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them safely somewhere that you will be able to consult
them if you forget them, as many users do. E-mails to me
about lost or forgotten login credentials will go to the end of my
long
queue of e-mails awaiting reply, so will probably never be
answered.
If you follow this advice, then it does not matter whether or not
your old email address still exists.
If your old email address ceases to exist and you want to change
it, then you can use the Edit Profile: link which you will find on
the third line on most pages.
If you entered a long username on the registration form before
29 January 2021, then it
will have been truncated to the first 20 characters. For example,
if
you
registered as ATestAccountWithALongUsername@xyz.com, then you will
have
to log in as ATestAccountWithALon - you will see your possibly
truncated username in the e-mail with subject "Your genealogy user
account has been activated."
The login
page
in theory allows you to retrieve your username and/or password by
e-mail if
you have forgotten
them, but some users have
reported that
the relevant e-mails have not reached them, even after checking
spam
and junk mail folders, and it appears that these e-mails may
sometimes
just
disappear into the ether.
If you
have forgotten your access details, have no record of them and
still
cannot retrieve them, then I
cannot
help you.
If you know your access details and encounter a problem with
the website, then please
don't just tell me something vague like "when I tried to log in it
did
not allow me to", but you may send me either a screenshot showing
exactly what
you did or
at least the full and exact text of whatever error message you
received
and the
URL of the page where you saw the error message.
If you are a first time visitor, then please read on for
details of how to register.
Scope: This is an online version of a
larger offline genealogical
database (which contains additional information on some living
individuals).
The online version contains the names only for individuals who are
still
living.
My original objective was to include in the database everyone who
has a
documented
blood relationship to me.
Since I began to compile the database on my first personal
computer back in
1987, my research has gone off on many tangents, so that the
database
now
contains many people who are not my direct blood relatives, but
everyone in the
online version is connected by marriage at one or more removes to
me.
In particular, my research threatens to expand to one name
studies of the
surnames of many of my own ancestors, in particular Waldron, Clancy, Parker
and O'Halloran. It has
also expanded to include interesting families of which only some
branches are
related to me, such as the Costelloes
of Trienearagh, county Kerry and the Myleses
of Limerick City. It
has also expanded to cover whole parishes, such as the county
Clare
parishes of
Moyarta
(for which I am
the volunteer parish administrator for Ireland Reaching Out)
and Kilrush (since I
am public relations officer of the Kilrush and District Historical
Society).
As I have grown older and my database has grown larger, I have
become more conscious that I will not be able to keep adding to it
indefinitely and that I need to make sure that my lifetime's work
outlives me. Hence, I have gradually been converted over the years
to the merits of a more collaborative approach. Since April 2021,
I have been adding some of my genealogical information to WikiTree.com and have been creating
links from individuals in my database to their WikiTree profiles.
I am old enough and experienced enough to realise that cloud
computing is but a myth. Clouds evaporate, even while their
creators live, and the monster database which I have created will
very likely evaporate not long after me. The WikiTree
community and the WikiTree website have much better chances of
long-term survival than myself and my personal website.
However, it would take several lifetimes, or a small army of
assistants, to properly integrate my whole database into WikiTree.
Please consider joining the WikiTree
community and connecting yourself and your immediate family
to me and to the other 26 million+ people who are already
connected by marriage at one or more removes to me and to each
other on our global family tree. If your deceased ancestors are
both in my database and on WikiTree and if I have not included the
relevant links to WikiTree, please let me know and I will
endeavour to do so at the next update.
DNA: I have submitted samples of
my DNA to
familytreeDNA.com
and AncestryDNA
and 23andMe and have
copied the
autosomal DNA and X-DNA results to GEDmatch.com, MyHeritage.com,
LivingDNA.com and Geneanet.org.
If
you have sent a DNA sample for analysis or are contemplating doing
so,
then you
might be interested in my advice on how
to
get the most out of your DNA results or in my longer
account of A Beginner's
Adventures in Genetic
Genealogy.
I am also administrator or co-administrator of the Clare Roots project and of the Clancy, Durkin/Durkan/Durcan, Marrinan, McNamara and O'Dea/O'Day/Dee surname projects
at familytreeDNA.com, so that my database has also expanded to
cover
many
families with these surnames.
Access policy: I am happy to allow access
to the database to anyone
who is included in it and to anyone who appears either from
traditional
genealogical evidence or DNA evidence to possibly be related to me
or
to a
family which I have researched.
I would appreciate it if those using this website reciprocated
by allowing me access to their own online family trees.
As well as sharing access to each other's family trees, it would
also
be a great help to both of us to have access to each other's DNA
match
lists on the various DNA comparison websites which facilitate
this:
- at GEDmatch.com,
my
kit number is VA864386C1;
- at AncestryDNA,
I am happy
to send you an invitation to view my own match list if you are
willing
to reciprocate - this can be done in the Sharing Preferences
subsection
of the Privacy section at https://www.ancestry.com/dna/settings/
(all that you have to do is click the Change dropdown, click
"Add a
person", copy and paste, or retype, my e-mail address and select
Viewer
and Send Invitation; if you don't already have my e-mail
address, then
you can find it by using the UserLookup tool at GEDmatch.com);
and
- at FamilyTreeDNA, I will be able to see your match list and
your shared matches with other project members (even those that
do not
match you) if you join the Clare Roots project or one of my
relevant surname projects listed above,
and I am happy to join any relevant project that you administer.
