RootsMagic Webinar #43

This morning I watched one of the RootsMagic webinars:
#43 New Online Publishing in RootsMagic6, dated 12 Feb 2013, length 47 minutes.

If you are using RootsMagic6 and have wished there was an easy way to share your genealogy information online, your wishes have been answered.  This version of this very powerful program now offers an option to create your own genealogy website and upload it to free webspace furnished by RootsMagic.

The webinar is very good, comprehensive and easy to understand with good visuals.

In the last couple of days I'd created a test website just by following the on screen instructions. Several questions that came to mind during the process were addressed during the webinar class.

Building a genealogy website with this tool eliminates the need to know anything about HTML and FTP.  If you don't know what those acronyms mean, don't worry about it.  Not needing to learn about this technical stuff is what makes this new RootsMagic option so attractive.

Access to your website is via your own URL which you furnish to others.

Here are some limits that were mentioned in the webinar:

1. Two websites per user (if you have two Email addresses)
2. 50Mb per website (a consideration if you have lots of photographs)
3. 10 URL links to other webpages

Dick Henthorn

4 March 2014

A Jaded View: Ohio County Courthouse & Library Woes

A Jaded View: Ohio County Courthouse & Library Woes:

'via Blog this'

Hardesty's History of Monroe County, Ohio

This morning I uploaded to the MonroeCountyOhio folder of MyBox an "Index of Personal History Department" created by yours truly from History of Monroe County, Ohio, published by H.H. Hardesty and Co., in 1882. The file, an HTML table, is named, Hardesty.htm.

I hope you like how it turned out as much as I do. Perhaps I'll post a short description of the steps I went through to create this file on this blog. You might be surprised at how easy it was once I had the right free tool on my computer.

I regret that I didn't make this finding aide available sooner in the HTML format which can easily be viewed with your browser. Sometimes it takes me a long time to find a way to accomplish what I want to do.

There is also a "text" file of extractions from other pages of the Hardesty publication (Monroe.txt) available on MyBox. It's been there since December 2010. The extractions are paragraphs that were of interest to me during my active days of researching. I'd forgotten about this document. (My memory issues are becoming more evident with the passing months.)

BTW, I own a copy of the History. I'm willing to do look-ups for friends who have access to MyBox.

Mr. Dickie
2 Mar 2011