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When considering new Genealogy Software…

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As most of our readers know, I belong to numerous on-line forums and discussion threads.  Lately there have been numerous requests for assistance in the selection of Genealogy software. Hopefully this post will provide some help in that vein while making the responses obtained via email from the discussion forums both more meaningful and valuable.Genealogy-Ideas

The first thing to be aware of when you ask for help in picking software is that you will get your respondents biases along with their recommendations, even if they don’t mean to provide you their biases. Software after all is a reflection of both its users and authors. To help you sort through that challenge, you ought to think carefully about:

  1. what you have,
  2. what you need,
  3. what you want,
  4. what would be nice to have and also about
  5. what inconveniences you are willing to put up with…

To start, you need to think about the all functions you have currently, and those that you want to preserve going forward. Once you know those, you need to be very clear about what you hope to accomplish with the new tools you desire to evaluate/ purchase. Here are some items worth thinking about although I’d be remiss were I not to point out that this is neither a complete nor prioritized list (oh, and it reflects my biases).

Do you prefer a single user PC-based solution?  If you do, then you need to consider the operating system you prefer to use (For example, I am a Linux user with little interest in either Windows or Apple OSes.)

The major Operating system options are:

  1. Windows (version)
  2. Mac (version)
  3. Linux (distro)
  4. Unix (distro)
  5. Blended OS environment (which OSes do you want…)

Do you want your genealogy information/ data published or shared on the Web? If so,

  1. Do you want everything hosted and managed on-line exclusively? (e.g. Ancestry.com)
  2. Do you want your genealogy information to be self-hosted? (e.g. TNG)
  3. Or do you prefer a blended site providing a subset of data from a PC application and reformatted for web based sharing? (e.g. ManyRoads)

Are there special functions you want to retain from your current or earlier systems, like your data?  If so, then you need to consider how you will transfer the data from your old environment to the new one.  Here are some other items you might consider:

  1. Do you have printers, scanners, multimedia devices, etc. that you want to use in the new environment?  If so, you ought to test them out.
  2. Do you want to run your new system alongside some other system (maybe even your old one)?  If so, you need a plan to make sure that happens successfully.
  3. Are you certain your old system can output data in a format that the new one can read/ understand?  You should test that out or you’ll risk a serious failure.

How much money are you willing or wanting to spend on the new system? Here are some items that can impact your costs:

  1. Does the new software system run on your existing computing platform?
  2. Do you need to buy a new computer to make the software run?
  3. Do you need training to get the new system operational?
  4. Do you have a family geek to help you with your technical problems or will you need to pay someone for the help?
  5. How much does the software cost? (Remember Open Source software is free… e.g. GRAMPS)
  6. Does the software provider provide support?  What does the support cost?

If you answer the above to your satisfaction, then you need to consider human factors… and don’t trust strangers to interpret ill-defined requests correctly for you.  Questions like:

  1. Is it easy to use?
  2. Is it fast?
  3. How stable is the system?
  4. Does the software require a lot of technical know-how?

Responses to questions like these most certainly involve personal opinions and biases.  One person’s “technical” is another’s “light-touch” user. “Complex” for one is “essential” or “robust” for others.  You need to use and experience software in order to get a decent answer that fits your true needs and concerns.  Asking is a start but it is just that, a start…

Presenting family genealogies on the web

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Presenting readable, genealogical information, data, and stories is a complex challenge.  It seems to me that people’s lives ought to be expressed as more than family trees, dates, and lineages.  I have been struggling with this problem for quite a while.  Perhaps you have as well.Tools

Over the years, I have noticed a few ‘special’ difficulties in making this type of information, useful, accessible, easy to find not to mention human.  The major problem areas, for me, have centered around the following:

  1. genealogical data & stories can run deep & wide (they may, and often do, involve a lot of data from many locations, sources, and media)
  2. genealogical data/ information itself evolves and changes. It changes often (even more than often for those of us who make lots of mistakes or find new things frequently); AND! the changes are irregular or unpredictable.
  3. my personal belief is that genealogy information is best when it is humanized with stories, histories, oral traditions (now written down), images, maps, etc.

