This is planned to be a web site for our whole family. I'm hoping we can keep up with all the comings and goings of our extended family. Here's the idea: This is a main web site where you can log in to establish your credentials as a family member. You can then get access to the links to other family members' web sites, whether hosted here or elsewhere, and you can also create your own web site, blog, or whatever to share with other family members.
That's the idea, and we have only to figure out how to orchestrate all of this. As we research, discuss, create, and otherwise prepare this interface, we will open it up to you who have an interest in trying it out.
At present, our web site is still under construction. We hope to upload a site which will permit your to log in and view such items as our family tree, photo albums, and write-ups of family get-togethers.
The family tree available publicly has been privatized, in that it gives scant details about people who are still living, but more detail about our ancestors. The photo albums which are available are either public or private albums, depending on whether individuals in the photos are identified or not. Private albums are accessible by password, and those passwords will be available in the "family members only" portion of this site. That means you can get them after logging in as an affirmed family member.
We hope to include links to publicly available sites available to anyone interested (i.e., without logging in). We also plan to have private links to sites that are intended for family members only, and perhaps others for known family members and friends.
Our current plan is to host web sites for any family members. The details of this will be sent to you after you have logged in and express an interest in having a site.
In brief, you should know the following about us: our family's roots have been found as early as about 1750. These earliest finds are not yet in the public family tree, which is the tree I published a couple of years ago in Family Tree Maker's web site. But it is a place to start viewing our family's past. You can help us keep up with our growing tree by submitting details about family members we have missed. Note that we will observe the general caveat that public family discussions will not show private details of living people. So if you submit details that you do not want publicized, be sure to let us know when you submit them.
