TnType's Tennessee Genealogy Links

for a number of reasons, i have spread myself and my TnType pages all over the web. what follows is an annotated list of my sites and a little description of what is available at each one. though i try to connect my sites using sidebar menus and such, my family suggested that i put all the links on one central page, so here goes (and i hope you find it useful - especially for your roane co, tn area research):


[Genealogy, TnType website - Roane Co, TN cemetery album page at TnType.com]
Notes: Main links page for my Roane County, Tennessee Cemetery annotated photo albums- also contains some other East Tennessee cemeteries
http://tntype.com/index.php/­roane-co-tn-cemeteries-tn-type/



Genielinks at Blogspot (this site) -
http://genielinks.blogspot.com/ - Bookmark
[TnType website, Google - blogger.com from Google ]
Notes: blogger.com is a Google tool
genielinks.blogspot.com/
Genealogy links and notes for family and affiliated family - mostly in East Tennessee - emphasis on the Roane County, Tennessee area; also research links


Harriman, Roane Co TN - Roane Co Genealogy
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~harrimantn- Bookmark
[TnType website ]
Notes:
freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.­com/~harrimantn/
Roane County, Tennessee genealogy pages - much family data on families not well documented elsewhere - annotated census, military, cemetery, photographs, history, and more


Kiddo INK
http://kiddoink.com/ - Bookmark
[TnType website]
Notes:
KiddoInk.com/
A companion - adjunct - to the TnType sites - includes Tennessee genealogy with family data and photo albums

[KITH & KIN - GooglePages]: roane county genealogy - roane county, tennessee kin & kith
http://roanecountygenealogy.googlepages.com/ - Bookmark
[TnType website, Genealogy, Google - [KITH & KIN - GooglePages), Google pages - free Google site]
Notes: [KITH & KIN - GooglePages), Google pages - free Google site
roanecountygenealogy.googlepages.com/
Roane County genealogy connections with an emphasis on original source records for Roane County, Tennessee - located online (some genealogy photos for Roane Co, TN families) absolutely free access/no strings attached
Loiselle-Chapman Genealogy at Blogspot
http://loiselle-chapman.blogspot.com/ - Bookmark
[TnType websites, Google - blogger.com from Google]
Notes: blogger.com from Google
loiselle-chapman.blogspot.com/
The Loiselle, Chapman (and Berry) Family Genealogy Site - Families from New York; Canada; Chippewa Co, Eau Claire Co, and Sheboygan Co, Wisconsin - some of whom moved to Ramsey Co, St Paul Co, and Cass Co, Minnesota



TnType -
http://tntype.com/ - Bookmark
[TnType website - Roane Co, TN area families genealogy emphasis]
Notes:
TnType.com/
TnType's main site - a genealogy blog concerning mostly East Tennessee families - strong Roane County, Tennessee genealogy - GILES, ELLIS, MAJORS, PHILLIPS, BRASHEAR, GILILLAND, HAGGARD, GALYON, MONTGOMERY, NEWPORT, HINDS, ETC...

this is my central site. its main emphasis is on annotated data which includes census, military, marriage, birth, death, cemetery photos, history, and more. these are original research pages


TnType at Blogspot -
http://tntype.blogspot.com/ - Bookmark
[TnType website, Google - blogger.com from Google]
Notes: blogger.com from Google
TnType.blogspot.com/
A TnType companion blog sponsored by Google - more Tennessee genealogy data with my own original and primary research - including cemetery, military, census, marriage,births, deaths, obiturary, etc files


TnType and Kiddo INK -
http://tntype.KiddoInk.com/ - Bookmark
[TnType website - Static web pages & photos for TnType.com East Tennessee genealogy blog that has a strong Roane County, Tennessee emphasis (see above for more information)]


see also my shared genealogy blog with MONTGOMERY family pages (descendants of John and Martha MONTGOMERY, first cousins who married on shipboard emigrating to Lancaster Co, PA from Ireland about 1735) at http://montgomery-genealogy.blogspot.com/ [Bookmark]

NOTE: because one of tne of the links in this listing needed updating this blog entry was edited/updated on 15 sep 2007.

