Defranceski
I research the families behind the Defranceski name and seven others, grading every claim by the evidence under it. I also build iPhone apps.
- 8family archives
- 3shorter family pages
- 9apps on the App Store
- 1atlas of record offices
Family histories
Each archive states how it knows what it says: a record read, an inference, family memory, or DNA. Living people are named and nothing more.
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BlaževićSenj, CroatiaParish registers read page by page, and the Kosina household in full.Open archive →
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BooyzenCape Colony, TransvaalThe Booyzen, Kolbe and Mountjoy lines, from baptism registers to estate files.Open archive →
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D’ArcyBristol, Staffordshire, LondonIncluding the voyage of the General Hewitt.Open archive →
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DefranceskiSvetvinčenat, IstriaA one-name study of the surname.Open archive →
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FalcoArienzo, CampaniaA line rebuilt from parish and civil acts, followed to Australia.Open archive →
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LerenaMontevideo, Rosario, the CapeOne name across Uruguay, Argentina and South Africa.Open archive →
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LuwinskiSzubin, Berlin, Lourenço MarquesPoland, Germany and Mozambique, with the DNA evidence set out openly.Open archive →
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MazzaCalabria, Sicily, QueenslandFrom Scilla and Piedimonte Etneo to Queensland.Open archive →
The story, for children
Our Family
Ten families, four continents, four cousins in Brisbane. One road through every place the family came from.
Open the story →
On the App Store
Nine apps live, all published under my own name, and a tenth almost there.
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Sky Warden
Reads many forecast models at once, ECMWF, GFS, ICON, UKMO and more, and reconciles them into a single forecast.
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Fuel Saver
The cheapest fuel near you, ranked for the cars you drive. Live prices across NSW, Queensland and Western Australia.
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Kneady Pizza
Tell it the style and when you want to eat. It works backwards to a timed, step-by-step dough plan.
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Grub
Spot litter or a hazard, snap a photo, raise a “muck”, and clean it up together.
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LEXIS
A word game that moves. Steer a falling tile and spell words instead of clearing rows.
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VEXED!
A grid, one rule you will keep breaking, and vowels that are both your best resource and your biggest threat.
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TraceLine!
One line, one finger. Do not lift, do not cross. Fill the board before the clock runs out.
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Monkey Madness: Banana Blast
A colourful arcade dodge game for kids and the grown-ups playing next to them.
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ERP Galaxy
An offline reference for the SAP table universe, for consultants, data architects and ABAP developers.
Spool Almost there
Stitches your Live Photos and clips into a stabilised, blended movie or GIF. Swipe to choose, and it finds the best bits for you.
Online Support and Education Tools
Tools for learning how things work, and for looking after your own data.
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Loam! Live
A crafting game where every recipe carries a source you can open, and the game tells you which of its answers are science and which are stories.
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Photo Clinic Live
A free, private Mac app that gets every photo out of the shoebox: it repairs Google Takeout dates, locations and captions, and watches over Apple Photos.
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Stock Soup In use
Stock analysis with ASX announcements, news and watchlists.
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Cooee In development
Is this number a scam? Phone-number risk assessment that shows its working, every number cited to the organisation’s own page.
The workshop
Tools I use to do the research, and things still being made.
Archive KitOpen source
The shared components and checks behind the family archives.
ChronicarumIn development
An interactive map of significant sites with an empire-border timeline, 500 BC to 1920 AD.
On the bench: apps and games in progress
- Quack Attack
- RollVerse
- Graviton
- Lumen
- Duck ’n’ Roll
- Sprocket
- Fernby
- Mise
- Dummy Lab
- Kick the Bucket List
Shorter family pages
Single-page histories of other families.