Given these challenges and the fact that I use a website environment, one built using WordPress plus GRAMPS; I thought I’d attempt a melding of several techniques and technologies in order to make a more user friendly presentation format for my genealogy information.  Three example pages, of my latest ‘integration’ efforts, may be viewed at:

So my questions now are…

  • am I succeeding, am I heading in the right direction???
  • does this presentation style (format) seem generally helpful, useful, easy to use?

I would greatly appreciate your input. If you are willing to share your thoughts with me, you may either use our Contact page or Comment below to voice them.

If there is demand for pointers on how this was all built, I am happy to provide that in another posting or set of postings, for now suffice it to say I have done some minor tweaks with WordPress and GRAMPS to build the example pages above; oh, these pages will largely maintain themselves automagically.

Technology Advantages

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Technology can and should be an crucial adjunct to your genealogical efforts.  As a matter of fact, I contend that no effort is complete, nor can your genealogy efforts be fully effective, without effective technological support.  The support can be as simple as using a word processor or as complex as writing large databases to manage and maintain your data, documents and images.Tools

As I am sure you are aware, today’s technology options are both extensive and cost effective.  They can even be free.  As a web developer and genealogist, I, personally, rely almost exclusively on OpenSource technologies.  To give you a rough example of my software costs, I will enumerate my most significant and vital adjunctive technologies:

  • WordPress (the Blog/ Content Management System I use)- Free
  • OpenOffice (the PC Office Suite I use for most document creation)- Free
  • GRAMPS (the Family Tree software I use to manage genealogies and export to my website)- Free
  • The GIMP (the image, photo editing software I employ)- Free
  • Geany (the tool I use to write code for my websites)- Free
  • php, html, java (the languages used most frequently in my websites)- Free

The list could go on; but you can see from the above list, the costs need not be high.  Even the ‘expensive, proprietary tools’ (note my bias!) most people purchase are very cost effective.

Having said this, what do these tools and technologies really do for me and my genealogy efforts? Quite simply, they allow me to perform tasks such as:

  • clean up documents
  • enhance and/or repair photos
  • write family histories
  • maintain family trees

But most importantly, they allow me to share my work with both known and unknown family members, complete strangers, and those interested in researching the same areas I do. They make it possible for each of us to create an information explosion out of the tid-bits of information we each hold or have individually, and thereby these technologies enhance our understanding of our families and of our past.

Additional Readings are available on Technology for Genealogy.

Genealogy WebSites

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ManyRoads is pleased to announce a $250 website installation and setup package for genealogists (professional, amateur, and family).

Our basic $250 package includes:

  • Installation and setup on your server/ host.
  • Note:
    • Your server/ host must meet the minimum WordPress requirements.
    • Domain name registration and Internet server provider costs are not included in our basic pricing.
Click this link or the image below to view a demo.

Features of the basic system include:

  • All standard WordPress features are included in our basic site installation.
  • 5 (five) Basic WebSite pages are provided to include Home, About, Contact, Services, Links.  We will populate the pages with the content you provide us via Word or Text Document for incorporation into your site.
  • Transfer of your existing site to a new host, if you provide us with access to your domain name registrar.
  • Additionally we provide enhanced WebSite functionality in the areas of:
    • Link Management
    • Captcha Anti-spam functionality
    • Google Sitemap xml publisher
    • Broken Link Checker
    • Feedburner Link Management
    • SEO Smart Links
    • Secure WordPress
    • Social Bookmarks
    • Post to Twitter
    • Visitor Maps and Who’s Online
    • Counter, shows reads per page; today, yesterday, last week, last months

Finally in order to get you off on the right foot, we include up to 2 hours of coaching, in a single session, on system use and management (additional coaching is available at $40 per hour).

Optional Items and/or enhancements are also available including:

  • Green Server with all necessary infrastructure to support WordPress plus unlimited space and bandwidth at about $5 per month on a 3 year contract.
  • Custom theme modification or development
  • Domain name registration
  • Logo development
  • Site management and maintenance (on-going)
  • Data conversion for another website or office documents
  • Multi system linkages (e.g. TNG or Gramps to WordPress)
  • Full featured Image Gallery
  • Custom user forms creation capability
  • Google Translation function
  • Newletter Management
  • Paypal Link (requires Paypal account)
  • Download Monitor
  • Simple Tags
  • Simple Footnotes
  • Display a printable version of your post/page
  • Sophisticated Compression
  • Zoomify
  • Showing subpages on a given page
  • Related Posts by Category
  • Configurable sidebar widget to list pages and sub-pages
  • Exclude Pages from Navigation
  • AVH First Defense Against Spam Posts, Comments
  • Out-of-the-box SEO for your WordPress blog

If you are interested in discussing this or other ManyRoads services, please use our contact page to get in touch with us!

