Surnames - ONS Analytics

Unique features for MWP sites

This tutorial section applies to the Guild’s (Guild of One-Name Studies) MWP project for type 3 TNG websites. These sites use a unique configuration of TNG, so that multiple Guild members benefit from using TNG to preserve their family surname study, without requiring technical skills for web management. See the “About this Website” for more details.

GEDCOM

A GEDCOM file is the most widely recognized file format standard for creating a family tree. Most genealogical programs recognize this format, which allows you to easily move your tree to the genealogical program of your choosing.

Note: A GEDCOM file is a text file, that doesn’t include the actual photos but it may contain the links to the photos original location on your computer or family site.

GEDCOM, an acronym for GEnealogical Data COMmunication, is a specification for exchanging genealogical data between different genealogy software.

What is TNG?

TNG is a fully functioning family tree application that can house your family trees, branches, ancestors, their families, cemeteries and stories. Even more, it can handle your sources, references and repositories. Further, TNG holds onto photos, headstones, military records, census, birth / marriage /death / burial documents, and even more.

And most importantly, it does it all while being a software application on the internet. TNG is a web-based family tree application that resides on your website.

See further details on the Intro tutorial.

Surname Cloud

Type any surname into the “Find surname:” search box. As you type, a list of possible surname matches will show
The surname will be looked up across the Members’ Websites Project TNG websites (Type 3 only at this time)
You can search on any surname; including any that are not yet registered with the project
The lookup will ignore a TNG site registered for that surname, because that would be redundant
The results, if any, will be displayed as a “word cloud” of potential surnames
Below the word cloud is a bar graph, “Occurences of Surname:”, with similar information
Hover over any Surname Cloud name to see the count of possible matches
Click on any Surname Cloud name, or a bar in the graph, to go to a TNG website
The TNG website will show the search results on that particular surname of interest

Surnames of TNG