GED2WWW - FAQ

• Help with genealogy and the internet
• Uploading - UPPER vs. lower case of file names
• Uploading - .html vs. .htm
• Geocities uploading problems
• Problems with Accented Characters
• Multiple databases on one site
• GED2WWW can't find my gedcom file
• E-Mail support

Help with genealogy and the internet
I've constructed a Getting Started page to help people with genealogy and the internet.

Uploading - UPPER vs lower case file names
GED2WWW uses lower case letters for all of the filenames for files that it produces. GED2WWW also uses these lower case names for the inter and intra page links. The filenames may not appear in lower case if you are using DOS or Windows (Windows 95 can do a spectacular job of mangling the case of letters in a filename) but it is important to make sure that the filenames are in all lower case when they are transmitted to your web host. If the filenames are not in lower case on your web server, inter and intra page links will probably not work properly.

Uploading - .html vs .htm
It is important to not change the filenames produced by GED2WWW in any way. Changing them may cause inter and intra page links to stop working. According to the HTML standard it is perfectly legal to have html files that end with either a .htm or .html suffix.

Geocities uploading problems
Before e-mailing me for help, please check out the Geocities FTP Help Page.

Problems with Accented Characters
Are you using an older version of GED2WWW? GED2WWW did not support accented characters until version 0.20.

Is your GEDCOM file saved in ANSEL format? If it is not, the accents won't make it through. There are 3 legal character formats that a GEDCOM file can be saved in:

• ASCII or ANSI - There are no accented characters stored in a GEDCOM file saved in ASCII format. Some genealogy software will (in violation of the GEDCOM standard) store accented characters in an ASCII format file. But since they are in a non-standard format, GED2WWW can't use them.
• ANSEL - Accented characters are stored, and GED2WWW can handle them properly.
• UNICODE - Accented characters are stored, but GED2WWW does not yet support unicode format. GED2WWW will attempt to process as if it were ASCII.

You can tell which format your gedcom file is in by looking at your GEDCOM file. Somewhere within the first 20 lines of the GEDCOM file there should be a line that reads something like

   1 CHAR ANSEL

Multiple Databases on one Site
If you want to put multiple GED2WWW databases on the same site you must put each database in a different directory on that site. If you do not, the files from each database over-write each other.

GED2WWW can't find my gedcom file
Before GED2WWW version 0.30 the DOS/Windows version not support long filenames, or filenames with spaces in them. If using a pre-0.30 version of GED2WWW I recommend upgrading to 0.30. If that is not possible, try saving your gedcom file in the same directory with the GED2WWW.exe program and giving is a short name with no special characters (such as database.ged).

SUPPORT
Please check with the above FAQ's before e-mailing your support questions. When e-mailing support questions please be sure to include as much information about the problem as possible. You can e-mail your support questions to Leslie Howard, les@lesandchris.com.