Genealogy

(River Rat/6810) MyHeritage.com lets you store your tree on their site.

River Rat@rss.iscabbs.com — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 07:04:00 -0500

MyHeritage.com lets you store your tree on their site.
A couple others do to.
MyHeritage is somewhat free.  They have their own Genealogy program.
There is also RootsMagic.com.  I use both.

(Mentat/6809) There's some Mac software called Reunion, but seriously consider...

Mentat@rss.iscabbs.com — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 05:07:00 -0500

There's some Mac software called Reunion, but seriously consider using
Ancestry.com to store your information. The benefit is that it isn't on just
your computer, and you have online access to many resources.

Reunion is very good software, I don't intend to demean it, but "cloud
genealogy" is probably more effective long-term. I could be visiting family in
another time zone, and as long as they have web access I can pull up the
information.

(Kyoti/6808) Quick question fr you folks> I'm not big into genealogy, but sta...

Kyoti@rss.iscabbs.com — Sat, 13 Aug 2011 13:45:00 -0500

Quick question fr you folks> I'm not big into genealogy, but started making
notes on some family things so they didn't get lost. I don't use a lot of
functionality or the online connections that much of the software has, mostly
interested in capturing names, dates, and some various details. I had been
using Family Tree Builder, but now we're mograting everything off the Windows
platform at home, so I'm looking to use some Mac software. Mac Family Tree
seems nice, has some neat-o statistics things, and some nice views that are
helpful in telling where there's missing names. Is this good software? Better
ones out there? How about export/import?

(Indigo/6807) Anyone ever bought or read any of the copies of "Genealogy Onlin...

Indigo@rss.iscabbs.com — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 21:59:00 -0500

Anyone ever bought or read any of the copies of "Genealogy Online" by Elizabeth
Powell Crowe?

(Mama K/6806) After the family dinner tonight, some of us went over to grandma...

Mama K@rss.iscabbs.com — Sat, 23 Oct 2010 20:50:00 -0500

After the family dinner tonight, some of us went over to grandma and
granddaddy's house.  Apparently grandma was a document saver.  Every letter,
every newspaper article about relatives, all of it.  I now have my
grandfather's passport from 1942, when he was sent to Africa for the army, my
grandparents' wedding announcement, and a letter my grandfather's mother wrote
to my grandfather's mother upon the announcement of their engagement.

Two stacks of documents and photographs are going to a cousin who's a history
professor emeritus at UNH, so he can sort through and document everything.  I'm
really looking forward to his report.  I briefly flipped through some of
them....handwritten in pencil in the mid 1800s, in French.  I was in heaven  =)

(Shag/6805) Your second cousin's daughter would be your second cousin once r...

Shag@rss.iscabbs.com — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 05:02:00 -0500

Your second cousin's daughter would be your second cousin once removed.
Which number cousin they are is determined by how many generations back the
common ancestor is.  If it's not the same number of generations, it's based
on the smaller of the two numbers.  The "removed" is just how many
generations different the two parties are.

Samuel F.B. Morse's great-great-great-great-grandparents are my
great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents, so
he and I are 5th cousins, 5 times removed.  (If I recall.)

(Organic/6804) According to whom? Both terms are equally correct, and are used...

Organic@rss.iscabbs.com — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:33:00 -0500

According to whom?  Both terms are equally correct, and are used equivalently
-- probably with regional preferences.

(Picard Maneuver/6803) Grandmother's sister is Grandaunt, not Greataunt

Picard Maneuver@rss.iscabbs.com — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 21:13:00 -0500

Grandmother's sister is Grandaunt, not Greataunt

(Kyoti/6802) Thanks, Shag! So my second cousin's daughter would be my....?

Kyoti@rss.iscabbs.com — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:52:00 -0500

Thanks, Shag! So my second cousin's daughter would be my....?
Third cousin once removed?
(That's the great aunt's daughter's son's daughter)

(Shag/6801) Your grandmother's sister is your great aunt, yes.

Shag@rss.iscabbs.com — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:12:00 -0500

Your grandmother's sister is your great aunt, yes.

Your great aunt's daughter is your first cousin once removed, yes, because
the common ancestors - your great-grandparents - are 2 generations back from
her, but you are one generation different.

