Subscribe to RSS Feeds

RSS (Rich Site Summary) is a format for delivering regularly changing web content. Many news-related sites, weblogs and other online publishers syndicate their content as an RSS Feed to whoever wants it. GEDnet’s RSS feed allows you to easily stay informed by retrieving summaries of the latest content from the website. 

In order to subscribe to the RSS feed you will need two things, an RSS reader (also known as a news aggregator) and url (web address) of the RSS feed that you wish to subscribe. You can chose to either subscribe to GEDnet News or to readers’ comments on the GEDnet website, or both.

You’ll find the url to the news feeds by clickinge either of the two RSS links to the right under the heading “Subscribe too RSS feed”.

  1. If you use Internet Explorer 7, you already have a built-in RSS reader in your web browser. In that case you don’t need to install a separate RSS Reader, just click the RSS link to the right and Internet Explorer will tell you how to proceed. Then you don’t need to read any further.

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  2. Download a News Aggregator / RSS Reader (like SharpReader or FeedReader for Windows alternatively NetNewswire or Shrook for Mac).
  3. Locate the web address (url) of the RSS feed (XML file) that you wish to subscribe. A news aggregator or RSS reader is a software application that collects and displays news headlines and summaries from sources that you have designated. An RSS feed is an XML document that contains the news headlines and summaries.
  4. Install the feed reader or news aggregator on the computer
  5. Insert the url of the news feed (there is usually an “add feed” button)
  6. Many of the news readers will allow you to set the interval that the software will look for a feed update others simply update daily.
  7. The information in the feed will be updated when the feed contains new content.