Ojibwe.info originally put Wub-e-ke-niew’s and my genealogical research on the Internet because I was quite ill, and I wanted to share our research with the descendents of the people in our databases, instead of its being lost with my death.

Well...  it seems my health is okay again, thanks to some excellent doctors (both Indigenous and ‘western’).

And, I did not expect the response that the information on Ojibwe.info has brought – thank you all for writing!

The computer programs that I used to put our original databases onto the Internet made ‘static’ web-pages – almost twenty thousand interlinked web-pages from several different original databases.  It’s complicated and time-consuming to change them, and almost impossible to make the changes visible from every page each individual is linked to.

I got ‘behind’... and then my email system ‘crashed’ and I lost several hundred emails, along with everyone’s email address.  If you’re one of the people who sent an email with additional information, I apologize – and would appreciate it if you’d re-send it.

The new Internet database that’s here makes it possible to add and update information, as well as for you to submit additions and corrections for individuals.  If you have a lot of information to add, please contact me.

It’s an experiment (and I’m still learning the new computer programs).

The database that’s online now is a kind of draft: a ‘merge’ of several different databases, and there are probably still a few errors from the ‘merge’ process.  Also, if you sent corrections and they did get posted on Ojibwe.info:  I’m still in the process of adding them to the new database, and it’s probably going to take another month or so to get your additions, and the photos and document scans that you’ve sent, added into this new database.

Miigwetch,

Clara