Getting Started
If you are interested in researching your family history, the first step is to write down everything
you know about yourself, your parents, your grandparents,and your great-grandparents.
List the names, birth dates, marriage dates, and death dates of your ancestors
along with the location (town, county, and state) where each event occurred. Contact other family
members who might be able to fill in some of the gaps in your information.
Begin collecting records
such as birth certificates,marriage certificates, and death certificates. Look for family Bibles, obituaries, letters and diaries.
Use the following free online tutorial to help you get started in your research
http://www.learnwebskills.com/family
You do not need to complete an application worksheet before attending a chapter meeting.
You do not even need to have identified your Patriot Ancestor. By attending a local chapter
meeting, you will meet DAR members who have the experience to assist you in obtaining your
goal of DAR membership.
Sample Sites
Your installation includes sample data, designed to show you some of the options you have for building your website. In addition to information about Joomla! there are two sample "sites within a site" designed to help you get started with builidng your own site.
The first site is a simple site about Australian Parks. It shows how you can quickly and easily build a personal site with just the building blocks that are part of Joomla!. It includes a personal blog, weblinks, and a very simple image gallery.
The second site is slightly more complex and represents what you might do if you are building a site for a small business, in this case a Fruit Shop.
In building either style site, or something completely different, you will probably want to add extensions and either create or purchase your own template. Many Joomla! users start off by modifying the templates that come with the core distribution so that they include special images and other design elements that relate to their site's focus.
Useful Web Sites
National Society DAR
Florida Society DAR
Alexander Quarrier DAR
Children of the American Revolution
Rootsweb’s Worldconnect
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com
Social Security Death Index
Vital Records.com
Free Online Genealogy Tutorial
The Joomla! Project
The Joomla! Project consists of all of the people who make and support the Joomla! Web Platform and Content Management System.
Our mission is to provide a flexible platform for digital publishing and collaboration.
The core values are:
- Freedom
- Equality
- Trust
- Community
- Collaboration
- Usability
In our vision, we see:
- People publishing and collaborating in their communities and around the world
- Software that is free, secure, and high-quality
- A community that is enjoyable and rewarding to participate in
- People around the world using their preferred languages
- A project that acts autonomously
- A project that is socially responsible
- A project dedicated to maintaining the trust of its users
There are millions of users around the world and thousands of people who contribute to the Joomla! Project. They work in three main groups: the Production Working Group, responsible for everything that goes into software and documentation; the Community Working Group, responsible for creating a nurturing the community; and Open Source Matters, the non profit organization responsible for managing legal, financial and organizational issues.
Joomla! is a free and open source project, which uses the GNU General Public License version 2 or later.
Subcategories
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Extensions
The Joomla! content management system lets you create webpages of various types using extensions. There are 5 basic types of extensions: components, modules, templates, languages, and plugins. Your website includes the extensions you need to create a basic website in English, but thousands of additional extensions of all types are available. The Joomla! Extensions Directory is the largest directory of Joomla! extensions.