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.
9 March 2026:- Total 55,188 including living. Following correspondence, reviewing a Hampshire to Australia line which is one of the oldest documented lines in the Study. Not checked since 2020 so a good time for a review and add some supplementary sources.
8 March 2026:- Total 55,182 including living. Sunday Double Back Up. A lot of 'source tidying today with a few additions in Somerset and Dorset.
7 March 2026:- Total 55,172 including living. Mostly sources for existing people in Somerset.
6 March 2026:- Total 55,166 including living.
5 March 2026:- Total 55,164 including living. Mostly sources for existing people.
4 March 2026:- Total 55,161 including living. Censuses in Cheshire with some birth, marriage, death index entries.
3 March 2026:- Total 55,155 including living. Censuses in Hampshire and Lancashire, following up a probate record sheet.
2 March 2026:- Total 55,146 including living. Some more census additions in Hampshire. Being very careful as there are George Dowlings with similar dates of birth which means a lot of double checking with both of them.
1 March 2026:- Total 55,138 including living. Sunday Single Back Up. Just one census as busy with other things today.
28 February 2026:- Total 55,131 including living. Had a probate page on one of yesterday's sources and those pages contain more than one unrelated Dowling, so, temporarily, I am off down a rabbit hole adding the other Dowling's on the page to the Study with enough to connect them. Later I can go back to the original target but if I leave them completely they get forgotten.
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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