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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.
May 21, 2015
Included a link to our Facebook on the home page.
February 2, 2015
Provided information on the 2015 convention. Added 9 PDF maps from Breyer to our scanned maps collection.
November 8, 2014
Introduced the Members Stories page with the first three stories.
October 18, 2014
Posted the September 2014 journal.
October 1, 2014
Updated Society Information members page by adding Committee membership list and revised Treasure guidelines.
October 27, 2013
Updated all Alternate Christian Names file.
October 26, 2013
Updated the Convention Page with presentations and a group picture from the Seattle convention.
October 22, 2013
Updated all gazetteers and the guidelines.
October 15, 2013
Posted the September 2013 journal.
September 29, 2013
Posted the revised bylaws and the Certicate of Continuance.
July 12, 2013
Posted the June 2013 journal..
April 15, 2013
Posted the March 2013 journal..
December 23, 2012
Posted the December 2012 journal.
September 10, 2012
Added a link to the Software Page for webinars on Legacy.
August 26, 2012
Updated the Convention Page with presentations and a group picture from the Regina convention.
June 13, 2012
Updated the Convention Page with list of speakers.
April 26, 2012
Installed March 2012 Journal (members only).
April 15, 2012
Major updates to the parish records databases for Lutheran and Baptist in Russian Poland and for Lutheran in Volhynia.
March 13, 2012
Updated information about library (members only)
February 20, 2012
Updated all references to the PRI Database which now has over 368,800 names (members only).
December 30, 2011
Installed the December 2011 Journal (members only).
December 27, 2011
Added updates for MPD (members only) and VKP Databases.
December 14, 2011
Added Convention announcement, dates and site.
September 30, 2011
Installed the September 2011 Journal (members only).
August 20, 2011
Installed revised Gazetteers - all versions. Updated list of directors for the current year on the Contacts Page.
July 23, 2011
Corrected our Search Page so that the new GOOGLE system would work with it.
July 17, 2011
Changed the count of entries in various databases primarily on the About Membership page but in other locations as well where applicable. Changed some data regarding the completed scope of the VKP databases, primarily on the birth, marriage, and death search pages but in other locations as well where appropriate.
July 9, 2011
Added the finalized list of convention speakers with topics. Added links to the new Black Sea area research website on our Other Societies page. Added link for Leichnitz Family research to our Links page.
June 25, 2011
Added info for Nieszawa Parish and corrected info regarding Neudorf / Neubrow on the Russian Poland Parishes page. Added a column for Wladimir-Volhynsk parish on the Volhynian Parishes page.
June 22, 2011
Installed the June 2011 issue of the Journal - Members Only.
May 7, 2011
Added link to Mapster site on Villages and Maps page and along with commentary on home page.
May 1, 2011
Installed the March 2011 issue of the Journal - Members Only.
April 16, 2011
Added links to the Archives Page (Plock Archives where extractions are underway) and to Russian Poland Parish Histories page (new German language genealogy site that features the Kalisch Diocese).
April 3, 2011
Added Zhitomir marriages and baptisms, 1921-1943 index database. Installed December 2010 Journal (both Members Only).
March 20, 2011
Update to Convention information.
March 13, 2011
Added still more pictures to the Nowosolna Lutheran Church page. Added to the list of Baptist Parishes in Russian Poland and created a new page for listing Baptist Parishes in Volhynia.
March 12, 2011
Updated Maps Page with minor note revisions about gazetteers along with more extensive revisions to the German equivalent page.