Documenting my interests, beliefs, and research findings.
This is my first post here, so I'll give a little background information on why I have this website and blog, as well as a preview of what I expect the content to be like.
I lost interest in my old blog, which I had from about 2015-2021 and wasn't really actively planning on starting another one. But my boyfriend started getting interested in offering a web hosting service earlier this year and ended up buying jonahiris.com for me, even though I wasn't quite sure if I wanted to do anything with it. Last week, I decided I was ready to start using it as a blog, so we got it all set up. I doubt many people will visit the site on a regular basis, which is fine because my intention is to use it as an organized way to store information for my own use. Having it be online is nice because it will allow me to share that information with others if need be as well, without having to send content as emails etc.
I foresee two main topics that I'll cover in my posts: miscellaneous personal topics, such as my interests, beliefs or recent activities, and posts documenting my genealogical and local history research process and findings. I've long wanted to have a website and interactive map that can detail all of the historical and genealogical information that I have researched and hope to research in the future, and my website here will be the first step toward that project. My boyfriend, who is a computer programmer, says that making an interactive map on the scale that I want would be a massive and time-consuming project, so storing the information I want to eventually attach to such a map as topically-organized blog posts here seems like a good way to save it. My posts can also eventually be repurposed and inputted into the map I'd like to create.
Other than that, I don't think I have much to add in this particular post. I hope to get one or two genealogy posts up within the next couple of weeks before school starts, both about amazing finds from several old plat books that I have had the great opportunity to get my hands on. So stay tuned for those.