Adding Content

Adding content from your Google Drive

The side menu makes adding content from Google Drive a simple operation.

House any items you want to share from your Google Drive on your family site in one folder, then set that folder's permissions to Anyone with the link can view. Each file added to that folder will inherit that permission.

This applies to docs, slides, sheets, forms, charts, images, PDFs and any other files included in that folder.

if you want your readers to view all the files in a folder, find the instructions on the Embed page.

How much data can you include?

Note: Google Docs, Sheets, Slides, Forms, and Sites don't take up storage space.

Google Sites (new): Up to 200,000 characters per page, 10,000 images per site, and up to 1,000 pages (max 10 million characters).

Add PDFs from Drive

Example of a PDF from a shared folder in Drive - set to anyone with the link can view. PDFs must be added to Google Drive first, they cannot be uploaded directly from your computer.

Edward John Horgan ancestors.pdf

Screen clippings

The resolution of screen clippings from genealogy software may be poor unless you have a large, high definition monitor. Charts generated by your software may provide a better option for displaying relationships.