Family

My Mom’s Store is Open!

Yesterday was Opening Day for my mom’s store in Kincardine! It’s called J’Adorn, and it’s across the street from Becker shoes (across the street and a few doors down from Fincher’s). I’d post better landmarks for those of you who are from Kincardine as well, but as you know all the downtown stores seem to play musical chairs every few years, so practically nothing downtown is in the same place as it was back in 2000. Except Fincher’s and Becker.

The Grand Opening isn’t until August 7th. Yeah, yeah, kinda far away, but she wanted the store open in time for tourist season, and then my brother is getting married in July so everyone will be focusing on that, which leaves August as the time for a Grand Opening.
Loads of people came in to see and it was really busy all day. A very nice start to what I hope is years of good business in downtown Kincardine.

I am pleased with how the website came out.

Family Tree Software

Has anyone made a family tree site, and/or have any suggestions for some cheap, simple software for creating one?

I’m considering making a site for the Brown side of my family. Every year we have a Christmas Reunion, and it’s getting harder and harder to keep track of everyone (people marrying/changing names/having kids/etc.). We do a gift exchange, and it’s hard to keep up with any changes. For example if you’re told you got “Jennifer Michaels” as the person to buy a gift for, you may not remember that it’s the person you know as Jenny Brown who recently got married, or that Alex Brown is a 4 year old girl, and not the 13 year old boy you were thinking it was.

Ideally, the software could have more than one user, so I could enlist the more tech-savvy of my relatives to update their own info. PHP and SQL is preferable.

I’d like to make the go-to site for the Who’s Who in the Brown family, but I don’t need a lot of bells and whistles. I know there are several commercial sites out there that will host a family site like this, complete with a family tree showing how everyone is related, but since I’ll likely be alone in this, I don’t want to pay $50/year out of my own pocket for a site that’ll likely only be accessed in December when people scramble to try and pick an appropriate gift for the exchange. Plus, I don’t really want another site to have to follow all the time (like Facebook, blurgh) so I don’t want to have a gallery, or individual status updates, or any of that other social media stuff.

Extra, Extra, Read All About It!

Good news, everyone!

Garrison is engaged!

That’s right, my brother is getting married! He and his girlfriend Erin just announced it to the family over Thanksgiving weekend. Wedding is tentatively scheduled for Summer 2010. They already have a house and a cat and are living in Kincardine.