Working with Your Home Page
After the wizard has helped you upload that first Web page, you can enhance it by adding additional reports, an InterneTree, or even a book. The beauty of your home page is that you can change what is available whenever you wish. Most of the reports that you can print to paper can be used on the Family Tree Maker site as well.
Adding Reports
Adding reports to your family home page will make them viewable to anyone who visits your Web page. These pages will be added to the indexing and searching functions found on Family Tree Maker’s Web site and to the Genealogy.com search page. There are many reports and trees that you can publish to your family home page, including
Outline Descendant Trees
Custom Reports
Genealogy Reports (Register, NGSQ, or Ahnentafel)
Family Tree Maker Book
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Some trees, such as the Standard Ancestor Tree, will prompt Family Tree Maker to upload an InterneTree, a PDF version of the ancestor tree chart, or both. The PDF version looks like the printed tree, whereas the InterneTree is an interactive pedigree that visitors can navigate through when looking at your research online.
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You will see that in addition to working in the Family Tree Maker program, you can also upload other items to your home page, including pictures and Web links. Click on the Add to or Edit This Section link to customize your home page.
Adding an InterneTree
An InterneTree is a box-style tree. However, unlike the normal box-style reports, this one is interactive. Visitors to your home page can use an index and move through the generations. For each person in the tree, they will see the name, birth date, and death date for the individual.
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If you wish to share your entire database in the InterneTree, the best tree report to select would be the All-in-One tree.
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You can have only one InterneTree on your site at a time. If you would like other tree reports to be available as well, you will need to select the Graphical Tree option when uploading them.
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At the present time, an InterneTree can have as many as 2,000 individuals in it. This is important to remember if you have chosen to upload a report that includes all the individuals in your database.
Adding a Book
Just as you can print your family history book to paper and publish it to send to your family and fellow researchers, you can also include it on your home page. This offers you the chance to publish your book while it’s still a work in progress. As you find new information or correct inaccurate conclusions, you can simply upload a new version of the book to your home page.
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During this process you will be prompted to add a Table of Contents if your book did not have one yet. You will also be asked if you want to contribute to the World Family Tree. Click Yes if you do or No if you do not. World Family Tree is a compilation of GEDCOM submissions by researchers interested in sharing their information on the World Family Tree CD-ROMs.