I’ve been taking time off from the blog for a while now, but have still been busy – just haven’t been reporting my activities here. I’ve been working on some of my other research projects, in addition to my work for Clan Murray.

Our “Festival Season” ended in August with the Edgewater Celtic Festival in Denver….or so we thought!

Because of the expense, we only spent one day at the Longs Peak Irish and Scottish Festival in Estes Park in September. We marched down Main Street, and then worked in the tent the rest of the day. We met several Murrays, and several marched with us and then hung around the rest of the day.

On a whim, we went north again to Firestone at the end of September to help Steve Wolf, President of the Murray Clan Society of N.A. in the tent. It was a small festival, honoring St. Bridget, a nun who used to give beer to the poor and homeless, but is growing a little more each year. This was the third year.

We are now preparing for the Clan’s Annual General Meeting in Charleston, SC. I have finished scanning applications, family trees, and other documents in the Clan Archives and am preparing them for members to use in some way if they desire to do their own research. I have a simple index now, but will have to expand all the information so it’s faster and easier to locate a specific ancestor. At this writing, I have nearly 6,150 pages in 233 folders, amounting to nearly six (6) Gb of data. I have also included other materials I’ve created, as well as documentation used in my research before becoming the U.S. Genealogist two years ago.

In the past few days, I have made a few updates, based on new information from http://wikitree.com

• I have updated the list of U.S. Presidents and the Magna Carta signatories I am related to.

• I have removed four distant cousins on the Mayflower that do not show up on any relationship checks.

• I removed Aaron Burr as an ancestor, since he can no longer be verified, but I have updated Eli Whitney, Jr. and his son, Eli III as even closer relations than before.

More updates are pending, and will be listed here after completed.

Yesterday was a bad day for genealogy, at least for me. I was logging into the TNG site to do some maintenance and updating, and ended up losing the whole site. I don’t think I did it, but something sure happened!

I tried to reload pages today, but now it says I don’t have login rights to the site. I’ll let it sit and stew a few days and, in the meantime, continue to work on this site. You will notice some new menu items on the red banner. I’ve added other clans to match the total number of clans I manage for Wikitree, along with several Scottish houses. I also expanded the list of Facebook pages I follow.

The biggest and best update, however, is the GEDCOM link making its return. In various updates of this page in the past, I used software to create a surname listing that could be searched directly from my database. The last time I used it, actually several months ago, I didn’t get a complete listing of the nearly 26,000 cousins I’ve found, and no matter how many times I tried to repair and expand the list, hundreds of names just wouldn’t appear. My only choice was to drop it until I could find better software. I think I have, so give it a try if you like. You get a number of demographic details on each person (if I have them), and you also get a four-generation family tree and a list of family members.

How old were you when you first got interested in genealogy? More to the point, how old were you when you began to research your own family? Like a lot of people, your first interest didn’t lead to research. Actually WORKING on your lineage came later, sometimes years later.

A recent survey on Facebook by the Early New England Family History Research site interviewed 4,534 members, arriving at these results:

Under 20 – 18%
20-29 – 16%
30-39 – 17%
40-49 – 19%
50-59 – 19%
60-69 – 9%
70-79 – 1%
80 + – <1%
Don’t Recall – 1%

Surprisingly, the split is pretty even across most age groups until you reach age 60 and above. I would guess the numbers would be different in the general population, with most falling between 40 and 60 years of age.

A writer for Ancestry.com (https://hidefgen.com/perceived-age-demographic-genealogy/) observed that conference attendees are mostly women (70%) and mostly above the age of 50. When topics of social media, like Facebook or other online sources, come up in genealogy, the user age falls quickly for those 55 and above, primarily due to privacy concerns. One interesting fact is that the first season of the US-version of  Who Do You Think You Are? aired on NBC did not have any celebrities under the age of 40.

The writer continues: Is the age demographic for genealogists perceived or actual? It often comes down to personal observations – one’s own demographic. Attendees at conferences tend to interact with others of similar age. When interactions do cross age groups, they tend to comment on either how young/old the other person is or how they do their genealogy – whether they use social media and online research, or if they are doing all their work at record repositories and without the use of a computer.

Both younger and older genealogists have much to offer each other – the younger set should not shut out older genealogists and write them off as “dinosaurs” who refuse to learn and use technology. Likewise, the older set should not dismiss younger genealogists as less than serious because they choose to use social media to expand their genealogy research and experience.

Now, for your purposes, two questions. First, how old were you when you began researching your family? Second, how computer-literate are you? You have to decide for yourself how this all affects your research. I have opinions, but I will share them at some point in the future.

Ancestry seems to be continuing with its DNA refinements, as my newest numbers show. I now have ethnic percentages from four regions, and the countries within each region have been modified a bit, as well.

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The chart above is new on Wikitree. If you look at it, it’s pretty self-explanatory, but it does demand a few comments. Over the years I’ve been researching my genealogy (more than 25), I’ve managed to identify nearly 26,000 “cousins” going back far more generations than are shown in the chart.

I’ve told people for a long time that if they can get past their own 6th generation or so, they have a pretty good chance putting their lines into some sort of historical perspective. I’m not sure that’s true, anymore. Let’s take someone like a Mayflower descendant, several of which I’ve recently discovered after all my research. If anything, I’m more surprised I didn’t find one sooner, based on the number of people in my lines who came to America during the Puritan Great Migration of the early 1600’s.

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Many people I talk to have brick walls appear in the 5th or 6th generations. Unless you are actively researching your lines, have a lot of online sources to check, use a genealogy site (paid or otherwise), or have an incredible amount of help from other researchers, it’s a daunting job tracing your ancestry. That’s why most people never “get around” to it.

That’s enough for now. I’m going to continue to mull it around in my head, but I know I have more to say, just not HOW to say it, yet. Stay tuned!

http://allinthepast.net/TNG was updated yesterday. TNG is a somewhat parallel site to this one, but doesn’t offer a blogging feature like the one you’re reading now. As I work, I find things on BOTH sites that I constantly refer back to for help. Both sites work on WordPress, and both sites link to older HTML pages created at some point in the past, but the need to make websites more animated, interactive, and colorful took away the ability to easily produce usable content for those who visit the sites.

I began using TNG – The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding – about a year and a half ago with version 11.0. Yesterday, I updated to version 12.02, a jump of two steps in the overall update process from TNG. It took me three time to get the update right, but that’s par for the course anymore with a lot of software.

This is how it worked – I have my files on a service provider’s hard drive somewhere in outer space (“the cloud”). I also have a backup copy in an archive I work from that allows me to work on the site and simply upload updates as needed. Yesterday, I added the updated files (TNG 12.02) to my archive, but did NOT mix them with my site files, which also had a TNG folder (version 11).
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