How to Make Changes in the Family Tree

Hello! Sorry for not being able to reply right away to all those who have been asking how to make changes in the details of those in the Isorena Family Tree. Anyways, here are instructions.

1. Go to the link for our Family Tree at http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/isorena.

2. Click on Edit, located at the top right portion of the page.

3. You will be taken to a page where you have to enter the User ID and Password, which is "isorena" for both. Click on LogIn next and make sure you are under the Names tab.

4. Choose the name of the person you want to change/add info, then click on Edit.

5. For the next page, you may either change/add Information and/or Contact. When done, just click on Update "name".

6. If you want to add a name, you may do so by either clicking on Male or Female (depending on the gender of the person you want to add).

7. Do not forget to click on Logout when you are done making changes.

Shoot me an email at ring.isorena@gmail.com if there are any questions. Enjoy!!! :)

Happy New Year!!!

Just wanted to drop by a quick greetings of Happy New Year to everyone!!! Hope your holidays have been a blast!!! God bless!

Letter from One of Us!

Hi guys! I received a letter from one of us, Lourdes Romans, who I believe is technically my Tita. I want to share what she has written to me...

"I WAS TOLD BY BABY ABOUT THE ISORENA CLAN. IT WAS VERY INFORMATIVE. I FOR ONE IS ONE OF THOSE CLAN. ALTHOUGH I HAVE BEEN AWAY FOR LONG TIME. BUT I STILL KNOW WHERE MY ROOTS ARE. I WAS THERE LAST OCTOBER VISITING MY SISTER LEONOR AND MY BROTHER DOMING. I WAS ABLE TO VISIT WITH TANTANG PELO AND TIA CHARING. I'M SORRY I DID NOT HAVE TIME TO MEET ALL OF YOU. BUT I'M GLAD SOMEWHERE OUT THERE I HAVE SOME RELATIVES. AS YOU HAVE HEARED PROBABLY I HAVE MY FAMILY HERE IN THE STATES. I HAVE GROWN KIDS BOTH ARE MARRIED. MY DAUGHTER MARIA HAS FOUR KIDS TWO BOYS AND TWO GIRLS. ANYWAY IF I HAVE THE CHANCE I WILL POST MY FAMILY PICTURES IN THE WEBB. MERRY CHRISTMAS AND A HAPPY NEW YEAR TO ALL OUR CLANS."

-- LOURDES ISORENA ROMANS.

Happy Holidays!!!

Updates, et al.

Hello guys! Really sorry if it has been a while since I was able to write here. I missed a lot of birthdays so Belated Happy Birthday to all those who just had their birthdays! Sorry, I'm just a busy bee at work. :P

Anyways, as you may all have heard, Catanduanes was badly hit by the latest typhoon, Yoyong. I was not able to catch up well with the news but as far as I know they were under Signal #4 so it must have been pretty bad and I think the rescue team took a couple of days before they could reach the island. I haven't asked how our relatives there like Tita Mining and Lolo Pilo are doing but let's all hope they are ok. I know typhoons are common in the island but if it reaches up to Signal #4, then it must've been pretty dangerous.

There is a website for Catanduanes, I believe the URL is http://www.catanduanes.net so maybe you guys can check this out and see if we can help in any way. This site is quite a cool one, lotsa info about the place so I'm sure you all will enjoy it. :) I've also put up a link at the side.

As for the Isorena Family Tree, it is temporarily situated at http://www.tribalpages.com/tribes/isorena, link is also at the side. As you can see the data are still very incomplete, coz I have very limited knowledge, I just based them all from what Ate Joy sent me. But on a side note, I enjoyed making this Family Tree coz it familiarized me with a lot of our relatives. Like I only hear about Dad talking about "Lolo Bruno" all the time but I never really understood (or cared to know) before as to how did he became my Lolo or Dad's Lolo so now I understand that he is the "main" lolo and I did not know my Lolo Pilo had so many siblings. Hehehe. Quite sadly 'though, the information about the younger generation is still way incomplete so here's a CALL FOR HELP to complete the info listed in our family tree! I need volunteers, I'll teach you how to work on the site, which is pretty easy. Or if you don't wanna work with the program, just help me in researching/gathering more info coz we also need stuff like birthdates, birthplaces, marriage dates, date of death, etc. etc. Maybe in the future we can put up photos too!

