A fifty year old Christmas Card greeting being sent from my family one more time just as it was in 1958. Merry Christmas all…

I’ll be doing the family bit for the next couple of days. Y’all enjoy the holiday and I’ll catch ya on the other side…

My friends researching Cox-West-Whitt-Pearson and related families have been busy though. Lots of new data to pour through and input into the database…It will be added as checked…

Cameron Jay

September 5, 2008

And with beaming Grandma

And shortly it’ll be back to the hospital.

My biggest problem seems to be that I don’t save low res anything. All of the old photos I have were scanned in at 900dpi. My documents convert put at megabytes per page not kilobytes. It all makes for great research tools as you can zoom in untill that lousy handwriting is semi-legible, but the download times are l-o-n-g and the display runs off the page. I can see I’ll be resizing many of these images again in the near future, but for now…I’ll just get them uploaded.

I am trying to spread the love by not concentrating on just one family. So you will be seeing things added to multiple family lines over the coming weeks…Bear with me, this is going to take a while…

Having a son that does php programing for a living makes life easy for a php illiterate like me. Jeremy was at the house when I got home from work on Thursday and he helped me tweak the code on the TNG Genealogy template I was using to integrate it’s look a little closer to my other sites. I had already added new banners at to this page, so, all and all it’s coming together.

I have spent some time today tweaking menus and miscelanious items. I plan to start adding pictures and other documents latter today and through the weekend…

After working with WordPress, I find the number of php files needed a bit intemidating. I am sure I’ll figure it out soon.

Oh well, time to call it a night…

For my latest Genealogy data.

The one thing that has happened in the last week is that two different people have asked that the data on their families be removed. One of the folks asked that data going back over one hundred twenty years be removed. The reason both gave was to protect the maiden names of their mothers since that information is used as a security measure by banks and other financial institutions. I will refrain from expressing my opinion on the security of their financial information if that is the extent of the security offered. It has been my policy in the past to keep everything but names private for living people in my database. This has allowed many people to find connections in the past. I intend to keep this policy in effect. I will, though, upon request mark living individuals as private. This will leave the family sheet on my site with the name listed as “Private”. I hope this policy is acceptable to those who find themselves on these pages.

It is through connections found on these pages that I have met many research “cousins”. I hope that more connections will be found which will eventually lead to the discovery of the next level of ancestors on many of my lines of research. It is the data on descendents that leads to more data on ancestors. As more eyes are added to the search more data is found that leads to more avenues of research. It was for this very reason that I first published this information almost ten years ago.

If you have anything to add to what you see on these pages, feel free to contact me. If you find discrepancies, please bring them to my attention so I can make corrections (or at least note that there are conflicting facts). I hope this site will be useful in your research.

It’s official I’m over the hill. Just call me Grandpa…