I'm experimenting with posting some random bits of my genealogy research here.

This individual is another that goes back quite far. The notes and source at the bottom refer to an ancestor of Hawise de Courcy, one of Margaret's Great Grandmother's on her father's side. Other that dates and places, it's also another individual I don't have a whole lot of information about other than she was the daughter of a Knight and Granddaughter of a Baron.

I'm still 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 apache (or other webserver), php and mysql. Mostly I've been playing around with TNG but I'll get back to GedSite eventually. When it comes to converting this stuff to web pages, every piece of software available seems to have advantages and disadvantages and it is hard to settle on just one. Right now I have a top three. Maybe I'll get it down to a single choice one of these days.

In recent posts I've been showing some of the various ancestor charts that can be displayed with TNG. This time, at the top I'm showing you the main interface of GenoPro, the software I primarily use to actually create and maintain my family tree. What makes GenoPro unique is its "genogram" approach to building your family tree. Essentially, you get a visual overview of your family tree and can perform various operations (like right clicking on an individual to add parents or children) from that visual view.

You can have any number of genograms for organizational purposes with individuals linked between them. You can also zoom in and out of a given genogram easily. I have hundreds of genograms with anywhere from dozens to thousands of individuals each. GenoPro does a pretty good job of auto arranging individuals on a genogram though sometimes you have to manually arrange things or split out part of the family to another genogram. Usually this is needed when you have individuals that are related in multiple ways or there are multiple wives and children. In such cases, auto-arrange can end up overlapping some individuals. Overall it works very well though. There's no doubt that some genealogy software does some things better than GenoPro. There are always trade-offs. However, I absolutely love the genogram approach and any other interface seems handicapped to me. I don't much care for the web reports GenoPro generates but fortunately you can export a standard Gedcom file from GenoPro that works well in most other genealogy software. This is how I am able to use TNG, Gramps and GedSite for generating reports and certain other tasks (like relationship calculation).

Pictured above is part of the genogram that includes Margaret de Courtenay.