Hi visitor!

Seeing as Google doesn’t index all the great pages on this website, I thought I’d give you a primer on some of the great sections available for your research. 

First, if you’re more into the conversations and deeper notes on any of the family members I’m actively checking, then have a browse through my blog posts.  I haven’t built an internal search engine yet for the posts section so you can search by a surname, but it’s a future addition. For starters, there’s currently posts about Braniffs, Simpsons, an elusive unknown Vanderport/Vanderpoel/Vanderpool, Morrisons, Hubbards and Hosmers.

Now, onto the juicier pages you’ve probably come here for.

The What’s New page shows changes in the past 60 days to the records in the family history database. 

The database has a search engine that enables combo searches for first name, surname, birth place & year, death place & year, marriages, and more.  You can also use this family search page to look for marriage relationships

I’ve got category pages for subjects like Cemeteries linked to individuals, headstone photos, and mapping general location. The Places page is an index starting by country of birth/marriage/death locations in the individual pages.

There’s the Calendar page that sorts & displays events by month & day.

Media pages – pretty much sources and photos sorted into categories: photos, documents, census, headstones, book sources, obituaries, histories

And one of the more special category pages recently introduced is DNA tests.  In this category I will be adding notes for things like brick wall relatives that have been proven thanks to multiple DNA tests.

What else… there’s my Most Wanted page where I list ancestors & cousins that are research brick walls.  If there are multiple GEDCOM databases, they will show on the Trees page. And propbably not quite as interesting are index pages for the sources & repositories.

There’s an option to install custom family history reports, such as anniversary reports, but I haven’t done any so far.  If there’s anything you’d like to see, let me know through one of the contact options around the site.