Last week, I mused about needing a timeline to visualize how events in our family's past fit together, and the next day, Larry found a website called Preceden-- "The easiest way to make a timeline". WOW--it's colorful, efficient and fun, and does exactly what I wanted a timeline for: to illustrate which lifetimes overlapped, and how local and world events affected Buckman, Minnesota. You can move thru the years by clicking and dragging, and many of the people and events have more info if you just hover on their 'lifetime'.
(Disclaimer: I've listed the sons of Johann and Marya Hesch, and then only two of the sons of Paul and Mary Hesch--Math, who lived on the Hesch farm, and my grandpa, Anton...and their kids. I'll probably build another timeline with all of dad's cousins soon...because I can, thats why!)
That's a very impressive time line. How long did it take you to construct all that information?
ReplyDeleteI would like to do something like that but I only have about three years of research to add. I think I am doing well in searching but a lot more to do.
Hi, Claudia! It took us maybe two years to accumulate all the info, and maybe 4 hours to type it in and fiddle with wording and stuff. A neat result is to see that they really did wait till our civil war was over before they decided to emigrate, and that railroad service had a LOT to do with their arrival here in the heartland.
ReplyDeleteIt's a worthwhile exercise, for sure, plus I can still add stuff or change it ☺
Thanks for the comment!