Thanks for the kind comments people have left me both on the blog and elsewhere .\u00a0 It’s nice to get some feedback!\u00c2\u00a0 Last night I started to set up the actual website .\u00a0 You can connect to the pages using the links on the right side of the blog.<\/p>\n
The first page is About the Author<\/a>, with some information about me.<\/p>\n The second page is part of my family tree,\u00a0starting with my earliest known Da\u0144ko ancestor, J\u00f3zef Da\u0144ko<\/a> down through my grandfather and his siblings .\u00a0 I ran into a few difficulties here, the biggest of which was that when I copied the Register report from Family Tree Maker<\/a> (FTM) to my webpage, all the formatting was lost .\u00a0 I have now reformatted the report and will link the events in the report to the actual images as I post those images to this site.<\/p>\n The third page is the start of my Vital Records<\/a> page .\u00a0 For now, I just have links to some\u00c2\u00a0sources of vital records in the United States, but will add more as time goes by.<\/p>\n When I first started entering information into FTM back in 1999, I noticed that FTM offered\u00c2\u00a0three basic\u00c2\u00a0report types:\u00a0 the Register Report, the NGS Report, and the Ahnentafel Report .\u00a0 All three are useful from different perspectives, and I chose the Register Report for my webpage on the Descendants of J\u00f3zef Da\u0144ko, although I may decide to add an Ahnentafel Report later.<\/p>\n The Register Report and the NGS Quarterly Report are descendant-ordered, that is, they start with a single individual and show all the descendants of that person .\u00a0 The reason for the names of these reports is that these are the report formats preferred by The New England Historical and Genealogical Register (Register Report) and The National Genealogical Society\u00c2\u00a0Quarterly<\/a> (NGS Quarterly Report), two very well-respected genealogy journals .\u00a0 The third type of report is the Ahnentafel Report<\/a> (Ahnentafel<\/em> is from the German for Forefathers Table<\/em>) and is ancestor-ordered, meaning that the Ahnentafel lists all the ancestors of a single person and the resulting report is essentially a pedigree chart .\u00a0 The Ahnentafel uses a strict numbering system, where the subject of the\u00c2\u00a0Ahnentafel is #1,\u00a0a father’s number is always twice\u00c2\u00a0his child’s\u00c2\u00a0number, and a mother’s number is always twice her child’s number plus one .\u00a0 Thus, except for the person listed as #1 (who can be either male or female), all the\u00c2\u00a0even numbered individuals will be male, and all the odd numbered individuals will be female.<\/p>\n Well, I’ve rambled on enough for today .\u00a0 I have to pack tonight and get ready to fly to Salt Lake City tomorrow evening .\u00a0 I plan to post on this blog each day during the conference directly from the Family History Library<\/a>, so keep checking back .\u00a0 Be sure to leave your comments, too!<\/p>\n Copyright \u00a9 2006 by Stephen J. Danko<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Thanks for the kind comments people have left me both on the blog and elsewhere. It’s nice to get some feedback! Last night I started to set up the actual website. You can connect to the webpages using the links on the right side of the blogpage. The three webpages are listed under Steve’s Genealogy Web. Continue reading