I had been interested in my family history for most of my life, but since my Father was transferred by his company to Florida when I was five years old it was difficult to keep track of relatives back in Georgia. I visited and came to know and love some of them during summer vacations, but I never knew some of the others. One of my goals of this site is learn and teach one another who we are.

A couple of years ago a friend gave me a copy of Brothers Keeper to get me started
I begain by entering my Grandfather (AJ Steele) and my immediate family, then I continued with my Grandfather on my mothers side. As time went on I added cousins and their faimilies.

Brother's Keeper is a Windows genealogy program. It will let you enter information about your family such as names, dates, places, and messages. It will print several charts and reports such as ancestor charts, descendant tree charts, box charts, descendant book, timeline, birthday lists, alphabetical lists, and group sheets. The Windows data files are compatible with the DOS version of Brother's Keeper.

The program will run under Windows 3.1 or WIN 95. 4 megs of RAM minimum. To install the program, RUN the BKSETUP.EXE program. The program includes a help file. Press F1 for help on any screen. Brother's Keeper is Shareware. The registration fee is $49. The program may be freely distributed as Shareware.

The author is:

John Steed

6907 Childsdale Ave

Rockford, MI 49341 USA

FAX 616-866-3345

BBS 616-364-1127

WEB

Brothers Keeper

gendex.com

At the Gendex site I learned about a program called GED2HTML which allows you
to convert gedcom files created by various geneolgy programs like Brothers Keeper to multiple HTML files. The HTML files include the surname page and indexes which are linked together like mine.

At GeoCities I began to learn how to create my own web page and that I could do it for free. (I'm still learning!)

I owe credit to Jarrick Vick who helped me get started.

http://geocities.datacellar.net/Heartland/Prairie/4024
Jarret's Email:Dvick@pinebelt.net

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