Saurette and Oligny Genealogy

One downside with using Wordpress for my genealogy was the poor search function. You could search on the site, but you would only get results if they were in posts - not pages. Well, I use pages as the main way to post information about my Saurette and Oligny forebears. I have fixed this issue.

With the help of a plugin, you can now type whatever you want in the search box and it will bring up results from posts and pages thus making the site a lot more useful. Note, it only searches Wordpress stuff. If you want to search in phpGedView or Retrospect, then you need to visit those pages and do the searches there.

I have also been making redirects for my old .html pages which no longer exist. I used to do all the site coding by hand until I moved to the Wordpress platform, but some search results are still popping up the old links. Now, you should be redirect to the corresponding page in Wordpress (if it has one).

I also uploaded the database with some new data and more corrections. Thanks for all the people who have e-mailed me. I do enjoy keeping the site up and running.

I have uploaded yet another revised database today. I have done some clean up work with the data and some more verifications with the Drouin images at Ancestry.com.

On the site, itself, you will find an expanded Drouin area that has been updated today. I added a bunch of images on the Saurette side and a couple on the Oligny side. I’m gonna take a break on that for today, but it has been nice to get some new material uploaded. As always, feel free to drop a note to me.

It may not seem like it, but I have been working very hard on the genealogy - perhaps not overtly on the pages of this site, but in the database itself. I have been combing thru the Drouin records at Ancestry.com to find dates, places, etc. for births and deaths. I have been uploading the database every few days to reflect the changes I have found. I will also have to re-run all the descendant reports I have on this site as well - to better reflect the work I have done.

If anyone out there wants me to look up something in the Drouin - just drop me an email, srock@saurette.com, and I will do my best.

I want to thank those people who have emailed me or posted comments the past few months. I was able to help some people, but more importantly, you were able to help me by providing me with more research material. I did upload the database today, which has been cleaned up (an ever-present job) and added to as well.

The surnames that got some work (some but not too much) were: Gamache, Belanger & Guyon-Dion. You can easily see all those people in either phpGedView or Retrospect-GDS. For a quick overview of a surname and its members, I would start with Retrospect and then move into phpGedview.

Keep those emails/comments coming!

Steve Rock