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Dave, Yvette, Guy, Barbara, Theresa, Tommy :15 May, 1999

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Marion Gallery: Paintings by Marion Cole
CaptionAdder - a tool for Digital Photo Albums
Which David Cole Am I?

My Web-based Family Tree
Tree Leaves By Cole (Genealogy Information)
Genealogy Researchers in Moose Jaw Area
Informative Web Pages re: Saskatchewan
BookMarks

Current Interests



Recommended Software



Vic Cole's web page.

last updated Nov 6, 2004

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Keywords

Keywords (NoBookAds Cole David Yvette Barbara Theresa Guy Tommy Richard Arseneault Goatcher genealogy "amateur radio" david_cole_3 davidcole3 "Moose Jaw" Regina Saskatchewan Arvida Quebec Westpark Gloucester Ottawa Ontario Canada Marketware SGML J2008 EDI EDI-A X.12 832 AAIA Mary Kay "genetic equality" "Water End" "Water End House" "Bio-Diversity" "How Cole Does It" "Lady Day" "77 Wonders of the World" "Seventy-Seven Wonders of the World" "Wonders of the Ancient World" "70 Wonders of the Modern World")

Genealogy Surnames (Arsenault Arseneault Babin Banks Basset Baxter Booth Boudrot Bourg Chiasson Coale Cole Cyr DeCaen DeCourtenay DeGrey Delaney Dole Folger Goatcher Godwin Gould Goulton Guerin Hampshire Hampton Howland Hubert Hungerford Kingsland Kirton Lamerston Landry Leblanc LeDespenser Nesta Poirier Payne Penn Peverel Raynesford Richard Samborne Sanborn Small Sullivan Theriault Tichborne Tisdale Vigneault White Yeo)























Genealogy

Genealogy has been a part-time activity of mine since 1985. I first accumulated information from my family members. Then I wrote some software to keep track of all this information. I soon found that a standard format called GEDCOM had been adopted by the Morman church. I converted my data to this format and was then able to load my data into various existing software programs. Eventually I purchased Family Tree Maker. Using this software I have now amassed over 7000 persons in my database. All of these persons are related by blood or marriage. Most of the ancestors of my wife, Yvette, were Acadian, mainly from the Magdelan Islands (les Isles-de-la-Madeleine). For me, the main genealogy sites on the web are:

1. Ancestry.com
2. Comité d'Action pour le Français en Informatique (CAFI)
3. CyndisList.com
4. Familytreemaker.com
5. FamilyHistory.com
6. FamilySearch.org
7. GenCircles.com
8. Genealogy.com
9. Genealogy.org
10. Globat.org
10. phpGedView.org
11. Planet Québec - Généalogie (données acadienne)
12. RootsWeb.com
13. Descendants of Peter Peck (c1685)
14. Surnameweb.com
15. Census (US,UK,Canada)
16. Gendex.com
17. WorldConnect
18. Family Trees(Cole & Richard)
19. Family Tree: Marion Goatcher (b. 1922)
20. Family Tree: Vic Cole (b. 1918)
21. 50 Generations to Theresa Cole (b.1970)
22. IGI access by parish names
23. My Family Tree at Family Tree Maker Online
24. Family Tree Maker Page
25. Adam to George Vavougious
26. Adam to Tristan Marcoux

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Private Archives

My Private Archives contain numerous books and genealogical artifacts. A list of family video tapes in my private archives follows. If any family member wishes to have one, please let me know. If you have any family video tapes that you would like to send to me, I will be happy to add them to my collection.


Video Tapes (VHS format)

1978 Marion and Vic Cole's 35th Anniversary
1982 Chuck and Vic being Interviewed
198? Trip to the Grand Canyon
1990 Aunt Jess
1992 Jessica Godwin's Birthday
1993 Marion and Vic Cole's 50th Anniversary
1993 Aunt Jessica's Visit to Canada
1995 The Old Goatcher Homestead-revisited
1997 Tommy and Theresa's Wedding - July 26th
1999 Guy and Barbara (Cole)'s Wedding - May 15th
2001 Christmas in California
2002 George Vavougious birth
2002 Visit to Cowansville
2003 Vic and Marion Cole's 60th Wedding Anniversary 2003 Gladys (nee Cole) Paul's Funeral



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Travelling

My work has caused me to travel throughout most of the United States and briefly into Europe and Asia. When Yvette isn't working, she often accompanies me on a business trip which we extend into a mini-vacation. During some winters, I was able to visit my parents at their former winter home in Mesa, Arizona, where quite a few of their friends also go to escape the cold Canadian winters. We have often visited Mexico, usually by car, but once it was on a short cruise from Miami to Can Cun. Monterrey and Mazatlan our our favorite places in Mexico. If we see a casino advertised, we are usually willing to drive a few miles out of our way to test our luck. Fortunately, we know when to stop.... usually. Needless to say, we are chalking up the air miles, pretty soon we mightl have enough to take a trip to Asia.


