CUKKEMANE

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Cukkemane Family Tree Building

The building of our family tree "Cukkemane" started off as a hobby to me. My upbringing and contact with various family members has helped me in collecting information about our family since my high school days. During the rainy seasons in Virajpet, we used to sit around a charcoal stove enjoying the heat and chat on various topics & things. My father used to narrate various interesting experiences about his past that has helped me in knowing about our family. He had given the basic information on which I started my hand written project, unknowingly the Hobby became a PASSION and it has now taken this shape.
I published our family tree with the MyHeritage.com web site. Since it is only a hobby I chose to publish under the "Free Version" of the web site. Then the site had offered space upto 500 persons and I thought that it was more than enough.

The first family site http://www.myheritage.com/site-36014011/cukkemane-web-site was published on 14/08/2008 with 189 persons. The response to this site from family members and also from un-expected corners i.e. from outsider to the family gave me more encouragement. There were some errors like depiction of wrong photos against the names, date taken as month i.e. 2nd April is represented as 4th February, etc. these informations needed to be modified or changed in the tree, which I could not do it without the help from the website, which was not available in the free version. This resulted in publishing second family tree http://www.myheritage.com/site-43518311/cukkemane-kakotuparambu-web-site with the same persons with corrected information. The Cheyyandane branch (Motte-mane) members gave excellent support and extended all the information they knew helping me in linking the Kakotuparambu branch with Cheyyandane branch which resulted in extending the number of persons in the family tree to 373 in the second family site.
I was pretty happy that I was well within the limit of 500 persons and the future additions will not be a problem. However this was not to be. MyHeritage web site gave a notice that they are reducing the number of persons in a family tree to 250 and allocating additional space for other informations. This has forced me to think of alternatives and decided on publishing the different branches of the family on separate sites within MyHeritage.com. One of the satisfying information is that the already published family tree will be left as it is provided no further changes are published in it.
So I published my third family tree http://www.myheritage.com/site-72503561/cukkemane-mugooru-branch on 21 October 2009 and fourth tree http://www.myheritage.com/site-74175611/cukkemane-cheyyandane-branch on 14 Nov. 2009. Mugooru Branch has about 214 names and Cheyyandane Branch has about 173 names. I wish that there may not be further decrease in the numbers by the MyHeritage in the near future.
I have plans of publishing the Saravu Branch of our family shortly. Thereafter I intend to take up the remaining branch of Narasajjanamane Branch.