Family Additions & Fixes for week

1. Douthit expansion, Douthit directory news
2. Erhardt updates: see Erhardt directory news

Data Improvements for week

1. People: 147807  to 147841 or a gain of 34 individuals
2. Families: 63523 to 63529 or a gain of 6 families
3. Locations: 16456 16472 or a gain of 16
4. Sources: 3581 to 3588 or a gain of 7 sources
5. Email backlog: from 639 to 641 or 2 backwards! 
6. New Documents: 12
7. New Photos: 16
8. New Headshots: 1
9. New Gravestones: 0
10. First name cleanup: removed improperly used article: “the”, extensive work
11. Last name fixes: de Fezensac, 2
12. Last name fixes: de Harcourt, 35
13. Last name fixes: de Montlhery, 5
14. Last name fixes: de Ros, 46
15. Last name fixes: de Vexin, 4
16. Last name fixes: de Sudeley, 3
17. Last name fixes: de Fiennes, 31
18. Last name fixes: de Chaworth, 28
19. Last name fixes: le Despencer, 29
20. Last name fixes: du Perche, 5
21. Last name fixes: de Moels, 16
22. Last name fixes: de Condet, 3
23. Last name fixes: de Castile, 13
24. Last name fixes: de Mortimer, 55
25. Last name fixes: de Valois, 9
26. Last name fixes: de Umfreville, 38
27. Week was short due to stepped therapy work so I can make a visit to a doctor next week (another time waster!). Had several puzzles to resolve in Griffiths line.

Pending General Data Cleanup Pressures

1. Email backlog: 753 emails: 15% done
2. First Names cleanup:
   in process, very aggressive goals set for project through Dec 31, 2012: 
   4 weeks ahead of target
3. Last Names cleanup (on hold)
4. Albums rebuilt (on hold)
5. News system comments display (on hold)
6. Photo hover links for photos with 3 or more people in them (on hold0
7. Multiple parents resolved (except for adoptions, etc.) (i121712 re Lori Renolds email)
8. Possible duplicate name entries rechecked
9. Membership cleanup (remove inactive members)
10. Start the newsletter
11. Help videos made and implemented

Pending Family Tree files

1. Elrod Cemetery (in slow process)
2. Roger Family Descendants report (started)
3. Register Report for John Newton Gambrell (waiting, about 15 pages left)
4. Nelle Rowland family photos (started)
5. Croeni family (started)
6. Old website file on Glynn & Nelda Douthit (started)
7. Old website file on Leonard Erhardt (started)
8. Old website file on the Zehrts
9. Old website Finney files
10. Old website Green files
11. Old website Hartman files
12. Old website Melvin Macomber files
13. Old website Schunke files

Family Additions & Fixes for week

1. Douthit expansion, Douthit directory news
2. Elrod updates: Elrod family directory news
3. Erhardt updates: see Erhardt directory news : 6 new people
4. Macomber expansion: Macomber directory page
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5. Funda Plank gravestone from Anges Pierron
6. New Cemetery: 1552: Morgan City Cemetery, St. Mary Parish, Louisiana
7. Christine Kelly sent the name of John Culver’s (i25755) wife
8. J.H. Land sent information on Jeremiah B. Keith’s wife and inlaws

Data Improvements for week

1. People: 14779 to 147807 or a gain of 28 individuals
2. Families: 63511 to 63523 or a gain of 12 families
3. Locations: 16450 to 16456 or a gain of 6
4. Sources: 3569 to 3581 or a gain of 12 sources
5. Email backlog: from 685 to 639 or 46 resolved
6. New Documents: 13
7. New Photos: 16
8. New Headshots: 1
9. New Gravestones: 1
10. First name cleanup: removed 80 improperly used articles: “the”, over half done.

Pending General Data Cleanup Pressures

1. Email backlog: 753 emails: 15% done (up from 8%) 
2. First Names cleanup:
   in process, very aggressive goals set for project through Dec 31, 2012:
   2 weeks ahead of target, 1772 items fixed
3. Last Names cleanup (on hold) 
4. Albums rebuilt (on hold)
5. News system comments display (on hold) 
6. Photo hover links for photos with 3 or more people in them (on hold0 
7. Multiple parents resolved (except for adoptions, etc.) (i121712 re Lori Renolds email)
8. Possible duplicate name entries rechecked
9. Membership cleanup (remove inactive members)
10. Start the newsletter
11. Help videos made and implemented

