ABOUT YONDER PLACES
Before I begin, if you have a genealogy website that you want listed in our links page, email me. It's important to work together. It's not only for our individual heritage, but for the world's heritage as well.
Yonder Places is actually a web host whose main objective is to offer (and/or make) affordable web sites without all the hassle of more conventional web hosts. Anyway, as happens with many great ideas, Yonder Places found itself without much of anything to do once we created a web site for a client. That's when I decided to create Yonder Places, a project stemming from the fact that me and a few of my friends were amassing so much family heritage data that we felt we should have a place to put it for others to gain from. At that time our living and dining rooms looked like the basement of the National Archives. That's when we knew we had to do something big.
Research is difficult and very time consuming and Genealogy Research is even more so. The two women who started this research were shocked when they discovered that their two little tumbleweeds of family trees grew into two giant Oaks needing held together with block and tackle, like the Old Wye Oak in Maryland. Naturally, there's a story in that as well, and is posted in the Articles Section of this site.
Who exactly is Yonder Places? We are 3 tenacious super sleuths who have finally found a nook for our unique talents and interests. We have always been able to find answers to about anything, so why not find answers about our families using the Internet? As an aside, be advised, there are a lot of sites that promise all sorts of things for genealogy researchers, but sadly most of them are nothing more than scams and regurgitated so-called "free sites" who will charge you for nothing. So far, we all agree that Ancestry.com is probably the best site if you are willing to fork out up to $30 a month. We'll have more about Ancestry.com and other sites in the Articles Section and Links, but Ancestry.com is worth every dime spent on it.
Yonder Places is going to have separate "Family Trees" for monkeys like us who love nothing more than to leap from branch to branch and climb way out on distant limbs for the most remarkable information. All Family Trees will be identified in our Surname lists, and family Charts & Trees as well. The charts are great because they show families graphically, and some charts might take about a minute or longer to open, so please be patient.
And, all our research is documented (dated census data, draft cards, birth/death records and anything else we can get our hands on as proven sources, not to mention family stories and photos as we can find them). If you have anything you want to submit, by all means, contact us for mailing or emailing instructions, especially for photos. Use the Email link at the bottom of any page to contact me to ask questions or read the article "How to provide photos" in the Articles Section. One of our researchers says, "I gave all my Grandma's photos away like a complete idiot!!! I doubt I'll ever recover them. But that was before I took on this project and I learned a huge lesson in the process." So don't just give your photos away, and certainly not to us, but you can send us copies, or .jpg or .gif, or whatever. Read more in the Articles Section.
As of November 2008, a mere three months after this started, there are nearly 3,000 people in two basic trees, and we've been doing related families that brings the total to nearly 5,000 people. Now that's a lot of monkeying around if you ask me. But don't worry, because our trees are so full and huge, we have decided to prune them down into a more workable orchard with links so anyone can see where and how they fit into other trees. There's just no end to the branches.
This is supposed to be a fun site so don't be put off by the many different backgrounds, colors, borders, animations, etc. They are all 100% virus free and safe. All graphics are copyrighted by www.YonderPlaces.com unless otherwise stated, so please do not copy them without permission, and definitely don't hot link to them. It's against the law and called bandwidth theft. Read more about it HERE. Just email me if you would like to use an image and let's see what we can workout.
My name is Darwyn and to contact me just use the email button at the bottom of any page. Our lead reseracher is The Genie Girl (theginiegirl@yonderplaces.com) and she has a new email but it isn't found on every page yet. Genie is short for Genealogy.
A few sites that we host:
THE CELTIC TURTLE LADY | FURTHER BEYOND | NAN THE TAX PRO |
NEPTUNE RISING ON VIRGO | FARTHER BEYOND |
