Getting Started on Your Genealogy Website

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The major reason to have a genealogy website is sharing and collaboration. A genealogy website reaches out to all those cousins and distant relatives. They will have specific knowledge, stories and even artifacts that have been passed down on their side of the family. These are the very people you must locate to begin the genealogy communication process. In this guide, we describe in detail how to create a genealogy website. We present a website development methodology which divides the website project into three phases: the requirements phase, the design phase and the build phase with explanations of the steps and products for each phase. We focus on the information structure of the genealogy website, the most important and neglected design task facing authors of genealogy websites. In this guide we will describe the development of the surname website, www.schmidt14.org of Margaret Schmidt. Margaret is a fictitious character but she is a composite of many genealogists we know.