In the past I’ve paid attention to what Lorelle VanFossen writes about WordPress at her “Lorelle on WordPress” site. She writes very well and provides a lot of helpful up-to-date information.
I couldn’t help but also notice noticed that Lorelle has also written extensively about genealogy blogging. Here’s a link to one of her posts on the subject, titled “Starting with a Purpose and a Plan.” If you read the post all the way through (or just scroll down) you will see she has provided links to other related posts that could be helpful.
Lorelle’s genealogy blog is here. It looks like it might be extremely useful as a model of a genealogy blog and also for information about doing genealogy.
One of the things I’m wondering is how a person would go about displaying a family tree on a blog. A few times I’ve googled around looking for a plugin that might achieve that purpose - but I didn’t find anything that grabbed my attention. I’ll do a little more searching on Lorelle’s blogs and online for anything that might be helpful.
Here’s another blog (linked by Lorelle in a post) that looks quite promising: Taking Genealogy to the Common Person. The blogger is Dan Lawyer and his descriptions reads:
Dan has been working as a Product Manager in the Family History Department of the LDS Church since 2004. Dan has spent the last 14 years defining products, managing product lines, and helping bring software and services to market around the world. Clients and companies have included WordPerfect, Fibernet, Seranova, Novell, and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
1annegb on May 28, 2007 at 7:42 pm:
It’s a good thing that I stumbled on here, Daniel, because since I got involved with that Mountain Meadow thing — total serendipity, I think I’m being bitten with the family history bug.
I’m even thinking of taking a day and exploring cemeteries, to get the full story. I know her name now–the girl–although I have no proof she was in the massacre. But I know three of her direct descendants–they’ve all heard the story, too, I’m inclined to believe it’s true.
Two of them are related to me, but on the other side of the story.
I should probably be posting this on MM. Oh well.
2danithew on May 29, 2007 at 12:37 pm:
Annegb,
I had a similar experience in recent months - where a story from my family history helped me take an interest in doing genealogy.
That story from your family history certainly sounds very interesting.
3marcus on Jun 1, 2007 at 11:10 am:
For Genealogy stuff on the web, I use Darrin Lythgoes, TNG Genealogy software. There’s not a specific plugin for integrating Wordpress and TNG, but it should be pretty easy to install them side by side, and keep the look consistent between applications.
It’s $29, but well worth it in my opinion. http://lythgoes.net/genealogy/software.php
4danithew on Jun 4, 2007 at 6:40 am:
Marcus,
Thanks for providing that link - I’m checking it out.
5marcus on Jun 6, 2007 at 3:29 pm:
After I posted the link, I found that someone had created a TNG/Wordpress Plugin. It’s available on the TNG support site: http://www.tngforum.us/index.php?showtopic=2181
6danithew on Jun 6, 2007 at 3:47 pm:
Marcus, I love the idea of a WordPress genealogy plugin. Thanks for providing this information.
7danithew on Jun 7, 2007 at 4:09 pm:
Marcus, I don’t actually see a plugin - it looks like it’s just a way to set up a script in the program.
8marcus on Jun 11, 2007 at 7:55 am:
My apologies. I saw the file attached to the thread with that title, and assumed it was a plugin. Reading the thread more throughly I see that you are correct. That thread is more about installing them side by side with a uniform look.
I am surprised that there isn’t a plugin for wordpress, as users have made TNG plugins for several CMS’s including Nuke, Mambo/Joomla, and droopal, to name a few.
9Dae Powell on Jun 23, 2007 at 6:26 pm:
I don’t think putting a pedigree on a blog would be easy, or desirable. Not even a Register Report, in my opinion, which will never be humble. BUT…I do think Family Group Sheets would be well received.
Quick, easy-to-read items are the main staples of blogs. And Family Group Sheets would work well. There are a few other charts or forms that might, too.
I’ve several standard and a few unique forms on my FREE website: http://www.ShoeStringGenealogy.com/ssg1.htm. Come take a look and I hope you enjoy your time.
Happy Dae.