...is to display my
genealogy and family history hoping that it will generate interest amongst my close
and distant relatives. What I'm really hoping to achieve is a constructive
exchange of information between family members or anyone else who might be interested
in these data. Although this site is 100% free, I ask my visitors to please leave
comments either to draw my attention to any errors that they might have come
across – I'm sure there are tons of them – or to provide me with
missing information, photos, etc. that I will endeavour to add to these pages in a timely fashion ...or just to say Hello!
Those who prefer can also contact me by e-mail at: yvonmaurice[at]rogers.com
I have much to
contribute to these exchanges as my database contains nearly 50,000 names. I
don't intend to include all of them here, but as time progresses, I'm hoping to
display a fair number of them. We'll see how it goes!
My preferred method of
displaying genealogical data is to do it with charts – as opposed to using
tables; I find that displaying genealogical data as charts is both more
attractive and easier to read. The
problem with charts is that they can be quite large and difficult to put on a
single page in a way that the text is large enough to be readable. However, charts that are too large to be easily read on Blogger will be connected by html links to another site, Flickr, where they can be viewed at different sizes and are scrollable.
The question of
privacy used to haunt me every time I had to decide whether to post or not to
post photographs of living people and/or personal information about them. Some online genealogy sites, such as Ancestry.com,
choose to keep private any information about the living, which, as far as I'm
concerned, makes their site much less interesting and valuable than would be the
case if they included everybody. In this
blog, I have included the names and, when available, photographs of living
people, their dates and places of marriage – but not their date of birth or any
other personal information. For many years, I have posted my genealogical
charts – first on Yahoo's GeoCities from about 1999 to 2009 when the site shut down, and
then on Flickr where they can still be viewed today – without anyone ever asking me to remove them. But if anyone is uncomfortable with seeing
themselves or any member of their immediate family on any of the charts posted
here, all they need to do is to contact me and I will make them
"private".
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