The Footprints Web Page is like no other Web Page on the Internet. It was not designed
as a business, nor a place to show my family history, but as a way to return to others the
information that has been provided us over the past 20 years by people all across the
nation. It is our way of saying "Thank You" for your help.
Many of you that are reading this have never heard of me before and I have never heard
of you, but yet everything is done with the thought that you the reader are someone visiting
my home and are sitting here beside me, and that I am talking to you and showing you what I
have. My articles are all written as notes as if I am writing you a note and explaining
what I have and how I am working with each name.
Most people visit web pages looking for something and if they don't find it at a glance
they move on. That is expected. In fact that is one of the reasons this page is located
deep in a file that very few people will find. You found it because you were interested
in this Web Site, interested enough to look at everything.
The design of the Web Site is nothing fancy, just a plain design. It is our desire for
this web page to be one that interacts with it's readers. In other words, we work together.
We will add to these pages what ever you the reader would like. We want to allow you to
have a location to place your information for others to see.
I put each page on the Web Site in a location that I think is the proper location. Many times
I find that it must be relocated. In reality, it doesn't have to be moved, just renumbered. With our
numbering system, it makes it easier to find when I need to make changes. So, we are now
reminding everyone that wants to bookmark a page, they may do so, but should also bookmark
the home page. This way, if their favorite page has been moved, they can still find it.
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Table Of Contents.
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How We Get Our
Information
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Over the years many people have provided me with a lot of information by xeroxing pages
from publications across the nation. Some are vital records, some are published histories, some
are found in County Histories, newspapers, and even bibles, just about anywhere someone can
find records. We keep them on file and go through them many times.
The first time we go through an article, we pull that information that connects to our
database. Later we go through the articles again and find more connections. Each time go
through an article we find new information to add. This continues on and on, a never ending
search. As we use each article it draws in more comments, more help and provides more
information that is added to the databases and the web site. It is a never ending search.
My typing is no longer what it use to be, as I have to go back and take out all the spaces,
delete all the f, g, d and j's that seem to find their way on to my typed pages. The space bar no
longer wants to work as I get to the end of the words. Actually the back space and delete keys
gets more work than any other key.
Sue has picked up on most of my major typing in the past 10 years, but now she is having
problems with her eyes, so things have kind of slowed down. Many people now send their
information by e-mail and that helps because I don't have to type long periods of time, and can
stick to coding for the web page. We no longer produce the newsletter, so the extra formatting is
no longer necessary.
I still put the long hours in it, and love every minute of it.
Web Page Design
and Coding
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The design and coding of the web page does not come easy. I use nothing but basic
tools, such as Word Perfect, Word Pad, and a couple of old books on Web Pages that
actually give you very little on coding.
Little by little, I am learning different codes and ideas. This page is the first that is not
normal for my web site. This particular page was started a number of months before placing it on
the Web Site. I have added to it and deleted from it many times as time goes by. Still it is
nothing fancy, just a little different.
From this testing, I did learn how to do certain things and I set up my Kelvedon Wright
pages using this format before putting this page on line.
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