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.
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.
July 7, 2007
Final update to convention speaker list and topics. Also added to the Maps Page some links to Volhynia grids for the Archiwum Map site as well as to a list of common abbreviations and terms used on those maps.
July 2, 2007
Installed updated lists of surname translations / equivalents.
July 1, 2007
More updates to convention speaker info. Installed database of slightly over 1000 names consisting of an extraction of Germans from Russian Poland heading for primarily the eastern seaboard of the United States (members only).
June 16, 2007
Updated convention page with more speaker and topic info.
June 04, 2007
Installed June 2007 Journal (members only).
May 26, 2007
Posted update to the temporary SGGEE001 database (members only). Also updated the maps page - nothing new added; relocation of some material and a dead link deleted.
May 8, 2007
- Installed new translation aid for Napoleonic format Russian documents.
- Added 2007 registration form to the convention page.
April 06, 2007
- Installed updated Parish Records Indices database which now contains over 276,600 names.
- Installed technical upgrades to the search system with associated technical changes to numerous web pages.
- Installed March 2007 edition of the Journal (members only).
- Updated convention page with info about related organization conventions.
March 17, 2007
Installed updated Master Pedigree Database which now contains over 365,100 names. 2007 Convention details have now been posted.
March 4, 2007
Installed February newsletter - members only. Updated the pdf version of the membership list - also in the members only area.
February 24, 2007
- Deleted the Adobe version of the Membership Research Database and all references to it. This database was badly out of date, filled with inaccuracies, and rarely used, so the Board decided to elminate it.
- Deleted links to a Polish website (now defunct) which gave architectural history and pictures of St. Johns, Trinity, and St. Matthews Churches in Lodz. Fortunately we had previously obtained permission to use the pictures so they remain on our site.
January 6, 2007
- Installed December 2006 issue of the Journal - members only.
- Installed new finding aid for 1900-1914 Germans from Russia passengers arriving at Canadian ports.
January 1, 2007
Added map of the Olchowo and Maly Las villages to the Zagarow Parish research page showing residents c.1938. Added picture of choir to Zagarow Parish pictures page.