Website Newsletter – December 2013
Welcome to all viewers of our Family History Website.
We welcome the
researchers that continue to come to our website, as well as new researchers who have
newly discovered our resources. We hope that all researchers will continue to enjoy
reading the relevant newsletters, finding out about Reunions that are planned by family
history planners everywhere, and searching for lost family members of your lineage that
may be in our databases. To make your experience more enjoyable, we have added a
new choice in the website banner: Churches. In this dropdown menu, you will notice we
have two different choices of either Church History or Church Cemeteries. We are
working on both areas to make the content enjoyable to the researcher.
Twitter:
We are now sending out Tweets concerning different occurrences on our website. You
can follow us at OnlineFamilyNetwork@ofnorg . Don’t want to wait for the monthly Site
Newsletter to see what great things have been happening on our website for the past
month, become a follower at twitter.com and read of these events as the Tweets occur.
FAMILY HISTORY:
Under “Family History”, you will find the most recent Announcements, Newsletters,
Chronicles, Obituaries or Media Gallery information on the “Surnames” you are
interested in. To view this information, click on the starting letter of the surname you are
interested in and then select the segment you wish to view. For the November 2013
period, there were no new “Family Newsletters”. However, we do expect that the
December 2013 period will involve quite a few new “Family Newsletters” and perhaps at
least one “Letter From the Editor” and other activities.
FAMILY NEWSLETTERS:
Again, for the November 2013 period, there were no new “Family Newsletters”.
However, we do expect that the December 2013 period will involve quite a few new
“Family Newsletters” and perhaps at least one “Letter From the Editor” and other
activities. To read these newsletters on the website, click on “FAMILY HISTORY”, then
click on the starting letter of the surname of interest to you, then click on the surname of
interest to you (of those surnames that we currently have information on). Find the most
recent Announcements, Newsletters, Chronicles, Obituaries or Media Gallery
information and click on the one that you want to read or view while on the
website. Some of the new additions this month include:
Please review the Newsletters on this website and consider generating and inputting your
own Family Newsletter for others to see.
CHURCHES
To make your experience more enjoyable, we have added a new choice in the website
banner: Churches. When you click on Churches, a dropdown menu appears. You will
notice we have installed two choices: Church History and Church Cemeteries. When
you click on either of those two choices, the list of all of the States appears. You need to
then click on the state you are interested in viewing material from. When you click on
your state of interest, an area opens up with all of the states listed. You need to click on
your state of interest to view the “Church Histories” that we have available to date, or the
“Church Cemeteries” to view the pictures of the cemetery tombstones (headstones or
footstones) that we have uploaded to our website as of this time.
Thus far, we only have information available for the state of Mississippi; both in the
Church History area and also the Church Cemeteries sections. We are working on both
areas to increase the content and make it more enjoyable to the researcher.
If you, as a researcher, would like to “adopt” a state, or a “county” and make
contributions to Church Histories or Church Cemeteries, please “Contact Us” and make
your wish known. We would like to welcome you and your efforts to assist in the
fulfillment of Church Histories and Cemeteries tombstone photographs.
OUR COMMUNITY:
Letters from the Editor
In the spirit of providing information of interest to our many viewers, we have generated
“Letters from the Editor.” To read those Letters, go to the Banner, at the top of any
website page, then click on “Our Community.” Once the drop-down menu appears,
click on “Letters from the Editor.” A new page opens up with our Letters listed. Select
the Letter you wish to read and that Letter opens up on a new page. After reading a
Letter, you can either repeat this process, or click on the back-arrow to return to the
Letters list. We hope that, in time, you will decide to upload your choice of material that
would become a Letter from the Editor. Our most recent Letter from the Editor is:
Using The Social Security Death Records – Published October, 2013
Remember that under “Our Community” you can start or join a “FORUM.” You can use
most any topic for discussion.
We are preparing to have “Groups” available for membership only. We will have more
information available on this subject in the immediate future.
ONLINE FAMILY DATABASES/TREES:
During the month of September 2013, we either added or improved several GEDCOM Family
History Files to our list of Family trees.
To search these files, go to GEDCOM Files and click on the Tree list, then click on all Trees or the
Family Tree of your choice. You can input your person of interest and click on Search to see if
your person of interest is in any of these GEDCOM files. In the immediate future, we will
continue to be adding more GEDCOM files for you to search.
Remember that you can upload your own GEDCOM File, or send us your GEDCOM
genealogy database and we will upload it for you, and add it to the databases that
currently exist on our website. Be assured there will be "No Charge" for people to Search
your GEDCOM database (or well as the others we are hosting).
How would you like to build your own Family History database on our website, with the
ability to make updates as you discover new material for addition to your website? This
capability will soon be offered to the customers of our website.
DNA Results:
The Y-DNA Section of our website has been updated to present a better explanation of
what DNA research is all about. On the website front page, click on Y-DNA to read
more about DNA.
After your reading, if you would like to share your DNA results [Y-DNA, MIDNA, or
Autosomal DNA], you can forward that information to us and we will upload it into our
website so that others can view what you have and possibly find a new relative.
WEBSITE VISITORS:
We pay close attention to the visitors to our website. To date, we have had visitors from
58 different countries around the world. The visitors have viewed over 25,000 pages, on
an average of over 5 pages per visit.
If you have concerns, let us hear from you via the “Contact Us” page.
The OnlineFamilyNetwork Team