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What to Find in this Updated Website!
Welcome to the updated website for "The Fairbanks Family in the West"! There are a few new items of interest to the family. Here is a basic overview.
Register - Become a registered user and you will be able to view the newsletters as well as current data on everyone in the family tree. After you register, you must wait until a live person approves your registration before you can login (which hopefully will be done in less than a day, more if we're on vacation). All information given in the regstration form is kept confidential and only for use by the family organization.
Update Your User Account - After you log in, you can come here to update your personal information if you move or if we don't have your complete info. This update will also be sent to our Newsletter Editor so his database will be kept current.
On This Date - This is a fun place to select any day you like and see who had events happening that day. You can select from Births, Deaths, Marriages, etc., or just leave the Events box blank to see them all.
Cemeteries and Headstones - If you live near or could visit a cemetery with Fairbanks family buried there, please take a photo of any family headstones, and let us know what cemetery it is from. Email them to us and we'll include them, or if you have family tree privileges, you may add them yourself.
Connections - We've got some fun, colorful pages that you can use to tell the family about life events that have happened and add a photo or two.
Viewing these pages requires being logged in to the family website, so everything is only viewable by family members.
Anniversaries - Celebrating an anniversary? Share with us how you met, married, and what has happened in your life. It doesn't matter how many years you've been married. Share the joy with us!
Babies - Show off your new little child or grandchild and tell us about him or her.
Birthdays - Surprise a family member with a birthday greeting. Add a photo and some fun things about them to show your love.
Eagle Scouts - Let us see a photo of you Eagle Scout and tell us about his project. Anyone who has earned this award, no matter how long ago, is welcome to have their information shown.
Military Wall of Honor - Add your family veterans or those currently serving. Tell us about their experiences, and you may add a photo.
Obituaries - Share with us a photo or two of your beloved family member, and tell us about their life.
Weddings - Tell us how the bride and groom met, got engaged, any interesting bits you'd like.
Blog - register and login (which is separate from registering for the other area of the website, but you are welcome to use your same username & password) to add news of interest that you think would be of interest to the rest of the family. You may also add a photo or two (please limit it to 2 max per post).
Documents - Now we can make scanned documents available for everyone. Some of the documents that would be of interest would be birth, death and marriage certificates. Census records could also be put here.
Family History Overview - We've put the story of the Fairbanks into one page, with artwork. Beginning with the first Fairbanks family to America and continuing down through the pioneers, it gives a summary of our heritage.
Gift Shop - View the family memorabilia that is available for purchase. These items make great gifts. Help your family to learn a bit about their heritage with these beautiful items.
Histories - We're in the slow process of scanning in the pages of "The Fairbanks Family in the West" and now have the Harriet and David branches of the family completed. We're scanning them by the individual featured, not as a whole book. These will be added to the Family History section as PDF files and are also linked to the individuals in the family tree! You can then print them out for those who don't have the book. If you already have something typed up in a computer file, or have documents you can scan, email us the file. We'll get it added!
Links - Visit links of interest to the Fairbanks family. From events involving the Fairbanks Home, to commercial websites by family members, to family history, we'd like to offer this avenue to see what others in the family have to offer. Do you have a link you'd like to add? Let us know!
Newsletters - Now the newsletters going back to 1997 are available for viewing in PDF format. Our current newsletter will also be available here. Access will be restricted only to registered users.
Payson Home - Included here is the virtual tour inside and outside. We would like to add more photos in the future (
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Also included are documents regarding the home through the years, from deeds and letters, to getting the house where it is today.
Photos - with links to tree - The photos at this section are linked to those in the family tree, but we would like to limit it to 3 photos per person. These photos need to be emailed to the webmaster to be included unless you register to have family tree privileges. Then you can add photos, histories and headstone photos yourself. If you have additional photos, please check out the Photo Gallery.
Photo Gallery - This is going to be the fun part of the site. You need to become a registered Gallery user in order to add your own photos right from your home, and put them into Albums. We can have albums for all kinds of things, such as individual families, artwork by various people, etc. Speaking of artwork, we would like to include photos of artwork by the family. We've got some currently there, but we would like to have more. Each individual artist can have their own album showing their artwork, so if you can take photos of family-made art, please do.
Due to a recent deluge of spam comments, you must now be logged in to the website to view the photos in this section.
Reports - We've got a couple of reports that are interesting. One is for birthdays on the day you view the website, the other is for anniversaries on that day. All people in the family tree are included. Check back on your birthday or anniversary to see who shares your day! And if you can think of what other types of reports you'd like to see, let us know and we'll try to make one.
Sources - Shows a list of the sources used in the Family Tree.
Statistics - Shows some interesting data regarding the family tree database.
Wall of Honor - We'd like to honor those who have served or are now serving their country in the military. Send us a photo (preferably of them in uniform) and their details and experiences.
What's New - Details new items added to the genealogy area in the past 30 days. Check here to see if anything new has been added recently. And don't forget to contribute!
Genealogy - Send us a GEDOM with your family branch's information. Please read the page listed on the right column of the home page about adding your genealogy info.
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