My children descend from a variety of cultures.

The BRIGHT family relocated from Pennsylvania to the booming riverfront town of Wyandotte, Kansas, shortly after the Civil War.

The MOORE family, of Scots-Irish descent, lived in the upcountry of South Carolina for a hundred years or more.

The THADEN family came from German immigrants and Tennessee Scots-Irish clans.

The NICHOLAS family originated in Tripoli and Beirut, Syria, and lived among a Syrian colony in Jacksonville, Florida.

The HAHN and LUTES families raced for land in the Oklahoma Land Run of 1893 and had been ever on the frontier prior to that time.

The ROMEO and MOTTA families immigrated to this country at the turn of the century from Sicily.

Thursday, March 10, 2011

A Lay Webmaster's Best Friend

I have discovered Google Sites! Wow, what an easy way to create a family website! It’s much simpler than the way I was snailing them out on Rootsweb’s host. Though it was easy enough with the WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) feature, it still lacked the pleasant layout options Google has to offer.

I started with Arachnophilia’s template which was a handy tool, but I still needed to learn some HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language), a secret code for webmasters. Eventually I memorized some of it and the writing went a bit faster. One little mistake, though, could make my web page look really whacked. Therefore, it was very time-consuming.

I’m so happy with Google Sites, and now I am transferring all my web pages over to sites.google.com/site/hahnfamilyandthadenfamily and it is going very quickly. Knowing that creating a new page or updating an existing page won’t be drudgery, I’m more apt to add more content.
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