When I began my blog back in March of this year, I wrote about plans to put the research I’ve done on the Womble family out on the internet. I’m writing to announce that this probably won’t happen mainly due to my internet service provider, Verizon, taking away their free ftp access.
At first, I was very upset that they were doing this because I already had a site that was supported by their service, but this soon became a moot.
In 2008, my brother-in-law sent me an email where he mentioned that he was using a website called WeRelate. I looked at the information that he had put up on his page and found it unimpressive and went on with my life.
Fast-forward about 3 years I received another email from the same brother-in-law asking that both my husband and I test a function on the WeRelate site. To make a long story short, I created an account for myself on the site.
I mentioned in an earlier post that I had joined the Genealogy Wise. To be honest, I’ve become disappointed with it mainly because I feel that there’s nothing for me to do with it. I did create a Womble surname group on it, but haven’t heard of anyone interested in joining me there.
Also, one of my main reasons for getting an account on a genealogy site was so that I would have a space online where I could post my research as well as meet up with others who were researching the same family.
So far, I’ve been pretty happy with the WeRelate site because I could upload a GEDCOM file of my research as well as add pictures of both photos and documents that I’ve obtained during the course of my research.
The downside is still that I’ve yet to meet up with another fellow Womble researcher; however, I’ve met other people on the site. My brother-in-law is there, which is nice. The space where our GEDCOM files meet can be edited by either one of us and this is a great feature.
I did talk to someone who was researching a collateral line of the Brennen family. This was a surprising find. He mentioned that he had a photo of the grave of a Brennen family member. I was very eager to see it and he offered to email it to me. Here’s where this story gets interesting, I strongly considered giving him my email address. I discussed it with my husband and his opinion was that the guy’s intentions were questionable. The thought crossed my mind that why doesn’t he just add the photo to the page about that Brennen family member? I wrote back that he could add the photo and have since heard nothing, nor has the photo been added. This turn of events has led me to believe that my husband’s opinion was well founded.
I’d still like for my research to be accessible to family members who might be interested, but have yet to come up with a way to make this a reality. Maybe the thing to do is to email them to let them know that I have research on there?
