I've developed a new family history website at www.goreyhistory.com with information about the Gorey, Burgdorf and Wassenberg families in Australia.

I've built this site from scratch as a coding project with help from Claude AI. Data was migrated from the previous site which used a commercial genealogy script and had limited customisation.

By creating this, I hope to build a tailored archive that's optimised for Australian circumstances and my own personal preferences.

In particular, I want the design to be fresh and modern, and to appear more like story telling than a long list of dates and records.

I won't go into the technical details here, but if anyone is interested they can contact me.

The exciting thing about building a bespoke site is that I can potentially add references and extracts from the National Library's Trove database of digitised newspapers.

I've applied for an "API key" to hopefully enable this, and should know the outcome within a week.

There's still a lot to do, for example:

On the content side

• Add articles from my book and Dr John Gorey's book, and check them for updates and accuracy as far as possible.

• Upload photos and documents. This will take months because I have many certificates and hand-written documents.

• Add media files, such as Trove references and ancestry.com discoveries.

• Continue researching.

On the technical side

• Fix user roles, so that people can sign up and see restricted data when approved, and make content edits, subject to approval.

• Integrate the Trove API and populate the site with relevant content.

• Import articles and media files from other places, could take months.