I'm experimenting with posting some random bits of my genealogy research here.

This individual falls within the Revolutionary War period of the U.S. While not necessarily the easiest era to find ancestors, it is one of the more interesting and there is a lot of information available out there. According to Gramps, this person is my second cousin eight times removed.

I'm still exploring GedSite, a program that takes a gedcom file and converts it into html and The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding which is web based and requires a setup with a web server, php and mysql. Mostly I've been playing around with TNG but I'll get back to GedSite eventually. When it comes to converting this stuff to web pages, every piece of software available seems to have advantages and disadvantages and it is hard to settle on just one. One of the things I like about TNG is how you can easily switch between different chart styles. I've already shown most of the various ancestor charts it produces and I swear I'll start showing descendant charts as soon as I happen to pick a good candidate. The ancestor chart above is from Gramps and the one I usually show.

I'm finally showing a descendant chart here. Descendant charts for me are typically less symmetrical than ancestor charts because with ancestors I tend to follow all branches up as far as I can go when researching. With descendants, I pick more or less at random.