Mike's Place

Yes, it worked! I was able to recover the document, and have ported it into Word. I still have quite a bit of work to do, proof-reading and converting it into a web document. And figure out a good way to display the family trees.

Labels: Geneology

I've dived back into the geneological pool, having created a Facebook group for Maughmers online, and having started friending the assorted Maughmers on Facebook.

I've already gotten a couple questions, including a request for a copy of the original Maughmer book. Unfortunately there isn't any such thing any more, though several years ago I transcribed the text for potential use later (i.e. now).

Unfortunately, the transcription was done with an ancient, ancient program called WordPerfect, which I no longer have. I just downloaded a trial copy for Windows, in hopes it can read the old document, which I can then (hopefully) copy into Word.

Hopefully this'll work. I'd hate to have to transcribe this entire book again.

Labels: Geneology

I'm still working on a better design, than one of the generic templates from Blogger. I'm doing the work locally, so I don't need to keep publishing changes. Eventually, I might even get it done. :) I found a showcase of really nice blog designs, from which I'm hoping to pull an idea or two. I wish I had the artistic talent of some of these people.

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For some time now, I've been toying with morphing this into a general-use Maughmer site for the descendants of Jacob Maughmer. In 1976, my great-grandfather published a family history. Unfortunately there are holes, including just about any useful information about our legendary progenitor, the children born since 1976, and an entire branch of Maughmers in Chillicothe, OH.

As I own the domain (and have for 15 years), I've also been toying with setting up maughmer.com addresses for Maughmers around the country. I need to switch ISPs though, before proceeding with that plan, as I'm not impressed with the company who bought my existing ISP. I'm now looking at Speakeasy.

I did set up a Facebook group for Jacob's descendants, and plan on inviting the assorted Maughmers on that site. We'll see how it goes. I'm not sure how many will react to getting group invites from some random Maughmer they've never heard of. :) In reviewing the list, I did speak with a few of them twelve years ago, when I was doing some geneological research. Unfortunately my job and marathon training kept me very busy at the time, so I shelved the project. My aunt, however, has been busy continuing her grandfather's research over the intervening twelve years.

Toby's pestering me for a walk, so I'll continue this later. :)

Labels: Facebook, Geneology, Toby