Reports
These reports contain information about the Emil S. and Wilhelmina Reinhardt of Buffalo, NY, their descendants and related families. The Kinship Reports are contained in PDF files, so you must have the Adobe® Reader® installed to view them.
genealogy
GRAMPS
Submitted by prophead on 9 December, 2008 - 13:16I've written previously about my genealogy web site. The site uses PhpGedView, an open source application, to manage the server side genealogy content.
PhpGedView, like other CMSs, has a user interface that supports data entry; however, in the case of genealogical data, entering data online is very tedious when there are more than a few updates to apply. Until recently, I did the data entry and updating locally using a commercial application called Family Tree Maker. I then exported the updated information to a GEDCOM file and uploaded the file to PhpGedView.
This procedure worked well for me until my recent acquisition of a new desktop PC running Windows Vista. It was no big surprise to find out that my ancient version of Family Tree Maker was not compatible with Vista and I needed to either update it or find an alternative way to do my local genealogy content management.
I thought about this for a while and decided to see if there were any open source applications that met my needs. That's when I found the Genealogy Research and Analysis Management Programming System (GRAMPS). The only problem was that although there is a Windows version of GRAMPS, it is not actively supported by the GRAMPS developers, and, in addition, is dependent of a number of other software packages that are typically present in Linux installations, the most notable of which is Python. I thought about this for a few minutes and decided that I really did not want to go through the pain of installing GRAMPS on my Vista desktop. Better to stick with Family Tree Maker in this case. But then it hit me...I have a laptop that runs Ubuntu Linux!
Until now, I had not used the laptop for much other than your typical web browsing, email and other network-centric activities. But I figured why not give it something more challenging to do. So I installed GRAMPS, did a bit of testing and found out that it does everything that I need it to do, and in many cases, does it much better than Family Tree Maker.
And, in closing, I can finally say that I found a "Killer App" for my laptop running under Ubuntu Linux.
One caution: if you are running Ubuntu Linux 8.04 LTS, do not install the GRAMPS package included in the distribution. It is a 2.x version and current releases are 3.x versions. Instead, download and install the latest Ubuntu 8.04 LTS version from the GRAMPS download page.
HR's Big Adventure
Submitted by admin on 16 March, 2008 - 16:24Prologue
It was a dark and stormy night many years ago...and a small boy gazed in wonderment at the eerie glow of the burning slag dumps along the banks of the heavily polluted Monongahela River as it flowed Northward towards its terminus at the then "Steel Capital of the World." As he pondered the future, little did he realize that he would eventually become a small cog in the machinery of onrushing technology....
George Washington Gibson
Submitted by admin on 16 March, 2008 - 12:15Theme from Ken Burns' The Civil War
George Washington Gibson (1841 - 1929)
Private, Company D, 79th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry
George Washington Gibson was my Great-Grandfather and, among other things, a Civil War veteran. He enlisted in Captain McBride's Company of the 79th PA Volunteer Infantry at Monongahela City, PA on September 7, 1861 for "three years or the duration of the war."
Captain McBride's Company later became Company D, 79th Pennsylvania Infantry.
The regiment was formed in Lancaster County, PA. Company D was the only company in the 79th Pennsylvania Infantry recruited in Washington County, PA. All other companies were originally made up of men from Lancaster County.
The records show George was 20 years old at the time; however, there is some uncertainty as to his exact age since the family Bible recording his birth was destroyed during a flood.
Family Trees
Submitted by admin on 23 February, 2008 - 14:27On of 23 August 2008, the contents of this page was moved to HR's Genealogy Portal which contains much more detailed information about our genealogy. The portal contains a number of different views of the GEDCOM file content, has the ability to search for individuals and families, and can generate a number of genealogy charts and reports.
