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GenealogyRowsell - Anstey Field - Taylor - Pike Elliott - McDermid | |
View DataElliott / McDermidField / Taylor Joseph / Kirby Rowsell / Anstey |
Photo Galleries:AnsteyField Rowsell McDermid, Booth, Hyde |
Original Sources:Source documents |
| While writing a biography of my first husband as a present for my son, I developed more than a passing interest in genealogy. I have traced his family tree (Joseph from Antigua) back to a great-great-great grandfather, not an easy task when you consider that that grandfather may have been a slave. I still do not have birth dates for the earliest branches of the tree so I cannot vouch for this. My own family tree needs work. I have lots of information on my dad's side of the family (Rowsell from Leading Tickles, Notre Dame Bay, Newfoundland) but very little on my mother's (Fields from Trinity, Taylors from Carbonear, Newfoundland). Several Web sites which have been helpful in my search, providing transcribed sources such as census documents, headstone inscriptions, records of birth, baptism, marriage, and burial. Newfoundland and Labrador GenWeb Newfoundland and Labrador GenWeb (Temporary site) Ancestry.com (Newfoundland section) A mailing list such as NfldRoots is valuable for those of us researching Newfoundland names: Links to organizations which support genealogical research (archives, vital statistics, genealogical societies) can be found on the following sites: NewfoundlandGenealogy.com Sites which were helpful to me in researching my family names include: Wayne Pike's: Newfoundland Genealogy (Pike name) |
| Once I got started in genealogical research, I knew I needed to find a reliable database or some other software in which to store the information. After evaluating several programs I decided on Fzip Family Tree which I used for several years. Fzip served me well until I began to do some serious genealogical research in early 2004. It just wasn't designed to handle sources for various bit of information, nor could the source information be tracked easily. I tested Brother's Keeper which was a step up from Fzip did the job but felt clumsy. In February 2004 a fellow tree climber recommended Legacy Family Tree. I tested it for a few weeks before finally deciding to migrate everything over. I'm still learning it but so far, I'm very happy with it. Lots of bells and whistles but all of them do something useful. The only way to 'grow a family tree' is to put it online where others can find it. All of the above programs can create webpages from the data. I spent some time playing with a piece of software called Gedview and although it doesn't do everything I'd like it to do, for now it's good enough. It has a graphical interface which is very user friendly. I'm planning to peek into the php code and see if I can tweak it so that it will display general and marriage notes for each individual. I will add a note to the site if I get that to work. |
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