Free Genealogy Forms, Software, etc.

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Genealogy Free Stuff!

Free Genealogy Forms, Clip Art, Books, and more

  • Family tree templates are only available through a few select websites. Usually you have to have a membership to receive free printable blank family trees or purchase each family tree chart individually. Here you’ll find high quality charts that you can print on your home printer or take them to a professional print shop and print them on heavy or oversized paper.
  • ObituariesHelp Free Genealogy Forms and Downloads: ObituariesHelp offers free downloadable genealogy forms to make finding and organizing ancestry search easy. Their forms allow you to carefully copy your ancestor’s information and keep that information in your own records. You can also keep track of your research, the data you’ve collected, records, family trees, family groups and more with these genealogy forms. It’s so important to stay organized and keep family search information recorded on templates and genealogy forms. Feel free to download these forms to your computer and print them out at home. Our forms are all professionally designed so you can take them to a professional printer to have them put on heavier paper, or enlarged to make more room for handwriting, or even to make a wall chart. Check back to this page often because we are always adding new free genealogy forms for downloading.
  • Mother Hubbards Cupboard© free forms (numerous)
  • Free Genealogy Clip Art : Images, graphics, templates, fonts, backgrounds, photos, etc.
  • Free Genealogy Forms and Charts : Pedigree Charts, Family Group Sheets, Census Worksheets, Fan Charts, Cousin Charts, and more.
  • Free Genealogy and History Books Online : United States, United Kingdom, Ireland, Canada, Australia.
  • FamilyTree Magazine: Getting organized and knowing how to address government agencies and organizations can help you get quicker, more effective results. Family Tree Magazine has created forms that can help you access and organize your family history information. They’re available in two formats: text and portable document format (PDF). The text versions give you the basic form structure in files you can open in your word-processing software. You can print, edit or even type your information right in the file. The PDF versions are read-only files with snazzier designs—they’re suitable for displaying or sharing your research with others.
  • ProGenealogists Free Stuff
  • FREE Creative Ideas For Displaying Your Family Tree Google Group
  • Free Downloadable Genealogy Forms FamilyTreeMagazine.com
  • Free Electronic Census Spreadsheets
  • Free Family Tree Wallchart Ancestors.co.uk
  • Free genealogy charts Genealogy-Mall.com Site is dead.
  • Free Genealogy Forms
  • Free Genealogy Forms and Charts GenealogySearch.org
  • Free HTML Pedigree Chart Site is dead.
  • Free Genealogy ChartsMisbach Enterprises
Free Software
  • GRAMPS- This is the software we use at ManyRoads! Gramps is a free software project and community. We strive to produce a genealogy program that is both intuitive for hobbyists and feature-complete for professional genealogists. It is a community project, created, developed and governed by genealogists.
  • Family Tree Builder- Family Tree Builder is a genealogy software for Windows. It offers excellent quality, supports 12 languages and is one of the best genealogy software programs you’ll ever find. It’s available for you to enjoy for free!
  • GedMark – Free Download!-A utility used to secure author information on every individual in a GEDCOM file during import and export. No longer Free.
  • GeneWeb Genealogy software program with a Web interface. It can be used off-line or in a Web environment.
  • GenFinder Freeware- Bring the world of Genealogy to your Desktop
  • TimeLine Maker™ Free Download!-A handy utility that lets you record and chart histories, print color charts and publish as HTML documents.

Expertise, Associations & Memberships

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ManyRoads is pleased to enumerate our relevant genealogy expertise as well as our genealogical memberships and associations.

