The Stadig genealogy project is a project I had been considering for some time. Leveraging the technology of the web to allow the Stadig families to maintain their genealogy information on births, marriages, deaths, and happenings, bios, stories etc. I considered a plain HTML page, Wiki, CMS, Blog, but none of the platforms met the unique needs required for referencing and displaying genealogical records or provided and easy way to perform edits, adds, and updates. In all cases reporting was fixed or extremely limited not allowing great interaction with all the data. Finally, forward compatibility a key requirement since if you are going to compile a lot of data you want to be able to move the data to new applications and integrate with technologies as they ripen.

I see many posts on message boards and blogs from Stadig individuals looking to connect, research and identify distant relatives from the present and past.  My desire is the Stadig Family Genealogy website will serve as a hub for this function and eventually provide an authoritative record of the family.

On August 18, 2008 I published what I determined to be the best solution to provide a level of interactivity, security, and flexibility that will evolve.  Please check it out and let me know what you think of the Stadig Family Genealogy Website http://ancestors.stadig.org

The site core code for the Stadig genealogy is based upon PHPGEDVIEW an open source project based on current web and GEDCOM standards. This code is under active development and therefore new features that simplify and or expand functionality should come about regularly. The site works on the basis of managing individual records or I records, and their relationship to F or family records. Data within the GEDCOM may be displayed and viewed in a multitude of ways depending on the viewers purpose and the system serves as a great research tool for any genealogical hound. Facts, Sources and Media are all simply tied to the records I and F records in the Stadig Genealogy database.

My Stadig genealogy data is based on the work done by my fathers uncle Clinton Stadig, Christian Christian and Nathan L. Silver and many, many, others their original work is available here at Stadig.org in a flat HTML file.

If you email me with any updates or corrections I would be glad to add them into the new accordingly, or please register at the new site and update them yourself. The benefit of registering is you will be able to participate in the message boards and see all the Stadig genealogy records, print reports, print lists in a useful interactive way. The data in the new site is maintained in a standard GEDCOM format therefore it is compatible with most Genealogy applications and should be forward compatible without much alteration required if any. So there won’t be any need to  re-enter the record by hand as I have done.

The story of the Stadig Genealogy goes back to the 1600s when it is said that the current Swedish King awarded Olof Jonsson Olofsson with the new surname Stadig for his courage, bravery and leadership in militray service. At the time many of the peoples were named similarly… Jon Olofsson, Karin Jonsdotter, Olof Jonsson, so the name base was thin and confusing to say the least. The Stadig family immigrated to Maine in the 1800s in New Sweden, Maine USA.

At present I see there are over 400 Surnames coming from the original Olof L. Stadig. There is a healthy lineage that other family branches may benefit from in there research on the site as well. I will post my partial listing of individuals here to assist the search engines in finding names like Stadig, Kruger, Rasmussen, Norman, Olivenbaum, Raa, Peterson, Matson, Johnson and others. This hopefully will elevate the website in Stadig name space searches results and genealogy name space search results.

So please check the new website Stadig Family Genealogy at http://ancestors.stadig.org

Index – Identifier – Lastname – Firstname

Last month when we thought is was to be sunny we headed up to Summit Mt Adams and were shot down. (See Mt Madison Story) Today Rosie and I returned to get what we left, this would be “another day”. A high pressure system parked over New England so the forecast was to be exceptional. We started up the Valley way trail leaving the Appalachia parking lot at 9am. We moved quite steadily to get above tree line as early as possible. The trail from the parking lot to the Madison Spring Hut is 3.5 miles

.  We made the Hut about 1pm, refilled our camel backs, had a quick snack and moved on for our goal the summit of Mt Adams 5774′. Mt Adams is the 2nd highest mountain east of the Rockies with Mt Washington being the tallest at 6288′.

lI picked up a Lowe 75AW Toploader camera case recently . After my last hike up Madison i had seen a guy with what looked like a camera bag on his chest and did some research and picked up a second hand one from Ebay. I was eager to try it out. It worked very well allowing quick easy access to camera and provides great protection. I love the protection, expandability and various ways the bag can be strapped, very comfortable to walk with. . So for you curious types that is whats on my chest.

We left the Hut and started up the Airline trail, we had a solid mile of ground to cover and almost half of it was to be boulder walking, which isn’t hard, just a little tedious. The weather was superbly sunny with an occasional slight breeze.  We stayed very steady trying to get to the summit to be able spend as much time as we could there.  The views above tree line on days like this are hard to describe .

When we made the summit we had a snack and soaked in the views.  There were swarms of these weird bugs I had never seen along with a few black flies mixed in for good measure. We would get a slight breeze and they would go away, then it would stop and they were back. The hike in is so long and has so much elevation gain, it doesn’t afford much time to hang out unless you’re staying in a Hut or Tenting back below treeline.

We hung out on the summit for almost an hour and decided we would head off avoid the bugs and checkout some sights . Looking at the map and surrounding area, we decided to go back to the hut by taking Lowe’s Path to the Thunderstorm junction to The Gulfside Trail, to the Valley Way. This would be a little longer than the way we came-up but should be easier walking with less boulder walking and potentially faster.

By this point it’s about 3pm and we have about 4.8 miles to make the car. As we came down off the summit I took a large step and noticed my right knee became twingy. We moseyed along soaking in the day over to the Thunderstorm Junction and my knee was not improving, but was getting worst.  We snapped some pics at the massive cairn and moved on our way. I told Rose and she had some Ibuprofen I downed a few and we marched on.

I was concerned knowing the terrain what we had to go down, my condition and the daylight left. It was going to be a long slow painful trip. The Gulfside Trail has several sections where the trail has been worked to where it is almost smooth like cobblestones. I believe it was Edmunds and Lowe who worked at placing all the stones just right to fill the sections in and made for a welcomed rest

We kept walking and made the Valley Way about  4:30. After about a mile we ran into another couple heading UP. Speaking to them they were heading up and coming down. It was maybe 5:30 at the time and way late to be going the wrong way without tent or room at the hut. Rose and I passed a couple of the Appalachian trail workers Sherpa packing supplies up. We had seen them coming down in the morning with the racks and cardboard. It.s amazing to see what they haul.

We made it back to the lot at just after 8pm. My hands were sore and blistered from using my poles so heavily to move my weight and maintain footing.  I worked much harder coming down that going up that’s for sure.  The tally for the day was 9.7 Miles and leaves only Mt Washington as the last of the Presidential Range peaks for me to Hike. I believe when the day comes i will go up the Amonoosinic Ravine trail to the summit and down the Jewel trail.