[Ger-Poland-Volhynia] New look for the SGGEE website

[Jerry Frank]

We are pleased to announce a new look for the SGGEE website.

After some seven years of tireless dedication to creating and looking after 
the original site, Gary Warner has turned the reigns over to me.  We thank 
him for his dedication and commitment.  He will continue to look after the 
databases by collecting, adding, correcting, and merging data in them.

For the past four months we have put countless hours into making the 
transition to the new format.  Special thanks to Irene Kopetzke for her 
underlying site design.  She created the basic layout and then was very 
patient with me as I learned much about site design and maintenance from 
her example and instruction.  She also helped me find all the mistakes (or 
at least most of them) which I made with the German pages.  She, with the 
assistance of Gerhard Koenig, will continue to be involved with the 
maintenance of the German language pages and the creation of new ones.

The site displays the new logo designed by Les Ollenburg.  Les is a 
professional artist who did a great job in creating a simple logo with 
significant meaning.  Thank you Les.

We also had the help of Klaus Leiss, Ray Bloch, and Paul Work with changes 
and additions to the German language pages.  Still others helped with 
evaluating and proofing the site, too many to mention.  We thank them for 
their efforts and assistance.

Matt Warner provided invaluable assistance in the technical aspects of the 
change and continues to ensure that ALL our computer systems remain in good 
working order.

Yours truly transferred the material from the original site to the new and 
reformatted them as required to suit.

Most of the material on the new site is identical to the old.  We have 
relocated some material to better reflect a logical indexing system but you 
should have no trouble finding what you are looking for.

With any change of this type involving literally hundreds of pages of 
material, there are bound to be some glitches.  Please let me know if you 
find any broken links, spelling or grammar errors, etc. which may 
occur.  We would like to correct them to ensure that we have a professional 
looking site.  In particular we are presently experiencing some problems 
with the appearance of the search report pages.  Please bear with us as we 
work through them.

An important note for Explorer users:  please set your "text view" feature 
to "medium" for best viewing.

As with any change in control over material such as this, you will continue 
to see changes to the site over the next few months.  I want to assure you 
that in all I do, it is my intention to maintain the ease of use and the 
integrity of the site and to build on the legacy that Gary built up in the 
past years.





Jerry Frank - Calgary, Alberta
FranklySpeaking at shaw.ca