Start a Wiki!  Wikis allow any member to edit the pages. People can
post their relation to the house, their family tree, post pictures, or
anything else related to the house and it's decendants.

There are many free wiki sources such as pmwiki.com or
www.wikispaces.com. The source code is also open source so you could
host it on your website as well.

deb


> Hello list....
>
>  Do any of you know of successful models for working with "family" of
> historic homes?  We have a very few remaining direct or indirect descendants
> of the family who resided at our historic house museum. I know who all of
> these people are and can generally answer their genealogy questions, etc.
> But I think it would be wonderful if they all knew each other!  I was
> thinking along the lines of a website, blog, or something internet based.
> This would probably have to be set up by the museum, and then possibly
> monitored by myself or other staff for factual reasons, but the driving
> force would hopefully come from the members/users. Any one know of an
> example, or something similar.  I would like it to be somehow more
> sophisticated but less complicated/specific than a genealogy club/society.
> (By the way.. none of the descendants are anywhere near the physical house
> museum.. all live in other parts of the country)
>
>  Thanks for you input/advice!
>
>  --
>  Erin Elizabeth Crissman
>  Curator

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