Genealogy: Help

This website provides a broad range of genealogy related services, generally focussing on, but not limited to, south-western Ontario.

• A family tree of tens of thousands of individuals whose families have passed through south-western Ontario, and in particular Middlesex County. This is not a static family tree but rather a dynamic entity that can be contributed to by anyone interested in these families. Since the facilities to update the tree are provided on the web, users can contribute to the tree from anywhere in the world, using any form of access. There are two specific links in this section of the page:
  1. A link to the top level page which provides a set of management tools for all of the tables making up the family tree database.
  2. A link to the nominal index of the Family Tree. This permits you to search for individuals by name and birth date.
  3. A link to the documentation on GitHub of the implementation of the web-site.
• Access to the contents of the database in machine readable form, for use by applications running on this and other sites is provided. How to get information in the form of an XML document, and How to get information in the form of a JSON document.
• Pointers to other sources of genealogical information broken down geographically. This site focuses in particular on Canada, but there are also special sections on the United States of America, the United Kingdom, and a collection of sites that charge for information.
• A collection of user guides for particular issues in genealogy.
• Links to back issues of the monthly newsletter that is sent by e-mail to the registered contributors.
• Links to back issues of the Monthly Technical Status Reports, which describe the changes made to the functionality of the web-site each month, as well as a list of bugs that have been corrected.