Leaves of my Family Tree

Tonight I worked on updating the information for Vernon Thompson, my great-great grandfather, and his father, William.  I have added census information as well as the WWI Draft Card for Vernon.  I included the 1910, 1920, and 1930 census for Vernon.  The 1900 census for Vernon was already included in my research as Vernon was in the household of William, which I entered earlier.  

I am starting a new process of going through my ancestry data, one person at a time and entering all the information that I currently have on each person.  Well, at least, that is what I am attempting to start doing!  

I currently have in all the information for William – the 1900 census and for Vern – the 1910, 1920, 1930 censuses and his WWI draft card.  

I will be updating the website with all the new information over the weekend!

Kellie

Hello Everyone,

I have been very busy this weekend! I have attached pictures and other exhibits to my genealogy so that I now have 649 exhibits in my genealogy file!! I have added the information from approximately 20 obituaries some census information and have begun entering draft registration information for my ancestors.

There are now over 90 individuals displayed on my website but I have over 500 individuals in my family file. (I exclude information from all living individuals on my website!!)

More to come soon! Hope you enjoy the new information. Please feel free to contact if you want any further information on any of the individuals on the website. I have still just scratched the surface of the information that I have already found on my ancestors. I have many, many obituaries and photos to still add to my family history file. I am happy to share any information that I have with anyone who shares the same family members.

Much more to come in the next few days!

Kellie

March 2008 Updates

Well, I gave Family Tree Maker 2008 a good try but I had data reliability issues and found that the import features from the website had still not improved to the point that I wanted to rely on them for adding my genealogy data!! I had to make a change! At least I got a free month of Ancestry.com with the software so I only lost about $10 on the trial – well that and about a month of my genealogy time!

After making the decision to switch, I found that I was reluctant to just go back to using Legacy Family Tree. It is good software but I found the editing seemed to be boring and involving a lot of copy/paste to get the events copied to each person that I wanted included in the event. Then, I finally decided after looking at the available software offerings, that after about 10 years of periodic research it was time I upgraded software.

I decided to try out The Master Genealogist v7.0! What a change! This software works the way that I think about genealogy! I can enter an event one time and then link all the people that participated in the event or were mentioned in the documentation of the fact and have them be listed in the event narration for the main person. Then, the software also creates a “Witness” event for all the witnesses – and I only entered one event and one source citation for the event!! What a change for the better!

I also got second site which allows me to create this website from my data by only specifying how I want the website to look. It automatically creates the webpages from my original data file – I don’t have to do anything extra to get new people added into the website!