1. How to Put Your Family on the Internet Share Information Contact Distant Family Members Obtain Clues WHY?

2. What Is A Gedcom File It means (Genealogical Data Communication). It is a simple easy way to share family genealogy. It can be used for transferring files to many different software programs. This format can be used to load files onto the internet.

3. PREPARING A GEDCOM FILE FILE MENU Example of Menu NEW OPEN CLOSE APPEND EXPORT FILE EXPORT FAMILY VIEW BACKUP RESTORE FROM LOCAL RESTORE FROM INTERNET BACKUP OPEN SAVED VIEW PRINT SETUP PRINT PREVIEW BATCH PRINT PREFERENCES PRIVATIZE FILE

4. First Steps Back up File Privatize Make a Gedcom Rootsweb or Ancestry

5. BACKUP! CHOOSE DESTINATION FLOPPY DRIVE [A] FLOPPY DRIVE [F] WRITABLE CD DRIVE INTERNET STORAGE WORKING DIRECTORY CUSTOM DIRECTORY NEXT STEP

6. PRIVATIZE FILE PRIVATIZING YOUR FILE TEMPORARILY HIDES BIRTHDATES AND THE SENSITIVE FACTS ABOUT LIVING INDIVIDUALS IN YOUR FILE. THIS ENABLES YOU TO PRINT OR UPLOAD TREES AND REPORTS WITHOUT INCLUDING CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION. PLEASE NOTE -TEXT THAT YOU ENTERED IN NOTES AND BOOK TEXT ITEMS IS NOT PRIVATIZED -ANY CHANGES YOU MAKE TO YOUR FILE WHILE IT IS PRIVATIZED WILL NOT BE SAVED. DO YOU WISH TO TEMPORARILY PRIVATIZE YOUR FILE? YES NO NEXT STEP

7. GEDCOM FILE FILE EXPORT FILE ENTIRE FILE SELECTED INDIVIDUALS SAVE IN CD OR DVD FILE NAME FILE MENU COMES UP CHOOSE GEDCOM BACK UP GEDCOM FILE TO CD UNPRIVATIZE NEXT STEP

8. ROOTSWEB.COM

9. ADD INDIVIDUAL USER NAME AND PASSWORD Click on advanced and it will take you to another menu which will be self explanatory. You will use your saved gedcom file to add to the web page. GOOD LUCK