Tag: Retrospect

Thanks to the Visitors

To everybody that has visited Saurette.com I would like to say thanks. Not only do you help me open up new avenues to explore, but you also append/correct and add your own valuable genealogy information to this site.

The past couple days I have been adding a slew of information as it relates to the Mallet/Maillet surname. There are many deviant spelling variations, so if you can’t find it under one, try another. This research stemmed from an e-mailer who was trying to figure out a connection with somebody who was in my tree, an Oligny. We cleared up that mystery and I decided to add as much of the Mallet surname as I could verify to my database – which was uploaded today.

Be sure to check out the new information in either phpGedView or Retrospect-GDS – it all depends on how you like your information presented to you. And, as always, keep on keeping in touch with me – it keeps me motivated to stay current and keep documenting the database. Cheers, all.

Steve Rock
steve.rock@saurette.com

Completely Searchable

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.

Database Uploaded

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