Expertise

Societies
LinkedIn Groups

Genealogy Guild logoGenealogyGuild- Founder
Genealogy LinkedGenealogy Linked
Family History Expos, Inc. logo Family History Expos, Inc.
GeneaBloggers logo GeneaBloggers
Genealogical & Historical Research logo Genealogical & Historical Research
Polish GenealogistsPolish Genealogists

Internet Groups

  • Elbing-L: Genealogy & History for pre-1945 / Familienforschung & Geschichte vor 1945 in Elbing
  • famint: Diese Liste für AHNENFORSCHUNG / FAMILIENFORSCHUNG / GENEALOGIE möchte den Austausch zwischen erfahrenen Forschern und Anfängern fördern.
  • genealogyresearchclub
  • IowaGenealogy: This group is for anyone with family history in Iowa.
  • ostpreussen-ahnen: Sie interessieren sich für Ihre Vorfahren aus Ost- oder Westpreußen? Sie möchten mit anderen Hobbygenealogen aus aller Welt Kontakt aufnehmen? Dann tragen Sie sich doch in diese kostenlose Mailingliste ein!
  • ow-preussen: Das Diskussionsforum Ost- und Westpreußen möchte als Treffpunkt aller Ostpreußen und Westpreußen im Weltnetz einen Beitrag zur Erhaltung ostpreußischer bzw. westpreußischer Identität und Kultur leisten.
  • prussiangenealogy: This club is open to anyone who is researching their Prussian roots and want to post queries or just chat about the ins and outs of researching Prussian ancestry.
  • NGS German Forum: open to NGS members only
  • NGS Scandinavian Forum

Created with Free Software #1

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If you were watching closely, you probably noticed a new logo at the bottom on the ManyRoads web pages.Free Software

Although the image links to the single most popular piece of open source software that I use on ManyRoads, there are numerous additional tools employed in the creation and management of our website and family history.

Included among these are the following:

  • WordPress (the software with which the ManyRoads website is constructed- A semantic personal publishing platform with a focus on aesthetics, web standards, and usability).
  • 50+/- WordPress Plugins (add-ons, which I will discuss in separate posts later on…)
  • GRAMPS (Gramps is a free software project and community. We strive to produce a genealogy program that is both intuitive for hobbyists and feature-complete for professional genealogists. It is a community project, created, developed and governed by genealogists.)
  • The GIMP (GIMP is the GNU Image Manipulation Program. It is a freely distributed piece of software for such tasks as photo retouching, image composition and image authoring. It works on many operating systems, in many languages. )
  • Geany (Geany is a text editor using the GTK2 toolkit with basic features of an integrated development environment. It was developed to provide a small and fast IDE, which has only a few dependencies from other packages. It supports many filetypes and has some nice features.)
  • Ubuntu- Linux (An Open Source- Free- computer operating system based on the Debian GNU/Linux distribution and is distributed as free and open source software with additional proprietary software available.)
  • DJVU (DJVU is a digital document format with advanced compression technology and high performance value. DjVu allows for the distribution on the Internet and on DVD of very high resolution images of scanned documents, digital documents, and photographs.)

Obviously, I use software in addition to the aforementioned but these are among the tools most used in delivering, creating and maintaining the ManyRoads web presence.

What Genealogy Tool is best?

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Many search but few find…

I think that old quote pretty much sums up what happens when searching for the right genealogical toolset.

ToolsToo often, people believe that their hardware or operating platform defines their selection choices.  In truth, it rarely does.  Almost any tool can be run on any platform.  Certainly a bit of technical prowess may be required in order to achieve interoperability but it is very doable.

No, the reasons for picking a genealogical toolset should be based on your genealogy management needs not operating or hardware systems. What follows, in no particular order, are most of the factors that I personally see as being important (and I used for my choice of GRAMPS):

  1. ease with which a web display version can be created
  2. the ability to share Events, Places, Media (in technical terms– genealogy objects)
  3. robust database facilities (in other words it supports large databases)
  4. adherence to GEDCOM standards
  5. easy Export and Import facilities
  6. excellent backup, archive and restore capabilities
  7. open software architecture (does not rely on numerous proprietary packages, tools, software or databases)
  8. effective and helpful documentation
  9. an active online support/ user community
  10. robust bug reporting system (so that problems may be communicated to the developers and addressed in future releases)
  11. easy integration with my WordPress BLOG and themes
  12. simple image and document library functions

To me, these factors are much more important in determining whether or not any software package is going to do the job you want. Do not confine yourself to the narrow realms of your operating system or hardware platform. Pick the tool you think best satisfies your actual needs and find out how to make it work on the hardware or OS you have.

