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Sharing Family Stories and Facts

Jon Jaroker — Fri, 03 May 2013 19:19:29 +0000

FindFollow allows you to share family stories, facts and photos with other family members and friends. Unlike public services like Facebook, you have full control of your information and your privacy. This means that you can be confident that your family stories are shared with people you select.

Engaging the Younger Generation

Jon Jaroker — Wed, 20 Mar 2013 17:52:02 +0000

The interactive features of this website engage a younger generation. Family stories can include videos, audio, photographs and comments.

Photographs, graphics, design and interactive elements give visual appeal to the genealogy data. For example, notice how newspaper clippings can be viewed and source documents presented.

These visuals appeal to the younger generation, which means the effort you put into researching your ancestors will be appreciated and enjoyed by your descendants.

Private Sites

Jon Jaroker — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:22:03 +0000

The family history sections of this website can be restricted to family members. This offers all of the benefits of collaboration and sharing, but restricted to specific individuals.

Registration and approval is required to access these private sites. Family members can be allowed access to specific sites.

Public Beacons

Jon Jaroker — Tue, 19 Mar 2013 16:50:31 +0000

How do you discover family members that you do not know you have? Let them discover you!

Public Beacons are optional, search-engine optimized pages on this website. They are designed to appear on search sites when someone searches for his family name or home town. If you want to be found by fellow researchers, these beacons are the cost efficient and effective inbound marketing strategy to use.

Multilingual

Jon Jaroker — Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:15:24 +0000

To share and collaborate with relatives abroad, you must speak their language. The FindFollow website can be translated into different languages.

These multi-language versions of the website are created using a combination of automated and manual translation techniques.

About the Photo

Multilingual … lingual means tongue … giraffes have long tongues … Get it?

Webtrees Genealogy Database

Jon Jaroker — Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:19:18 +0000

Factual information, such as dates and relationships, is stored in an open-source genealogy database called Webtrees. Webtrees generates nice charts such as relationships and descendants.

This genealogy database is GEDCOM compliant, allowing you to import and export standard GEDCOM files. It is the perfect structural complement to the free-form narratives provided by the FindFollow website.

Access

A separate registration and login is required for this database.

Access the Webtrees database using the “Private Sites” drop-down menu above. The direct web address is: http://webtrees.findfollow.com

Example

The image below is an example of a family relationship chart that was created using Webtrees. (The image is intentionally blurred for privacy.)