2024 August
31 August 2024:- Total 50,460 including living. Added many Kilkenny St John's baptisms today despite being at a classic car show. There are over 19 distinct Dowling families in this region in the 1840s alone.
30 August 2024:- Total 50,429 including living. Added some sources in Wicklow today to look for the Dowling link. Mostly gardening.
29 August 2024:- Total 50,417 including living. Been reading-up on DNA today... in between gardening. Added some haplogroups and a birth in Wicklow.
28 August 2024:- Total 50,395 including living. Tweaked website pages on haplogroups. Added another AT-DNA family that was not a Dowling in the hope of understanding what is going on better. This one from New Jersey and Poland. Hmm.
27 August 2024:- Total 50,367 including living. Mostly driving myself up the wall trying to fathom a curious DNA link where I don't connect in Y-DNA but do, Dowling to Dowling, in AT-DNA. Not sure what is going on yet. Added an AT-DNA linked Canadian family.
26 August 2024:- Total 50,345 including living. Some frameworks (trees without sources) added to try to understand a DNA result anomaly. Busy in garden today but also tried adding a new List page on DNA haplogroups.
25 August 2024:- Total 50,329 including living. Sunday Single Back Up. Lots of looking and not finding. Tweaked the DNA work a little. Added a celebrity... I think I will remove celebrities from 'Notable' as they are not the same.
24 August 2024:- Total 50,324 including living. Odd day... out with family for most of it. Managed to look at the Australian line in Kilkenny and added some small information. Found a baptism which had 3 other Dowlings on it - being a One-Name study I had to enter all 3 and their parents rather than just the one I was focusing on... its the way I work! Also won a set of Dowling medals on eBay for a sailor... they'll appear in the system later.
23 August 2024:- Total 50,313 including living. Mostly gardening today. But, managed a census and some other entries on an Ireland to Australia line. Plus a few more haplogroups as I try to better use the information already in the system
22 August 2024:- Total 50,295 including living. More website work today, which won't be noticeable to most people. Added some detail on some new DNA haplogroups. Started on new correspondence and then another one comes in, busy busy.
21 August 2024:- Total 50,277 including living. Mostly website work, trying to get algorithms to produce lists with codes... I need to get better at this but I don't understand the help... does anyone understand help pages??? Anyway some new correspondence in from Australia.
20 August 2024:- Total 50,262 including living. Today I merged the old Haplogroup sub-website into the main website. This has a lot of benefits as I see it. People, with DNA results, can now follow a line back to a haplogroup with a much fuller haplogroup set. I achieve my ONE policy of reducing two databases to one and some duplication of explanations are removed. While originally I followed advice on separate DNA pages I think this, with my novel haplogroup placeholders will be a real boon to gripping DNA study.
19 August 2024:- Total 50,259 including living. Mostly tweaking some DNA lines and a correspondence reply. Time flew.
18 August 2024:- Total 50,257 including living. Sunday Single Back Up. Mostly good sources for existing people... added some postcards of places too for Galway.
17 August 2024:- Total 50,256 including living. Some more census work from New York, Some quite poor transcription mis-spellings but have found the salient information. Out most of the day at Wrest Park in Bedfordshire with wife and son. Nice day.
16 August 2024:- Total 50,251 including living. New York Census and some frameworks for a DNA trace to an existing family. Out most of the day at a scarecrow festival in Flamstead… I resisted the temptation to join-up!
15 August 2024:- Total 50,219 including living. This day disappeared... scanning photos and negatives for my sister. Copying stuff to digital takes ages.
14 August 2024:- Total 50,219 including living. Mostly sources for existing people. Some thought to be in Alabama found in Louisiana Find a Grave so now they will show online (as living people largely do not).
13 August 2024:- Total 50,215 including living. A good merge on an Alabama family including one that has been sitting in the system since 2000 in need of a review. I also think it a branch with a DNA attached but maybe I'll sort that later.
12 August 2024:- Total 50,201 including living. Some Missouri and Alabama Dowlings added... hunting for DNA lines where Test Takers have not been forthcoming with information of their ancestors.
11 August 2024:- Total 50,180 including living. Sunday Single Back Up. Mostly some family time with my sister today. Just a little DNA haplogroup tinkering.
10 August 2024:- Total 50,181 including living. Some more fiddling with website code and DNA in the database.
9 August 2024:- Total 50,181 including living. Have been gardening again and trying to create another slideshow so the medal animates very slowly on the home page. Writing the code for webpages is not my strong point!
8 August 2024:- Total 50,181 including living. Spent the day gardening and creating my 50 k medal image.
7 August 2024:- Total 50,181 including living. Continued to revamp the haplogroups, now fullu on the One-Name study lists. It's looking good and making more sense but I have to rewrite the Haplogroup sub-site, probably dropping it altogether. One recent Dowling contact joins the main stem far far later than I anticipated anyone would... shenanigans?
6 August 2024:- Total 50,120 including living. Took the decision to merge the Haplogroup database with the Dowling One-Name Study database. Quite a significant step but with a few more people having Y-DNA results those people will see the connections go right back through, my innovation, of a Haplogroup-Placeholder to bridge the gap between their last recorded ancestor and the most refined haplogroup result. Also noticed some technical changes to be updated on the haplogroups and some tweaks.
5 August 2024:- Total 50,005 including living. Celebrations... I have passed the 50,000 mark. Admittedly some of these are haplogroups recently added but they may help viewers to make sense of their Y-DNA results. I'll have to create a new gold medal image for the 50k!
4 August 2024:- Total 49,960 including living. Sunday Single Back Up. In response to an e-mail I looked again at DNA. I found that there had been some updates with new haplogroups to add some of those. I now have a plan of sorts, in that, if someone has a Y-DNA haplogroup I will connect them so that group using a Haplogroup-Placeholder to fill the gap. I also want to add more information on where the haplogroup is from. In the end, it may mean that the separate sub-website is absorbed into the main Dowling One-Name Study database so there is only one list of haplogroups to maintain.
3 August 2024:- Total 49,948 including living. Mostly sources in Australia, with some source cleaning too. All records have their quirks, and we're lucky to have what we have, but I find Australia's records more haphazard than many others.
2 August 2024:- Total 49,948 including living. Had a couple of degrees drop in temperature... but still sweltering - had to cut some hedges in the garden. Managed to look at some sources (and not finding for a lot for Joy's branch). Added some new data-skimming templates for births, marriages and deaths for Victoria in Australia to save me a bit of time in the future.
1 August 2024:- Total 49,948 including living. Monthly Double Back Up. Sent off another report today. Split one family into two in Australia that was put together as a hypothesis and... I admit it, forgotten about. Now to work on Joy's email from Australia and hope I can add something.
31 July 2024:- Total 49,911 including living. Sent off Tom's report today onto dropbox as its too big for email. I have to tweak the data so it looks good in a report, for example, many landscape document scans have to be rotated to be portrait, or else they are too small when printed. We are in a heat wave at the moment so no gardening... but its still growing.
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