Ted Pack's Web Site

Links and tips for beginning genealogists, stories and pictures from the Peace Corps, web page hints for students and churches. No fancy graphics, no frames, plain colors and a lot of left-justified text.

What's New: Pages I've added or altered in the last 6 months.

Welcome to my Web site. You will probably want to jump to one of the sections below. Before you do, please take 23 seconds to visit Care2.com. When you click on their button, (mine is just a copy) you will see small, tasteful advertisements. The corporations behind the advertisements will donate money to the Nature Conservancy to buy land in rainforests. The drug that stopped our son's leukemia was derived from a periwinkle in Madagascar. There are other drugs out there. They won't be discovered if the plants that carry them become extinct.

Genealogy pages
The genealogy pages fall into two sections, public and personal. The Public pages have questions to help you interview a relative or write an autobiography, links and tips for beginning Internet genealogists, a list of scams and three pages about GEDCOM files. The Personal section links to my ancestors on Roots Web World Connect and GenCircles. It has some explanations of my standards.

Suggestions for Christmas Newsletters
Guidelines, tips and examples drawn from several sources. Three wonderful parodies, too. This is for people who can never think of things to say.

Peace Corps Stories
I was a Peace Corps Volunteer in Saratok, Sarawak from 1970 to 1972. These are some short stories I wrote about my experiences. There are also some links to Sarawak and the Peace Corps.

Peace Corps Pictures
I took 6,000 slides in my two years, kept 3,000 and have 34 here. These are thumbnails.

Web Design
Suggestions for Student Web Builders, Suggestions for Church Web Builders and an HTML Color Demonstration with a bittersweet personal anecdote about the hexadecimal number system.

Miscellaneous Essays
Cloyne Court, Barn Swallows, the Y2K Bug, Adventures of a Unitarian Universalist Web Master, Underground Railroad Quilt Codes. This is for things that don't fit elsewhere.

Which Ted am I?
One of the fun things you can do on the Web is look for old friends and neighbors. There are ten or twelve Ted Packs on the web. This page will tell you which one I am. It has a picture, too. (Warning - don't click on this link while you are drinking milk.)

Site Map,
if you still can't find what you came for.

Web Master Stuff

Problems, comments or complaints? Nedd an opinion? Send E-mail to: tedpack@thevision.net.

Best viewed at the resolution you like. Any web designer who thinks his visitors are going to change their resolution for him is dumber than a doorknob. My site is plain as a mud fence, but I'm not stupid. You should be able to see everything, without any horizontal scrolling, in any resolution from 800x600 up.

I maintain web sites for:

Clayton Valley High School, Class of 1966, the Eagles. By now many of us are "Bald" Eagles, but we try to keep together.

The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stanislaus County, a small church in Modesto, California.

The Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of the Mendocino Coast, an even smaller church in Mendocino, California.