Robert GILLILAND family genealogy - Roane Co, TN

I've posted my current research notes on Roane County, Tennessee pioneer Robert GILLILAND (son-in-law of Robert Samuel BRASHEAR/BRASHEARS) at my googlepages site, roane county genealogy - roane county, tennessee kin & kith. He and his wife Mary "Polly" BRASHEAR settled in the future Roane County Sugar Grove Valley area when others of Robert S. BRASHEAR's family members did.

(For more information about my BRASHEAR (or BRASHEARS) family connections, remember that the BRASHEAR Family cemetery photo album with annotated genealogy entries is online in my companion genealogy blog | here |. The full photo album index with links to specific photos is | here |.)

GOOGLE documents and spreadsheets for genealogy blog writing

GOOGLE Docs & Spreadsheets -- why would you want to use GOOGLE's free online document and spreadsheet creation, editing, and document storage program to create a genealogy blog page when your blogging software already has a wysiwyg editor? well, here are a few reasons for that and for other things, too:

1. number one for me is that the interface is roomy, so i'm not constantly having to scroll up and down after adding forty lines of text.

i know that blog entries are supposedly supposed to be short, that readers purportedly don't like reading large chunks of text on a browser. however, researchers slogging their way through a blogging interface is already challenging enough. if we're looking for a new resource or a quick link or tutorial, that's one thing. if we're looking for an entire family, that's quite another.

i really appreciate the genealogy blog that gives me good, meaty-sized hunks of information in one entry; and so that's what i try to do. but that often means having to move up and down inside the textarea of the editor to double-check that i'm not repeating myself or to make sure i'm not leaving something important out. the typical blog interface is, as i've noted, forty lines long. then you've got to start scrolling to go back and check things. yech!

with GOOGLE documents and spreadsheets, i can have most of my entire screen in which to work. it's much like using a word processor. and, as in my blogging software interfaces, i can opt to edit my html when necessary and with ease. or not.

2. my number 2 is likely number 1 for other genealogists: GOOGLE lets you collaborate in creating the documents and/or spreadsheets online. last week, GOOGLE combined the well-respected WRITERLY, which it had purchased, to its already free online spreadsheet program. that gave users a tested interface and the ability to collaborate and share documents online with ease.

3. GOOGLE stores the documents you create free for you. if you want to "publish" to the web, GOOGLE lets you do that and stores the documents for you.

you can also simply store the documents you create online with compliments of GOOGLE. although there is a limit for uploading images to use in your documents, there is no set storage or transmission limit for the texts you create. you can view the terms of use for GOOGLE Docs & Spreadsheets | here |.

4. docments created with the online software may be saved and downloaded in many different, popular formats :

Microsoft Word

OpenOffice

.rtf

.pdf

HTML

zip

spreadsheets can also be saved and downloaded in a variety of formats:

Comma Separated Value (.csv)

HTML

.ods

.pdf

Microsoft Excel (.xls)

5. you can import existing documents of 500 k or less from your hard drive in the same popular formats mentioned above. the following is information about size limits for documents, images, and spreadsheets from the help pages for the software:

Each document can be up to 500K, plus up to 2MB per embedded image.

Each spreadsheet can be up to 10,000 rows, or up to 256 columns, or up to 50,000 cells, or up to 20 sheets -- whichever limit is reached first.

You can import file sizes up to approximately 1 Mb in .xls or .odf format

6. you can upload and store images - free - to use inside your documents. (see item 5 above for some information and limits). note: i'm sure there must be some total limit (i.e. for all your images combined), as well, but if there is, i haven't found it yet.

7. there is an export wizard for all popular blog interfaces. you can export to a sponsored blog (like this one at blogspot) or to your own blog on your own domain. if you are wanting to export to just one blog, you need only enter the export settings once. if you have multiple blogs, you'll have to change the wizard data for each blog each time.

and - need i say it? you can just create any kind of genealogy document online, collaborate on it online, and then let each collaborator do whatever he or she pleases with it.

you don't have to have to have a blog to find this service useful and easy. and, no, this is not a sponsored plug....

WANT AN EXAMPLE - or TWO?
1. well, i have created a document about my great-grandmother DICA ANN "DICY" (SMITH) GILES using google documents & spreadsheets and am storing it on google's servers. you can view it
| here |

2. i also exported it using the blog export function built into the google docs & spreadsheets interface, and so that same document can be viewed on my tn type.com blog
| here |.