Genealogy's an horrible addiction :LOL: Apparently, one branch of my Smiths and a branch of my Glens went to Oz in the 1700's, but I can't find the link. Maybe some day I'll find my cousins Down Under.

(returning to topic) speaking of site-clone-and-go, I've been working on a research project picking apart the FCC public data files. Most of the same scripts ported right across (that map-getter is a handy thing for a lot of uses). Here's a link to the research site:

http://pythia.progressivenation.net

All comments, bug reports and suggestions are welcomed!

Genealogists and map-freaks might find this site interesting. I've tied USGS GNIS, FIPS, and Census Bureau information together with photographs and locations of cemeteries. There is a search for cemetery inventories and listings for NC, VA, TN, SC, and GA. The search site is at

http://cemsearch.mybigfamily.us

Xoops and TinyContent are such wonderfully flexible things, I was able to split my originalhttp://www.mybigfamily.us site in two, but have the genealogy pages call into the new area map generator pages with a minimum of hassle.

PS: I'm still hoping for a comprehensive, XOOPS-based genealogy program. I'm using my own at the moment, but don't have time to finish all the input pages it really deserves. Geneweb fell far short and was too inflexible to carry forward. If anyone hears, let me know!

Bill

Footie... the file is broken. It won't untar. I reported it, though and perhaps it will be fixed shortly.

Cheers! I'm getting familiar with XOOPS and the site here a bit a time. Appreciate the lead! I've DL'd it and will install on my genealogy site this evening.

Thanks!!
B

I'm hoping someone will be able to come up with a PDF manager module. I have a genealogy site with hundreds of PDF pages of scanned documents. I'm starting to port a lot of custom modules I wrote for Nuke and don't have time to refit everything for XOOPS. (PS, Nuke is dying on my server, don't know why, tired of fixing it; moved to XOOPS and LOVE IT!)

I could laboriously drag each PDF document back into Photoshop and extract JPG's for each page and load them into MyAlbum-p (which I LOVE), but we're talking scores of man-hours. P on that.

What I'd like to see is a manager like MyAlbum-p where I could fling the document into, add a comment, maybe even have a thumbnail of the first graphic it finds or even the PDF logo. Doesn't matter. I've got too many "too-important" documents to horse around with. Genealogists who use my site to research allied families keep asking for some way to be able to search through a catalog of the PDF's. I'd love to accommodate them by writing something, but I'm way too busy writing my own genealogy module to take on a side project before my nuke installation finally craps its pants the last time.

Any suggestions or notions would be gratefully entertained.
Bill

I'd like to add my voice to those looking for a good genealogy module for XOOPS. I've hacked and stretched and patched Geneweb til it won't go any further. GW simply falls far short of the features I need. I corresponded with one of the co-authors of GW who invited me to learn OCaml. Thanks, but no thanks...that's a perfectly vile language.

I have the start of one, but it uses the IBM UniVerse database system - a natural for handling tree data. If I don't find any joy in Google today I'll set about RTFM'ing the XOOPS module HOWTO in order to port my UniVerse db client connector to XOOPS. Apparently, there isn't a UniVerse database connector yet. Since I wrote that in standard PHP, it shouldn't be TOO hard (it's a bigole include).

Was really hoping to avoid the work to finish my genealogy program, though if anyone has found anything since the previous post. Porting out of GW won't be a BIG problem since I have the perso.txt file set up to deliver an XML file. (There doesn't seem to be any other way of getting data intact out of the thing.)

Waiting to hear any suggestions,
Bill

If prankin' grownups are your cup of tea, LOL. I had a ball putting the site together but I'm ready to start on my own site now. I've got a huge genealogy site with loads of scanned documents that's running Nuke and Geneweb. Geneweb was handy for what it did at the time, but it's a booger to hack. I've done a load of hacks for GW, but it's stretched as thin as it will go. I'm looking for a good XOOPS genealogy module... wish me luck!

Please pardon the cross-post; this category is probably more appropriate. Here's my story:

My old Nuke installation was croaking and I evaluated all the alternatives. XOOPS wins hands down!!! All the things that were broken or hazardous in Nuke have been fixed and the new features are everything I hoped for.

Every one.

Needless to say, I'm impressed. It took approximately eight man-hours to move a site with a lot of photos, comments and stories over to XOOPS. It all works. Every bit of it. My viewers are ecstatic -- that translates to ME being ecstatic It took only a little searching to figure out how to tweak the themes. The modules are easy to configure, security has the very tweaks I need, the very way I want them.

The administration panel is da Bom. The blocks take a little getting used to -- rather like a Chinese Puzzle. Once ya get the hang of it, it's really rather impressive design.

And the code in XOOPS is neat. I despise messy code and it's apparent the XOOPS author(s) take the job of maintenance seriously and with pride. It's as pleasurable to read on the back-side as it is pretty to look at on the browser.

After a single day's porting effort from Nuke, I've already put the revamped site online and the users are already sending nice emails. For a change

You're welcome to look in athttp://shrublet.todayzgraze.com .

Thank you, XOOPS team!
Bill