Hello all and welcome to the new family website. I decided a couple of weeks ago that it was time to move the site unto the newest technologies. This decision was based partly upon the fact that our father Bill Mathis was having issues logging in because of some bug and Gail was having issues with old gallery code. This doesn't suprise me considering the old site was about 4 years old and had just been copied over from my old server to this new server. You may already know this, but the old site was hosting out of my house while this new one resides in a data center on a rather powerful web server with plenty of speed for viewing photos and videos.

The idea of this site is to have a central location to store family photos, videos, news and genealogy that is backed up to multiple locations regularly. This keeps family data safe from being lost. Those of you who have helped work on this site in the past know that I have been able to migrate all of the data through about four site upgrades now, which I think is great.

I have already migrated the photos, calendar data and genealogy over and I am working on migrating the video and audio files. (I just need to write a couple of database scripts to populate the database for the video and audio clips). I am converting all of the videos to flash and they will be viewable in embedded flash players.

Thanks for dropping in and please let me  know if you would like to add content so that I can get account privleges setup for you.

Please register for an account to view photos, videos, genealogy and more. Those of you who had previously registered on the old site should be able to use your old username and password to login. If you don't remember your login just reach out to me and I can help.