Delaware Public Archives - State archives in Dover, DE. The most complete source of DE information. Very good at answering e-mail inquiries.
The Historical Society of Cecil County - Local Cecil Co, MD information.
Maryland State Archives - State Archives in Annapolis, MD. The most complete source for MD information.
Pennington Research Association - Look for me and the rest of the Delaware Penningtons in Group 21.
Historical Society in Wilmington - Great resource for New Castle Co, DE.
Willow Bend Books - A great source for books and you can go there and browse like a library (but no photocopying). Many of my books listed under publications were obtained here. Willow Bend is a division of Heritage Books.
The Ball Room - A section of the rootsweb/genepool web site devoted to the Ball family.
Hank Z. Jones - Palatine immigration from England to New York around 1700.
Abstracts of Cecil County, MD Land Records 1673 - 1751, June D. Brown.
Abstracts of Cecil County, MD Land Records 1734 - 1753, June D. Brown.
Early Anglican Church Records of Cecil County, Henry C. Peden, Jr.
Inhabitants of Cecil County, Maryland 1649 -1774, Henry C. Peden.
Colonial Families of Delaware, Volume 1, F. Edward Wright.
Colonial Families of Delaware, Volume 2, F. Edward Wright.
Colonial Families of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Volume 6, Henry C. Peden, Jr. & F. Edward Wright.
Church of Latter Day Saints (LDS) - I kept my genealogy data on the Personal Ancestor File program put out by the LDS. The program is no longer available but the LDS web site has facilities for searching their database and continuing your research. The LDS web site has genealogy material but no religious content.
Microsoft FrontPage and Expression Web - I (Harvey) created the general section of the web site using FrontPage 2003. I can't say I highly recommend it but it sure is easier than writing HTML code directly. FrontPage has a few quirks and idiosyncrasies that make it frustrating. I have no experience with other web development tools so I can't compare FrontPage to anything else. FrontPage has been discontinued and replaced by Microsoft Expression Web which is now free..
Ged2html - The pages with the genealogical information and the pedigree charts are produced by Gene Stark's program, ged2html. This program takes a gedcom file, produced by my PAF program, and creates all the genealogy data pages you see on this web site. It will work with any genealogy program that produces standard gedcom files.
The ged2html program has many parameters that may be set by the user to vary the output but its most significant feature is an output program that the user can modify or completely replace to get any output desired. The most reasonable thing to do is modify the standard output program provided by Stark to implement the changes you desire. That's what I did. The thumbnails you see on some of the pages were added by me. I then used this thumbnail to provide a link to a page that I could use for photos or any other data related to that person.
I replaced Stark's footer with my own so I could include some extra links and the copyright notice.
I also set the font used for the pedigree sections to a smaller size to make most of the 3 level pedigrees fit on the page without horizontal scrolling.
Ged2html is highly recommended - especially if you're geeky enough to write your own output program. There is a small library of unsupported output programs available for free. The program itself is a bargain at $20. You can use the unregistered version for free, which still allows for plenty of control of the output, but you can't modify the output program unless you register.
Freefind is the search engine used on the search page. It is free but does show an ad on the results page. This particular search engine has a much higher size limit than the other free search engines. You can also implement a site search feature using Google, see here.
WS_FTP LE is the program I use to do general maintenance on the web server. This is a general FTP client and allows you to see what's on your site and upload or download any kind of file. I usually use WS_FTP LE to look around when I'm trying to figure out what went wrong (which is frequent) or to download the server logs. The LE (Lite Edition) is free and will do anything you will ever need unless you make your living at this.