Updates

I created the new “Updates” category in order to track website updates more efficiently. While TNG offers the “What’s New?” page, that particular page doesn’t always account for all the behind-the-scenes activity, such as minor display error corrections or presentation improvements, or new users, or communications via email…just to name a just a few. I’ll probably back-post some of the tasks I knocked off since Christmas, too.

The website was registered with two other websites this morning in order to boost search rankings. Linking with other genealogy sites eventually moves us higher up on the list of websites offered by search engines when someone comes looking for the contenton this website. Of course, this makes it easier for other genealogists and cousins to find us and hopefully, share information. Expect to see links to the those in the next day or two. I just need to decide where the to put them.

On another note, I spent a few hours updating sources in the French Richert line. Those files were among the first I acquired from Rollie when I began to explore my ancestral lines. As a novice genealogist and a working mother, I often got lazy when it came to document my sources properly and a quick-and-dirty cut-and-paste into the “notes” section was the order of the day. It’s one shortcut that’s come back to haunt me, and I have hours of housekeeping to go in that department (yes, Rollie, I’m still doing laundry!). I edited the “La Famalie Richerdt” source to reflect its rightful author, and completed edits through the 4th generation.

Along those same lines, I’ve spot-edited place names as well, working towards my goal of getting all entries into the same format of “city, county, state”, dropping the word ‘county’ as a redundant term and spelling out the state name for clarification. For example, where a place used to be noted as “Hilbert, Calumet county, WI” or Hilbert, Calumet Co., WI” or “Hilbert, WI”, that entry will be replaced with “Hilbert, Calumet, Wisconsin”. Editing as such brings the records more in line with genealogical standards.

In the face-left department, I played around with the style-sheet that governs the display of the homepage, changing the active link colors from red to gray. My original purpose for doing so was to make the archived posts display more visibly on the calendar. Since that CSS tag governs all active links on either side, I was pleasantly suprised with the increased readibility when I made the change. Sometimes little things count.

ex animo, ~J