Date |
Information/Event |
December 23, 1997 |
Recieved a stack of papers from my mother that had a lot of names and data |
January 2, 1998 |
Found a freeware program for storing genealogy data onto my Amiga Computer named Scion. |
January 2, 1998 |
Began to enter all the information in to Scion |
January 4, 1998 |
Finished entering the data from all the papers |
January 4, 1998 |
Had 376 names in my data base |
January 5, 1998 |
Begin to subscribe to several Email lists |
January 8, 1998 |
Came in to conact with My 3rd Cousin, who was doing genealogy work too |
January 1998 |
Spent a lot of time on the web, searching for matching names (found none) |
January 1998 |
Posted several inquires to the Mail lists (got very little) |
February 1998 |
More of the same |
April 5,1998 |
Talked to my Aunt on my father's side, who sent me a book about that side of the family |
April 12, 1998 |
Recieved The Book from my aunt. |
April 16, 1998 |
Finished Reading and grabbing data from the book |
April 18, 1998 |
Finished entering the newest data. |
April 25, 1998 |
Found a GEDCOM on Ancestry.com that matched My father's Side, YEA!! |
April 26, 1998 |
Merged the data and completly messed up my database. |
April 30, 1998 |
Finished re-entering the data and figured out how to merge without messing it up. 2000+ names |
May 2, 1998 |
Attempted to set up a Home Page at my local ISP to display all this information. |
May 4, 1998 |
Taught myself HTML, But not enough to do my Family tree! |
May 5, 1998 |
Wrote my first Home Page. |
May 6, 1998 |
Bought a program called Personal Roots Deluxe for My PC and Gedcommed It over to the PC. |
May 9, 1998 |
Found out Personal Roots Deluxe only holds 3000 names! |
May 10, 1998 |
Continued to find a few names here and there to add to my database, went back to my Amiga to enter Data. |
May 1998 |
Continued to find names here and there. |
June 17, 1998 |
Bought Family Tree Maker Deluxe III, And found 10000+ names on the Family Tree CD's. |
June 20, 1998 |
Using the new feature of Family Tree Maker 4.x Family Finder Online, Found more names. |
June 27, 1998 |
Decided NOW was the time to do a REAL Home Page. |
June 28, 1998 |
Downloaded several programs to create HTML code and convert GEDCOMs to HTML. |
June 28, 1998 |
Uploaded 2 Family reports to my FTM's Home Page Space. |
June 29, 1998 |
Wrote the index page and using
GED2WWW that does a great job. |
June 29, 1998 |
Set up Tripod Home Page Space and a http://surf.to/Nuts link from come.to and other niceties to help find my Home Page |
June 29, 1998 |
17500+ names in my database. |
June 30, 1998 |
Sent the word out via the mail lists. |
July 1, 1998 |
WOW!!!!!!! 500 Hits in a 24 hour period. and a few had new information to add to my database. |
July 2, 1998 |
Recieved hundreds of E-Mails about my Home Page!!!!!!!! |
July 3, 1998 |
Wrote and uploaded this page. |
July 3, 1998 |
Corrected a few mistakes on the original index page. |
July 3, 1998 |
Submitted My HP to Genealogy On The Web and Genealogy World Webrings |
July 3, 1998 |
18000+ Names in my Data base, but most are sideways people. (People that are 3rd-4th cousins not going backwards) |
July 3, 1998 |
Added My sight to Several search Engines, And Added a few links to other places |
July 8, 1988 |
Applied To Genealogy Pages Web Ring |
July 12, 1998 |
Recieved word that Genealogy On The Web accepted my pages were accepted. |
July 1998 |
Continued to update and increase the database. |
August 1998 |
Over 20300 Names in my Database. |
August 7, 1998 |
Applied to the Harris Web Ring. |
August 8, 1998 |
Accepted to the Harris Web Ring. |
August 9, 1998 |
Added a Net-Minder to the "My Fallen Nuts" Page |
August 11-12, 1998 |
Rewrote My Home Page and added several Links (more to come). |
August 13, 1998 |
Recieved a letter From Saudi Arabia, From a half 4th cousin with some Merritt Infomation. |
August 13, 1998 |
Recieved The Plant Your Family Tree Award. |
August 13, 1998 |
Applied to and was accepted to a few more Webrings. |
August 14, 1998 |
Up-loaded a new set of
GED2WWW data pages. |
August 15, 1998 |
My Site Added to the Family First Webring AND an Award From Them Too. |
August 20, 1998 |
Created a new web ring called 'Tripod's Genealogy Pages Web-Ring |
August 24, 1998 |
Rewrote My Home Page and Moved the Web Rings off the Main Page |
August 25, 1998 |
Gracie's Home Page Awarded me an award |
August 25, 1998 |
Rewrote My Pages and moved my Awards off the main page. |
August 26, 1998 |
Nuts Unlimited Awarded me an award |
August 26, 1998 |
Leith Hutton awarded me an award |
August 26, 1998 |
Created a Gedcom Page, so my data can be down loaded by others. |
August 27, 1998 |
Recieved The Family Preservation Award! |
August 28, 1998 |
Found some more 4th/5th cousins and began to add the data. At least 1500 more names. |
August 29, 1998 |
Recieved The Award for Genealogy Excellence from The Elisha Tree |
September 1, 1998 |
Recieved The Charlotte's Web Genealogy Award of Excellence. |