I'm experimenting with posting some random bits of my genealogy research here with the goal of eventually creating a linked family tree on Hive. You can see the index here.

Initially, I didn't have a date for Cintha Ann Roberts but new the birth dates of her parents (1843 and 1834). More recent research has revealed she was probably born aroud xxx and died at a young age in xxx. There are far fewer sources to find when an individual dies at a young age. Fewer or no census records, no marriage records, etc. I did find one census record with her in 1860 but so far that's the only original source. According to the Gramps relationship calculator, Cintha is my fourth cousin three times removed.

I use GenoPro to maintain my family tree but I use other programs to generate reports/web pages. GenoPro will do this also but I don't like the format of its reports. Gramps is open source software for Windows, Linux and MacOS that I have been using to generate static HTML reports and is what the info you see below is based on. I also use its relationship calculator functionality as noted above. I've also been exploring GedSite, a program that takes a gedcom file and converts it into html, and The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding which is web based and requires a setup with a web server, PHP and mySQL. Mostly I've been playing around with TNG which is excellent but I'll get back to GedSite eventually.

I actually like TNG enough that I have contemplated just using that as my only reporting software. However, there are a few reasons why I probably won't. First, it's "closed source" (though by its nature you can of course see and modify the source) commercial software whereas gramps is open source. Second, Gramps generates pure HTML/Javascript so that it is easy to copy and move around whereas TNG relies on having a database and web server. Finally, it's easier to extract data out of for adding here, for example. While I have been using GenoPro and Gramps for many years, I've only started using TNG and GedSite within the last year.

The chart at the top is an ancestry chart out to four generations from Gramps. The chart at the bottom is the same but from TNG. The index of all individuals I have posted so far here.