Reservations:

Sky Route Travel
Southwest
Travelocity






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Surfing the Web

I surf the web to locate interesting information and I create web pages to provide information for others. A list of my favorite sites can be seen by clicking on "Favorites" on the first screen of this web page. There are numerous web-pages to assist the amateur genealogist, but many professional genealogists do not use them because the amateur research is often incomplete. The largest genealogy data-base named Family Search is housed by the Church of Latter Day Saints more commonly known as the mormons. However WorldConnect and Ancestry.Com are also very popular. Web surfers use various search engines such as Yahoo and AltaVista, however I prefer WorldLight because it returns the results from many search engines automatically. The askme.com database is also very interesting because many amateurs (and non-amateurs) offer advice and answers to your every question. I have created a number of web pages (usually on servers that provide free space). Most of my images are housed in my image gallery at ColdFusion Resources. This web page (the one that you are reading now) is located on ColdFusion Resources because they allow standard webpages, not relegated to a subdirectory off a commercial web server. A short list of my favorite links can be accessed via the green frame on the right. WebMD is a web page that supplies medical information. eBay provides an on-line auction sale. Streetmap.co.uk provides free maps of all of England.



Interesting Sites that I've Surfed

Monarch Butterflies - Migration to Mexico
Medical Information at WebMD
Free WebPage at ColdFusion Resources
eBay - Online Auctions
U.K. Street Maps
Mars Roadmap (photographed by the Hubble Telescope)












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Finance


Finance Data
QIS Company

































Images/Photos


Globat (ISP for ColeCanada)
ColeCanada photo albums
eCap example(under development)
CCWeb_News example(under development)
ePhotoAlbum (excellent software to create on-line photo albums)

































Languages (French, Spanish,Esperanto)


Yvette and I have learned how to speak each other's language, so we now speak both french and english. We both did this when we were older than age 18, which is much more difficult than when additional languages are learned as a child. Our two daughters are also bilingual because they attended immersion schools when they were young. Visiting relatives who only spoke the "other" language has helped all of us. We have lived in the Saguenay region of Quebec, the hotbed of separatism and in Saskatchewan where some people think that both Quebec and Saskatchewan should separate from the rest of Canada. I have found that a good way to improve my vocabulary is to read a pocket novel and to circle or underline the words that I don't understand. Every 20 pages or so, I look up the words in a dictionary. I make a special effort to remember the words that occur very frequently. Another way to practise listening to a foreign language is to keep the car radio tuned to a station that broadcasts in the foreign language. We have worn out more than one french/english dictionary in our house. I have now begun to learn spanish, but progress is much slower without a good friend or family member to converse with. Reading a newspaper written in the foreign language also improves one's vocabulary, but for this to succeed, one must first have a good general knowledge of the language.


American Sign Language for all babies
20 Words of Sign Language for all babies
1000 Words of American Sign Language(movies)
4000 Words of American Sign Language(movies)
American Sign Language for all babies
Esperanto - Rules of Grammar
Esperanto - Pronunciation:Explanation
Esperanto - Pronunciation Guide
Esperanto - Pronunciation:Audio Clips
Esperanto - Common English Words
Dictionary: Esperanto to English
Dictionary: Basic English (700 words) to Esperanto
Exercise 01 - English to Esperanto

The following story was written to be used as a learning tool for persons starting to learn Esperanto. The story is broken into 25 chapters. Each chapter is followed by a list of questions and some exercises. This story is presented in a pdf file that can be printed.

Esperanto Story: Gerda1.pdf(145Kb)

The following web site presents the Gerda story accompanied by an Esperanto/English dictionary of the words appearing in the story.

Gerda, a story in Esperanto.


Gvidisto, a second story in Esperanto.


Esperanto to English dictionary
Esperanto Keyboard using Word
Yiddish Expressions
Cockney Rhyming Slang
A_for_orses
English is Tough Stuff
Teen Lingo (in 2004)
Teen Lingo in 2004(if above link fails)
Chat-Room Lingo
Acadian Words & Phrases
Old Acadian Words
Book:La Sagouine by Author:Antonine Maillet
. . . . . ISBN: 2-89406-0483
La Sagouine...Senator Viola Leger
La Sagouine...Senator Viola Leger (if above link fails)
Local Glossary of Web Terms
Recent Glossary of Web Terms

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LINUX


Damn Small Linux (DSL)
Linux Card (some command line examples)
UBUNTU - free LINUX Operating System (on CD)

































Software(Mesa, SS9000, DBPrep, DirAnal, Persons)

A number of special software packages are recommended by Dave Cole because he is permitted to distribute them.

