Some of us are blessed with the ability to remember names.
Others can
remember dates, and still others can remember family
relationships.
The rare person can put it all together, and tell you the
birthday
of your aunt's cousin's stepson's grandchild. The rest of
us can let
our computers store the information, and click our way
through the
family tree.
You'll have to do some sleuthing first to get the
information, but
after that, GeneWeb
will remember it for you and piece together all those
confusing
relationships. After you've connected to the database with
your Web
browser, you can search for relatives by name or alias
(GeneWeb even
makes suggestions when you get the spelling wrong), get a
list of the
whole database, or ask to see this month's anniversaries of
births,
deaths, and marriages. If you still can't find what you
need, you can
do an advanced search for facts like the person's occupation
and the
dates of births, deaths, baptisms, and burials. If you
still
don't have enough information to make a search, pick male or
female
and go down the resulting list until something jogs your
memory.
Having (finally) found the person you want, you'll be
presented with
all the information GeneWeb has about him or her, and links
to reports
about the person's ancestors, descendants, cousins,
siblings, etc.,
complete with family tree diagrams. The cross-references
will have
you clicking for days.
In case you're worried that you have too large a family,
know that
GeneWeb author Daniel de Rauglaudre uses it to maintain a
database of
European royalty which currently has 48,781 entries. If
your family's
larger than that, you shouldn't be playing with genealogy
software,
you should be looking for a city you can rent for
Thanksgiving dinner.
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