A Comprehensive Guide to the Old Fulton New York Postcards Website

On December 25th the Old Fulton New York Postcards website (which, by the way, is not a website for postcards) received a major update that added a whopping 700,000 more old newspaper articles from the USA and Canada. The site, however, has an aesthetic that makes it slightly more difficult to start using than the average site. This post will help you learn to use this incredible resource to its full capacity.

Old Fulton New York Postcards homepage

How to use github to host your genealogy website for free (for complete beginners)

I was looking for ways that I could host my small, work in progress, genealogy website for free. All the options seemed to have negatives that outweighed the positives, or had limited storage amounts and no guarantee of long term hosting. Then I remembered Github pages. This will be a full tutorial on how to do what I did for complete beginners. It will assume you have a website generated by your genealogy program. (I recommend GRAMPS as a good free program.)

The end result will be something like this (my website):

https://reneeschmidt.github.io/Genealogy/individuals.html

What is Github?

Github is a code sharing website. It is mainly for open-source projects, which means projects where the code is free for viewing by anyone who wants to.  This is the link to the github homepage: https://github.com/ .

Getting Your Github Account

Simply go to github and create a free account, Its that easy!

Installing Everything You Need

Downloading GIT

GIT, unfortunately, does not work with just the website. You will need to install an application on your computer in order to get it to work.

First go to the following link: https://git-scm.com/downloads

Click on the operating system that you are working on. In my case its windows so I clicked the “Windows” button.