Your great aunt's daughter's son - who is in the same generation as you - is
your second cousin, because the common ancestors are 3 generations back from
both of you.

(Kyoti/6800) I spent some time this weekend with family and cousins. We were ...

Kyoti@rss.iscabbs.com — Mon, 11 Oct 2010 14:52:00 -0500

I spent some time this weekend with family and cousins. We were trying to
figure out the exact terms of our relations. I don't know when the first and
seconds come in and when the removed comes in :)
My grandmother's sister is my great aunt, right?
Her daughter is my...first cousin once removed?
Their son would be my...?

(Humble One/6799) There's a cool program called "The Complete Genealogy Reporter" ...

Humble One@rss.iscabbs.com — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 00:54:00 -0500

There's a cool program called "The Complete Genealogy Reporter" (
http://www.tcgr.bufton.org/tcgrover.htm ) that will take gedcom files and build
them into a book basically but the output is a .pdf file which you can print
selected pages, such as the family tree.  I hope that helps!

(Susannah/6798) I have spent the last several weeks entering names and dates and...

Susannah@rss.iscabbs.com — Sun, 14 Jun 2009 23:06:00 -0500

I have spent the last several weeks entering names and dates and info on
www.ancestry.com.  Now, I would like to print out all the names and such in the
most efficient way possible.

Previously, my charts took one person and followed their descendants, but
ancestry.com goes the other way.  They take a person and trace backwards
through the ancestors.

Is there a way to print family charts the way I've been doing them from that
website?  If I do it their way, I'll end up with way too many charts to cart
around to the library at one time.

Since I have not worked on this for almost 15 years, and I moved 500 miles in
the meantime, I have a lot of catch-up to do, so I need to take most of the
info with me to the library for now.

(Egregious/6797) This might help, too

Egregious@rss.iscabbs.com — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 10:42:00 -0500

This might help, too
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/CousinTree.svg/548px-C
ousinTree.svg.png
http://preview.tinyurl.com/3athge

(Organic/6796) The same. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin

Organic@rss.iscabbs.com — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 00:07:00 -0500

The same.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin
But read in particular the section on "determining cousin type".

(Picard Maneuver/6795) Relationship Question:

Picard Maneuver@rss.iscabbs.com — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:19:00 -0500

Relationship Question:
Person A and Person B are First Cousins
Person B has children.
Relationship of Person A to the Person B's children= First Cousin once removed
What relationship are Person B's children to Person A?

(Humble One/6794) Call a Oklahoma City family law lawyer. They should be able to ...

Humble One@rss.iscabbs.com — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 23:19:00 -0500

Call a Oklahoma City family law lawyer.  They should be able to point you in
the right direction.

(LittleTime/6793) Sorry....computer froze. to continue the post.

LittleTime@rss.iscabbs.com — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:16:00 -0500

Sorry....computer froze.  to continue the post.

Husband and I live in Iowa.  I have called the OK City City Hall and talked
with the lady in the department that deals with birth certificates.  I listened
the the little message they play so that they don't have to deal with the
public.  But because of these circumstances I wanted to talk to someone.  The
suggestion from here was to deal with it as if my husband was adopted and found
out his birth mother's name and would like a copy of the birth certificate. 
Well...the lady was not too friendly or helpful and was rather happy to tell me
that my husband would have no means of getting to his birth mother's birth
certificate.  I asked why and her reason was....it's not public record and you
do not have a court order....DO YOU?!    Well...of course not, but if he does
not have contact with his mother and would like to find out some more
information about his family how could he do so?  She said...and I
quote...."that's not my problem" and hung up.  .....so all of you savy people
out there... what do we do?

(LittleTime/6792) I have hit a road block and need some help.

LittleTime@rss.iscabbs.com — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 19:13:00 -0500


I have hit a road block and need some help.

I posted a while ago seeking help in figuring out a way to get my
husband's---mother's birth certificate.    Here's the background.

Husband born in OK City, OK.   Mother born in OK City, OK.  Mother was adopted
shortly after birth.  No one really knows when for sure.  She's not real
mentally stable due to some other factors that have gone on in her life ----so
any information that we might ever get from her would probably not be the
greatest.