Frequently Asked Questions

The Journal is a series of articles in chronological order documenting my family history research. These articles often link to additional information published on this website or external websites.

The Gallery is a collection of photographic albums:

Family
People
Places
Churches
Headstones
Documents
Roll of Honour

Family Photographs contains scanned images from our family collections. The other albums are from my personal collection of photographs I have taken during my family history research.

Family Tree uses PhpGedView to present both lines of my family. Essentially PhpGedView displays my GEDCOM data in a relative easy to view format. Similar in function to The Next Generation Genealogy.

Progenitors provides a simple overview of my immediate ancestors complete with dates of birth and death if known.

Lists menu is just that; lists of surnames and places. Essentially these category tags are used to label a Journal article. Whenever a surname and or place is referenced in a Journal article then it is tagged with that surname and or place.

Drupal is an open source Content Management System or CMS.

"Drupal is a free software package that allows an individual or a community of users to easily publish, manage and organize a wide variety of content on a website."

Family History Journal is powered by Drupal.

TNG is an abbreviation for The Next Generation of Genealogy Site Building.

"The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding© ("TNG") is a powerful way to manage and display your genealogy data on the Internet, all without generating a single page of HTML. Instead, your information is stored in MySQL database tables and dynamically displayed in attractive fashion with PHP (a scripting language)."

This software application extracts data from a GEDCOM and display it in an easy to navigate format. The GEDCOM data on this site is best viewed using TNG Genealogy.

TNG is not a Drupal module and therefore is displayed in an iFrame. Occasionally this can result in unexpected display issues especially when navigating through all the many options that are available within TNG.

PhpGedView is another open source software application using the scripting language PHP and the databse engine MySQL.

"PhpGedView is a free, collaborative genealogy program that allows you to view and edit your genealogy online. PhpGedView has full editing capabilities, full privacy controls and support linking to multimedia files such as images and videos. Your latest genealogy information is always available online for others to see."

PhpGedView powers my Family Tree.

"GEDCOM is an acronym for GEnea-logical Data COMmunication.

"GEDCOM is a specification for exchanging genealogical data between different genealogy software. GEDCOM was developed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints as an aid to genealogical research.

A GEDCOM file is plain text (usually either ANSEL or ASCII) containing genealogical information about individuals, and meta data linking these records together. Most genealogy software supports importing from and/or exporting to GEDCOM format. However, some genealogy software programs incorporate the use of proprietary extensions to the GEDCOM format, which are not always recognized by other genealogy programs. The GEDCOM TestBook Project evaluates how well popular genealogy programs conform to the GEDCOM 5.5 standard. Additionally, many tools exist to convert GEDCOM files to HTML pages." - Wikipdeia

Most of the genealogical data on this site is extracted from my JACKLIN / ASHFORTH family GEDCOM and is created using Personal Ancestral File (PAF). In order to facilitate research, data is presented in several different formats using various software applications and scripts.