This site is currently under construction and as such there are bound to be glitches, missing items and non-working links. If you find any parts of this site that don't seem to be working properly please send me an e-mail with the details.

Also, I am still working on the design elements so if you have any ideas for new pages or ways to make the current ones better I would like to hear from you.

And, if anyone knows how to build web pages and has some free time on their hands, I can always use some help!

Sending stories and other written information is easy. You can type it directly into an e-mail window and send it directly. You could also type it into another word-processing program then copy and paste the text into an e-mail window. Also, you can type it into a word processor, then save it as a file and attach it to an e-mail. Don't bother trying to format the text - fonts, tabs centering etc. - it won't transfer into the web program. Keep it simple!

If you are low-tech, you can type it on paper and mail it to me. I can use an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) program to scan the paper and turn it into typed text that iancopy right into the web site. This would save me a lot of typing time, which I’m slow at. Send them unfolded in a large envelope if possible so they will scan cleaner.
Last resort - you can write them out longhand on paper, then if you can’t find someone to type them for you, send them to me and I will type them into the web site myself.

Sending photos is a bit trickier than text. You will need to scan the pictures and save them preferably as TIFF files, then attach them to an e-mail letter with the information that goes with the pictures or copy them to a CD and mail it to the webmaster. More info on sending photos can be found on this page: Photo Submission Info

If you need help in figuring out how to send files or scan photos etc., send me a letter with your problems and I will try to help you as best I can. And don't forget to check the "Photos Needed" page to see if you can help fill in some other family pages while you're poking through all your old photos.

In the process of scanning photos and organizing stories I realized that with so many family members, and many with similar names, I needed a way to identify each person based on their location in the family tree. I also had to create uniquely named folders to store their web site files. So I came up with a letter-code to identify each member based on the first letters of the first names of the members in their lineage, starting with the first American generation. In case of more than one child in the same family with the same first letter I use the second letter as well. So instead of referring to someone as just "Michael" you should add the code - eg.: "FREM" to his name (or just use the code) so I will know that the line is: (Frank/Frank/Elizabeth/Michael). Note that the code only refers to the direct descendents and not the spouses. To refer to a spouse simply add a small "s" to the end of the code.

To view the Family Members Codes page click this link: Family Members Codes

Please try to use these codes when sending photos and stories. It will help me get things right and save me a lot of searching time. It will allow me to do a file search on my computer to find every picture of a particular person without flooding me with lots of other photos of members with the same first name. You might want to print this page and keep it as a reference for future submissions.

While on the Code page you can easily navigate the sites Family Pages. Just click on the name of the person whose page you want to open and it will take you there, if it exists.

If you would like to customize your web page by adding a distinctive background color/pattern and separator bar you can do so by going to the Customize Page.