To that end, I made them so that the gold and silver metallic gradient trees
also indicated gold for female and silver for male. I also found thee
most gorgeous rose graphic by blackmoon9 and decided to see if I could get new
colors from it using a plain old fashioned photo editor, GIMP. The
result, when I finally got it to have the color and saturation I wanted, was
(at least in my humble opinion) rather dazzling. Red roses meant a
maternal ancestor, blue roses meant a paternal ancestor, and purple roses were
for those distant ancestors who show up on both sides of my family tree.
Relax.
This is far more common than you might realize.
To make sure I did not forget which was which due to my severe CRS (Can't
Remember S***), I added Mars and Venus symbols in silver and gold,
respectively, to further confirm male or female. Also, there were lots
of PNG creations that people can use to make monograms or something along
those lines. M for Maternal, P for Paternal, PM for Paternal
Maternal. That last one is meant to correspond to the placement of
paternal ancestors on the left and maternal ancestors on the right.
In recent years, I got the crazy notion to see if I could render the roses and
whatever else in NightCafe. I love graphics like this, and I just
revisited some of the AI renders I made a while back. I also wanted to
show some other things created that are due to find their way into my
genealogy avatars.
Because I just cannot help myself when it comes to creative graphics with a specific purpose, I decided to see if I could make some family tree graphics with a DNA double helix for a trunk.
Hmmm...does it need roses or...?
Please know that when someone blogs or runs a website that discusses their
family history, it is impossible for them to NOT talk about
themselves. If you are someone who has issues with this, as if it's
"oversharing" or "self-promotion", you're going to have a problem with
genealogy-focused content.
Many of us have been researching our family history for decades, since long
before this could be done online the way it is now. Even we have to be
careful about how much of this we share on platforms not built for genealogy
research. I'm sure I am not the only person to have mentioned a
distant family connection during a private conversation with someone, a
conversation that did indeed include my request to not repeat what I had to
say publicly.
Guess what.
Yep. They did. They blabbed it out on social media.
If you experience something similar or witness it happening, here is what I
strongly suggest you do.
Obviously, you can always not disclose it. If you do, and someone who
doesn't even know you decides to be a pain in the... Tell them if they
have something to say, then they need to say it to you. If they hassle
you over what someone else said about it, same answer. If it's been
repeated but full of errors, get on that. If they find it so
fascinating, something you said in private that wasn't meant for anyone
else's ears to begin with, tell them they need to come to you and only you
for details.
If they cannot do that, if they cannot come to you directly if they find it so
fascinating, then they have no right to shove their beaks into your business,
let alone repeat inaccurate gossip publicly.
Those who pull stunts like this for kicks, you might want to be careful.
You'll get lotsa stuff on the very interesting and complicated matter of the
family tree of Billy the Kid (no, I don't know if Chavez and my--oh,
phk it). And just to p*** you off, I'll add Sasquatch to it.
