I'm experimenting with posting some random bits of my genealogy research here with the goal of eventually creating a linked family tree on Hive. You can see the index here.

Oliver Wesley is an individual that I had very little info on other than who his parents were. However, a more recent search revealed birth and death dates, a wife and two kids, census records and more. While this info is not included below yet, he was born in Casey, Kentucky in 1909 and died in the same county in 1991.

I am related to Oliver through my Father's side of the family via my Grandfather. However, I gave up waiting for Gramps to calculate the exact relationship. Suffice to say Oliver is a very distant cousin.

I use GenoPro to maintain my family tree because I like the "Genogram" user interface. It allows you to modify your family tree graphically and you can split your tree up into as many genograms as you want. However, I mainly use Gramps to generate reports which is what most of the info below is based on. GenoPro can generate reports also, I just don't like the formatting as much. While GenoPro is commercial software for Windows only, Gramps is open source software that is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS. I also use its relationship calculator functionality as noted above. I've also been exploring The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG) which is web based and requires a web server, PHP and mySQL database. In addition, I also have GedSite which also generates static HTML reports.

Both TNG and GedSite are commercial software so you have to pay for them. I think their price is reasonable and they are both excellent in their own ways. However, I prefer the open source nature of Gramps and the fact that it generates static HTML reports makes it easier to work with for sharing data here. I still like TNG enough that I will probably keep using it as well. I've been playing with GedSite occasionally but haven't committed to it yet, however I've liked other sites I've seen generated with it. For now I am generating reports with Gramps and updating TNG on a semi-regular basis.

The chart at the top is an ancestry chart out to four generations from Gramps. The chart at the bottom is the same chart as generated by TNG. The index of all individuals I have posted so far can be found here.