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.

Ely Haden Dennison was born in 1887 but sadly only lived slightly beyond the age of two. I'm sure there is a tragic story there somewhere but I don't know what it is. I also don't have much in the way of original sources to even back up his existence. Originally, this individual was added based on a family tree I found on rootsweb and I found the same individual on FamilySearch but neither has any original sources except the first source had a reference to a book that probably can't be found easily. Many genealogy books are self published or published through small publishers and have very limited print runs. So a book title, author and page number but not direct quote or any other info.

According to Gramps, Ely is my second cousin four times removed.

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 but I've found it only works back to about 27 generations give or take. 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 purchased GedSite which also generates static HTML reports that I will dig into more 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 like TNG enough that I will probably keep using it also though. I'm still 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 (every month or few anyway).

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.