Clingman-Jones Family Association

Echoes from the Valley

Updates to the website

Posted on June 25, 2023 by GilJones

The 100th reunion page has been created and continues to be built. The Outdoors page has been renamed GO Outdoors! with added content. Need more stories. On another vein, we need someone from each family line to take charge of building out their line on the Family Tree pages. If you want to volunteer, contact Gil. (more…)

New and rejuvenated Jones Valley website — and Gil’s plea to you

Featured

Posted on June 14, 2017 by GilJones

This is the text to an email that went to the family email list and will also be posted on Facebook. NOTE: it is posted using the quick and easy blogging from the front page of the website. No techie stuff needed. Continue reading →

This is YOUR website, you Clingman-Jones folks — read on

Featured

Posted on June 14, 2017 by GilJones

(originally posted July 15, 2005 — and everything in that post is still true in 2017)

The site is new. I hope that everyone will try out all the features, poke around, let your fingers and mouse do some walking and give me feedback on places you have problems or questions, ask for help, make suggestions, mention what you like, etc. Continue reading →

Example of easy user posting WITH a picture

Posted on June 13, 2017 by GilJones

Email There is also a Rich Text Format (RTF) editor, i.e. Word-like where you can do bold, italics, underlining and other tricks just like in Word. Again, this form to fill in is near the bottom of the home page. This is a heading which you can also do along with lists with bullets or with numbers all automatically added. And images. Here are (more…)

If you need to write a long blog … try this

Posted on June 13, 2017 by GilJones

This is written in Word. Any editor that will do Rich Text Format (RTF) will work. I will write it, save as I wish, but eventually just copy and paste into the blog entry – which you will now be reading. If you have photos you will have to add them later. But for long text and formatting, using the (more…)

Post photos and videos ridiculously easy

Posted on May 22, 2014 by GilJones

This system is SO much better than the Drupal-based website. This incarnation of WordPress is very user-friendly. Anyone who wants to know about posting, just give me a holler. /gil (more…)

Blog entries can be categorized by ancestor

Posted on May 22, 2014 by GilJones

If you have information about an ancestor you can do a quick blog entry or photo and categorize it by that ancestor’s name. You will find a category list on the right side of the editing page. If your entry involves more than one ancestor, you can check each applicable one. If it involves all of them in general, that (more…)

Example of user’s blog entry

Posted on May 22, 2014 by test

This is Gil, logged into the test account. This is an example of how all registered family members can post a blog entry. (more…)

Site updated in many ways

Posted on May 22, 2014 by GilJones

Here is a list of the major changes: Default user status is “Author” meaning an approved user can post blog entries and upload photos. Login has, hopefully, been simplified. You must be logged in to post a blog or photo. You must be logged in to comment on a blog entry. Non-members can comment on a photo by entering their (more…)

Login page revisions

Posted on April 1, 2013 by GilJones

Touched up the login block at the lower left of the Home page and changed the title of the “Login” page. (more…)