Here are a couple of examples of my tools at work

Further WordPress – GRAMPS Integration

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GRAMPS With the latest release of GRAMPS (version 3.2.2) I have been able to more tightly integrate the WebSite output of GRAMPS with the ManyRoads site.  With this most recent release I have the flexibility of generating html pages- YAY!  I am now able to provide the following functions quite easily:

  1. I can add an image -or multiples if I wish- to a GRAMPS generated webpage
  2. Now I am able to effectively link from my GRAMPS (subsystem?) back to my main site; link to pages like my Conatct page or a family branch page.
  3. Similarly I am able to links from my GRAMPS subsystem to the world-wide web.

All in all this additional functionality makes the total site function more smoorthly and in a more integrated fashion.  There remain several ‘intergration’ features/ items that would be helpful to GRAMPS -IMHO.  These include:

  1. the ability to preserve custom pages as I upgrade to new releases of GRAMPS (right now I need to do that manually)
  2. an easier way to modify and preserve the GRAMPS subsystem css (to preserve my local look & feel)
  3. and a prettier display of html pages within GRAMPS

Excepting the ugly display of html, each of the remaining tasks can be performed manually; it just would be nicer if they we a more standard function within GRAMPS.

The bottom line is that I am VERY happy with GRAMPS.  It is easier to use than most commecially available genealogy tool sets, and the support from the GRAMPS team is exceptional!  Kudos to GRAMPS.

As I uncover (learn) more I’ll share it here.

Examples include:

Some updates from ManyRoads

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Genealogy-IdeasWe have added the following items to ManyRoads over the last few weeks:

GRAMPS – WordPress Integration

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Integrating GRAMPS and WordPress is a very straightforward activity. Not a lot of special skills or tools are required in order to make this integration work smoothly. I have to say it is one of the things I like best about GRAMPS.

GRAMPS A couple of points worth remembering (knowing?) first:

  • Don’t expect to update your GRAMPS data through WordPress. My experience says GRAMPS works best from a data collection and manipulation perspective as a stand alone PC application.
  • Neither database is ever truly linked in this integration. I think that is good for a number of reasons:
    • Your GRAMPS database can be secured (remain private)
    • Breaking one system doesn’t break everything; a good feature for those of us prone to checking our systems recovery processes regularly.
  • Websites are better for sharing information than they are for updating it. This is especially true if you have constrained network bandwidth, lots of different media and files of varying sizes including many that are BIG!  I would guess that these conditions encompass most people doing genealogy.

So on to the integration… there are basically 5 major steps:

  1. Get an iframe plug for use in WordPress- I use and like Iframe Embedder from de77.com
  2. Modify one of the pre-existing GRAMPS css templates used by GRAMPS NAVWEB to generate websites to blend with your site look & feel (I use Geany as my css editor)
    • rename and save the new CSS template in /usr/share/gramps/data/ (Linux path to the templates– maybe one of our readers can tell us what the Windows path might be)
    • you also need to add the new css option to constants.py in /usr/share/gramps/ReportBase (Linux path to the templates)
    • if you are running on Linux- like me- you will need root privs to perform the above 2 steps
  3. Go to Reports-Web Pages–Narrated Web Site and generate a web site via this GRAMPS function.
  4. Copy the GRAMPS NAVWEB website that is generated on to your WordPress site somewhere where you will find it.

  5. Generate a Page in WordPress for your GRAMPS Website to be located.  Add the following if you are using Iframe Embedder  :

If you want to see this in action you may view it at:

GRAMPS review and decision #3

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GRAMPS Today we have published three (3) branches of our genealogy; two (2) are available for public access.

  1. Senger Branch (Public)
  2. Deyo Branch (Public)

I have customized the output of GRAMPS standard web generation tools (NAVWEB) to create a look & feel that is consistent with the ManyRoads website. Please be aware that there remain bugs in the tooling (such as the web links from GRAMPS outward do not display or work correctly).  Also, and more importantly, the data continues to be a work in progress.  As with most family genealogies you will notice that ours is not balanaced in terms of distance in time or breadth of known ancestry.  I guess that’s all part of the fun!

We hope you find the information useful, informative and easy to follow.

Should you have information that you’d like to share with us please use our Contact page.

On-line Tree(s)!

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The first of our on-line family trees is now available- The Deyo Family Line.

It is readily accessible from our Menus simply by selecting Genealogy and then Deyo Family (Branch).  Using the GRAMPS integration approach, there are no user/ password requirements for gaining access to and open family line.

