Welcome!
This viewer allows you to explore your family history database containing information about your ancestors and their families. Here's how to get started:
Quick Start Guide
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Search for a Person
Click the "Search Person" link in the header or press Ctrl+S or Ctrl+Shift-F to open the person search. Type at least 2 characters of a name to see matching results.
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View Their Profile
Click on any person in the search results to view their complete profile. A profile includes events such as sbirth, death, marriage, and more plus Relatives, comments and research needs.
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Explore Their Family
Hover any Relative (parents, siblings, spouses, children) to see basic information about the Relative. Click a Relative's name to view the full profile.
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Generate Reports
Use the navigation menu to generate/view reports (Family Group Sheet, Ahnentafel, Pedigree Chart, Family Tree, Ancestor Events Mapped by County, and more), download files (e.g. GEDCOM and Event Researcher), Calculate Relationship of two people, run a search query (e.g. find who was a witch or a mayor) and, learn about genealogical terminology.
Main Sections
- Events - Birth, death, marriage, census, military service, and other life events
- Relatives - Parents, siblings, spouses, and children with clickable navigation
- Places Lived - Locations where the person resided
- Weblinks - Links to external genealogy resources
- Research Notes - Notes, questions, and research findings
- Sources - Documentation and citations for the data
Pro Tip: Use Ctrl+S or Ctrl+Shift+F anywhere in the viewer to quickly open the person search!
About the Administrator: Larry started researching his family history in early 1980 and quickly inherited what one of his great grandmothers had started decades earlier.
Over the next twenty years he self-published a series of slowly growing-in-size books. Copies are in over one hundred libraries where the ancestors lived. In 1985, Larry, a software developer by profession, created a set of 'flat files' (i.e. just plain text) data files and wrote software to read
those files to generate the books he self-published. In 2001, after the books had grown too large to publish, Larry learned how to build a website for the family history information. That got lightly updated a couple of times over the next twenty five years. The website was built using those old
text files. Now, in 2026, Larry, in collaboration with several AI websites (that shortened both the learning curve and the development curve), has totally rewritten the old 'legacy' files and website into this: a more modern looking website that has a database behind it. That database is designed
to easily and quickly search and show the deceased family members (living family members merely appear with the word '(private)' to protect their identities) in a variety of ways. Several reports and files can be generated from the database information. Now Larry wants to go back to actually
researching the family history to prepare it to turn over to some other to-be-determined family member who will continue the research.
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