04.04.08
Posted in News at 4:01 pm by Phil
It’s about time I added to this Blog … but I currently have no Internet connection at home so I have to keep an eye bossward whilst I do any research etc.
It all went wrong after we had the carpet fitters in to replace a carpet that was showing signs of discolouration, after only 18 months of use. The head man had been out to see the carpet and could not believe it. He expected ‘tram lines’ where the floorboards were showing through. The lines in our carpet were perpendicular to the floorboards! The guy who had fitted the carpet came to look at it thinking it was the adhesive coming through but again, where there was adhesive there was no marking! There was nothing showing on the back of the carpet either. All in all they were baffled and eventually they decided to replace the carpet.
So, after the new carpet was down and the TV and furniture was back in place I attempted to set up the computer. I first set up the modem and wireless router as we have a computer in the kitchen recording our CCTV cameras. I thought it would be a useful tool to connect to the Internet to make sure it was all working. It wasn’t! After multiple attempts I finally gave in and left it overnight.
The following day I tried again but to no avail and so I phoned the ‘help’ line - 25p per minute! I explained the problem over and over and eventually the chap agreed that it might be the modem and decided to send me a new one and refund the cost of the call. Quite right too!
The modem duly arrived a few days later and I followed the instructions to set it up and phoned the technical line to get it registered and was told that I would have to wait until at least Tuesday 8th April as they were ‘upgrading’ the network in my area!
This is technology?
We shall see what happens next week! To be continued …
Phil.
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12.24.07
Posted in News at 10:31 am by Phil
Merry Christmas to you all.
I have just added a Guestbook to the Williams Family Tree web site.
Feel free to add your comments about the site here.
Best wishes,
Phil.
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11.01.07
Posted in News at 5:44 pm by Phil
I have updated the “Reports” page so that it looks a little tidier and more useful than before.
The reports currently fall into four categories:
- Ancestry Chart
A brief outline of the ancestors of the named individual.
- Outline Descendant
A brief outline of the descendants of the named individual.
- Genealogy Report
A detailed report of the descendants of the named individual.
These reports can be rather large!
- Full Reports
A comprehensive report of the descendants and ancestors of the named individual.
These reports can be extremely large!
I have also added the option of viewing or downloading the associated GEDCOM file if it is available.
Enjoy,
Phil.
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Posted in News at 5:31 pm by Phil
I have added a “Recommend this page to a friend” link to all the pages on the web site so that if you see something on the site that could be of interest to a friend of yours just click on the link, fill in the friends and your name and email address and click the “Send” button. Tee result is that your friend gets sent a link to the page in question. What could be easier?
Phil.
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10.28.07
Posted in News at 6:26 pm by Phil
While entering some data from Aberystwyth for the freeREG site I came across a few Killings and Keelings but unfortunately I have lost the contact information for the person who was interested in these families. The information is sparse but I hope it proves useful. It was taken from the records for the Tabernacle Chapel, Lanbadarnfawr, Aberystwyth.
http://w-f-t.co.uk/index.php?page=keeling
Regards,
Phil.
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07.04.07
Posted in News at 8:25 am by Phil
With all the family problems we are having here at the moment I really didn’t need a hard disk failure on my server but Samsung obviously felt differently. With an uncle just passed away, a good friend having a stroke and me in for my operation tomorrow it’s all getting a bit much. Funny though, I had only just told a friend at work not to trust Samsung drives!
Still, the computer is now up and running with a bigger, better drive so we’ll see how long it stays going! This means the personal blog is back albeit somewhat truncated!
Phil
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06.28.07
Posted in News at 7:12 am by Phil
On the Individual page, I have added links to and names for the partners (where known) of all siblings and children. This makes it easier to identify who married who at a glance instead of having to click on each sibling or child link.
I hope it proves useful …
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06.24.07
Posted in News at 10:22 am by Phil
I’ve added a personal Blog page to my RottenSod site …
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06.17.07
Posted in News, Census, Family Tree at 7:08 am by Phil
Now available is the W-F-T Toolbar to add fun and functionality to your browsing experience. The toolbar is available for both Internet Explorer (yuk!) or the far superior (in my eyes) Mozilla Firefox. For those of you have not yet tried Firefox it is available free from http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/.
The W-F-T Toolbar can be installed from the Williams FamilyTree web site or directly via this link: http://wft.myfamilytoolbar.com/.
The toolbar is free, safe, and updates itself. It is also fully customisable so you can choose the options you want to see.
The W-F-T Toolbar comes with a standard search box that can be used to search the Williams Family Tree site whether you are currently looking at the site or not. It also allows you to search the site you are currently on or selected other sites such as Dictionary, Encyclopedia, News etc. Ok, so these sites are currently American but they may prove useful to you.
The links from the Tree Pages direct you straight to the page you want to go to on the Williams Family Tree site.
The RSS button displays all the News Items, Blogs and Comments in a single, easy to navigate place and the Message button displays all the comments from other users of the W-F-T Toolbar.
The next two buttons (currently) take you directly to the specified search pages on the ancestry.co.uk web site. Sometimes, navigation of the site gives me a headache and I don’t always seem to be able to get back to where I started from. Now all I need to do is very quickly follow the links from the Census or BMD tab in the W-F-T Toolbar and a new page will open to display the search options for the required page. Much, much easier and faster! It does help if you are subscribed to ancestry.co.uk to be able to see the full results.
Unfortunately, ancestry.co.uk and Firefox don’t always provide the results you might expect. However, there is a great solution for this and I can’t praise it enough! I strongly recommend the use of IE Tab available from https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419. Basically, IE Tab allows you to look at a page as if you were using Internet Explorer but from Firefox! It is fully customisable and allows you to switch between IE and Firefox browsing at the press of a button. Try it yourself and see - you may never use Internet Explorer again!
Finally, the Skype button is configured to contact me should you wish to do so. Obviously, you will need to have Skype installed on your computer - available from http://skype.com/intl/en-gb/. A VOIP phone would also be useful but not essential.
The remainder of the W-F-T Toolbar options, E-mail notifier, Privacy, Weather, etc. are optional extras that come as standard. Whether you choose to display them or not is entirely up to you. Just click on the little arrow next to the w-f-t logo, select Toolbar Options and make any changes you like.
I would love to know what you think of the toolbar and what improvements or additions could be made to it.
Enjoy,
Phil.
P.S. All the above links open in a new browser window.
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06.12.07
Posted in News, Family Tree at 6:35 am by Phil
Group Members of the Williams Family Tree can now send messages to each other via the web site.
Unless selected by the member, their email address remains private.
The user has the choice of using the mailto: option, internal messaging, internal messaging with emails, or no contact at all.
The number of messages a group member has, if any, will be displayed from the group page. A link will take the user to new page where the messages can be read (useful!), deleted, or replied to.
A list of all those members who have chosen to be visible while online and who have selected a contact method will be available from the group page.
Just another useful option borrowed from the lads and lasses at PhpGedView and modified to suit the Williams Family Tree site.
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