It was a busy week in research, sourcing, and design. I added a photo of my great-grandparents, Newt Ward and Rachel Johnson Ward. I obtained a copy of Rosa Ellis Roberts' death certificate. I added part of an interesting biographical sketch of Monteville Roberts (more to come on this).
But probably the biggest change is the mapping feature added to the website. I discovered that my web software, TNG, offers the ability to link places to Google Maps through GPS coordinates. I spent one day last weekend cleaning up the place names in my database and adding some GPS coordinates. This is a big job and will take a long time to complete, but I'm a visual person and am very excited about being able to see the locations of events on maps.
(Aside: thank goodness Blogger has auto-save, because IE just shut down in the middle of composing this post).
Also new, in the blog, is a list of the top 25 surnames in my database. If you are researching any of these names, please touch base.
That wraps up the week in Tonia's Roots.
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Sunday, December 23, 2007
What's New Last Week
Last week was fruitful in the discovery of media to add to my genealogy site, http://www.toniasroots.net/. I got some great old photographs from my grandmother, including a photo of her father at his still, a photo that includes her parents when they were courting, and a photo of her brother.
I also found a court document at the Maryland State Archives that references Sutton Quinney, my 7x great-grandfather. The document is dated 1700-1701.
I also found a good website - http://www.findagrave.com/. Users can add cemetery records, including headstone photographs. The website is searchable. I did a quick search by state and county, then scanned through some cemetery names that I recognized. I found three headstone photos of my ancestors - Elizabeth Tucker Ellis, Churchwell Branch Tucker, and Rosamund Maude McKinney Tucker.
On the minus side, I ran into a glitch with my new genealogy website program, TNG. I had added some information to Ancestry, so I wanted to import a new gedcom into TNG. Big mistake! Apparently there is a well-known glitch with Family Tree Maker, and I'm assuming it also applies to Ancestry, because the results were the same. Individuals were tied to unrelated persons over and over again. The database is a complete mess. The clean-up process is tedious, because there is no easy way to identify the corrupted records. I'm going through family by family to clean it up. If you see something crazy, like a child born 100 years before the parents, please let me know.
I also found a court document at the Maryland State Archives that references Sutton Quinney, my 7x great-grandfather. The document is dated 1700-1701.
I also found a good website - http://www.findagrave.com/. Users can add cemetery records, including headstone photographs. The website is searchable. I did a quick search by state and county, then scanned through some cemetery names that I recognized. I found three headstone photos of my ancestors - Elizabeth Tucker Ellis, Churchwell Branch Tucker, and Rosamund Maude McKinney Tucker.
On the minus side, I ran into a glitch with my new genealogy website program, TNG. I had added some information to Ancestry, so I wanted to import a new gedcom into TNG. Big mistake! Apparently there is a well-known glitch with Family Tree Maker, and I'm assuming it also applies to Ancestry, because the results were the same. Individuals were tied to unrelated persons over and over again. The database is a complete mess. The clean-up process is tedious, because there is no easy way to identify the corrupted records. I'm going through family by family to clean it up. If you see something crazy, like a child born 100 years before the parents, please let me know.
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