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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.
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.
February 27, 2011
Added current picture of Nowosolna Lutheran Church after relocation to an open air museum in Lodz.
February 13, 2011
Added index for the Gilley South Prussia Map.
January 15, 2011
Added pictures for Turek Parish.
January 9, 2011
Added pictures for the following parishes:
- Suwalki
- Poddebice
- Ozorkow
- Wielun
- Zdunska Wola
- Kielce
- Piotrkow Trybunalski
- Lask (church built in 1666)
- Radom
- Mlawa
- Lodz (St. Matthew, St. John, and Trinity)
January 4, 2011
Installed the September 2010 Journal (members only). Added pictures for the following parishes:
- Nowosolna
- Zgierz
- Pabianice
January 3, 2011
Added info about online records in particular for the Neubrow / Neudorf parish (near the bottom of the page) but also for other areas of Belarus, Latvia, and more. Added more pictures for the following parishes:
- Babiak
- Izbica
- Kolo
- Konin
December 30, 2010
- added more pictures to Sierpc Parish History
- added list of Dobriner immgrants who came to North America via Ellis Island
- added picture of Michalki Lutheran Church
- added picture of Town Hall in Gostynin
- added full page of pictures for Lipno Parish
- added modern picture of St. Matthew Lutheran in Lodz