While visiting my mother in 2019 I was handed a document that had been handed out at a family reunion for my grandfather's side of the family. I volunteered to centralize and digitize this information. I scanned these files and merged them into a single document with John H. Anderson and Easter Anderson as the root of the family tree.
Over Christmas 2023, my cousins noted that they had not received a copy of the files I had created. I was simply going to email them a copy. I did a quick Google search to double check the spelling of someone's name. I tripped and fell down a family history research rabbit hole.
I created an account with Ancestry.com and, eventually, Newspapers.com. I was able to find copies of death certificates, military id, obituaries.... I was also inspired to do some research on other branches of my family (my Grandmother's branch as well as my Father.)
While gathering all of this information I realized I needed to try and find a way to make it easier browse and make it easily available to my family members.
That's how I got into creating this website. I wasn't satisfied with the way the some of the reports the database program I purchased were designed, so I wrote a program to parse the GEDCOM file and created my own reports. Did I mention I'm a software engineer with obsessive tendencies? 😃
What you'll find here are four types of reports. A list of the
family by generation, a family tree graph that flows from the top
down, a graph that flows left to right and an alphabetically
arranged list that provides information per person in the family. These "per person" pages include
electronic copies of some of the files I have found and downloaded.
I hope you find this as interesting as I have found doing the
research.