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Purpose of This Project
The purpose of this project is to carefully study the Luedtke side of my family history and work toward understanding exactly how I am genetically connected to the Luedtke line. This includes reviewing records, comparing family trees, contacting researchers, and collaborating with DNA cousins and tree owners who may have useful evidence or documentation.
This project is also meant to help verify the people already on my family tree. I want to do that slowly and carefully by comparing public records, research notes, family tree evidence, and communication with other researchers. The goal is not to guess, but to build a stronger and more accurate record of how the Luedtke line connects.
Objective of the 9 Day Research Project
I will be using a Python application to organize and support a 9 day research project. That application will help me keep track of research notes, working family tree entries, blog text, and contact drafts for people who own family trees or who appear to be DNA cousins connected to the Luedtke side.
During this project, I plan to contact researchers and cousins in an effort to get closer to the truth of how I connect to the Luedtke family. I also want to use this process to verify the people on my tree with better evidence and more careful collaboration.
Why pages-index.json Exists
The file pages-index.json exists so that I can maintain a simple, organized index of the public pages connected to this project. As I create additional HTML documents for the research effort, I can add them to that JSON file, and they will then show up on the research-week.html page.
This makes the project easier to manage because I do not have to manually rewrite the research-week.html page every time I add a new page. Instead, I can create a new document, add one entry to pages-index.json, and the page will appear in the index shown on the main research-week page.
In other words, pages-index.json acts as a central list of project pages. That helps support the full 9 day research project by making it easier to add new research pages, keep them visible, and give readers one place to find the growing set of public-safe documents.
How This Fits With the Python App
My Python app is being used to help manage the research process. It supports my working notes, daily blog material, family tree review, and draft communication with researchers and cousins. As the app helps produce or organize new public-safe pages, those pages can be added to pages-index.json.
This means the app and the site can work together. The Python app helps me build and organize the research, while the website helps me publish and keep track of public-safe project pages that support collaboration and documentation.
Project Summary
This project is focused on identifying and verifying my connection to the Luedtke line through careful research, collaboration, and documentation. The website structure, including research-week.html and pages-index.json, exists to support a growing group of public-safe pages that can be used throughout this 9 day research effort.
Sensitive private information has been scrubbed or removed. This page was prepared as part of the Luedtke research project workflow. #jQ1