I'm experimenting with posting some random bits of my genealogy research here with the goal of eventually creating a linked family tree on Hive. You can see the index here.

Benjamin Furlong Applegate was born in 1857. Though not reflected below yet, a recent search revealed a number of census records plus info on his wife and children. As I've mentioned before, census records can provide a wealth of info, especially starting in the 1800s.

According to Gramps, Benjamin is my fourth cousin five times removed. It's not uncommon to be related to people in more than one way when the relationship is this distant. Gramps also find a fifth cousin four times removed relationship.

I use GenoPro to maintain my family tree but I mainly use Gramps to generate reports which is what most of the info below is based on. Gramps is open source software that is available for Windows, Linux and MacOS. I also use its relationship calculator functionality as noted above. I've also been exploring The Next Generation of Genealogy Sitebuilding (TNG) which is web based and requires a web server, PHP and mySQL. I also have GedSite which also generates static HTML reports. I'll dig more into GedSite eventually.

While Gramps is free, both TNG and GedSite are commercial software so you have to pay for them. I think their price is reasonable and they are both excellent in their own ways. However, I prefer the open source nature of Gramps and the fact that it generates static HTML makes it easy to work with. I still like TNG enough that I will probably keep using it as well. I'm undecided on GedSite until I get back to trying it out more though I've liked other sites I've seen generated with it. For now I am generating reports with Gramps and updating TNG on a fairly regular basis.

The chart at the top is an ancestry chart out to four generations from Gramps. The chart at the bottom is the same chart as generated by TNG. The index of all individuals I have posted so far can be found here.