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Pages & Posts- new site functions

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We are pleased to announce that ManyRoads now allows for the Printing of both our Posts and Pages.  At the bottom of our site Pages, you will see a small Print Icon and label; the same icon and banner appear in our Post banner.  Simply click on the Print icon to generate a printable document.  Please let us know via our contact page if you have problems with this new function.

Additionally, you may noticed a new Social Bookmark function at the bottom of our Pages/Posts.  Simply clicking on the “Social Bookmarks!” opens a table of popular Social Networking options. Select your favorite Social Networking tool icon (ie. Facebook) to link to any of our Pages/Posts.  Again, please contact us with any problems or difficulties.

It is our sincere hope that these tools will assist in the usefulness and friendliness of the ManyRoads site.

…mark

Recent Changes

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Lately I have added several new links to the Links directory and to our Online Library Reference Texts.  Additionally I have been busy with the following:

  • updating the post-1800 Church record available materials from the Zeyer ev. Kirche
  • Ordered the final materials from the LDS Church for Zeyer ev. Kirche
  • joined numerous Yahoo Groups on genealogy
  • added a Guest Map – Visitor tracking function to this site
  • transfer servers for this site and registered it under a new URL
  • upgraded to version 2.8.6 of WordPress

Conversion! We are GREEN!

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We apologize for the rough performance of the ManyRoads site during this time.  Because of the increased use and traffic on our site we are transferring everything  to a new server, rather than continuing to limp along on an old PC located in our basement.  Aside from providing us with more space, we should have a considerably improved internet connection (our little home office DSL was just not up to the task).

We have provided for a redirect of our old address http://manyroads.info to the new site and address http://many-roads.com.  Please note that you should change any RSS Feed from this site to reflect our new address.  Otherwise you will miss out on exciting posts like this one!

Lastly our new server is running on HostPapa who provides for a much more Green facility than we were able to provide before.

Please use our contact page should you encounter any difficulties with our conversion. Hopefully things will be running more smoothly soon.

Site Guest Functions!

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We are very pleased to announce our newest Guest tracking tools. You can see where ManyRoads website readers have come from. Simply click on the Guests menu options (either on the top of the page or on the right hand menu). You will be take to a page that contains a visitors map. Enjoy! Oh and please feel free to leave us a brief note should you go there…
Additionally on the right hand menu, you should see an item in the menu bar that indicates how many people are currently on the ManyRoads site. The “member” you see is almost certainly me (mark) the ManyRoads webmaster.

Enjoy!

Updated & New Information

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20 October was a very productive day at the Family History Center.  Aside from starting a bit late due to delayed keys, a lot of new information was discovered including:

  • all the dates of birth and christenings for Richard Senger’s siblings were unearthed
  • a previously unknown sibling for Richard was found, Theodor Senger
  • birth dates and spouses for:
    • Michael Senger (the younger)– Adelgunde Kiehl
    • Michael Saenger (the elder) – Esther Euphrosine Landig (marriage record confirmed)
      • Esther’s parents John Landig and Esche Euphrosina Hein were discovered
      • 3 additional children of Michael Saenger & Esther Euphrosine were identified
    • parents for both Michael Sengers

On 21 October the genealogical records reflecting the above plus more were modified; additionally, updated War death records have been added for:

  • Willi Wedhorn
  • Erich Recht
  • Egon Recht
  • Albert Senger
  • Adolf Senger

TreeMagic

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I have added a very powerful feature to the ManyRoads site called TreeMagic- Cypress.  TM-Cypress is a javascript tool that allows a webmaster (me in this case) to provide site users with easy information access from a place in their site (ManyRoads) to selected websites, including this one.   I know that sounds a bit confusing but it is very simple…

Simply highlight any term or phrase; and a pop-up will appear.  In the pop-up you have the option of selecting one of our offered genealogical sites.  Once you select an item from the pop-up a java window will open highlighting all related items from your selected site (basically it is a search result).  You may scroll and or read from the pop-up to gain deeper insight into what you requested.  Once you are done simply close the window and you will return to the place you left (on ManyRoads, in this case).

This WordPress plugin was developed by AmbientWebs/ eirenicon and is freely available. More sophisticated web tools like this are also available for a ‘fee’.

Fair Use

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ManyRoads may contain material copyrighted by others. ManyRoads makes any such such material available in an effort to advance an understanding of information related to our family history and circumstances. We believe this constitutes a ‘fair use’ of any such copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the US Copyright Law. In accordance with Title 17 U.S.C. Section 107, the material on this site is distributed without profit to those who may have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information for research and educational purposes. If you wish to use copyrighted material from this site for purposes of your own that go beyond ‘fair use’, you must obtain permission from the original copyright owner.

How-to OCR Documents

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As a Linux user, I have access to a tool called Tesseract for doing my OCR work.  This tool is multi-lingual and easy to use (although not so simple that I can do it from rote).  An excellent set of instructions are available at How-to Forge.

For even higher levels of accuracy you might try the Free OCR site.

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