This portion of our tree is by no means finished or complete.  I have numerous documents (meaning hundreds) that remain to be added and linked to the appropriate family member records. However, should you wish to receive a copy of the GEDCOM for this section of our genealogy, simply contact me to request a copy; I’ll send my most recent file your way.  Eventually, I will post a file for user download; when things get closer to the finish line!

GRAMPS review and decision #2

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Genealogy-IdeasBased upon my decision to use GRAMPS as our primary genealogical database management environment, I have begun the transfer of family branches (both public and private) into our new format. If you look closely, you should notice the appearance of new page links from our various menus…

As I undertake this transition, I will be going through quite a bit of re-entry and re-building of our data.  Today I placed a private file online.  In the next week or so I hope to transfer the Deyo Family materials from TNG into the new GRAMPS format.  Each of these efforts will be incremental, meaning as soon as I have useful data, it will go on-line.

Wish me luck!

GRAMPS review and decision #1

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Using GRAMPS as a primary management, storage and presentation tool for our genealogical data came about slowly.

GRAMPS As many of you may recall, I tried and still use numerous family databases such as TNG, RootsMagic etc.  However, moving genealogical data back and forth across three or four tools before placing it in a single secure location took a lot of extra time.  As luck would have it, I have need to create both hard copy and on-line versions of a branch of our family tree this week.  All weekend I was moving data around, sourcing new information, merging old files and images.  Doing all this in one place is a lot of work; doing it in three or four was just too much. I had to stabilize my tool-set and simplify my work load.  I choose to move things into GRAMPS version 3.1.2.

Here are my primary reasons for choosing GRAMPS:

  1. Media Management, especially photos, is superb.  The whole process of adding an image and having it be associated with an Event, Person, etc. is very straight forward and easy to do.
  2. Event sharing. I truly prefer the way GRAMPS allows for the sharing of a single event artifact and related media across numerous persons.  Like you, we have a significant amount of Census data and images to share across whole families- some folks had a LOT of kids! This tool-set makes that easy and direct.  It also greatly reduces the amount of storage space you consume; not to mention reducing the entire image and document caching load.
  3. Backup are simple and complete.  GRAMPS seems to offer the most powerful and complete back-up process around.  It allows for a quick AND complete backup of all your data, including external media files.  My 60MB GRAMPS database backs up in under 60 seconds.
  4. Automatic text document creation is powerful and direct. GRAMPS offers a host of output options.  They offer ‘fair’ web output and excellent hard copy output.  Since I most often require printable medium, this arrangement works fine for me.
  5. Standard but peculiar interface.  Most maintenance functions have the same look & feel ie. event, person, source, place, etc. Once you get the hang of the style, it is simple to move around the system and get things done quickly.
  6. Oh and did I mention, GRAMPS is free. I love open-source tools!

I’ll follow this posting with additional insights and observations regarding the GRAMPS tool-set. I will include both pros & cons.  Until next time…

Cleanup from Ancestry.com #2

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Ancestry files require a lot of clean-up before they are really useful or accurate.  As I noted earlier, the files themselves need to be scrubbed of duplicates, overlapping records and more.

ToolsIn order to accomplish these repairs, I use numerous tools to address the requisite tasks including:

  • GRAMPS (a Linux Genealogical Toolset)- I like this tool a lot because it provides wonderful facilities for performing the following functions:
    • Merging duplicate Sources
    • Merging Duplicate Places
    • Identifying and Merging duplicate People
    • Database clean-up
  • RootsMagic 4 provides nice facilities for:
    • Pruning branches and limbs
    • Problem analysis
  • TNG (The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding): (Note: I no longer use TNG-  28 Jul 2010)
    • Merging duplicate Sources
    • Merging Duplicate Places
    • Identifying and Merging duplicate People
    • Web Presentation of Information (see our Genealogy page)
  • Gedit (a Linux Text Editor):
    • for building quick Gedcom files to import into the various tools
  • Geany (a programming editor):
    • to modify TNG for blending with WordPress
    • to edit files and text off-line

The clean-up of a 500 person tree took me about three days (25 hours) of effort. Each of the tools alone would not have done the job by themselves.  Numerous tools were required to repair the problems both introduced and allowed by Ancestry.com.

In a subsequent article, I’ll cover additional pointers to watch-out for when you embark on a conversion and clean-up effort.

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