Category: Genealogy
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New fan diagrams
The software we use to power our family tree, The Next Generation in Genealogical Software (or TNG for short), now allows users to produce ‘fan charts’ to show their direct ancestors through multiple generations. Here’s an example of the fan chart. As shown in this example, you choose the subject for the fan chart. It…
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Useful reports – finding errors in the family tree
Purely coincidentally with upgrading the family tree, I received a report from one of the online genealogical services which analysed my family tree and identified numerous errors. Most of these errors were simple things like mistyped date events (eg born 1784 instead of 1874). This report identified 173 potential errors. I am using this report…
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Updated software
In addition to creating a new site for our family domain, I also took the opportunity to upgrade the software that powers our family tree. My earlier version used on Thornborough-family.com worked well but hadn’t been updated for a while. This meant I missed out on several new features and security updates. Mindful of this,…
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A new home for the family tree
I’ve spent the past week or so migrating the old family tree from Thornborough-family.com over to its new home here on Thornborough.net. I’ve not only shifted the family tree but I have also shifted the associated media. The latter shift has not gone as well as the former. While all the media assets have moved…