aloha curious how some of you maintain your research and archives of genealogy records. i've used family data sheets for raw collection of data esp. from family members. but also use spreadsheet and more recently have been transferring my raw data and data from the spreadsheet into a flow-chart-tree structure online at http://www.geni.com.
it allows me to invite other members in the tree and let them add/correct and collaborate on the tree. so far - i have some 500+ blood relatives in the tree as well as branches of in-laws and ancestors of my son/ via his father's lines. still have many more branches of relatives to add.
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Geni.com is pretty cool, but I can't see entering all my data all over again, unless they take gedcoms now....they didn't when I first went there. I've had a myfamily.com site since 2001 and the participating from family members has been slim to none.
I use Reunion software for organizing my names and notes and stuff. http://www.leisterpro.com/
Reunion is the best genealogy software for mac. I tried family tree maker and didn't like it at all.
I've also published one genealogy photobook at kodakgallery.com which came out great, but other's couldn't order it, so now I'm working on one at Blurb.com. Kind of pricey there, but the bookmaking software is easy to use and the books come out great. There's also lulu.com, which is a little cheaper to order the books. Blurb has a 12x12 book which is like scrapbook size, that I think would work well with the family charts that can get really huge!
I could make another thread, but I'll just ask you right here. I recently brought up a topic elsewhere but gathering a lot of data, how do you handle sensitive data? How do you decide what will or won't be published? I say this only because twice I've encountered this problem and I've made one family book so far. I wanted to do another one in time for our family reunion this summer but I guess that won't happen until a few years from now.
And there is the not so sensitive issues and I know with Hawaiian families, it is multiplied, deciding whether to include/exclude step-relatives and/or hanai relatives. I've witnessed some families do that, just exclude some people simply because of hanai.
some ohana are really leary about the online/shared trees and sometimes are a little hesitant to share/post updates - but if you hand them a family data sheet to fill out - they tell all. i think it's still just the mistrust of the internet/computer from older generation.
as far as step-children/parents and hanai/adoptive relatives - our 'ohana has always included them in our published books/trees.
My father and mother both have a few step and adopted connections in our line and a few 'fabled' hanai relations. On my husband's side - our surname is a Hanai name and his great-grandmother was a true adoption. she was pure Hawaiian adopted by an Englishman who first came to the islands pre-overthrow. His opus published in 1916 was a poetry book found in 1977 in the cornerstone/time capsule of Kapiolani hospital alongside royal artifacts. The book with several poems about her like 'the Little brown maid' and 'Kahowanu' which we believe was his mis-spelling of her Hawaiian middle name Kahauanu. - which better matches the meaning she had shared with her grandchildren - "the cool dew like ice". We are not sure of her birth parents names - but know she was related to the Kanakanui's from Hau'ula.
Because both maternal/paternal lines have hanai/adoptions - my mother-in-law and syblings have been denied application to dhhl because they can't prove great-grandma was pure Hawaiian - thus making their blood quantum 50%. My interest in Hawaiian history and genealogy has had me on an 'egg' hunt for more information about the Englishman to discover how/when he adopted her to find her birth family and bring some closure to this for the family...because her adoption is pre-1915. There are additional challenges as her records are not with dept. of health...as prior to 1915 the Bureau of Conveyance has deeds of adoptions listed among mortgages and land deeds. These are found by looking in the grantor books (by family name of the person giving the child) by year and island or the grantee books (by the family name of the people receiving the child).
anyone have experience with this type of research? or know someone who's made headway here?
I just read in another forum about geni.com. I've been using a software called GENERATIONS since 1998. I like it, although they no longer make the product from what I've heard. Unlike some other software programs, esp. PAF (Personal Ancestry File from the Latter Day Saints) this one is very versatile. I believe many people use Family Tree Maker to maintain their recs. I personally don't like it but have seen that when people transfer their data to written recs., it works well. My own software sucks as far as generation family trees so I create my own in POWER POINT. I use EXCEL for various things like collecting names from the Ku'e Petitions for specific areas, making searching of names a lot easier. The Ku'e Petitions lists ages so I verify through that, plus I have been building a list of marriages for one area so far into EXCEL. I'm gathering that info. from ulukau.org.
I used to do the old way, collect data sheets but that was in the early 90s. I'll have to check out geni.com. Also, I have one file that is huge b/c I have everyone's families thrown in there, and I call it my "hawaiian" file. It's the largest file I have compared to all the other files that I have. The hawaiian one currently consists of 9,564 names which started off with a list of 200+names, plus these other families I've had over a 100 people and I combined them. It recently grew by more than 300 since early February, so I am constantly adding more names in there monthly. So like you, I add in in-laws too and I got started doing my cousins' other side of the family who ended up being related to some of my classmates and other cousins' branches, etc. It's never ending.
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I use Reunion software for organizing my names and notes and stuff. http://www.leisterpro.com/
Reunion is the best genealogy software for mac. I tried family tree maker and didn't like it at all.
I've also published one genealogy photobook at kodakgallery.com which came out great, but other's couldn't order it, so now I'm working on one at Blurb.com. Kind of pricey there, but the bookmaking software is easy to use and the books come out great. There's also lulu.com, which is a little cheaper to order the books. Blurb has a 12x12 book which is like scrapbook size, that I think would work well with the family charts that can get really huge!
And there is the not so sensitive issues and I know with Hawaiian families, it is multiplied, deciding whether to include/exclude step-relatives and/or hanai relatives. I've witnessed some families do that, just exclude some people simply because of hanai.
as far as step-children/parents and hanai/adoptive relatives - our 'ohana has always included them in our published books/trees.
My father and mother both have a few step and adopted connections in our line and a few 'fabled' hanai relations. On my husband's side - our surname is a Hanai name and his great-grandmother was a true adoption. she was pure Hawaiian adopted by an Englishman who first came to the islands pre-overthrow. His opus published in 1916 was a poetry book found in 1977 in the cornerstone/time capsule of Kapiolani hospital alongside royal artifacts. The book with several poems about her like 'the Little brown maid' and 'Kahowanu' which we believe was his mis-spelling of her Hawaiian middle name Kahauanu. - which better matches the meaning she had shared with her grandchildren - "the cool dew like ice". We are not sure of her birth parents names - but know she was related to the Kanakanui's from Hau'ula.
Because both maternal/paternal lines have hanai/adoptions - my mother-in-law and syblings have been denied application to dhhl because they can't prove great-grandma was pure Hawaiian - thus making their blood quantum 50%. My interest in Hawaiian history and genealogy has had me on an 'egg' hunt for more information about the Englishman to discover how/when he adopted her to find her birth family and bring some closure to this for the family...because her adoption is pre-1915. There are additional challenges as her records are not with dept. of health...as prior to 1915 the Bureau of Conveyance has deeds of adoptions listed among mortgages and land deeds. These are found by looking in the grantor books (by family name of the person giving the child) by year and island or the grantee books (by the family name of the people receiving the child).
anyone have experience with this type of research? or know someone who's made headway here?
I used to do the old way, collect data sheets but that was in the early 90s. I'll have to check out geni.com. Also, I have one file that is huge b/c I have everyone's families thrown in there, and I call it my "hawaiian" file. It's the largest file I have compared to all the other files that I have. The hawaiian one currently consists of 9,564 names which started off with a list of 200+names, plus these other families I've had over a 100 people and I combined them. It recently grew by more than 300 since early February, so I am constantly adding more names in there monthly. So like you, I add in in-laws too and I got started doing my cousins' other side of the family who ended up being related to some of my classmates and other cousins' branches, etc. It's never ending.