The Genealogy part of this website was created with The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding© ("TNG"). At the cost of USD 30.00, the software is a bargain!

I enter all my genealogical data on a very old version of Family Tree Maker (the newer versions of this product are, well, complete pants) which runs on my desktop PC. Then I upload the GEDCOM file that Family Tree Maker creates to TNG, which runs on my web hosting company's server, and what you are viewing is the result.

I've enhanced the basic TNG install with a number of add-ons or mods, the TNG wiki has a list of the main ones here. Other mods, some of which I've written, are listed below:

• Today's Deaths - The listing you see on the Genealogy homepage
• Today's Births - The listing you see on the Genealogy homepage
• Today's Anniversaries - The listing you see on the Genealogy homepage
• World Maps - Show all events on a Google Map, as designed by me!
• Timelines - Adds detailed list of world events, plus links to wikpedia, on the Timelines page
• Reports - Originally downloaded from somewhere off the web, I've now amended and anglicised these reports.
• Google Sitemap - Helps Google and other search engines index your TNG website
• Media RSS Feed - Although TNG comes with an RSS feed, this only seems to show updates to people rather than new media added to the site, so I've designed an RSS feed that shows the last 10 media items added to the site.
• Items Counts - Two small scripts that count and list the media in the database and count the total places and the geo-coded places in the tree
• Last Update - Display the date(s) then the family tree data was last updated
• Firstname list - Search by firstname, the TNG surname pages re-coded to display firstnames. (The TNGv8 version can be found HERE).
• Tag Cloud - Displays a tag cloud of the top surnames in the tree.