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- 10 July 2004
- Pages added for Destelbergen and Merelbeke (East-Flanders)
- 07 March 2004
- Link to a Message board added on the page of the municipality Lochristi
- 29 February 2004
- Links added on the Belgian History page
- Heroes and Martyrs from the Second World War
- New pages added about the Houtland
- 03/04 January 2004
- Links updated on the Australia page
- New country added: New Zealand
- New municipality added: Zedelgem (Westy-Flanders, Belgium)
- 02/08 September 2003
- Links to Guy Gallez' site Belgians in the American Civil War updated.
- Distr. Roeselare (BEL) page updated;
- The pages of the Population register 1830 Grez-Doiceaux updated (mainly correction of broken links);
- The search engine on 3 pages needs to be upgraded (not yet done)
- The domain name of the ISTG site has changed from immigrantships.org to immigrantships.net
; all links to this site adapted.- Some links to external sites added and some pages tuned.
- 25 August 2003
- Pennsylvania page updated;
- Some links to external sites added and some pages tuned.
- 18 August 2003
- New links page added;
- Some links to external sites added and some pages tuned.
- 02/05 August 2003
- Latin Glossary page updated;
- The pages of the District Aalst subsection are updated with some links.
- Some links to external sites added and some pages tuned.
- 19 July 2003/21 July 2003
- Part of the page Belgian Place Names moved to the new page How to search the correct Belgian place to find records.
- Table of Contents updated (links to the US county pages moved to the USA outline, etc ...)
- Some links to external sites added and some pages tuned. Several site maps updated.
- 02 July 2003/06 July 2003
- Page Logo Belgium-Roots created. This new logo will be displayed on the pages that have been revised.
- Page Germany before 1830 updated with a set of links about Mercator.
- Some links to external sites added and some pages tuned. Several site maps updated.
- 29 June 2003/01 July 2003
- All sitemaps of the Languages section merged.
- The text of the drop-down menu has been excluded from the picosearch database. This will result in far lesser "results", as 293 pages for usa in stead of 1322. Other navigational elmeents will also be excluded. The content of the META tags "Keywords" and "Description" has been included.
- Some links to external sites added and some pages tuned. Several site maps updated.
- 23 June 2003/26 June 2003
- At least had time to test the exact parameters of the search engine, in order to make more targeted selections of pages possible. First tests are positive. Implemented now (25/06/2006) a change of all the available selections.
The Indiana option still presents too much pages (confusion between /in/ and /index.html).
The DGB (East-Belgium) option uses all possiblities and is ok. Try the word "roots" with that option, to see which pages are selected for a option.
The full search option isn't changed at all and searches all pages.- The Prov. Antwerp pages updated. URL changed for the pages of the City Antwerp.
- Comment: this URL change will be done for all localized pages that don't conform to the following style:
- "Country/ProvState/CountyDistr/MunicTown/"
- No directory below the lowest administrative level (Municipality for Belgium, County for USA, Parish for Louisiana, etc ...
- No more then 4 levels of subdirectories
- Localization, content category (and time period of relevant) of a page reflected in the url (Ex: _cr = transcript of a civil register)
- Ex: bel/1ant/11/11002/bel11002_antwerpen_his_begijnhof_01.html (11002 = the ISO code used by the [Belgian] National Institute of Statistics for the municipality of Antwerp)
- Ex: usa/in/blackford/usa_in_blackford_cr_1900_01_jackson.html
- Some links to external sites added and some pages tuned.
- All existing Belgian municipalities are now listed on the district pages. Example: Virton
- Page added about the Belgian local regions (initial demand of 1998!).
- Some Immigration pages updated (NARA URL changed, ...).
- Wordconnect page updated.
- Rootsweb section tuned.
- Some links to external sites added and some pages tuned. Several site maps updated.
- 17 June 2003/22 June 2003
- Page Contributions of members rewritten, because the topic of that page has been changed.
- The content of the site map Project Documentation re-arranged and updated, and updated also other related site maps/outlines.
- Site map of the Families section tuned.
- Update of the outline page and the other pages of that section postponed until the mailform pages are ready.
- Page Municipality Buellingen added.
- Site Map and Table of Contents synchronized.
- Page Belgium: Municipal Archives updated.
- Copyright page updated with the legal information about the contact person for this site
- Help section is tuned.
- Search section is tuned.
- Some links to external sites added and some pages tuned. Several site maps updated.
- 12 June 2003/15 June 2003
- Page Surnames search
- Link to Geonome deleted (discontinued at this moment)
- Pages Ancien Regime, French Regime and others
- Link to some maps of the Perry-Castaņeda Library: Map Collection of the UL Library Online
- Special mention for the border changes 1814-1815 (Dutch Period)
- Links to the ISTG adapted (new site & new domain name)
- New page for the municipality of Waterloo
- with link to the new Yahoo! discussion group Waterloo1815be, oriented towards the Belgian participation in that batlle on both sides.
- Some external lists with old place names will be indexed by our search engine.
- Some other links added and some pages tuned.
- 10 June 2003
- Page Waasland updated
- The way I added the bibliographic references on the previous page is experimental. The format will change thius month.
- Some other links added and some pages tuned.
- The rather technical update period has now ended (I hope), except for the fine tuning of some HTML pages. That will be doen when content is added or updated.
- 06 June/09 June 2003
- The Rootsweb Counters have been SSI enabled and are ready to be reset to zero. All present counters have been verified.
- The NedStat Counters have been SSI enabled and some added. All present counters have been verified.
- Some links added and some pages tuned.
