Site Map

These are all the pages on my site, in roughly the same order they appear on the Main (Home) page, with their interior pages.

Main Genealogy page: The pages are either about my family and ancestors (roughly 4,000 individuals) or about genealogy in general. They are:

• Biography Outline A list of questions for people who want to write a biography or auto-biography, but don't know what to say.
  
  
• Biography Outline 2. Tips, hints and questions sent in by readers and a list of links for further reading.
  
  
• Beginning Genealogy:
  • Geezer Computer Skills
  • Beginning Internet Use
  • Links to the biggest free genealogy data bases
  • Posting a Good Query
  • Your Grandfather fought in WHAT war?
  • Obituaries and Etiquette
  • Who do I include?
    
  • How to Start
  • Scams and Tricks
  • Genealogy resources off the web
  • Finding people born after 1900
  • Googling your Ancestors
  • Why do it at all?
  
  
• What is a Mailing List? Searching the archives and joining a RootsWeb Mailing List.
  
  
• GEDCOM Files:
  
  • What is a GEDCOM?
  • How do I read a GEDCOM?
  • How do I convert a text file to a GEDCOM?
  • What are Standards?
  
  
• Cousins:. 1st cousin 2 times removed vs. 2nd cousin once removed.
  
  
• What the Mormons don't tell you: Search strategies for the LDS 1880 census transcription.
  
  
• Googling your Ancestors: A couple of tricks for search engines.
  
  
• Publishing your Genealogy data on the World Wide Web.
  
  
• Systematic Research. I use a spreadsheet to do some basic checking on new additions. The system may work for you.
  
  
• Ancient Links to Charlemagne Shows how I'm supposedly related to him, and gives some links to Royal data bases.
  
  
• Genealogy Essays:
  
  • Eben J. Cady, who died at Fredricksburg.
  • Hardboiled, a parody.
  • The Grand Chase, how my individuals are connected.
  • Shortcuts, about speed and accuracy.
  • Count Your Blessings On-line genealogy in 1988 and now.
  • Estimating Dates with a range and a note.
  
  

Suggestions for Christmas Newsletters.

Main Peace Corps page. The pages are either stories about my experiences in Sarawak or links to related sites. The main Peace Corps page has a two-line synopsis of each story.

• I Was (Almost) Tattooed by Headhunters. My brush with tribal tattooing practices.
  
  
• Quentin the World Traveler. He and I had different styles.
  
  
• Stalking Extremely Small Game. The bugs I lived with.
  
  
• The Christians and the Pagans. Your basic role reversal story.
  
  
• We Visit the Land Dayaks. First impressions of Borneo.
  
  
• Two Snippets, one about devil worship, one about white people.
  
  
• Two maps, Malaysia and Sarawak.
  
  
• Peace Corps Links.
  
  
• Sarawak Links.
  
  

Peace Corps Pictures, added July 2001. There are 34 pages with one picture and one caption per page, plus this page of thumbnails.

Web Design Hints.

• Suggestions for Students who are creating a personal Web page. This has eight sections spread over two pages.
  
  
• Suggestions for Church Web Sites Everything I've learned about maintaining a church web site since 1999.
  
  
• HTML Colors. What is hexadecimal, browser-safe colors and a bitter-sweet anecdote about the hexadecimal system.

Miscellaneous Essays.

• Cloyne Court: What is was like to live at Cloyne Court, a 150-man student co-op, at UC Berkeley 1966 - 1970.
  
  
• Barn Swallows: The fun of sharing our front porch with a family of barn swallows.
  
  
• Y2K and Me: I was one of the 50,000 COBOL programmers who caused the Y2K bug.
  
  
• Adventures of a UU Web Master:
  I maintain the web site for the Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Stanislaus County. Our minister speaks three Sundays a month; we have church members and community speakers speak on the other Sunday(s). They asked me to speak on November 30, 2003, the Sunday after Thanksgiving. My talk has more underwear jokes than most sermons.
  
  

Which Ted am I? This will tell you if I'm the one you knew.

Web Master Stuff.

• The Unitarian-Universalist Fellowship of Stanislaus County. This a different site, not a page on my site, so the link opens a new window.
  
  
• CVHS Class of 1966, a virtual high school reunion. This link opens a new window also.