. What you have to know is that it is free with lots of storage for photos. If you want more than the basics you have to pay for the bandwidth (for lots of photos, music or video clips. I believe the basic site will do fine for most families. I use www.familylobby.com. Others (see below).
- How do you start? Go to the home page www.familylobby.com
- Take a tour
- View sample Website
- See details about features
- Next step is to create your website. They help you along the way. Give you choices. It is so easy. You would be the administrator. It is a closed website only for you those who are invited. It can not be searched by the search engines. Giving families privacy on the internet. It has internal security.
- What is on the page? (This is what is on Familylobby.com). Other sometime are similar
1) Guestbook (someone can sign in an you can correspond)
2) Members only site (join only by invitation)
3) Family Tree (share names, dates, photos or whatever you want to share)
4) Photo gallery of family or events (Share with family)
5) Calendar (Share birthdays, events (present or past)
6) News and Newsletter can be created.
7) Video clips ( What ever you want) and chatroom
8) Recipes (Share special family recipes)
9) Journaling (Good place for share family stories)
10) Emailing is available
11) Tech support (Friendly help and suggestions are respected)
12) Public forms (Ask questions and learn, read what others have learned)
Other Sites:
- www.familylobby.com Familylobby ( Very good FREE - 2000 photos, 100MB storage) 30 family and 50 members per family) or upgrade $4.79 - 3 GB storage or $8.99 unlimited storage with thousands of photos and own domain name. Very interactive.
- http://lythgoes.net The Next generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding. Easy & interactive (cost of program is $29 only once, everything stored on his server)
- www.tribalpages.com Tribalpages FREE or upgrade is $1.95 per month (50 photos), $2.95 per month (500 photos), $3.95 (1000 photos). Easy not as interactive
- www.geni.com Geni Free you can upgrade for 4.95 per month. Easy not as interactive
- 5) www.mygreatbigfamily.com MyGreatBigFamily. Good site, very interactive. Cost $140 per year and unlimited photos $160 per year. Good site. Own domain & hosting.
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