This issue web guru Paul Carter reviews a reader’s delightful family history website and shares ideas for creating platforms to bring your own fascinating research and family stories to a wider audience

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There’s an international flavour to this month’s featured website, the beautifully presented 2mi3museum.com from Turkey. Dimitri Daravanoglu introduced the concept as an ‘e-museum of a Greek, Armenian and Italian family that has lived in Turkey since the 1800s’. While this is in essence a website telling the story of a family’s history, that concept of a ‘museum’, with the use of artefacts and photographs, gives the presentation a different feel and is something that could be applied to other family history websites.

When opening the website, I was struck by the lovely family portraits, so evocative of their time and place. These are set against a plain white backdrop, which helps give more impact. This theme, uncluttered, with plenty of white space, large clear type is repeated throughout the website, making the content easy to read, giving that museum feel and most importantly, drawing the reader in.