Well, Summer started and then a thunderstorm! Fires are out of control and my bees are dead! But we keep right on chugging along hoping to finally get things under control on the family tree! The high priority has become the dealing with emails the week they come and chipping away at the emails of 2009. Its enough work to make a grown man cry!
Ok, it has been a couple weeks since I did an update. I have been hung up on the Finney Family, and in particular my dad’s grandpa’s grandpa, John Russell Kelso.
Main Family Update Links
- Finney
- Macomber
Statistics:
- Added documents: 42
- Added gravestones: 2
- Added Face photos: 3
- Added Photos: 3
- Added individuals: 76 (150591-150515)
- Added locations: 33 (17049-17016)
- Added sources: 14 (3960-3946)
The software we use, The Next Generation, was upgraded to version 9.2.1. Things went smoothly. In the process we uninstalled and reinstalled the many mods we have. The following were updated in the process to more recent versions:
Family Indicators
We also fixed some links in the Green blog so they work again.
Family Updates
- Douthit
- Hartman – Being rebuilt! Directory also reactivated
- Erhardt
- Schunke
Uncategorized individuals
- Death & cemetery for Frank Alanzo Marsh (i99360) from Shelly Ann Marsh
- Cemetery 1610. Robinson Cemetery, St. Clair County, Missouri
Emails
2008 emails now closed! I was beginning to think I would never get that year finished! On to Jan 2009 … I’m supposed to be over half way done with the year by now, due to aggressive scheduling.
Overall Progress:
- Added Documents: 9
- Added Gravestones: 1
- Added Faces: 3
- Added Photos: 13
- Added Locations: 10 (16914-16904)
- Added Individuals: 159 (150148-149989)
- Added Sources: 6 (3859-3853)
Help Section
It has been a while since we did anything with the help section. We had an email asking how to add photos, and it reminded me I needed to get that topic addressed! So we now have the written instructions up, and hopefully will have time to add the video later.
How to add a photo to MacomberKin
Website Appearance
- Fixed the photo samples that were no longer centered and spaced out on the “jump in” main page
- Fixed the uncentered ads on the directory pages
Categorized Family Work
Click on the family to open the family directory, then scroll down to the news section to see latest report.
- Douthit
- Macomber
Uncategorized Individuals
- Turned off the “living” tag on Harry B. Dixon (i176787) and his children
- Gravestone from Michael F. Harris for Alexander G. Garner (i163914)
- Cemetery 1607. Woodlawn National Cemetery, Chemung County, New York
- Ella Jane Cushing photo (i105850) from Destiney Burgess
- Gravestone of Louis Alvin Graham (i50469) from Paul Gipson
- Death and burial location of Thankful Chapman Homer (i110646) from Kevin Keegan
Week’s Gains
- Grave photos added: 4
- Individual face photos: 8
- General photos added: 3
- Documents added: 17
- Individuals: 115 (149989-149874)
- Locations: 42 (16904-16862)
- Sources: 23 (3853-3830)
Special Website Software Update
The author of our website software made 19 changes, the biggest is the media handling improvements. The mapping function has been updated to use Google man’s latest api. Some search bugs were fixed too. As usual we are very happy with the updates and so glad to let someone else work on the website programming and let me work on the research!
We reinstalled the old list of mods after the update. Here were the mods updated:
- Age Calculation
- Create Sitemap
Here are the mods we added:
- ID prefix mod, this makes the letters and numbers easier to read
- Redundant Tabs removed mod, when there are not ancestors or descendants, the tabs will no longer show.
- Mouse Wheel Zoom, now if you have a mouse wheel, it will zoom in and out on the map
Specific Family Work
Click on the family to open the family directory, then scroll down to the news section to see latest report.
- Erhardt Home Page
Emails:
Our focus this week was on the oldest emails, and we got hung up on the next one, so we are now 6 months behind schedule on clearing this old but good ones. We also are now really behind on the current list for this year, so we hope to focus on the current pile this next week and see if we can’t reduce that long list!
- May 2008 finally closed!
Statistical Progress
- Added photos: 8
- Added face photos: 4
- Added gravestones: 0
- Added document scans: 11
- Added locations: 8 (16862-16854)
- Individuals: 54 (149874-149820)
- Sources: 2 (3830-3828)
We had a list, but it crashed! Of course it never happens to anyone else! And to make things worse we are a day late on the update. Now I don’t know what general things were fixed to report, but frankly we got hung up on the Gambrell family and never got even one email cleared this week, trying to get the ground work laid for the next email! So sorry if you wrote, I’m really backed up!
Statistics
- Added documents: 10
- Added gravestones: 0
- Added face photos: 2
- Added general photos: 1
- Added individuals: 293 (149820-149527)
- Added sources: 3 (3828-3825)
- Added locations: 15 (16854-16839 but scan said 25 probably due to about 10 replacements!)