New Individual Types

October 28, 2020 – 10:56 am

Beginning with my latest upload, I’m creating new types of individuals – events, documents, organizations and transportation. This has allowed me to share information across people from the standpoint of those types. Many times things occur that then go on to affect people’s lives – weather, war, famine, etc.


New Data Load

March 26, 2020 – 10:35 am

I did a complete refresh of the database this morning. I’ve added more information, documents and people, plus corrected some of the ancestry that has now been proven false. I’m also trying something a little different – some documents, events and transportation items are now being treated as individuals within the database. This is mainly due to the idea that not all facts originate at the person level, there are many things that are initiated from some other process that now people get drawn into. But for now, I’ll be cleaning up for a while. The import didn’t go as well as I thought it would – a lot of funky characters and duplicated information.

It’s Been A While, So…

May 27, 2018 – 10:20 am

I  decided to do a complete refresh of the database this morning. The latest version of TNG (my website software) is now doing a better (almost perfect?) job of importing a GEDCOM so I don’t have to divide up my data in order to get a successful import. I’m sure there will be some cleanup, but it’ll be less taxing.


New Database Refresh

December 5, 2013 – 5:46 pm

I ‘ve done a complete refresh of the database as of today, including more extended family information. The database became corrupted through the import of additional data – sources were overlaid, family records replaced, etc.. Not knowing what was broken, I felt it better to reload, a time consuming chore.


Peter Guyton’s Blog

September 9, 2013 – 5:02 pm

My good friend Peter Guyton has done some excellent analytic work. Here’s a link to his blog: Save It Like A Mainer.


Genographic 2.0 Results

February 4, 2013 – 5:57 pm

Marcy and received our Genographic 2.0 results today. I will be creating a results page for each soon.


Genographic 2.0 progress

December 5, 2012 – 8:09 am

Our DNA samples were received into the Genographic Project system on November 19th. The DNA was then extracted on November 30th. At this stage, we are about 40% through the process, waiting for the next step, DNA Analysis.


Installation Specs

November 27, 2012 – 10:35 am

Genographic Project 2.0

October 24, 2012 – 5:47 pm

Marcy and I are participating in the National Geographic Society’s Genographic Project 2.0. We took part in the first phase back in 2005 with interesting results.


Solar Panels installed

October 24, 2012 – 8:36 am

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32 Solar panels are now in place. The new meter has been nicely integrated.