{"id":2,"date":"2009-01-19T15:03:09","date_gmt":"2009-01-19T20:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iseeancestors.com\/comm2\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-08-05T21:24:27","modified_gmt":"2025-08-06T03:24:27","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In this blog I offer some thoughts about genealogical research. These are things I&#8217;ve discovered during my family history investigations. I hope you will comment on my ideas and add your own words of wisdom too.<\/p>\n<p>By way of background, I have over thirty years experience as a software engineer.&nbsp; I enjoy genealogy as a hobby, which I started in earnest in 1994.&nbsp; I&#8217;ve always liked family history.&nbsp; Now whenever I uncover some fascinating fact about an ancestor, I also take time to read about that era in history. Whether it be the Napoleonic Wars, the Erie Canal, Steamships, the Port of Hamburg, or hurricane tracks, there&#8217;s always something new to learn.<\/p>\n<p>By 2000 I published my family tree on the Internet. Unfortunately there were no software tools then that did precisely what I wanted. So I created <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/ged-gen.LinkToMyPast.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">GED-GEN<\/a><\/em><\/strong>, a Windows program to automatically generate a genealogy website. It converts a GEDCOM data file to a series of web pages in family group sheet format. Since 2002, people from all over the world have used <strong><em>GED-GEN<\/em><\/strong> for their websites.<\/p>\n<p>Today I continue to research my family history, with the help of distant cousins. I am also actively creating digital images of my collection of genealogical evidence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this blog I offer some thoughts about genealogical research. These are things I&#8217;ve discovered during my family history investigations. I hope you will comment on my ideas and add your own words of wisdom too. By way of background, I have over thirty years experience as a software engineer.&nbsp; I enjoy genealogy as a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/about\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;About Me&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":309,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/309"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1596,"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/1596"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iSeeAncestors.com\/comm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}