HenthornFamily Wiki

John Henthorn (Hinthorn) & Margaret Downard

On 4 February 2013 I added a link to a RootsMagic website I created for John Henthorn and Margaret Downard. Descendants in this family all spelled the surname, Hinthorn(e). Living descendants live in McLean county, Illinois, around Independence, KS and on the west coast.

This RootsMagic website consists of 1166 files. The source file resides on my old desktop computer which has some issues. After the website was created I used the freeware program, 7-Zip, to compress the files into one Zipped file. I used my Gmail account to send this file to myself, thus in effect, moving the website components from the old computer to my laptop computer. I unzipped the compressed file onto the laptop and checked to determine whether I could open the website.

The RootsWeb Editor was used to create a folder for johnhinthorn on my FreePages account. Then I used the FireFTP application of Firefox to execute the batch upload of the 1166 files to the new folder.

The link to the website is on the Henthorn Family Websites page of the HenthornFamily Wiki.  

This project has been on my To-Do List for several years. In order to achieve this goal many components had to be in place and I needed to understand and master how to use various software tools.

If you'd like to go directly to the website, rather than visiting the Wiki, here's the link.

John Hinthorn

Dick Henthorn

\4 February 2013

Monroe County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society

I have offered to help with the maintenance of the genealogy website of the Monroe County Chapter of the Ohio Genealogical Society. The website resides on the RootsWeb area of Ancestry.com. I don't know much about either RootsWeb or Ancestry.com. It should be an interesting learning experience.

Yesterday, using some suggestions from friends at the computer club, I was able to plug the information supplied to me by my contact in Ohio and gain access using Fire FTP which I have installed on my Mozilla Firefox browser. I'm reasonably confident that I have enough HTML knowledge to be able to make a contribution now that I can access the website. I don't have skill to do fancy things, but I believe what I know how to do will allow me to do some useful projects for the group. I'm looking forward to the challenge and the mental stimulation.

It's really fascinating that today's technology allows us to communicate and work together from widely separated geographic locations.

Mr. Dickie
18 Mar 2011

Wayback Machine

The hell to be endured hereafter, of which theoloy tells, is no worse than the hell we make for ourselves in this world by habitually fashioning our characters in the wrong way. ... We are spinning our own fates, good or evil ... (William James in Excuses Begone! by Wayne Dyer, p. 17)

Explore all possibilities and listen to your intuition. (Susan Smith Jones, Choose to Live Each Day Fully, Day 265)

Let me not force my own certainties on others. I could be wrong. A generous tolerance can smooth out many rough places in my day-to-day living. (One Day at a Time in Al-Anon, 16 September)

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Yesterday I learned how to copy and paste text for the Delicious "Note" field when I want to create a posting from Firefox.

I learning about the Wayback Machine. I discovered that some of my webpages from the old AOL website can be found at this website. To find the pages I need to remember the URLs of the various places where I uploaded the pages. I plan to write more about this on my genealogy "News" blog and in reply to a posting on GenForum that asks what happened to the website.

Mr. Dickie

Some Recent Projects

Because I installed the BlogThis! app on Firefox I'm now able to quickly post URLs of other people's websites to my four Google blogs. There's also a way to post URLs from my AOL Favorites into a blog posting. The difference in the two methods is that posting with BlogThis! I'm actually viewing the webpage of interest at the time I share the link.

I have devised a method of extracting textual information from a GEDCOM genealogy files using the EditPad Lite. Once I have the text I want in EditPad Lite I can paste it into the Google blog editor for posting to either of my two genealogy blogs.

One of the by-products of my recent project to assign numbers and labels to my twenty-eight Zip disks was that I noticed one disk contained HTML files . Some of the HTML is genealogy webpages prepared by others and one folder is copies of many of the HTML files from the genealogy website I had on AOL for many years. I did an experiment to determine what I would need to do to share some of these pages on my Google genealogy pages. I think some of the pages can be shared with very little editing.

Mr. Dickie