Thomas Murphy
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Thomas Murphy

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Thomas Murphy
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Biography

1942 Born as pre-baby-boomer.

1960 Graduated KHS.. also attended by Wolf Blitzer.

1961 Wrote memory exercise code for the Gemini project.

1964 RPI BSEE

1980 Wrote Genealogy software on an Apple II+ using DOS 3.3

1992 Retired from IBM

1997 Welcomed Dalai Lama as Poughkeepsie Town Supervisor.

2000 Entered complete retirement with concern for Towns Y2K preparedness.

2007 Traveled to Sanday, Orkney, Scotland to photo ancestor graves

2013 Figured out ancestors likely had no Orkney connection. Kilmarnock, here I come!!

See [1] for more of the story.

or Murphy-3114 09:07, 9 January 2013 (EST)


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Looking fr Cork: Murphy&Obrien fr Kilmurs Scotland: Muir Parker Paterson
posted by Thomas Murphy
Thomas, How Interesting about your computer coding for genealogy software .That's neat that you met the Dalai Lama too !
posted by Maggie N.
Hi Thomas, Looks like you are getting a good start ! I confirmed you as a member so you can build your tree .

Some tips here to begin : HOW TO USE WIKITREE or check out the WikiTree video that a member created . Maggie N

posted by Maggie N.
Hi! Glad you found WikiTree!

If you have questions getting started, someone may be able to point you in the right direction at our G2G forums or you might want to check out the introductory WikiTree video that a member created.

If you would like to contribute your family's tree and you agree with our Honor Code, post a comment here on your profile and we would be glad to add you to our wikitree community.

Maggie N

posted by Maggie N.

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