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.
10 August 2016:- Total 56,214 including living. Followed a Birmingham Dowling family back to Dowland in Dorset.
9 August 2016:- Total 56,198 including living. Sunday Triple Back Up.
8 August 2016:- Total 56,196 including living. Even more Birmingham Dowling's and a start of a family there from Dorset.
7 August 2016:- Total 56,181 including living. Hot day, not much done. A Birmingham census or two.
6 August 2016:- Total 56,170 including living. Some Birmingham Dowlings and Dowling related people added in a correspondence hunt.
5 August 2016:- Total 56,159 including living. A few sources for existing people and lots of hunting but not finding. I suspect there are some gaps in the Kilkenny baptisms so may have to close down the hunt for the time being. There are apparently Birmingham relatives to this line but none of the Birmingham census residents look obvious.
4 August 2016:- Total 56,157 including living. Chasing some more Kilkenny Dowlings in census and BMD's.
3 August 2016:- Total 56,154 including living. A few death index records that release individuals to be shown on the website. Also a second marriage found which is always a lucky find (these are often difficult to find on purpose!) A lot of military records for a William Dowling of Kilkenny to Glasgow which helped identify his father in the 1901 census. Good day's hunting.
2 August 2016:- Total 56,148 including living. Sunday Triple Back Up. Nicholas' birth received so added father, grandfather back to Kilkenny. Some nice puzzles in and around Danesfort.
1 August 2016:- Total 56,128 including living. More sources added around Joseph Dowling's family in Scotland. and contact back from correspondent who is looking for material for an Irish passport. I will pass a link to Scotland's People so he can order the array of certificate's needed.
31 July 2016:- Total 56,120 including living. Interesting day looking for records and not finding, eventually drilling down on Scotland. Scotland's People have lots of records but all are behind a pay to view firewall. The indexes are often not quite enough to tip the decision into paying credits for a download - could this be deliberately tantalising to make money? If so, I am not sure it works because the credit system encourages me to avoid the site unless entirely stuck. Anyway, in the end, a much firmer hypothesis is forming for Nicholas Dowling.
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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