Frequently Asked Questions about pembertonfamly.com/families/ Q: What is the purpose of this site? A: To provide a gathering place where the Pemberton’s can publish their family photos, history, autobiographies, genealogy, resumes or whatever. The founders will be publishing a great number of historical family photos, biographical sketches, etc. about their ancestors. It just makes sense to put all of our "stuff" in one grand, well-indexed album. Our goal is to build family and individual strength by sharing our common values, goals, and heritage. Q: What can we publish? A: Virtually anything can be published. The easiest is textual and photographic items, but sounds and even videos are possible. If a family member has a particularly good singing voice, for example, it would be a loss to posterity if at least a portion of a song were not published for everyone in the family to enjoy. Q: Why should we publish anything here? A: Because it makes whatever you publish accessible to your entire family at a cost that is incredibly low. They can copy and print pictures, for example, at a tiny fraction of the cost of having it done commercially. Q: Who may use the site? A: Any relative of Henry Coate Pemberton, the father of Addison John Pemberton whether by blood or by marriage. You do not have to be a decendent, just a relative somehow. Q: What is the cost of using pembertonfamly.com/families/myfamily as an internet site? A: For sites under 3 megabytes (3,000,000) in size, free. For sites over 3 megaabytes, the cost is $.30 per megabyte per month. To estimate the size of your site: Each letter of text is 1 byte, a 2" by 3" color picture is roughly 10,000 bytes. Add about 15% for the HTML overhead. (Don't let HTML scare you, with a little luck, you'll never have to deal with it. It's just there to control layout, color, etc.) For sites over 3 megabytes, we ask for the rate we have to pay our hosting service: Q: What about confidentiality? A: pembertonfamily.com offers muliple levels of internet security. We expect that ordinarily a family will want certain portions of their published information open to any other member of the greater Pemberton family and other items available only to immediate family members. Based on this the upper level of pembertonfamily.com will be open to the general public. This will include the major directories of families, news, histories, etc. However, when a visitor clicks on a link to go beyond any of these directories, he will have to supply a password which will be circulated to all who publish at this site. That is the first level of security. Each family will have their own area or web site within pembertonfamily.com. They may choose to implement more levels of security (passwords) as any point within their individual sites. Thus the Wilton Pembertons may choose to have part of their information available to anyone with the general Pemberton password, and the rest of it protected by their own password known only to their immediate family. If desired, a family may have multiple levels of password protection within their web site. Q: How do I get started? A: Check out the publishing resources page and go from there. Q: What if I don't have a computer? A: You don't have to own one, but you will need access to one. There is probably a clever teenager somewhere in the family who would love to create on the web. There are also web page creators in every city in the world who would love to do the work for you for a fee. Just look in the Yellow Pages under Internet or Web.

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