What's New
I add names to the Family Tree Maker database almost daily. The database, converted to GEDCOM format, gets updated to this website using GEDsite.
I am slow... because its not just about collecting names, I am after connections and stories. The 'Living' are excluded from this website, the total viewable in website can be seen in footer at the very bottom of the page.
12 October 2016:- Total 57,250 including living. Just some tidying-up of some entries and following a DNA email from someone who does not link to me.
11 October 2016:- Total 57,246 including living. Sunday Triple Back-Up. Finally, finished a project to correcting an odd batch of 1910 census entries that had become corrupted by all showing the same state. I have also found a number of entries over the years that were done in the 90's that really need updating but with so many and more people to go on every day it's a major task.
10 October 2016:- Total 57,245 including living. Some sources, people and sorting-out in Illinois and Iowa today... and chopping tree branches in garden with more to do, as always.
9 October 2016:- Total 57,237 including living. Some more sources for existing people and refurbishing. Found an old entry from 1998 from one of those CD ROMs that gave very little information and I am trying to fill in some of the gaps.
8 October 2016:- Total 57,235 including living. Some source refurbishing today and a Roscommon baptism to start me off on that county.
7 October 2016:- Total 57,235 including living. More sources for existing people and some time looking for someone and not finding them... but finding their sister. Tweaked a haplogroup entry.
6 October 2016:- Total 57,235 including living. More sources for existing people in Arkansas. Lots of gardening as, supposedly, rain tomorrow. This has been our driest summer so it will be welcome, we have lost many plants in the drought.
5 October 2016:- Total 57,227 including living. Mostly sources for existing people with some refurbishing (these are older Ancestry sources where very little information was passed to the source and, mostly, Ancestry were more concerned with the source being "Ancestry" rather than a sufficient reference to the actual document itself).
4 October 2016:- Total 57,225 including living. Sunday Triple Back Up. More sources added and a few refurbished for existing people.
3 October 2016:- Total 57,221 including living. Some census entries and marriages in Tennessee amidst more gardening.
2 October 2016:- Total 57,195 including living. Some good progress on a muddle in Alabama and went on to add some Tennessee Dowlings, with sources added to sparse details from an old 1998 posting on RootsWeb! All despite busy with technical people disrupting broadband.
1 October 2016:- Total 57,170 including living. More sorting confusion... and gardening.
Legend:
| Sunday Single Back-up: | On Sunday of each week my computer gets backed up to a separate hard drive on my network (NAS). |
| Monthly Double Back-up: | On the 1st of every month my computer gets backed-up to a separate hard drive on my network (NAS). The NAS, which also has other files not on the computer then gets backed-up again to another separate hard drive on the network that is normally off-line for the rest of the month, disconnected from the internet and powered-off. |
| Merge: | A merge is where evidence has emerged to allow two separate people on the database to be merged into one individual. For example, there may be two people called Michael Dowling, one as a son of John Dowling and the second as a census entry. The two initially start off from records as separate entries but a marriage of Michael to Mary Phelan showing a father of John and matching other factors allows me to say with some confidence that they are one and the same person. This can be quite complicated with much playing around with probabilities and numbers of candidates for merging or occasionally very simple. The number of people in the database drops by one and it is a major cause for celebration as it increases accuracy and future confusion. |
| Join: | A join is where evidence emerged to allow one person to be connected to another. For example, a daughter to be added to a father. A cause for celebration as it reduces the number of separate families in the database and increases accuracy and future confusion. |
Projects
There are a huge number of entries in my database form a variety of sources. So, even though there is no project that covers a particular source or region does not mean there are no entries for that source or region. The projects cover where I systematically extract entries from a source to make sure the source has been 'milked' for all it's worth. The What's New page also shows when I have worked on a particular project.
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