I've continued overhauling the site.  The latest changes are as follows.

This What's New Section

Click the What's new link on the main page to find out about the latest changes to the site.

Links from Photos to Family Tree

When viewing pictures of people in the photo gallery it is now possible in some cases to click a link above the photo and find that person in the Family Tree.  To see the link you'll have to actually click on the photo to view the full size image, not just the thumbnails.

Daltonr.com Mail

Users of the daltonr.com forum can send private messages to each other without giving out your email address.  When you log into your daltonr.com account you will see a notification on the top right of the screen telling you how many messages you have.  Click on the notification to go directly to your mail screen, where you can read or write messages.

More Family History

Log into your account to read the latest additions to the family history.  I've managed to dig up a lot of new information about John Dalton who emigrated to the US in 1870, and his family.

New Menu Layouts

I'm still working on finding the right menu layout that will make it as easy as possible to get at all of the information on the site.  Bare with me while I'm making these changes.

I've had to make a change to the way that you register for a daltonr.com account.  If you already have registered then this won't matter, but if you are thinking about registering then this will be of interest to you.

In the past it was possible to register for an account.  An email would be sent to you and you simply had to click on the link in the email and you were registered, you could log in and see the parts of the site that are hidden from people who don't have an account.

Unfortunately the internet being what it is this led to a lot of spammers (the people who send you junk mail) creating accounts and then posting spam on the forums etc.

There are all sorts of things I can try to stop this happening but the simplest and most effective is to stop people creating their own accounts.  Anyone who genuinely wants a daltonr.com account can now get one by clicking the Contact Us link on the top of the page, let me know your name and email address and anything else you feel like telling me, and I'll mail you back with a username and password.

I'll try to reply to you as quickly as possible with your login in details.  It won't be as fast as the automated process that was there before but at least we'll keep the spammers out. 

Sorry for this inconvenience, the internet would be a much better place if we didn't have to put up with idiots who send spam, but it's just a fact of life I'm afraid.

Daltonr.com now allows registered members to create their own mini website.  Each member can have up to 5 pages of text, photos, even music and video.

To create your own page just log into your daltonr.com account and then click the 'My Pages' link on the top menu bar.  You'll be shown how to create a new page and manage your site.  You don't need to understand html or any web programming,  it's "almost" as easy as sending an email.

If you have any problems getting your site to work send me an email and I'll sort it out.

I was getting a bit bored of the old daltonr.com look.  Hopefully you'll like what I've done with the Place.  The site still works in basically the same way, it's just a new lick of paint.

January was our second busiest month ever, with a few new members and lots of visits.  We had 15 thousand requests for pages.  To put that in context in January '06 we had 15 hundred page requests.