MESA
MESA is a small program that permits the user to locate and view databases that are in the MS-Access format. It lists the tables in the selected database and permits the user to view any of the tables, row by row.

SS9000 (future)
This is a program that permits the user to maintain a set of financial accounts.

DBPrep
This is a program that permits the user to create a table based upon any other table in any MS-Access database. An Entity table can be created which contains a unique set of rows derived from a column in another table, with primary keys being automatically generated in the Entity table. Any table can be joined to an Entity table by inserting the necessary foreign keys to accomplish the join. A table can be spawned from its parent table. Such spawning is normally required when a column contains a range of numbers for example 1995-1997. After spawning this example, the resulting table will contain three rows one for 1995, one for 1996 and one for 1997. Many other functions can be performed using DBPrep.

DirAnal
This is a program that analyses the disk directory on a Windows machine. DirAnal can only be used in conjunction with DBPrep.

Chess
See "My Games" for a downloadable chess game (By Don Cross). It can provide you with a computerized opponent or an 0n-screen chess board and game-recorder for games with remote humans.

Persons
Persons is a program that maintains information about other persons. Such information includes the person's name and address, telephone numbers, email address, employer, date of birth etc. A spread-sheet can be output that contains most of the information in the Persons database. Another feature of this software is that links to a person's mother, father and spouse can be maintained. Deceased relatives can also be entered, but they are usually "hidden" when using the database. I am currently developing functionality to output this genealogical information in the standard GEDCOM format. An empty database named "personMT.mdb" can be downloaded by clicking on "My Downloadable Data" on the right-hand menu. A partially populated database named "person_public_for_family" can also be downloaded. It is only of interest to our close relatives. (It is password protected. The password is the name of the city where my wife was born.) To download the Persons software, click on "Downloadable Software" on the right-hand menu.



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Games, Puzzles

Games

My favorite games are:
Go
Cribbage
Chinese Cribbage
Cinq Cent (500)
Scrabble
Sim-City
Flight Simulator
Chess (see My Games)

Rules of Chinese Cribbage

Chinese Cribbage can be played by any number of players. It is played much more quickly than normal cribbage. Each player uses his own deck of cards. All players deal their cards simultaneously. Dealing is similar to playing solitaire. First of all, four cards are dealt face-up one beside the other, forming 4 piles. Another card is dealt face-down to the right of the other cards. This will become the "crib" hand. Then a second card is dealt face-up on each of the 4 piles and a second card is dealt face-down on the "crib" hand. This continues until there are four cards on each pile. When the player is playing the face-up cards, he/she can place them on any of the existing "face-up" piles. But the number of face-up cards in any pile must never be more than one more than the number in another pile. The players all cut their decks to see who counts first. This person is called the "counter person" There is no pegging in Chinese Cribbage. The "show card" is selected when the player to one's left cuts one's remaining deck of cards (in the same way it is done in Cribbage). This becomes the fifth card for the player's hands. No reference is made to any other person's cards. The game is played as follows. The player to the left of the "counter person" counts his leftmost hand as in cribbage and he pegs his points, The next player to the left counts his leftmost hand and pegs. Each player counts his own points in turn until all of the hands have been counted. The crib hand is counted and pegged in the same manner. Once all of the cards have been counted, the next "counter person" is the person to the left of the current "counter person". The first person to arrive at the end of the cribbage board wins. The strategy is this game occurs when one places the face-up cards on each pile.

Puzzles

By puzzles, I am not referring to jig-saw puzzles, but rather to riddle-like puzzles. To see some of my favorite puzzles, click on the Games/Puzzles menu-item at the right.





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Poems


A number of poems are included in my geneaological database. They are usually listed as additional information about their author. Examples are Marion (nee Goatcher) Cole, Lydie (nee Arseneault) Richard, Phillip Goatcher, Jessica (nee Goatcher) Godwin, Barbara Cole.

Little Girls Growing Up by D. K. Cole





















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Associations























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VIPs


Very Interesting People


Contemporary (Live) VIPs

1. Edward O. Wilson
Edward Wilson is an expert in biology, specializing in Biodiversity. He predicts that within 30 years, four disciplines (genomes, psychology, ecology and classification of species) will be combined into one subject area.

2. Andrew John Wiles
Andrew Wiles is an expert mathematician. He successfully solved Fermat's Last Theorem on October 6, 1994. This theorem had remained unsolved for hundreds of years.

3. Alan Lightman
Alan Lightman is renowned in the sciences and the humanities. This is the only joint appointment in humanities and science at MIT [in 2002]. He has written "The Diagnosis" and many other books.

