I know the road to hell is paved with good intentions, and I’ve been intending to update my genealogy site for more than a decade. I created it in the early 2000s, back when sites were html, not mobile friendly (few had mobile devices!), and sometimes, a bit unwieldy. Over the years, I’ve found new … Read more
I thought I’d get to bed early tonight, but then I decided to update a couple of things on the site. And here it is 1:30am. I planned to copy a page of obituaries on the old site over to a page on the new. But then I didn’t like how random the page was: … Read more
Sorting and linking to the photos was quite a chore. I have lots of subpages of photos, besides those that were on the main surname pages. I finally selected what gallery plugin I wanted to use, then downloaded all the photos from the old website into one folder. From there, I selected them by surname … Read more
I’ve been retired from my technical writing career for nearly two years now (hard to believe!) and I’ve been promising myself that I’d streamline and update my genealogy site. I’ve had an old html site I created in 2001 that I’ve updated slightly by adding a link to a WordPress blog in May 2005. Unfortunately, … Read more
April 2002 Revamped Website Still working on the website updates. I’ve found a way to make the trees into .gif files and will repost them. However, they may be slow to load on dial-up connections. Palmers: Meeting Cousins Big news for the Palmer side, my husband Rick’s line. Family information for Rick’s side wasn’t very … Read more
Revamped Website The website was getting a little unwieldy. When I began last year, I didn’t realize how much information I would accumulate in such a short time. I hope the reorganization helps. I’ve made a page for each surname. Each surname page contains links to everything I have posted on the site for that … Read more