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Last Update: Fri Nov 11 18:03 EST 2011

John H. Yates, B.S, M.S., Ph.D. (Chemistry, Retired)
Amateur Genealogist/Historian/Photographer, Computers
Preserving History
curriculum vitae

My Projects:

Some of My Footprints:

The Expedition to Clark's Landing and A Return to Clark's Landing.
Three Lonely Graves.
Leah Blackman's Tuckerton House Identified. In response to: Where's Waldo? - Leah Blackman Style.
The Diving Bell (Steel Pier). See also The Mysterious Artifact Revealed.
Rum Runner Family Memories.
Remembering the Hindenburg. Also see: Clif Brown Hindenburg memories.

Sites of Interest To Me:

Golden Light: The 1878 Diary of Captain Thomas Rose Lake by James B. Kirk II. A wonderful window into history.
Wolfram Alpha. A computational knowledge engine. Brilliant! I am currently reading his book A New Kind of Science. So far I am impressed with the ability of simple cellular automata rules to reproduce complexity, but am so far unconvinced of his claim of the significance of that.
Mayflower Society. Proven descendant of William Brewster (10th great grandfather), the spiritual leader aboard the Mayflower. Blood of the Mayflower's Edward Winslow (but a direct descendent of his father, also an Edward, but not aboard the Mayflower). Thomas Prence.
Three known Revolutionary War Patriot ancestors: The Great John Mathis, John Leek, and Moses Mulliner.
Uncle Joseph Mulliner.
The Wright Family and sisters Hannah and Lydia.
Tuckerton.
NJ Society of Mayflower Descendants.
Col. Richard Somers Chapter SAR.
National Society, Sons of the American Revolution.
New Jersey SAR.
Bass River History Site (New Gretna, NJ).
Bass River Township, NJ Blog.
Two adventures in remote grave site hunting with two New Jersey historians. The Expedition to Clark's Landing. Three Lonely Graves.
Tuckerton Historical Society.
Museum of New Jersey Maritime History.
FindAGrave. I volunteer locally.
Family Search. Especially note: See prototype for searching millions of records.
HeritageQuest. A local library card allows you to search Heritage Quest databases from home in addition to in the library.
Meet the Gimp! An excellent series of video tutorials on Gimp. (Gimp is a free Open Source alternative to Photoshop).
OpenOffice. OpenOffice is a free Open Source alternative to Office.
Scribus. Scribus is a free Open Source alternative for Desktop Publishing.
Atlantic Heritage Center of New Jersey.
Gloucester County Historical Society of New Jersey.
NJDARM: New Jersey Division of Archives & Records Management.
NJDARM: New Jersey State Archives Holdings: Department of Health - Bureau of Vital Statistics. NJ Vital Statistics.
Sears Family Trees. Sears Family Association.
MIT Open Courseware. A free college education from MIT for intelligent and capable learners. Apparently a dying breed within America.
Raymond Kurzweil. Perhaps the most significant futurist thinker currently among us. Highly articulate books containing plausible predictions of the future, backed by an impressive track record of inventions and predictions with time lines, many that have already come true.
Amen Clinics. I was impressed with his book on ADD. It seems to be based on factual clinical science. But in following Dr. Amen's career, I think he has left science behind for a lucrative capitalistic endeavor where science has been left behind for other unbiased researchers to prove or disprove.
Zotero. Something to keep an eye on. It is early in development now, but it just may be the way of the future for handling references.