Please
remember therefore
that you
must use the
Notes or Comments box on the registration form to
let me know briefly
- exactly how you are related to me, including
enough detail
on your parents, grandparents, etc., to allow me to add you to
the
family tree; or, if you are not related to me, why I should
grant you
access to the database;
- how you learned of this website, including the
name of
anyone that may have referred you to it;
- your WikiTree ID or some other specific URL which will bring me directly to your own online pedigree chart; and
- your GEDmatch.com kit number.
Please do not include a long narrative repeating information which can be seen more clearly in your online pedigree chart.
Please use e-mail for specific questions or longer
discussions. You should receive an e-mail acknowledgement of
your
registration to which you can reply if necessary.
I will ignore your registration
request
- if you
leave the
Notes or Comments box blank,
- if you
do not include your real name, or
- if
I have already
approved your registration and you submit a duplicate
request
(as people with multiple accounts will find it even harder to
remember
their corresponding multiple passwords).
In return for access to my research, I ask that you help
me and other researchers in two ways:
- Please help me to keep the family tree accurate by
e-mailing me corrections
of any errors that you spot.
(If you don't already have my e-mail address, you will learn it
when I
approve your registration.)
- If you have not already done both, please submit
a DNA sample
to one or more of the online DNA databases and
follow my advice on how
to get the most out of your DNA results, including
copying both your pedigree chart and your autosomal DNA results
to GEDmatch.com.
(This advice
also explains in great detail why I request you to give me the
second
and third items listed above
on the registration form.)
Photographs: Photographs of some of the
individuals in the database will eventually
appear on their pages and I hope to expand the collection of
photographs in the
future. My offline digital photograph collection was managed with
the
now defunct Fotobounce
and I am on the
lookout for a straightforward way of exporting all the faces
tagged in
Fotobounce in bulk and importing them to my genealogy database. In
the
meantime, I also uploaded ancestral photographs to facebook.com
from which they have also begun to evaporate inexplicably.
Counts: As of 12 June 2022, this online
version contains 19,305 of my
own direct blood relatives, 8,034 spouses of those relatives and
176,007
other
individuals who are connected by marriage at one or more removes
to
these
relatives. The offline version of the database contains another
5,803
people from
branches which either have requested confidentiality or have been
found
not to
be connected to the main tree or have not yet been definitively
connected to the main tree.
Living individuals: In general, I have
always wanted to keep
information about living individuals, such as birthdates, which is
not
already
in the public domain, offline and private. From 29 Mar 2012, I
have
used
Ancestral Quest's algorithm for identifying living individuals to
exclude all
details apart from names for those deemed to be living.
Constructing an
algorithm to distinguish between those who are living and those
long
dead whose
date of death is unknown is not easy. I think that Ancestral Quest
considers
to be
living only those with birth dates clearly within the last 110
years
and with
no death dates. This may allow some living individuals for whom I
have
a birthday but no birth year not to be treated as living.
The database includes notes compiled over a period of more
than one third of a century, of which the earlier ones were not
written
with a view
to
publication on the world wide web, which did not exist when
compilation
began.
Please let me know if you find anyone who is living and whose
details have
been inadvertently included or anyone who is dead and whose
details are
known
to you but have been excluded. Similarly, if anyone whose name is
included in
the online database wishes to be completely removed, I will be
glad to
remove
him or her from the next upload.
I hope that I have appropriately segregated all existing notes
into online
and offline categories. If you find anything in the database which
you
feel is
inappropriate for publication here, even behind a password, or if
there
is any
additional information which you would like to see included,
please let
me
know.
Technical details and glitches: This
website is constantly under
reconstruction.
This TNG website was first created on 1 Aug 2013 when I moved
the online
version from pwaldron.tribalpages.com
to pwaldron.info/tng
for the reasons set out
here.
The
offline database was for many years edited mainly with Ancestral
Quest [AQ] (Version
2.1). On 20 Mar 2011, the offline database grew too large for
Version
2.1 of AQ
and I was forced to switch to Version 12.1 which used a different
database
format but allowed many additional fields such as name prefixes,
suffixes and
nicknames and marriage notes. I have since upgraded to Version
16.0.9.
In principle, you can use the "Suggest" tab at the top right
of any
individual page to let me know of any errors or omissions in
relation
to a
particular individual. However, these suggestions do not always
reach me and sometimes just disappear into the ether. If you
do use the Suggest
tab to send updates, you should also copy and paste your
suggestions into a regular
e-mail to me just to make sure that I receive them.
The process of conversion from the offline format to the
online format is
not perfect.
If you spot any more general errors or omissions or
infelicities in the data
or if you would like me to e-mail you relevant extracts from the
database as a
GEDCOM file to open with your own genealogy program, please feel
free
to
contact me.
Website: I also have a more general website
at pwaldron.info.
Contact details: To prevent spam, I do not
publish my e-mail address
online; see here.
If you register to use this website, then you should receive an
acknowledgement
e-mail from me.
There is a form within TNG which purports to deliver messages to
the
site manager via e-mail, but I have been unable to make it
reliably do
so. If you use the form, there is no guarantee that your message
will
reach me.
Registration: If you want a user account on
this website, then please
use this registration
form and in
particular remember to include the information
requested
above in the Notes or Comments field at the end of
the form. Then please wait patiently for an e-mail confirming
whether
or not I have approved your registration.
Once I have approved your registration, you may want to start
by looking at my
own pedigree chart.
If you would like to contribute to the hosting, maintenance
and research costs of this website, then you can
here.
Paddy Waldron
This page last updated: 12 June 2022.
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