How
this website is built
At
present, this site is being maintained using Personal Ancestral File
5.2 as the principal database, from which the information is exported
using its "Create Web Page" tool and then refined using
Microsoft Front Page 2000.
This
is a somewhat cumbersome method and limits the attractiveness of the site –
for example, PAF’s Create Web Page tool doesn't place a person's
photograph on the same page as their information. If you click on the
Generation 1 link right now, you'll see that you have to go to a
separate page to see Henry Fuller's picture (click on the
“Scrapbook” link). If anyone knows of better software that can (a)
act as a good genealogical data base, (b) export everything into web
pages and (c) involve no cost and (d) provide a more attractive web
format, please let me know (I’ve already tried the free version of
Legacy and found it lacking).
When
you look through the various generations, you'll find some people who
might seem out of place. For example, two of the children of Henry and
Susannah Fuller who were born in England and came out to the Cape as
1820 Settlers are listed under the second generation in South Africa,
because I've had to label Henry and Susannah, obviously, as the first
generation.
Here’s
an explanation of the way material
is presented on the generation pages. In the example …
+
2 M
i George Fuller was born on 17 Feb 1816. He died on 4 May 1894.
…
the “+” indicates that the site contains details of George’s
descendants.
The
“2” is an identity number for George Fuller, indicating his
position in a numbering system that starts at 1 with Henry Fuller and
gives a number to all Fuller descendants, family by family, in the
chronological order of the birth of their fathers. This number enables
you to identify the individual when he or she appears in more than one
place.
“M”
is for male and “F” is for female, and the “i” indicates the
pecking order of George within his family – obviously, he’s the
eldest child.
When
you see an individual’s name followed by other names in brackets,
like this …
77.
Ryno Neville Fuller (Frederick John, Charles, Henry)
…
it means that Frederick John is his father, Charles is his grandfather
and Henry is his great-grandfather.
