Bare Bones Web Site.

Well I figured out the first step in creating a web site. I chose to use Google sites cause it was free and I have used other Google products and have been happy with them.

I chose the name for the each of two sites and a template for each. Wrote a quick intro for each. That was all the easy stuff. It took me a while to figure out how I could put my PAF file on the website but without any information on living persons or confidential notes. I figured that all out and then added a place on each website where I could add attachments, just like you do in email and voila` I have the basics out there.

I still will want to add photos and documents as I go along and I have some other family lines that I want to have their own websites. And, I thought I had registered these first two with Google so that the search engine can find them, but my understanding is that this could take a while, so not sure whether I did it correctly. I guess only time will tell.

I added a place on each website for comments but don't want anyone editing or deleting my information so they are not collaborative web sites.

The first is called MnJuhlinFamily about the descendants and ancestors of Lorentz Alfred Juhlin born Sweden and his wife, Mathiea Hansine Larsen born Bornholm, Denmark. They emigrated to the USA in 1905 with two young children and settled in Red Wing, Goodhue County, Minnesota. That web site can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/mnjuhlinfamily  and is my very first attempt.

I then got very brave and created my second web site, again very bare bones and small file. It is called ErvastiTree and is the Finnish ancestry of my husband.  The Finnish lines include Ervasti, Nivala, Maki, Lampi and others. The first known of these people immigrated to the UP of Michigan around 1881 and worked for 15 years in the mines up there. Around 1897 the Ervasti family moved down to Wright County, Minnesota where they spent the remainder of their lives.  This website can be found at https://sites.google.com/site/ervastitree and was created in the same manner.

Both files use the PAF genealogy software from FamilySearch and is pretty easy to understand and navigate around in. I chose to use it years ago for very simple reasons. It is free, all upgrades are free, and the support for the product is great.

So maybe I have given someone else some courage about sharing your research by creating a web page with their genealogy. I hope so.