-The Diagnosis
-Einstein's Dreams

4. Warren Buffet
Mr. Warren Buffet, one of the richest men in the USA, is the primary shareholder of Berkshire Hathaway.

5. Sergei Kopeikin
Dr. Sergei Kopeikin's recent measurements prove that gravity travels at the speed of light.

6. Dean Kamen
Mr. Dean Kamen, an American, who has designed an amazing power generator and water purifier. He instigated a group called US FIRST (pronounced like "us first", that encourages students to be creative and to become contributors to the world of tomorrow. PIRS gatherings appear to have the content of a robotics science fair and the ambience of a Rock Concert. Attendees don't just watch, they participate in the action.

7. Philip Kuekes
Dr. Philip Kuekes, an American scientist working for HP, and his colleagues have built the world's first electronic circuit with tiny switches made of special molecules. Electronic circuits have been doubling in density and doubling in speed every 18 months since 1970. But a physical limit is being reached. Dr. Kuekes team has grown the carbon molecules forming the lower and upper grids which function as the wires. Then some special molecules named "rotaxanes" are sprayed on the grids. The "rotaxanes" are the switches. The time-frame to market for the "rotaxanes" could be 5 to 10 years.

8. Stephen Hawking


Ancient(and some recently deceased) VIPs

1. Dr. Linus Carl Pauling Dr. Pauling won two Nobel prizes:

1962 NOBEL Peace Prize

1954 NOBEL Prize: Chemistry

But many people know of Dr. Pauling because of his non-technical views on prevention of sickness. For example, his nutritional medicine e.g. massive doses of Vitamin C.


2. Leonardo da Vinci

3. Hammurabi is known for the Code of Hammurabi (code of laws) that formed the basis of his judicial system.

Code of Hammurabi

4. Confucius

5. Socratees

6. King Solomon, son of David

7. Edgar Cayce

8. Albert Einstein

9. Nietzsche

10. Julius Caesar

11. George Bernard Shaw

12. Thomas Edison

13. Galileo Galilei

14. Guglielmo Marconi

15. Michelangelo Buonarroti

16. Marco Polo

17. William Shakespeare

18. Johann Gutenberg

19. Rene Descartes

20. Charles Darwin

21. Karl Marx

22. Sigmund Freud


Wonders


Wonders of the World


7 Wonders of the (Ancient) World

70 Wonders of the (Modern) World

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Software for Genealogy:PAF(free)























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Software for Household Directory(free)


Persons

Persons is a program that maintains information about other persons. Such information includes the person's name and address, telephone numbers, email address, employer, date of birth etc. A spread-sheet can be output that contains most of the information in the Persons database. Another feature of this software is that links to a person's mother, father and spouse can be maintained. Deceased relatives can also be entered, but they are usually "hidden" when using the database. I am currently developing functionality to output this genealogical information in the standard GEDCOM format. An empty database named "Persons Address Book Data...zipped(empty)" can be downloaded by clicking on "My Downloadable Data" on the right-hand menu. A partially populated database named "Persons family addresses data...zipped" can also be downloaded. It is only of interest to our close relatives. (It is password protected. The password is the name of the city where my wife was born.) The first of these will provide you with a database named PersonMT.mdb, the second is named Person.mdb. Again, to download the Persons software, click on "My Downloadable Software" on the right-hand menu.

Installation Instructions

. . . as of January 20, 2002

A Using the right-hand menu, select My Downloadable Software then "Persons5"
B Unzip Persons5 into a subdirectory (eg your C:\temp directory)
C Double click on Setup and answer the questions as any other installation
D Using the right-hand menu, select My Downloadable Data then "Persons Address Book Data...zipped(empty)"
......(this is an empty database for the Persons software)
E Unzip PersonMT.zip into subdirectory C:\data\persons
F If necessary, rename "PersonMT.mdb" to "Person.mdb"
G Select "Start", then "Programs"
H Then double click on "Persons"
I Follow the on-screen instructions.
J For assistance contact me at my email address "davidcole3@aol.com"

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Software for Catalog Mapping:www.EDImap.com






















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Software for MS-Access Table Viewing:mesa(free)






















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Software to play Chess(free)


This chessgame lets you play against the computer or against a human.

When playing against another human, this software provides a chess game

on the computer screen, but each human needs to email its moves to the

other human. When playing against the computer, you define how much time

the computer is allowed to think before moving. An optional voice can

announce the moves through the computer's speakers. This software was

written by

Don Cross



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20,000 Recettes francaises


Ces recettes sont ecrites en francais. Entre autres, elles comprennent

des recettes et quebecoises et acadiennes.

J'ai hate d'essayer la recette quebecoise: La tourtière à pépère ©ADQ.

(These recipes are all written in french,

with a mixture of imperial and metric measures.)

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Photo Gallery 001


Pour voir les photos, cliquez sur:

To see the photos, click on:

gallery001



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Caption Adder (Testing)




















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