Post # 055 More updates

More Family Tree updates

• 3006 Phyllis Sabrina Rutland
• 4011 Stephen Rutland
• 4011-c Stephen's  Children
• 4012 Constance Ives
• 5021 William Rutland
• 5021-c William's  Children
• 5022 Phillis Phillippo
• + 2 trees

                              19:54  19/09/2009

Post # 054 Updates

Family tree updates

• 1001 Terry
• 4014 Emma Susannah Sargisson
• 4013 Aaron Carter Tucker
• 4013-c :- Children Page for above
• index :- with links to 1001

16:05  16/09/2009

Post # 053 Prezi

Wow I have just found a new web site for on line presentations  

http://prezi.com/my/

Think not of one powerpoint  slide after another but of one  BIG sheet that you move around and zoom into. The files you make and save are public and can be downloaded and shown off line.

Here is one of mine:-    About RSS , similar to my previous posts here.

Pictures, Sound and Video files can all be viewed as well as text, spreadsheets and pdf files.

There is an auto play option but it is better not to use it because not all the features are used in this mode.

Sign up for free and play with it.

It's fun

Post # 052 My page

Uploaded my page, my tree and a few pictures

Only accessible from my dads page at the moment

8 Sept 2009

Post # 051 My dilemma

I host my Family tree data of over 1,000 relations with a time spread starting at the present day and back to the sixteenth century on the Ancestry web site.

Ancestry is a great system and worth the money I pay but it has it's limitations.


Here are my thoughts about my dilemma; how to make my data public and make it easy for folk to know about my updates.

Ancestry is where I put my info and pictures
	They say the info will be kept forever
	But it is semi private, not every one can see it
My web pages are public and accessible
	But will only be there for as long as I pay my ISP
	But there is no notification of any updates
My Blog can notify of updates via RSS
	But not every one understands how to use RSS

Google Reader is an easy way to manage RSS feeds



So here is my plan for the future:-

1. Continue with Ancestry holding the master copy of my data.
   
2. Continue to add to my own web site as new info is found and ratified
   
3. To write a new blog page here each time my web site is updated
   
4. Hope this makes sense to others
   

Post # 050 RSS feeds

RSS Feeds for the Beginner

If you have not heard of RSS before do not worry it's just a way to be told of updates rather than looking out for new stuff.

Take a look at the Tutorial on RSS on You Tube it will show you how to use the system using my favourite reader Google Reader

Then add this link to your new reader :-

http://terry-iow.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default?alt=rss

You can do this by clicking on the RSS symbol on my web site and it should link to Google reader.

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Note :-

1. Remember your user name for the reader
2. Remember the password
   
3. Remember to look at your reader one or twice a week

If you subscribe to 50 RSS feeds you only need to look at the reader once, all the updates will be there, like magic !

Post # 049 My Family Tree

My Family Tree

In Jan 2009 when the 1911 UK Census was made public I joined the family tree site named
Ancestry Since then I have been gradually updating my knowledge about my family.

Ancestry is semi private, that is you have to pay money or be invited to view. The viewing invite does not seem to work outside the UK.

So in addition to the data on the Ancestry site I have also made my own site.

The short URL to my family web pages is :- http://bit.ly/famtree

or the full address is :- http://www.rawkins.entadsl.com/family/

That's about it for now but hope to use these pages to inform you of my experience with this ongoing project as and when I have something new to say.

Topics to include RSS, Photo hosting, HTML, Ancestry etc.