Numunu Family Tree

I’ve been working on playing with timeline.JS to create a tentative timeline of the family tree I want to create. The program seems easy enough to maneuver through and I like the results… the pictures are the hard part.

What I have found is that I have to have a flicker account to make the visual components a reality. This poses two problems. 1) the pictures that I have at this time are not my pictures. I do not want to use pictures that families have not approved! 2) the pictures that were used in the initial family tree that I hope to work with are of horrible quality.

So I have a couple of options. 1) I can reach out to family representatives and ask permission to use the existing photos from the initial family tree. Hopefully, the family members will approve of me using the photographs, or best case scenario they will have better originals that I can scan and use in place of the screenshots of photos that have been copied over and over until they are almost unrecognizable. or 2) I can do some deep digging through the Oklahoma historical society, the Western History collections, or the Comanche museum to try and find old photographs that I can hopefully get digital copies of to use.

I hope that soon I will be able to use a higher quality photograph that I can edit a little to clean up, lighten, or whatever so that for the family tree I can provide the best pictures possible. I truly hope that this visual work will keep the project interesting! We shall see.

I have had some trouble adding the photographs that I have on hand, this stinks because I wanted to embed the first two slides that I am working with. Like I said, timeline.JS has provided the baseline professional-looking timeline for the birth of Wis-sis-che, and I went straight to the second and third children since I have photos of their allotment records. Unfortunately, I have not been able to figure out how to make those pictures accessible through flicker or embed the code! I suppose that is the crux of this tool, it produces amazing looking timelines, but can be a little difficult to put into action.