> > How do others working in genealogy organize all of this supporting > > documentation? > > > > I have thought about a something like dBase or Access but want > > something that is software independent? > > Keith nuttle wrote: > > I decided on a web site - I think html could be said to be software > independent - it will work in any browser on any platform MAC or > Windows or Linux > > The basic structure for my Lankshear family is a Events by year page > with a link to a page on the person and then links to what data > files I have ..... > > Then surname pages for families they married etc > > I use this on my PC as a research tool but I have also loaded to web > and many cousins have found it and contact me and add to my data. > > Ron Lankshear I wish to thank every one for their ideas and had already incorporated some of them into my directory structures and file naming conventions. However the idea of the HTML files is interesting, but I have some questions. In the past I used an HTML file for the document index to the documents use in a production facility. The documents were number and had a title descriptions. I hot linked the document number to the document file. That was system was dependent on the directory structure and location where the documents were stored. As I remember it was a hassle to add new documents and change files in the system. In HTML is it possible to create an HTML file(hyper linked files) that would be linked to the individual files in the directories. If done this way the HTML files could contain a description of the information being accessed with a hot link. Question: Could the directory with the genealogy information and HTML files be copied to a DVD, with out losing the links? (I never really solved this with the production documents.) Question: What would be the easiest way to maintain these files, Word Perfect, Quatro pro, etc. Keith Nuttle Keith nuttle <keith_nuttle@sbcglobal.net>