GED-GEN
Jun 112011
 

Why can’t I play video or audio items in my multimedia galleries?

When you test your generated web pages by viewing them on your local computer, you may not be able to play the video or audio files in your multimedia galleries. Your browser shows a question mark where the video or audio should display. Other types of multimedia files might be affected as well.

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Jun 112011
 

Why do I get an error message when I try to use the View command?

When you click the View button, GED-GEN attempts to launch your Internet browser to display a web page. An Internet browser is a program like Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox. You may see the message: “This file either does not exist, it is not accessible, or there is no Internet browser associated with files of this type.

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Jun 112011
 

Can I copy my generated web pages to a folder different from the destination folder I specified?

Probably not, but you can specify a different destination folder and then re-generate your web pages. GED-GEN uses relative folder paths when it generates the links between your family web pages. If you were to copy the generated files to another folder, chances are the relative paths would be different and the links would be invalid.

Jun 112011
 

Why aren’t my image files visible?

Why isn’t my web page background image visible?

Chances are you have not specified a proper relative folder path for your image files or the background image file. Verify that the image file exists in the relative folder path you specified. Also remember your image files when you transfer your GED-GEN pages to your website at your Internet Service Provider (ISP).

Jun 112011
 

Why doesn’t the link to my home page bring up my home web page?

Why doesn’t the link to a biography page bring up the biography web page?

Chances are you have not specified a proper relative folder path for your home page or biography pages. GED-GEN assumes relative paths for the links on the web pages it generates. Once you transfer your web pages to your website at your Internet Service Provider (ISP), an absolute folder path would probably not work.

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Jun 112011
 

Why don’t the links I have to GED-GEN web pages point to the correct families anymore?

If you include links to GED-GEN web pages on your own web pages, they may become invalid if you re-generate using a different GEDCOM file. Each time you export a GEDCOM file, your favorite genealogy program may renumber the families. This may happen if you add or delete families or you change which individuals are exported to the GEDCOM file.

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Jun 112011
 

Why does GED-GEN generate more than one HTML file per family?

If you choose to include source citations on the Features tab, you have the option of displaying footnotes either at the bottom of the family page, or in a separate frame window at the bottom of your browser. If you choose to display them in a separate frame window, then GED-GEN generates three Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) files per family.

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Jun 112011
 

If I choose to exclude living individuals, why are deceased individuals also being excluded?

You have not entered dates in the date of death fields. GED-GEN usually considers an individual deceased if the date of death is not empty. If you do not know when an individual died, specify UNKNOWN before you export your GEDCOM file.

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