I haven't had a chance to use this new web site yet but the advertisements and reports from early users sound great. Here is some of the promotional claims from the site: https://weare.xyz/:
Free your stories from outdated technology and paper files, inspire your family with a living online archive.
We've made it so easy. Establish an interactive archive at the heart of your family.
Create your online site with ease Our super simple interactive tree builder. Automatically organizes your site (built by a GEDCOM in seconds).
Showcase your story like never before. Create, curate and enrich a kaleidoscope of captivating artefacts, photos, videos & stories.
Engage family to ensure your story is passed on. Ask for help to fill in the gaps, and even see relatives record their own lives as children and adults.
Interactive Archive Builder: At its core, We Are [...] is an online Family History content management system complete with one of the most advanced family tree indexing and display engines developed to date
Family Involvement & Personalisation:
- Personalised access for each relative,
- Freedom to contribute and collaborate,
- 'Ask family' button on every page,
- Comment threads under all content items,
- Share to social media and messaging
Effortless Backups for Peace of Mind
We Are [...] is a well organised online repository for all your family history related materials. With a click, you (and your family) can download everything into folders on your hard drive which mirror you website sections. Content is repeated in all relevant folders for ease of access.
As well as media files, this offline backup contains print ready pdfs of all your articles and trees, so you have the added benefit of being able to create physical copies.
Simply uploading content onto your We Are [...] site sorts and organises it in an easy to understand structure. No more anxiety about others needing to access your hard drive, locate and comprehend your research.
Summary of benefits
The moment family members join your shared family archive, you have already started passing the baton and sharing stewardship of your family history.
Automatic and very clear organisation of content into folders that will make sense to relatives.
Family can download directly, removing complication of sharing and distributing hard drive based content.
Online content can be extracted in print ready PDFs, offering the added security of generating physical copies.
WeAre.xyz is a commercial web site and charges fees for its services. However, the first 30 days are available free of charge so you get a good chance to try it out and see how you mike it at no charge.
Fees vary from free (with up to 100 megabytes of storage space) up to $19/95 a month (or $199 a year if paid 12 months in advance) for unlimited storage space.
The site also contains a vast family tree spanning most, if not all of the royal families of Europe going back to before the time of William the Conqueror. The tree and site are constantly being refined and updated; the further back you go the more raw the data. You can use the free site all you want at no charge.
There is a lot more information to absorb at: https://weare.xyz/. You might especially want to read the Frequently-Asked Questions at https://weare.xyz/faqs/.