This site has developed over many years as a repository of some of the things in which I have been involved: photography, computer programming and genealogy. After many years of accumulated clutter, I am finally attempting to give it a more modern and clean appearance while preserving all of the information that has also been accumulating.  In doing this I also need to retain the old structure underneath the new appearance so that all of those links to the site now residing in search engines are not lost.

The old photos here obviously were not taken by me but were from my family collection or collected from people willing to share their old photos. Some are of the early days of my hometown of Okeechobee, Florida, and others are of people in the genealogical material pre 1930. A few of the old photos are from government archives. The photos taken by me range from the 1960's to the present and are a tiny selection that I think might be of interest to others of the many thousands I have taken. Many are of New Orleans when I lived there or when I visited after moving. Others are of the more recent hurricane damage in Florida, New Orleans and Mississippi.

Most of the material in the genealogy section has been contributed by others and credit is given to them in that section. In addition to the textual material, there are also some pre 1930 photographs there.
Similarly the history material is the contribution of others. It deals mainly with early Florida and West Central Florida in particular. There is a collection of newspaper articles about the Okeechobee area from the 1910s to the 1930s, where one can see real estate ads that were even more outrages than those of the recent real estate buying frenzy.

My interest in computer programming is manifested in the Useful Things sections. In the future I hope to add a section for downloadable programs.

One of my favorite sections is the Large multi-Level Images & Maps section.  Here you can zoom in to see small details or out for the overview of many historic maps, some overlayed on the current map of the area. This section also contains "zoomable" photos  including panoramas.

A combination of my interest in photography, history and computer programming resulted in the Searchable Index to the Burgert Brothers Online Photography Collection of Tampa Photos that is in the Photo Section.

 
William LaMartin
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