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.
11 January 2026:- Total 54,709 including living. Sunday Double Back Up. Busy lately with none-genealogy. Had some vague correspondence which, in turn, amounts to vague searching with not material result.
7 January 2026:- Total 54,707 including living. After a lot of hunting in Canada records I found a line likely to go through to correspondent although it has some anomalies I have to look into.
6 January 2026:- Total 54,695 including living. Some Canada censuses to try and make sense of a line.
4 January 2026:- Total 54,678 including living. Sunday Double Back Up. Some Athy and Ballyadams records but mostly looking-not-finding today. Minus 4 this morning here in the UK... that should trigger some seeds to grow in the garden.
3 January 2026:- Total 54,672 including living. New correspondence in for Laois, it is piling up at the moment, nevertheless a review of some existing people in Ballyadams.
2 January 2026:- Total 54,670 including living. Some US some Irish records added following a Kenny line apparently connected to Dowlings.
1 January 2026:- Total 54,657 including living. Happy New Year, some Kildare and some New York entries to deal with correspondence.
31 December 2025:- Total 54,629 including living. Some more Kilcullen, Kildare work while actually doing some gardening !!! Yes, despite the cold it was sunny so I got out and trimmed back my standard roses and lavender (its a good time as they are dormant).
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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