Who we are Our website addresses are: Comments When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a Read more
As part of trying to solve the family mystery, Jane and Ian had a dabble with facial recognition software that can be found at familysearch.org At this point Jane and Ian now have an idea about who Joseph Leigh Hunter might have really been, just now about how to prove Read more
A very useful tool at MyHeritage is the Export shared DNA segment info for people you share DNA with, as shown in the screenshot below, click on the 3 dots to the right of the magnifying glass/search tool, to show the menu. The Post behind this hypherlink shows to get Read more
Plus brief mentions of what else Raspberry Pi’s can and have been used for by Ian For anyone interested in knowing where this website is being hosted, Ian set the website up on a Raspberry PI 3B+, it is a WordPress site running on a LAMP ( Linux, Apache, MySQL, Read more
This post provides a link to a webpage where Ian will explain how, if you are familiar with spreadsheets how you can search DNA segment data similarly to the GEDMatch Tier 1 tool. Ian developed this tool using OpenOffice Calc when he realised the 1501 relative limitation at 23andMe. You Read more
We recently updated the content on our webpage, detailing the additional steps we had to implement with additional firewall layers, to discourage hacking Since we implemented changes to our firewalls, including advanced firewalls with threat detection, comprehensive IP Blacklists, IP banning and security tools. We have noticed the number of Read more
Due to a recent mishap with the web server that hosts this website, Ian wanted more flexibility hosting wise. He wanted the ability to host more than one web server. The problem of hosting more than one web server is you can port forward one port 80 and 443. In Read more
Ian recently come across another spare Raspberry Pi 3B, which was in a cupboard. Being a bit of a techy and a music fan, Ian thought it was time to do something with it. So, it has become a music streamer for headphones in the study. Just download the latest Read more
Ian found the need to create a backup / test web server, whilst he was making some minor changes to this website, there was a problem that necessitated a partial rebuild and restore of it. So rather than go through that again, he made the decision to have a spare Read more