We have been fairly heavily researching our families? history for the past year and a bit. We have managed to amass quite a bit of information and some nice trees. Currently most of the information is on a semi-private account on Ancestry (it?s not a public tree, but members are searchable). A few of my family have shown an interest in the trees, although not to the point that they want to register on ancestry.
Since I have a few gig?s of backed-up webspace available to me I am wondering about creating a family history website. Something easy for the family to find and use (not all of them are that geeky). But I also want something fairly easy to maintain and control since it?s likely there might small updates now and then.
I could hand code the pages, but that would probably be a lot of effort to create and maintain.
So I was wondering about existing packages. I'm familiar with WordPress and MediaWiki. I've only dabbled with some of the CMS's out there.
Part of me suggests that MediaWiki might work. It always doesn?t look as pretty as some other frameworks, but it is probably flexible enough to do the job.
Drupal is probably right out considering that it likes a lot of PHP memory (I?m on shared hosting) plus it probably is overkill.
Anyone got any thoughts, or even tried something similar?