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Nathaniel Winslow Gravesite - location correction

June 24, 2008 at 6:40 am » Comments (0)

Nathaniel Winslow, husband of Elizabeth Williams (daughter of Sobriety Bunker), was age 74 in the 1850 Census, listed as living in household of son Stephen Winslow, along with wife “Betsey” at age 63. Nathaniel died in 1852, and was buried on a small hill in Letter E township (originally called Letter E Plantation), Franklin County, [...]



Get Pennsylvania vital records online

May 26, 2008 at 6:12 am » Comments (0)

Recently, many states have helped in the cause of genealogical research by making their vital records available online.  I received an e-mail earlier today about an effort to have Pennsylvania records more accessible:
Here is the link to the website about the grassroots effort to get older Pennsylvania state death certificates available online like they have [...]



ABAGers photographs

April 20, 2008 at 1:34 pm » Comments (0)

We have previously posted photographs of the ABAGers reunion, mini-reunion, and Marci Loss’ retirement party on my photo sharing site at phanfare.com. The hosting company has recently undertaken a major upgrading of its hosting services, and one change is necessary for individuals to view any of the photo albums I’ve shared. From [...]



Greencity Photo Site on Phanfare

April 20, 2008 at 12:43 pm » Comments (0)

Phanfare, the hosting site for my photography, has recently upgraded the site, and it is necessary to create a login and password to view my posted photographs at albums.phanfare.com/greencity.
This login will allow the user access to any of my photo albums.



Bunker Family Association Web Site Redesign

February 27, 2008 at 9:09 pm » Comments (0)

This week, we converted the Bunker Family Association web site to a Word Press-based one, and the result will be that most postings for the Bunker family will be made on that site. I will duplicate some related postings in the Bunker Family History category here if they are related to my own Bunker [...]



Greencity Forum Deactivated

April 21, 2007 at 7:37 am » Comments (0)

My couple-of-months long experiment with phpBB to create a community application for exchange of information is being abandoned. I had a few legitimate users, about what I expected for this type of software. But the site was quickly being overwhelmed by spammers attempting to join so they could market their various products. I had the [...]



WordPress updated

April 19, 2007 at 8:39 pm » Comments (0)

The underlying software used to produce this WordPress blog has been updated to version 2.1.3.



Union Cemetery, North Creek, New York Photos

April 19, 2007 at 5:05 pm » Comments (0)

Photographs of headstones taken by Jo Ann Smith in Union Cemetery, North Creek, New York, of Roblees or their relatives are included in a photo album. These pictures were furnished by Jo Ann to Roblee researcher Jean Thomas Baker (my cousin), who has forwarded them on to me for posting in this album with Jo [...]



Word Press Updated

March 7, 2007 at 8:49 pm » Comments (0)

This site has been updated to the latest Word Press software (version 2.1.2). Earlier this week, hackers were able to corrupt some installations of version 2.1.1, and all Word Press bloggers have been asked to install the updated software to correct the problem.



Web site redesign

February 7, 2007 at 8:44 pm » Comments (0)

I’m in the process of a complete overall of the Greencity web site. Since Microsoft is abandoning Front Page2003 in favor of a new web page design program, and since its new program doesn’t work very well with MySQL data bases (I store my family history data in one, and this web log in another), [...]