Genealogy Hosting - the Surname website

What is a ''Hosting Plan''?
Provides the web server to house the files of the website as well as internet access to them

What is a ''Website Authoring Application''?
An application purchased by the website author that is used to construct the website. The website authoring application allows the author to design each web page of the website then generates them into the necessary HTML of the web page .

What is an ''Online File Folder''?
An easy-to-use server-based file storage service which can be used to upload or download files using any web browser. It has a friendly user-interface providing online disk storage whereever you go in the world!

Why pay for a website?
The free ad-supported websites are a great way to get started but they do have advertising displayed on the top of each web page. Does this send the right message to your visitors? Genealogy is a serious, scholarly avocation. For a modest fee, you can have an ad-free website!

What is ''Website Tonight''?
A special hosting plan that provides a template-driven website authoring service to build a website using easy-to-use, friendly dialogs without requiring technical knowledge. It is used from any web browser and is all that is needed to build a professional website.

What is a ''standard hosting plan''?
The normal hosting plan used by most websites. In a standard hosting plan, the website author has complete responsibility for all technical aspects of the website but also has maximum control over the website.

What is the ''Economy Hosting Plan''?
The least expensive of the standard hosting plans provided by www.genealogyhosting.com (in a standard hosting plan, the website author has complete responsibility for all technical aspects of the website but also has maximum control over the website). The Economy Hosting Plan is perfect for any genealogy website: it is packed with features such as plenty of disk space, e-mail accounts, and data transfer allotments.

What is ''Traffic Blazer®''?
A search engine optimization and submission service. It provides all the tools you will need to analyze your website, optimize its contents for search engine spiders, submit your website to the search engines, and track the results of your campaign to get your website listed in the search engines.

What is ''Private Domain Registration''?
When you register a domain name, your registration information (name, address, e-mail address, phone no) is placed in the public domain name registry. With the Private Domain Registration service, you can have an unlisted domain name registration in which we are your surrogate so our information is made public rather than yours. However, you are still the owner with all the benefits of domain name registration.

What is ''c-Site®''?
A service to easily obtain a federal copyright of your genealogy website. A federal copyright is the indisputable legal proof you need to claim authorship of your work.

What is a ''blog''?
A blog is a social networking application in which an author can share information with the world and obtain comments or feedback from visitors. A blog website is the perfect first genealogy website because it can be used to instantly post preliminary genealogy information obtained in the early phases of research and get feedback on the information from fellow genealogists. No web technology expertise is required to have a blog website.

About Accounts?
You will administer all your hosting services such as domain names, e-mail accounts, hosting plans, etc. from your account control panel at www.genealogyhosting.com. Your account is used to not only purchase hosting services but also to update the settings of your various hosting services. There is no obligation to opening an account.

What is a ''domain name''?
The last two nodes of a website name (e.g., for a website of ''www.mysite.org,'' the domain name is ''mysite.org''. Domain names are registered and owned by the website author. The domain name is used to form the network name of servers (computers on the internet). The network name is a human readable moniker (e.g., ''www.mysite.org'') which is used to lookup the internet protocol address (IP address) of the server on the internet (e.g., "64.202.163.121"). Once translated, messages intended for that network name (e.g., ''www.mysite.org'') are routed to the actual IP address (e.g., "64.202.163.121").


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Sample Genealogy Website:
Surname Website

Notes

This is a surname website devoted to presenting extensive information about one surname - in my case my Mannigel family. A surname project is always difficult because of the numerous people encountered with the target surname. Many of them are not part of the surname-clan but its hard to tell when you are in the thick of collecting information. Therefore, I adopted the strategy of separating the collection of surname information from its synthesis. I recorded all Mannigel findings (in all spellings) documenting the citations of each. This produced many entries for various people with the correct name but not necessarily a proven ancestor of mine. I did find reason to believe that a many of the lines were related if I could get enough documentation. It was a productive way to proceed and once I had nailed down a Mannigel ancestor completely, I wrote a biography of that person. Eventually I hope to have biographies written for them all. It is my purpose to put this information on the web in hopes of drawing interest from fellow Mannigel researchers worldwide. I have received numerous queries and can whole heartedly recommend this approach - a surname website.

This site has been completely built with Microsoft Word in HTML. Microsoft Word can work in HTML as easily as it can in its native ".DOC" format. This means I can do all of the work of creating my website in my word processor thus creating my website in my familiar, every day work environment.
Notice that as a Microsoft Word website, it can be turned into a genealogy book! While the project to turn a Microsoft Word website into a book is definitely a time-consuming project, it is not difficult since it is a straight forward project. The hard part has already been done - the research. Also, Microsoft Word is great at organizing and creating complex documents such as a genealogy web site..
When I'm communicating with fellow researchers I can use this website to present my information, giving them a simple link to my website instead of a pile of paper. Notice that they always have my latest information!
As the Mannigel research matures and I make contact with more and more people, I will use this site so they can communicate with each other. For example, I'll maintain an accurate e-mail list as well as sponsor a message board (e.g., via Rootsweb.com) with a link from this site.
This site also has robust e-mail account capability with the ability to add 500 e-mail accounts on the "Economy" hosting plan. This means a surname e-mail system could be built and made available so that Mannigel descendants would have an e-mail account reflecting their family heritage (e.g., johnsmith@mannigel.org). Sponsoring a surname-clan e-mail system is a good way to get people all over the world organized as a family and focused on their mutual genealogy research!.
Notice ... with this setup, I have my own permanent e-mail address for my Mannigel genealogy correspondence (e.g., martygale@mannigel.org).

Detailed Article

Article (PDF): Surname Website (click here)
Here is a detailed article describing the www.mannigel.org surname website. Also, see other articles

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to see my surname website

Other Sample Genealogy Web Sites

Here are some other sample genealogy web sites showing what you can do - each has a different purpose:

Genealogy Work Bench
This is my home page and I use it on the road

Genealogy Essay
This site presents an example of a genealogy essay website which my husband created to tell the story of his great-grandtather Poill.

Elusive Ancestor
This site presents my husband's most elusive problem - untangling the family of his great-grandfather Poill

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