Family History and Research

Jul 1, 2011

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Project Summary

Project description: personal website for presentation of genealogy research

Completion date: May, 2011

Services: template development, design, writing, research

Tech specs: WordPress, CSS, XHTML, PHP

About the Project

I built this website as a personal project to help organize years worth of personal family history and research. Not only is it designed to serve as an organizational tool for me, but it is a public space which family and other researchers can use to learn more about their own family history.

While I maintain a research tree on Ancestry.com, its public trees are full of errors and mistakes that I hate to perpetuate. Instead, I prefer to use it as the excellent research tool it can be. In addition, on principal, I fundamentally believe that this information should be accessible to all–not just those who can afford to pay a fee to Ancestry.com.

The site uses one of the few family history plugins available to display pedigree reports, birth dates, and family relationships. One item still in production is a decent citation tool. Currently the citations are manually handled. This creates an extra amount of work and a fair amount of redundancy. A future iteration of this project is to create a better way to handle these notations.

Visit the site or take a look at the thumbnails below.