- 06 June 2003
- A new CSS stylesheet has been uploaded. And SSI files will be used where appropriated.
- This technical update was needed in order to reduce the overal size of the site.
- We will continue to design this site with the existing (upgraded) HTML editor, not alone because of technical motives,
- but also because all URL would have changed, if we used an HTML generator.
- 01 June/05 June 2003
- A Mailform package implemented.
- Some forms will be tested online this month.
- 31 May 2003
- The package WIT will not be used.
- Mainly because of problems with the images (DIV tag) and also the search engines (meta tag KEYWORDS).
- The Rootsweb servers do use SSI (Server Side Included) and we have used this option.
- We will use this technique for the headers, footers plus some utility HTML code (NedStat, ..). That will eliminate the hits counted when a page is updated on a local disk. Also reduce the size of the files with about 10%. And make possible that the normal HTML code is validated. This last will make possible to implement XHTML when it's needed.
- Due to technical contraints it's impossible to fully test SSI on a local PC, because I don't have a web server running at home. We will within the next hours upload the updated files and review them online the next days. The display of some pages will probably be incorrect and some page counters not working.
- The following pages should be correct (with no broken links):
- this page, Site Map, table of Content, Read Me, Belgium, Countries outline, Research outline.
- 27 May 2003/30 May 2003
- Dutch language: Links to the dbnl site added
- Belgium: History: Links to the abandonded-places.com added
- District Mouscron (Hainaut): pages of the municipalities added and some links for Warneton
- Belgian Army Repositorieq: updated (but removed in August 2003)
- District Turnhout (Antwerp): updated with data about the Dutch municipality Luyksgestel
- Province East-Flanders: updated
- City Ghent: Data added about George Sarton (1884-1956)
- Departement Nedermaas: updated
- Ancvien Regime: subdivisions: updated with Maps section
- Monitoring of changed pages on this site possible with WatchThisPage.
- Technical updates (included removal, update or addition of external links) of some pages
- 20 May 2003/24 May 2003
- Updated or new pages updated will be checked for broken links, HTML syntax errors, ... with CSE HTML Validator Pro v6.0. A periodical check with the package "HTML Link Validator" will be done, but it's not sure that all broken links will be repaired.
- Technical update (included removal, update or addition of external links) of some pages
- Belgium under French occupation (and several others): links to the site of Roger Thijs added
- Belgium under French occupation: link to a map on the site of Jean-Paul Leburton added
- Family History Centers: link to the site "IGI batchnummers van Nederland en Belgie" (Dutch) added. (at this moment only Walloon towns or registrations of persons with British nationality).
- 30 April 2003/04 May 2003
- Technical update of some pages
- Chronology: links about time & history added
- Brussels: link to the Civil registration Office added
- Wisconsin: links added
- 22/29 April 2003
- Technical update of some pages
- Applied "HTML 4.01 Transitional" to all HTML pages - resulted in a somewhat smaller font
- 15/16 April 2003
- Province Hainaut (external links added)
- Municipality Strepy-Bracquegnieq: Civil Registration 1898 - index Birth records submitted by Gene Jenkins
- Municipality Strepy-Bracquegnieq: Civil Registration 1899 - index Birth records submitted by Gene Jenkins
- Municipality Strepy-Bracquegnieq: Civil Registration 1900 - index Birth records submitted by Gene Jenkins (16 Apr 2003)
- Belgian Civil Registers (internal links to previous files added)
- 09-19 July 2002
- Upload of the re-structured Belgian Emigrant Families section. For a in depth review, start with the Section Map. For a quick look, go to Belgian Emigrant Families and Belgium-Roots Emigrant Roll Call.
Looking for your submitted roll call data ? Enter your (old) email address in two parts (replacing the "@" with a space) and the words "roll call" in the Picosearch box at one of both pages.- Wrong implementation of the Immigration section corrected (they where missing except the "Ports of Entry"). Found when adding the following item:
- Reference to the St Albans Lists added (posting of Gene Jenkins on the mail list)
- Activiation of the What's New and What's To Do pages, altough the last will remain incomplete for some days/weeks.
- Ship manifest Charlemagne (17 October 1850) by Sue Yamtich
- U.S. Federal Census 1920: Bates County (Missouri) by Gene Jenkins
- U.S. Federal Census 1920: Saginaw County (Michigan) by Gene Jenkins
- U.S. Federal Census 1920: Cherokee County (Kansas) (5 pages) by Gene Jenkins
- and 12 other counties, also by Gene Jenkins, listed at US Census 1920 for in total 1787 persons, included 613 born in Belgium.
- 09 July 2002
- Technical update of all pages is now uploaded (09 July 2002)
- 14 June 2002
- Technical update of all (+1450) web pages is finished, but not uploaded due to the maintenance of the Rootsweb servers
- Search engine GOOGLE enhanced with partial searches
- Replaced the FRAMES pages with a menu box on each page (top & bottom) and code added so that the pages of this site can't be used "inline" of an external site with frames
- Main Search page updated with the official search boxes of Rootsweb
- All pages updated with the new logo of our host Rootsweb, and the end of all pages adapted.
- Structure of the site changed (Migration, Project section, )
- Some pages updated with external links
- Place names added on several Belgian locality pages
- April - May 2002
- I've not been able to do much, due to some personal events
- 10 April 2002
- Technical update of the Home & Read me pages (content swapped)
- Search engine GOOGLE added (with option of global search)
- August 2001 - 09 April 2002
- NO update of the site due to specific circonstances.
Luc Matthijs
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