Have you ever been racing along, looked out the window, and saw yourself going in the opposite direction? That’s what has happened to me in the wake of this Covid debacle. I have been plodding along on this site, trying to find solid footing since the pandemic began. I have always been heading towards a new and updated presentation for my U. S. History site (timepage.org) which would include a place for my genealogy work. As I began to awaken from the Covid nighttime we have all been going through, however, I realized that what I really want is a new way of looking at my family history that includes contemporary historical context. Flash! The bulb goes off.
I had already created this website, in the early days of the Covid train wreck, but I was still thinking of it as a new way of looking at History using real people from my family tree. Now I have flipped it. My family tree is going to be painted with a coat of reality based on my familiarity with the Strauss and Howe “Generations” insight. When I am done there will be one website which should reflect my family history in Generational terms. If I do it right, it could serve both purposes.
To be honest, I don’t know if it will work yet. It is a lot of information to shuffle together. The poor old timepage.org website is hopelessly outdated and full of obsolete references and links (oh my). But if I work it right, I should be able to reconstitute the good bits of the old site as functioning components of the new one.
One of my fears is that the History content will overwhelm the genealogical content. This is particularly true in the earlier years of the model where my family tree is pretty sparsely populated. When I get a little further along, I will make an effort to expose the new site. I may not know if I succeeded until then.