Saturday, June 21, 2003

Ok, everything is working as it should be. It was my browser cache of the page that was causing the lag in posting updates. Time to go public with the website.

One of the purposes of this website is to leave a history of my family. My brother and I and one cousin are the last in line on my mom's side of the family and neither of us have children of our own. (Not sure about the cousin, have only recently learned of her existance.) For some reason I am feeling this compelling need to document our family and publish it on the internet since there won't be anyone else around to do it once we are gone. My mom's parents both died soon after she was born and she was put up for adoption so we don't have the benefit of that resource for history. I have several hours of an interview with one of my mother's aunts on cassette tape before she passed away at the age of 99. I plan to transcribe it and post it here eventually. There are also many personal letters between her aunt and husband during their world travels in the 40's and 50's that would be of interest to posterity.

That project should keep me occupied for many days.

I'm on the look out for a better photo gallery utility to use. I really don't like the inflexibility of the FrontPage version. Anyone have recommendations? It needs to be a freebie or shareware since I can't afford to put much more money into this at the moment.

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