Website Newsletter – May 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 from Poland, Estonia,
Romania, and another territorial possession. 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.
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We are now sending out Tweets concerning different occurrences on our website. You
can follow us at OnlineFamilyNetwork@ofnorg .
FAMILY NEWSLETTERS:
Once again, we have added Family Newsletters. To read these newsletters on the
website, click on “FAMILY HISTORY”, then click on the alphabet letter of interest to
you, then click on the surname of interest to you (of those Newsletter surnames that
currently exist). 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:
The Chandler Family Mississippi Newsletter – April 2013,
The Hunt 14 Newsletter, Mary’s Family, April 2013,
The McClanahan Family Mississippi Newsletter, April 2013,
The Oswalt Family Mississippi Newsletter – April 2013, and
The Weeks MS Family Newsletter, August 1992.
Please review the Newsletters on this website and consider generating and inputting your
own Family Newsletter for others to see.
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:
U.S. Declaration of Independence, April 15, 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 April, 2013, we continue to add additional GEDCOM Family History Files.
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
37 different countries around the world. The visitors have viewed over 20,000 pages, on
an average of almost 7 pages per visit. Those countries our visitors are from are: United
States, Australia, United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, France, (unknown territory), India,
Poland, Ireland, Israel, Estonia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Brazil, Singapore, Germany,
Spain, Greece, Malaysia, Romania, Ukraine, Belgium, Costa Rica, Denmark, Georgia,
Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Kuwait, Nigeria, Serbia, Russia, Pakistan, South Africa, Pakistan
and Philippines.
If you have concerns, let us hear from you via the “Contact Us” page.
The OnlineFamilyNetwork Team