Second Site

Second Site is the best way to publish your TMG data in HTML format. It has hundreds of features and reads your TMG data directly. If you are serious about publishing your TMG data on the Web, or if you are sharing your data with family members on custom CDs, you need Second Site!

Second Site is a great tool to review your dataset. It is fast, and the HTML format makes the data easy to browse. Many users have reported that it has helped them find data inconsistencies and other problems.

If you want the features of Second Site, but you do not use TMG, you should use GedSite, which works with GEDCOM files.

Are you afraid that you don't have what it takes to get a site published? Combine Second Site with Family History Hosting (FHH), a web hosting service designed for genealogists. Second Site includes a special one-step publish feature for use by FHH customers. As part of the FHH service, I'll help you register a domain, fine-tune your site, and publish the first version of your site. Second Site and FHH can help you get from offline to online!

What It Does

Second Site creates web pages from a genealogy database. It generates either narrative or grid style person pages, a master index, a surname index, and source pages. Check out the partial list of features. You can review the site on your own PC before you share it with anyone. You can publish it on the web, or distribute it via a DVD or flash drive.

Example Sites

The best way to learn what Second Site can do is to review the sites published by Second Site users. You can also review the official demonstration site or the Theme and Format Examples page to see some of the variations possible with Second Site.

What You Need

Second Site requires a database created and maintained with TMG, The Master Genealogist^TM from Wholly Genes Software.

Second Site is a Microsoft Windows program designed to work with Windows 10 and 11. Second Site should work with Windows 7, but it is no longer tested under that operating system.

Quick! How Do I Make A Site?

Follow the 6 Steps to Second Site. Then, flush with success, read Using Second Site!

Second Site supports hundreds of options. First-time users can safely ignore almost all of them. After you get comfortable with the program, browse around the user interface, and experiment. International users should read the International Sites page.

Other Resources

See the Other Resources page for a list of resources that Second Site users may find useful. The Glossary defines some Second Site and TMG terms. See the Change Log for a list of recent changes. All the editions of Second Site News are available via the Newsletters page. Second Site has excellent support for a wide range of browsers. See the Browser Compatability page for details. See my home page for other TMG companion programs.

Got a question? See the Table of Contents or the FAQ.