I'm experimenting with posting some random bits of my genealogy research here with the goal of eventually creating a linked family tree on Hive. You can see the index here.

While this individual doesn't go quite a far back as the previous couple I have posted, chances are that this is another individual that is far enough back that the only way you'll find him in a family tree is if there is a royal relationship somewhere. According to the relationship calculator in Gramps, I have dozens of cousin relationships with Richard Scudamore but am not a direct decendant. The closest relationship is fifth cousin fourteen times removed. If you are wondering what that means exactly, check out this page for an explanation of cousin relationships: https://www.familysearch.org/en/blog/cousin-chart

It doesn't look like I have a lot of info on this individual besides the basics but he is next on my list to see what I can find out.

I use GenoPro to maintain my family tree but I use other programs to generate reports and web pages. One of those programs, Gramps, is open source software for Windows, Linux and MacOS that I have been using to generate static HTML reports and is what most of the info you see below is based on. I also use its relationship calculator functionality as noted above. I've also been exploring GedSite, a program that takes a gedcom file and converts it into html, and The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG) which is web based and requires a setup with a web server, PHP and mySQL. Mostly I've been playing around with TNG which is excellent but I'll get back to GedSite eventually.

While Gramps is free, both TNG and GedSite are commercial software so you have to pay for them. I think their price is perfectly reasonable and they are both excellent in their own ways. However, I prefer the open source nature of Gramps and the fact that it generates static HTML makes it easy to work with. I like TNG enough that I will probably keep using it also though. The jury is still out on GedSite until I get back to trying it out more though I've liked other sites I've seen generated with it.

The chart at the top is an ancestry chart out to four generations from Gramps. The chart at the bottom is an ancestry chart generated by TNG in text format. This looks a lot like the old WorldConnect RootsWeb site which I used to spend a lot of time on. The index of all individuals I have posted so far can be found here.