Hello all, Those of you who have downloaded the gedcom files on the Web site and loaded them into a genealogy software program will realise that there is a lot more information in them than that contained in the outline descendant trees which we have built up on the Web site. However, not everyone uses a genealogy program, and I've tried to make some of the additional information available on the Web site using the Ahn Java Applet, which provides both textual and graphical views of the data. Fairly recently I became aware of another software package called PhpGedView which allows one to browse the information in a gedcom file via a Web browser, and in my opinion PhpGedView has a number of advantages over the Ahn Java Applet. For example: a richer variety of graphical deiplay modes, which can include more information than Ahn; the possibility of preparing these charts as Acrobat files for printing; much more flexibility in navigating the data; the possibility of including images associated with individuals. Last but not least, PhpGedView allows material on the site to be edited and for new material to be added to the Web site by authorised users. I think the latter feature could be very interesting given our collaborative method of researching Lovelock family history - I am very conscious of the fact that I am sometimes a bottleneck in the process of sharing information! One problem with PhpGedView is that it requires support on the Web site for a scripting language called PHP, and many ISPs do not provide this support, including Numericable, my own ISP and broadband provider. In order to experiment with the program I acquired some (free!) disk space on a Web server with the French company free.fr This is not an ideal solution because the server seems to be often overloaded and connections get refused (I suppose one gets what one pays for!) However, it does give us the possibility of evaluating the technology and if people feel that it really is interesting perhaps I'll find a more adequate way of hosting the sofware and data. So you can play with the experimental setup at the following address: http://james.loveluck.free.fr/ I have uploaded three gedcom files to the site: - Extended Lieflock Line (all individuals linked to the Lieflock Line, not just the direct descendants) - The Glamorgan Lovelucks - The Reading and Oxfordshire Lovelock Line (previously known as The Berkshire Line) You can choose the tree you want to browse from a pop-up menu under the "Welcome Page" icon; the Extended Lieflock Line is the current default. I haven't yet attempted to exploit all the features of PhpGedView, and in particular the inclusion of images, so you might want to visit a couple of related sites which have done a very good job of using these features: (1) Chris Knight's Web site, now listed on the "Useful Links" page of the Lovelock Web site: http://www.chrisknight.info/phpGedView/ this includes the Nevada Lovelocks and much of the Lyneham Line. (2) Ron Davies Web site. Ron is one of my Glamorgan LovelUck collaborators and there is quite a lot of Loveluck data on his Web site, which also uses images very nicely: http://clan-davies.org/phpGedView/ Please let me have your feedback about this tool for sharing our Lovelock family history data. James