What else, oh, hello to all those who have been dropping a line or two in the tag board! And to "ginintuang puso" aka golden heart as per Ate Be, hehe, pakilala ka daw. Ate Be, belated Happy Thanksgiving and thanks a lot for visiting my site! I haven't been able to write often coz I'm just too tired all the time. Tita Mimi, pls go online whenever you can, need to ask you something.

And so, to everyone else, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to y'all! Labas naman tayo dito sa Manila, pls? :)

Tata,

Ring

Happy 20th Birthday, Butzy!!!

All,

Butzy turned 20 today so let's all greet him a Happy Happy Birthday! Don't forget to send your gifts too. Hehe.

Butzy,

You're officially an adult today but if you wanna insist on being a teen, you tell people you're "twenteen" when asked for your age. Aight? :D

Am I correct in assuming the next celebrators are my Mom and Tita Mimi this coming October 4? Please e-mail me for your birthdays! I'm also working on the Family Tree and will update you guys soonest.

Regards to everyone! God bless y'all.

Ring

Cousins' Night Out

Following are some photos taken during our night out together, while Ate Baby was still here in Manila. Unfortunately, we missed the dinner but we made it to the gimik at a bar called Ratsky's afterwards. I was not able to take lots of photos, actually I only got 6 and here they are. Enjoy! :)

Isorena Family Reunion Photos

Hi Guys! It's me again. For lack of time to download, edit and post the photos taken during the reunion, I just decided to post the link/site where you can view them. Please go to: http://www.webshots.com and click on LogIn located at the upper right corner of the page. Username: jhune0316 and Password is 14344. When you're already in, click on My Photos and then Isorena's Family Reunion at the next page. There are about 50 photos stored there so I hope you guys enjoy. *Ate Be, I hope you don't mind that I posted the username and password for the account.*

Also, I would really appreciate it if Ate Baby can post something about her experience when she visited the Philippines last month? Was it last month? Or the month before that? I don't remember the exact date, I'm pretty bad with names and dates. Sorry. Or any volunteer who'd write about the reunion itself. We arrived late so I can't share much. Come'on, for the benefit of those who weren't able to attend. :) God bless y'all!

Ring

How to Post

Hi Guys!

Really sorry for all the delay of this website. Anyways, first off, for those of you who are new to this, this website of ours is not really a website, but a weblog, or just a blog. If you're wondering what a blog is, basic explanation is, it's "a frequent, chronological publication of personal thoughts and web links." It is often a mixture of what is happening in a person's life (in our case, our family's life).

I thought of making a blog instead of a website because a blog is more dynamic and it's possible for all the members of this blog to post anything they wanna post-- letters, kwentos, pictures (this is a little complicated but I will teach you guys how to do it in the next entries), forwarded messages, inspirational quotes, angst, happiness, anything under the sun.

Normally, a blog is personal, just like mine, which is at www.rosirea.tk (plugging to, hehe). But there are also blogs for groups, and this is how the Isorena Clan Blog is gonna be. There are also many different types of blogging websites but I chose to use Blogger because this is where my other blog is also located. By now, you might have received an invitation from Blogger to sign-up for an account with them, so you can be part of this the Isorena Clan Blog. I've initially sent invites to the following: Bonzai, Butzy, Pinky, Onin, Oyii, Tita Mimi, Ate Baby, Tito Pepe, Tita Mining, and my Dad (Tito Geric). I have limited knowledge of other relatives' email addies so if you know any other addresses we can add, please send me an email at ring.isorena@gmail.com.

So after signing-up for an account with Blogger, how do you post? Here are the steps:

1. Go to www.blogger.com and log-in/sign-in to your account.

2. You will be taken to the Dashboard, which lists all of your active blogs. For your cases, you most probably have only one Blog listed, and that is The Isorena Clan so you may click on that link.

3. The next page will display all the current posts of the blog. If you are going to post a new entry, just click on "Create a new post" and next page will display the page where you can start writing.

4. When you're done, click on "Publish Post" and the next page should say "Your blog published successfully."

5. Next, click on "Republish Entire Blog" and that's it, you can now go back to www.isorena.tk or http://isorena.blogspot.com and your new post has been reflected.

So enjoy and I hope to see more posts coming from you guys. :)

Ring