I'm experimenting with posting some random bits of my genealogy research here.

This individual dates back to the mid 1800s which often isn't a terribly difficult era to search. However, if we are talking about someone born in the U.S., the quality of records available can vary quite a bit from state to state and sometime records were even destroyed (such as a random courthouse burning down with all records inside). There were generally no "backups".

Gramps calculates this individual to be my 3rd cousin, five times removed (along with a number of other more distant relationships).

I'm still exploring GedSite, a program that takes a gedcom file and converts it into html and The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding which is web based and requires a setup with apache (or other webserver), php and mysql. Mostly I've been playing around with TNG but I'll get back to GedSite eventually. When it comes to converting this stuff to web pages, every piece of software available seems to have advantages and disadvantages and it is hard to settle on just one. One of the things I like about TNG is how you can easily switch between different chart styles. I've shown a bunch of different ancestor chart styles already and I'll show some others soon. I want to look at descendant charts next but I haven't added any descendants to this individual yet to it wouldn't be very interesting. The above chart is an ancestor chart from Gramps.