In this post, I’ll talk about the technical details of how I am generating this website. I am a software engineer by trade, so of course I’ve come up with the geekiest way possible to build this site. If you aren’t interested in the geeky details, read no further! Instead, why not go explore some of the families I have been researching? I’ve been wanting to build this site for some time, but I don’t usually develop websites, and most of the work I have done has been with Wordpress.

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The Idris Project is my experiment to present the information I have collected about my ancestors and extended family over the years. The project is named after my grandfather Idris Charles Baker, pictured to the left, and also after my father, Robert Idris Baker. I started researching my family several years ago after I found and rescued several boxes of hundreds of family photographs that my mother was storing in her garage and was planning to throw out.

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