News
WEBSITE CHANGES
October 2, 1998
This web site officially went on line through the work of Gary Warner, then Webmaster.
This page shows site updates as applied over the past year. Link changes and minor corrections are not included. Link deletions or additions are included. Note that items which are date sensitive may disappear after the date has passed, thus possibly breaking a link from this page.
September 7, 2008
Corrected some links and information, and deleted some duplicates, for the maps page.
September 6, 2008
Added minutes of our 2008 Convention meeting linked from the Society Information page (members only).
September 4, 2008
Updated list of directors and their positions on the Contact Page. Added Treasurer Guidelines and revised Budget Guidelines to the Society Information Page (members only).
August 30, 2008
Added list of missing persons (Polish and Volhynian German refugees) as posted in the Saratov Volkszeitung newspaper c.1915/16. Updated Convention Page with GRHS convention location for 2009.
August 20, 2008
Updated convention page.
July 27, 2008
Announced updates to both Master Pedigree and SGGEE001r databases.
June 28, 2008
Added the June 25 Newsletter (Members Only). Corrected translation link on 15 German pages.
June 17, 2008
Added a link on the Members Only Index for exclusive use of the Directors to access documents and other materials necessary for operating the Society.
June 11, 2008
Updated the convention page with speakers and topics.
June 01, 2008
Installed June, 2008 Journal (Members Only).
May 25, 2008
Added burials info for St. Matthew's Lutheran Church in Benton Harbor, Michigan. Added Russian translation example for marriage with both participants widowed. Added Expert Quiz to the Russian translation pages.
April 18, 2008
Updated the Russian Poland Lutheran Parishes page with corrected links for Wischtitten and new link for Godlewo parishes.
April 16, 2008
Uploaded the March 2008 Journal (members only)
April 13, 2008
Master Pedigree Database now contains 434,400 names (an increase of over 12,000 since November of 2007). Various pages changed to show that amount. (members only)
April 12, 2008
Changed the home page. Added new Soundex description page. Added soundex search capability to Master Pedigree Search Page.
March 18, 2008
On the Databases page, changed the "Cemeteries" header to "North American Parishes and/or Cemeteries". Added burial records for St. Matthew's Lutheran in Benton Harbor, Michigan.
March 16, 2008
Added Given Names Quiz page to the Russian translation helps page.
March 15, 2008
Added the Dec 07, 2007 and the March 14, 2008 Newsletters (Members Only). Also updated or deleted translation service links on both English and German versions of the Translation Pages.
March 13, 2008
Added agenda details to Convention Page.
March 7, 2008
Added new data Submittal Standards with link on the Membership page.
February 24, 2008
Updated information on the Convention Page.
February 4, 2008
Uploaded the December 2007 Journal (Members Only)
December 16,2007
Updated the Job Central - Part B (members only) page to reflect current status of projects and to add columns showing what materials are included in our databases. Updated the list of Directors on our Contacts page. Deleted link on the Translation page to a Russian / Polish dictionary which no longer functioned.
December 8, 2007
Updated the PRI search page (members only) so that you can now search independently with surname and given name rather than just the name as a whole. The ability to do this required extensive reparsing of the single database column containing these names into two columns and we thank Gary Warner for his time and effort in doing so.
November 25, 2007
Added new examples to Russian Translation page and modified some existing ones.
November 18, 2007
Added links for the new WIKI pages being built by the Koenigs in Germany. Also a new link to the story of a historical clock at Knott's Berry Farm that was built by a Volhynian German clock maker with the Dreger surname.
November 12, 2007
Added a quiz page link to the Russian Translations page for testing translation skills.
November 11, 2007
On the Russian translations page, changed town name examples from jpg to pdf images. On various pages, changed reference to numbers of entries in our Master Pedigree Database file to 422,300 - a reduction of around 19,000 due to ongoing merging of duplicate names.
November 09, 2007
Installed September issue of the Journal (members only).
October 25, 2007
Updated Russian Translation Page and images.
September 23, 2007
Updated Convention News page. Added revised Renewal Forms (German and English).
September 1, 2007
Added correct pages for 1869 listing of Zhitomir records for 1869.
August 25, 2007
- updated Convention News page including addition of pictures from 2006 and 2007 conventions
- added minutes of 2007 AGM (members only) as well as info for directors on the "directors only" page
August 6, 2007
- Installed updated Master Pedigree Database which now contains over 440,300 entries. (members only)
- Installed completed Lodz Trinity Parish extractions with 34,492 entries. (members only)
- Added agenda to convention page.