Still running amok on Ancestry…

I recieved an email from a research buddy with some info on our common ancestry line which has had me running all over Ancestry chasing down one link after another. The interweaving of the lines has my head spinning. West...Bishop...Cox...Whitt...Pearson...Brown. I keep running into the same surnames in the same small area of Texas. I can't connect them all...yet. But…

Working on my Genealogy site…

I've been spending most of my time working on my genealogy site since I re-branded this one. I hope to eventually get around to setting a static page up here with links to posts from all of my (way too many) sites... Related articles by Zemanta Using the web to hunt down your family tree Evaluating Genealogy Sources Genealogy Meets…

It’s been a long Labor Day weekend.

When I started updating these pages and posting documentation and images on my site, I didn't imagine the time frame involved. After spending all of my free time over a four day weekend doing a data dump (when I wasn't getting caught following intriguing leads into research wonderland), I am beginning to realize just how much I have stashed on…

Thanks, Jerm

Image by SmileMyDay.com via Flickr Having a son that does php programing for a living makes life easy for a php illiterate like me. Jeremy was at the house when I got home from work on Thursday and he helped me tweak the code on the TNG Genealogy template I was using to integrate it's look a little closer to…

New Pages Posted

I am learning a lot about the new system. I managed to post a history of the JP Boyd family yesterday. It is just a narative book report edited to read morelike it was written by a person, but I am quite proud of the result. Look for more in the coming weeks, along with photos and documents as I…

Working on boyd-family.net

I've spent the weekend uploading, tweaking, adding photos, linking photo's and generally learning to use the new software. The more I use it, the happier I am with The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding. After working with WordPress, I find the number of php files needed a bit intemidating. I am sure I'll figure it out soon. Oh well, time…