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.
6 September 2016:- Total 56,788 including living. Sunday Triple Back-Up. A couple of Sources for existing people that give names where there were none, good stuff.
5 September 2016:- Total 56,788 including living. Just a few census sources in South Carolina, with a nice puzzle as to who the parents of Dowling grandchildren are... what fun. Have my sister's dog for 2 weeks, that's me out and about even more!
4 September 2016:- Total 56,780 including living. Busy with other things today just a few sources for existing people adding their children.
3 September 2016:- Total 56,775 including living. More on the southern United States with some tidying and adding portraits to people to show up in the right place.
2 September 2016:- Total 56,755 including living. Spent some time on southern United States today after a rather difficult visit to the dentist!
1 September 2016:- Total 56,727 including living. Interesting day looking at a new DNA conundrum which is worth people thinking about. On one of the sites trees the Y-DNA Most Recent Common Ancestor (MRCA) for the testing individual appears to now be in the 1700's. All good so far... but this tree has named people in the 1700's - and I cannot see how we could definitively say which one it is? I have often thought very basically about what we want out of DNA tests and I wonder if people appreciate that even when it reaches documented people it is probably not possible to marry the two!
31 August 2016:- Total 56,710 including living. A bit of time spent on rationalising some of the DNA pages and adding a few sources to existing people.
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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