Happy Fourth of July. Here's some quiet fireworks for you. We try to avoid the noisy ones here at home because of the trauma to the animals, and sometimes me! We also volunteer a lot with the local animal shelter and it gets clogged every summer with animals who've gotten scared and run away from their homes because of all the firework noise. Be aware of pets if you're doing fireworks, please!
Yesterday was July 2 and the birthday of my brother Steven Scott Seward, I'm sure he spent it being as awesome as always! Tomorrow is the 4th and the birthday of my stepson, Michael Bach-Lesak. In fact there are a number of friends of ours who celebrate their birthdays around now. If you are one, give yourself a hug from us!
I haven't been to one in ages, and I'm sort of out of the loop, but the annual Adams reunion was usually held in, I think, Alief, TX on July 4th. Also next Sunday, July 10, 2016, is the annual Millard/Salyer reunion in San Gabriel Park in Georgetown. It used to last from about noon till 4 or 5 pm in times past. Last few times I went I got there about 12:30 and everyone was leaving already. Tough to socialize in July without A/C I suppose!
I've been in a bit of a quandary these days concerning online genealogy. I've been exploring WikiTrees . I love the concept. Everybody loads up their own tree and ultimately they all connect to make one massive tree with everyone on it. They put a lot of work into it and I like it. Their messaging feature is a bit wonky, I find it difficult to see who is doing what in my lines. Also, I have so much data and the site only takes it in small amounts, so I wind up splitting my .ged files to upload them, then rather laboriously matching and merging to link everything together, but it's still a worthy effort.
I also have online family trees posted on Ancestry.com, MyHeritage, FamilySearch, and probably several more I don't remember right now. All have their selling points (in fact most are selling you their sites, of course) The problem is each one wants to be the only place for you to go for your family tree. I prefer to do my main family offline on my laptop. I actually store my main data on Dropbox, but still use my venerable PAF program to enter and display the data. (PAF is no longer being supported by anyone, but it still works very well for my purposes. I haven't found another that I like as well yet.)
So, the trick is, how to keep all the different trees synchronized. All are pretty statically fixed at whatever the tree was when I originally uploaded them. The options are to manually update each and every one every time there is a change, or basically delete the whole tree and re-upload it, which in some cases messes up whatever links others may have established. As far as I can tell, there is no main standard, other than the aforementioned .ged files.
I have seen and used programs that link, say, all my social accounts together. I can post one comment and have it synced to Facebook, Twitter, Google+ and whatever other site is the flavor of the month. If there were one Genealogy program that would do that. Let me keep it updated and it would synchronize with all the other sites I wish it to. That would be worth changing from PAF for. I've let all the other sites slide for the time being while gradually updating WikiTree.
Maybe it should work the other way. Do all your work on one of the online trees and have it able to sync back to your laptop, for backup purposes if nothing else. I DO NOT want everything to be just online. There are times when I need to access something and wifi is just not there, take for instance the above mentioned family reunions, or the need to print various reports.
I find the prospect daunting and I don't even work at the genealogy all that often.
Relatively speaking, of course!
I stumbled upon your family history work. My late husband was Joseph Allen Millard, son of Dee Rufus Millard. My son is Joseph Everett Millard. I think you have my late mil's maiden name wrong. She was Everett before marrying Dee Rufus. Anyway, I will be sending my son the link to your page as he is quite interested in family history.
ReplyDeleteYou are correct, however, I find Viola listed as Viola Johnson in the 1930 US Census and 1935 Florida Census in the household with her parents, Ernest and Emma. This I suppose was just prior to her marriage to Millard, so it seems possible there was an earlier marriage to a Johnson? That's sort of how it looks anyway. Any info on Viola's mother's maiden name? Nothing pops up there yet.
DeleteAdditionally, I remember another cousin named Dee Millard who was a bit older than me, so, born just before 1950. He visited my grandmother Annie maybe in the late 1960's. Any idea on who he was?
Actually, with a bit more digging I found Viola's mother's maiden name was Henry, apparently.
ReplyDeleteViola never spoke about any marriage prior to that with Dee Millard. I know it's the right line bc the sister Dixie married Steve Carson, no children. Viola lived in Cuba for most of her young life on a sugar plantation as her father was a manager. She attended Florida State University as became an RN. Their was a firstchild Harold, or baby Harold. Who died at 3 or 4 years of age. My late husband was born when she was mid 40s. They lived in Miami. I believe that Dee Millard died from myethenia gravis. Viola never remarried and was a nurse at North Shore Hospital for decades. She finally retired in her late 70s. I don't have any contact with anyone in the Millard line. I don't think his sibs had children. Some relocated to AZ. I think there maybe some in the Miami area. My husband and Viola died in the same hospital one day apart as the result of being in a car accident and hit by a DUI driver. They died after 10 long days of suffering. No one in there family line attended the funeral or sent condolences, so I don't think it's a very close knit group. I remarried a wonderful man who raised my son Joseph as his own son. They are very close. Joe is a Naval officer and is a very fine handsome man. He is married to a beautiful young lady named Heather who is a nurse. They have two lovely children: Everett Allen Millard and Emerson Grace Millard. They live in Arlington 3.
DeleteAfter further study I begin to believe the Viola Everett I've been looking at is likely the wrong Viola. Confusing, since she also was born in Cuba and lived in Florida. Also, the sister Dixie doesn't show up in those censuses. I'll back her out of my tree.
DeleteTo be honest, I'm not sure where that info originally even came from, I can't seem to find the actual source of what went in that list on this blog. Weird. Maybe I should just delete that one post. All my data now is on the tree in FamilySearch, as well as in RootsMagic on my computer. A lot of it has been updated.
Great to hear from you though. All the best.