Finally! After many, many weeks of effort, a wonderful birthday present from Brian & Joy, a most capable and helpful site host, and much help from my clever dad on learning to ftp and retrieve the e-mail I’d set up, my web site is up and running.
I bought the domain www.KarlFamilyHistory.com for the next two years and have, as noted above, contracted with Stepan to host the site. As you will see when you go to look at it, it is very basic right now. I had to restrict the type of information I included for people (birth, marriage, census, death, burial, etc.) so that I’d be able to get it all into reasonable shape before the baby came, which was my goal (to get a site up before then). I did put some effort into having a picture for everyone I could think of, because I think that makes it a lot more interesting to look at. So all of you who contributed to the Karl Family Shoebox project—this site couldn’t have been done without you either!
Also, I have not included entries for any living people, so you won’t find yourselves on this site. At some point in the future, I’ll do a site that I burn onto a CD for everyone, and that will include info re everyone in the family, not just deceased. But don’t hold your breath for that. Those of you who have a deceased parent will find your names in their entry (listed as their children), but there will not be a link to any further information about you.
You will still find some small output errors (spaces before periods, etc.)—please feel free to send them on to me (you can use the e-mail link on the pages to do so). Some will be able to be fixed and some won’t, but at least I’ll be able to keep a log of them. I’d rather know about them than not.
Posted by elizabeth at April 10, 2004 08:43 AMWhat a huge amount of data! And not even including living people. I'm glad you have this up, it provides a better context of what you've been working on.
Are the chart roots the most remote ancestors you've found along each line?
Posted by: stepan on April 10, 2004 11:32 AMThe Karl Family site is wonderful. I spent far too much time at it this PM - instead of finishing my practicum report - and enjoyed it. Thank you, Elizabeth, for much effort and hard work!
Posted by: Leah on April 10, 2004 03:02 PMI, too have spent some time looking around this new site. I bookmarked it so I can go back and look around it again. You have done a wonderful job. Thanks.
Posted by: auntie rita on April 10, 2004 09:05 PMI'm so glad you guys like it! Believe me, it will get even better in future revisions.
The charts are not necessarily the end-of-line ancestors, although in many cases they are. Mainly I just saw the feature and wanted to use it.
Good luck finishing the practicum, Leah--hope the delay was worth it!
Some of the things I hope to include in future revisions are more background information on people and places, more pictures if possible, and more personal/biographical information rather than just the standard genealogical data that's up there now. Like I said in my posting, if I'd waited until I could do everything I wanted, I'd be in my forties at least before getting this out.
Again, I'm so pleased you all are enjoying this.
Posted by: Me on April 10, 2004 10:16 PMI am in total awe at the magnificent work you've produced. It is truly a wonderful gift.
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