Currently, I have several databases online. My own (McGee) database contains about 4000 individuals. These are my relatives and ancestors and some related lines.
My current GenWeb software allows several modes of access to a database. You may start with an individual entry and browse from there. You may also start with either a pedigree chart or a descendant chart for an individual and browse from that. There is an index availible.
One word of Caution! Certain circumstances may cause the URL to a given page within the database to change. It is therefore suggested that you not save links to any of the automatically generated pages. If you do save such a URL, you may find it pointing to some other individual (or not working at all) at some point in the future. The index and this page have stable, savable URL's.
McGee database - My own genealogy
ej1750 database - Ezekiel Johnson, born 1750
ej1754 database - Ezekiel Johnson, born 1754
Harrington database - My brother-in-law's genealogy
Be sure to check these out if you are just visiting. Especially, see the Royal92 which has Europe's royalty, and Pool, which has many medival genealogies and a "descent from Adam" ancestory based on biblical references.
Pool database - Containing many medieval genealogies
Royal92 database - European royalty
Scott's Genealogy Page
Scott's Home PageScott McGee - Born 2 Sep 1958 Farmington, Davis, Utah, USA
Individual Data
Pedigree Chart
Descendant Chart
This database contains nearly 7000 individuals. A large part of this data was collected from the LDS Church's Family History Center using their Ancestoral Search facilities. I have corrected many errors in this data, but suspect there are still more to be found. If you do find errors, please let me know.
The following is a list of the most common surnames in the database. Each surname has at least 30 individuals with that name in the database.
Ezekiel Johnson - born 1750
Individual Data
Pedigree Chart
Descendant Chart
This database contains nearly 500 individuals representing the genealogy of
one of the possible matches for one of my ancestors, Ezekiel Johnson. A large
part of this data was collected from the LDS Church's Family History Center
using their Ancestoral Search facilities, but has been corrected to reflect
later genealogical information and research.
Ezekiel Johnson - born 1754
Individual Data
Pedigree Chart
Descendant Chart
This database contains the genealogy of another possible match for one of
my ancestors, Ezekeil Johnson.
Harrington - my brother-in-law's database (Charles
Harrington)
The entry point for this database is my brother-in-law Charles Harrington.
Charles Scranton Harrington
Individual Data
Pedigree Chart
Descendant Chart
This database contains nearly 2000 names representing the genealogy of my
sisters husband, Charles Harrington.
One is to hand write a series of web pages that present the desired genealogical data. This is easily implemented on a small number of people, but quickly becomes impossible to use with larger databases.
A second method is to use an automated process to create the web documents from the genealogical data. Most commonly, this is done using a program that converts GEDCOM format database transfer files into a series of web pages. This works better in that large databases can quickly be turned into a series of web documents. It has a drawback in that such programs usually create one or more files for each person in the data. This can quickly grow to a file count that most system administrators don't like, though this can be partially offset by combining mulitple entries into a single file.
A third aproach is to make use of the Common Gateway Interface (CGI) facilities of the World Wide Web. This allows the common web address specifier (URL) to include information that can be fed into a program that can produce the desired web document. In the case of GenWeb, this most oftens means the use of a program called LifeLines which is a UNIX based genealogical database program that happens to work well for this usage. The URL passed to web software tells the CGI software to run LifeLines with input supplied in the URL, and generate a certain report. Some systems then further manipulate this report to generate the desired web document, but my own software uses LifeLines report programs that directly generate the HTML formatted web documents.
If you wish to use my software on your own site, you can download the needed files here (last updated 9 Jun 2010). To use this software, you will need to have LifeLines (available from SourceForge) installed on your site, be able to install cgi scripts, and modify Bourne Shell scripts. Do NOT download and attempt to install this sofrware unless you have successfuly installed and run Lifelines first! This is my own version, and is not distributed except for use as an example on how it is done. I retain all copyrights to this software, but allow it to be used (for private and non-commercial use only) by those wishing to build their own GenWeb site. You may contact me at Scott@theMcGees.org for more questions. I DO NOT support this software, but will attempt to answer questions as my time permits.
If you DO set up a genweb server using this software (or a deriviative of it), I would like to hear about it. Please contact me at Scott@theMcGees.org and let me know. (This is NOT required, of course, but I really WOULD like to know.)
Final Note: This software was untouched for about 10 years, but I have recently (Feb 2010) been updating and improving it. Feel free to offer suggestions at Scott@theMcGees.org.
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