So much to say.. and so little time.. family health issues seemed to have balanced out for now.. a trip to the west coast of Ireland, the city of London and Copenhagen took up a bit of April. May seemed to have dissipated all on its own.. So I am going to try to write more in June ... honest!!! Have not done much with this blog or even with my family research lately. Just planning to to big backup of my data so that I might upgrade my computer and make it less troublesome to use. I need to begin my Summer revision of this website soon or it will be too late.. Thats all the news for now... Don't forget to send all event notices to me please.. births, deaths, and marriages to keep our genealogy nice and tidy and true... Thanks !.. Hope you all are enjoying the summer.

Where have I been ?

It has been awhile since I have sat down at the computer to do any meaningful work. A family member in the hospital has kept me busy. I am hopeful he will return home this week and things will return to normal. Further complicating my ability to work is that my desktop computer is down. I was tinkering with replacing the memory and believe I did something to the CMOS settings. I need a day off to play with it to set things right. That won't be until Tuesday.

Luckily my laptop and blackberry allows me to continue to stay connected through emails and such with the outside world. Jeanne and I continue to try and plan a trip to Ireland, Scotland and Copenhagen though we only manage to actually see each other minutes during the week. Needless to say my genealogy obsession is far on the back burner until more important things on the home front clear up.

Continued Tweaking

After recoding the entire website and updating the data I was still have trouble with the Picture Pro App that comes with my hosting so I switched to using Flickr for posting pictures. Not sure if this is what I will keep using but for now it's working and I have some new Ferris Ancestor pictures and more recent of my own life up there.

I am closing tonight and tomorrow at work so won't get much done in here the next two days. I am off then three days in a row ( Sun, Mon and Tues). I hope during those three days to fix a few of the links that I missed and add some more pictures and perhaps attach some pictures to the two existing biographies on the site

Finally I want to email all those I know that have seen the site so they can see what's new and maybe add to what they would like to see.

Today is the big day. I am updating the data for goodirishstock.com. I store my public data for The Ferris Family Genealogy Project on my laptop running an Linux Operating System called KUbuntu. I store my data in an application called GRAMPS which like KUbuntu is an open source distribution. As a back up I run Family Tree Maker on Windows XP on my desktop computer which I am currently also updating. So today is the release of goodirishstock.com Spring 2009 which will have the latest data updated in GRAMPS as well the introduction of this BLOG.

I hope the BLOG will replace my open-source PHP Bulletin Board as a way of communicating daily what is going on with goodirishtock.com as well as receiving communications from those who read it but without all the unwanted postings and bots I had trouble with using the Bulletin Board.

I hope everyone looks in on this new Spring version of the Ferris Family Genealogy Project for Spring 2009 and sends me any corrections, additions or suggestions that will make my data and research more complete or useful.

The weather in Hyde Park today is mostly sunny with temperatures in the lower and mid forties.

Welcome

Welcome to my blog ! Finally ! Look here later for postings about www.goodirishstock.com and what is new or or coming. Also to learn about genealogy and what I am doing on my family research.

It's snowing in Boston, MA today and I will be working late so not much will be posted. I am looking forward to tomorrow and my day off so I can update the website and add this blog to it