Thanks, Ray. Impressive work you're doing.
I'm swamped with my duties for the VaGenWeb Archives Project and haven't done much
with my GenWeb sites.
I'm bookmarking OFT and will consider your options if I ever catch up.
Matt Harris
County Coordinator, Southampton Co. VaGenWeb
-----Original Message-----
From: Ray Gurganus <ray(a)gurganus.org>
To: vagen <vagen(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Fri, Jun 3, 2011 6:05 pm
Subject: [VAGEN] Option for County Sites
I'm resending a message I sent before, as I didn't get any responses. So
I'm not sure if it didn't go through, or just didn't get any interest...
I wanted to send on an option that some of you may want to do for your
county sites.
You can see this on the Prince William Co and DC Genweb pages that I've
done, links below. It's on the right side of each page.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vapwilli/index.shtml
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~vapwilli/links/families.shtml
http://www.theusgenweb.org/dcgenweb/index.shtml
http://www.theusgenweb.org/dcgenweb/other/surnames.shtml
Each has a section on the page that uses Javascript to pull information from
the other website that I manage, "Our Family Tree" at
www.gurganus.org.
It's all done in real time, on-the-fly.
I see the main goals of a state or county site are to post resources that
are not online elsewhere (general history, births, marriages, deaths, etc.),
and to organize links to resources on other sites. Hosting family trees
doesn't really fit a state or county site, especially since most family
extend across many states and counties. So this can be "outsourced" to OFT,
and in return it can send back county data.
The Javascript code and instructions are on my website here:
http://www.gurganus.org/ourfamily/widget.cfm
Here's the full list of sites that have this, if you want to see more
examples:
http://www.gurganus.org/ourfamily/help.cfm?mode=contents&help_id=82
So if it's of interest to you, give it a try and let me know how it comes
out.
Ray
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