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 January 2025:- Total 51,381 including living. Sunday Single Back Up. More from Florida and Rhode Island. Some checked Find a Grave's and census sources.
11 January 2025:- Total 51,367 including living. A family from Florida and Rhode Island added... some more tomorrow.
10 January 2025:- Total 51,358 including living. Hunting for someone and not finding. Not a lot to show for today. Temperature at 5 degrees below zero but still went for a walk,
9 January 2025:- Total 51,353 including living. Find a Grave is normally very good as entries are made by families but today I found an incorrect paternal link of a Dowling to someone who was not his son. I have sent a message and it is good learning.
8 January 2025:- Total 51,349 including living. Some Find a Grave entries added in Maryland area. Had another look for the Dowling wristwatch manufacturers, believed to be in Colorado, to no avail.
7 January 2025:- Total 51,338 including living. Some more source enhancement to rather shallow old Ancestry references. Some additions from Maryland. Mostly tidying away Christmas decorations... chopping up the Christmas tree for recycling. I do like recycling, it seems worthwhile.
6 January 2025:- Total 51,335 including living. Added no new people but spent some time refurbishing some old sources.
5 January 2025:- Total 51,335 including living. Sunday Single Back Up. A few more to unravel some 1920's Maryland Dowlings… looking at the Irish side tomorrow if I get time.
4 January 2025:- Total 51,325 including living. Still in Maryland putting in more sources for a connection to Kerry. Quite a conundrum on finding the maiden names of some Dowling wives... USA sources are quite sparse on births and marriages.
3 January 2025:- Total 51,302 including living. Still in Maryland putting in more sources for a connection to Kerry.
2 January 2025:- Total 51,285 including living. Exploring a Maryland family I had looked at many years ago making very scant notes. I may have been busy working but will now give it the full treatment.
1 January 2025:- Total 51,277 including living. Monthly Double Back Up. Some tidying of sources with peripheral additions. Happy New Year to all... a bit wet and stormy here in the UK!
29 December 2024:- Total 51,272 including living. Sunday Single Back Up. Mostly tidying Sources after yesterday's work.
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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