Familly reuninon plus permanent family site

We're doing a family reunion and want to also create a website that will
permanently house the results of the reunion plus other extended family
information. Ancestry.con offers a site for $30 per year. Are there other
better offerings? What do you all recommend.

Hugh Watkins...

Freepages: Free Unlimited Web Space

In the early days of 1994 and 1995, there were very few genealogical
databases online and only a few genealogy related websites. A group of
people joined together to discuss the possibilities and the GenWeb group
was formed. Under the direction of Gary Hoffman a mailing list was begun
and provided the forum by which these early programmers discussed their
In May 1996 Randy Winch started working with the IGM programs. He
enhanced them by adding DBM indexing, pedigree charts, descendancy
charts and gedcom subset download. He converted the programs into the C
programming language to help reduce server load, and later completely
rewrote it in the programming language C++.

RootsWeb announced the launch of the World Connect Project on November
10, 1999 after staff members and users submitted 5.5 million records
during a four-week beta-testing period. The WorldConnect Project
continues to grow, and currently (January 2004) has more than 312
million records

one-name study wiht blogs as a home page

LAPHAM 1
links to LAPHAM sites around the world

LAPHAM 2
sources and work done in the LAPHAM one-name study

LAPHAM 3
one-name study blog

used to share photos with links to a tree

Hugh W

SCraig...

Ken...

This is a good free site:

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I'm looking for a site that and be password protected so that the family can
exchange private information.