I'm experimenting with posting some random bits of my genealogy research here. This individual goes back to the first half of the nineteenth century which is a more reasonable goal to get accurate info vs. possible ancestors from hundreds of years ago. Whether or not it is easy to find such info really depends on where the individual is from. Some localities definitely kept better records than others. Some records also have gotten destroyed over time. I was looking for some records once that would have been from Louisiana but it turns out that a courthouse fire in the early 1800s destroyed a lot of records from a certain span of years. When I used the relationship calculator in Gramps, it spit back a pretty large number of relationships. The closest was fifth cousin four times removed. I'm still exploring GedSite, a program that takes a gedcom file and converts it into html and The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding which is web based and requires a setup with apache (or other webserver), php and mysql. Mostly I've been playing around with TNG but I'll get back to GedSite eventually. When it comes to converting this stuff to web pages, every piece of software available seems to have advantages and disadvantages and it is hard to settle on just one. Right now I have a top three. Maybe I'll get it down to a single choice one of these days. One of the things I like about TNG is how you can easily switch between different chart styles. At the top is an example of one of the more unique ancestor charts that TNG offers and that is a fan chart. Personally, I don't really like this one all that much but I could see how some people might.

Woodcock, Matilda Ataline¹

Birth Name	Woodcock, Matilda Ataline
Gender	female
Age at Death	unknown

Events

Event	Date	Sources
Birth	1833-11-28	2
		2
Death

Christening	2000-12-09

Parents

Relation to main person	Name	Birth date	Death date
Father	Woodcock, Henry	1805-10-30	1867-04-07
Mother	Woodcock, Catherine	1809-10-14	1845-09-13
Brother	Woodcock, Tillman D.	1827-10-02
Brother	Woodcock, Nathan Thomas	1829-07-14	1899-01-12
Brother	Woodcock, Riley Smith	1832-05-04	1907-05-15
	Woodcock, Matilda Ataline	1833-11-28
Brother	Woodcock, Andrew W.	1837-10-30
Sister	Woodcock, Paralee Sementha	1839-04-05
Brother	Woodcock, Joel N.	1841-04-11
Sister	Woodcock, Martha Ann	1843-01-17
Brother	Woodcock, Marquis M.	1844-01-29
Brother	Woodcock, Modena Francis	EITHER 02 NOV 1830 OR 02 MAY 1831	1880-05-29
Brother	Woodcock, William H.	EITHER 29 SEP 1835 OR 29 DEC 1835	1917-02-26

The Skaggs-Files

Woodcock, Matilda Ataline 1

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Woodcock, Matilda Ataline¹