Pending Family Tree files

1. Elrod Cemetery (in slow process)
2. Nelda Griffiths black binder (way overdue): Deadlines past
3. Roger Family Descendants report (started)
4. Register Report for John Newton Gambrell (waiting, about 15 pages left)
5. Nelle Rowland family photos (started)
6. Croeni family (started)
7. Old website file on Glynn & Nelda Douthit (started)
8. Old website file on Leonard Erhardt (started)
9. Old website file on the Zehrts
10. Old website Finney files
11. Old website Green files
12. Old website Hartman files
13. Old website Melvin Macomber files
14. Old website Schunke files
15. Last name fixes: le Despencer
16. Last name fixes: du Perche

Family Additions & Fixes for week

1. Anglin fixes: Anglin family news: 2 new people indexed
2. Douthit expansion, Douthit directory news
3. NO Elrod updates: Elrod family directory news
4. Erhardt updates: see Erhardt directory news : 6 new people
5. Macomber expansion: Macomber directory page
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6. Gideon Mosher (i125615) gravestone from Carol Lawrence
7. William J. Truhe sent info on Ralph Edgerton Smith (i57048), and family
8. 1895 Census for Charles H. Smith and family
9. 1930 Census for Charles H. Smith and family
10. Hazel E. Smith (i47295) social security index
11. Hazel E. Smith California death index
12. 1930 Census for Hazel E. Palmer family
13. Dwight Palmer California death index
14. Dwight Palmer Social Security death index
15. Dwight Palmer WWI draft registration

Data Improvements for week

1. People: 147531 to 14779 or a gain of 248 individuals
2. Families: 63457 to 63511 or a gain of 54 families
3. Locations: 16364 to 16389 16450 or a gain of 61
4. Sources: 3547 to 3569 or a gain of 22 sources
5. Email backlog: from 691 to 685 or 6 removed (or 10 since also 4 recovered emails)
6. New Documents: 15
7. New Photos: 1
8. New Headshots: 0
9. New Gravestones: 1
10. Last name fix: de Creil, 5
11. Last name fix: de Nevers, 10
12. Last name fix: de Luxembourg, 5
13. Last name fix: de Geneville, 8
14. Last name fix: de Graham, 4
15. Last name fix: de Braose, 74
16. Last name fix: de Blois, 8
17. Last name fix: de Hesdin, 4
18. Last name fix: de la Marche, 8
19. Last name fix: de Perche, 4
20. Last name fix: MacGregor, 9
21. Last name fix: de Vesci, 9
22. Last name fix: de Monceaux, 6
23. Last name fix: de Montdidier, 2
24. Last name fix: de Warenne, 50
25. Last name fix: de Somery, 18
26. Last name fix: de Burgh, 48
27. Last name fix: de Cressey, 3

Pending General Data Cleanup Pressures

1. Email backlog: 753 emails: 8% done
2. First Names cleanup:
   in process, very aggressive goals set for project through Dec 31, 2012:
   2 weeks ahead of target
   Actual progress: 304 plus this week’s work of 1310 = 1614 .
3. Last Names cleanup
4. Albums rebuilt
5. News system comments display
6. Photo hover links for photos with 3 or more people in them.
7. Multiple parents resolved (except for adoptions, etc.) (i121712 re Lori Renolds email)
8. Possible duplicate name entries rechecked
9. Membership cleanup (remove inactive members)
10. Start the newsletter
11. Help videos made and implemented

Pending Family Tree files

1. Elrod Cemetery (in process)
2. Nelda Griffiths black binder (in process): Deadline past
3. Roger Family Descendants report (in process)
4. Register Report for John Newton Gambrell (in process, about 15 pages left)
5. Nelle Rowland family photos (in process)
6. Croeni family (in process)
7. Old website file on Glynn & Nelda Douthit (in process)
8. Old website file on Leonard Erhardt (in process)
9. Old website file on the Zehrts
10. Old website Finney files
11. Old website Green files
12. Old website Hartman files
13. Old website Melvin Macomber files
14. Old website Schunke files

Family Additions & Fixes for week

1. Douthit expansion, see Douthit directory news
2. Elrod updates: see Elrod family directory news
3. Erhardt updates: see Erhardt directory news : 7 new people
4. Stephens Homer (i110623) name change from Stephen to Stephens per Kevin Keegan
5. Stephens Homer and family in  1790 census
6. Stephens Homer gravestone
7. New cemetery: 1547. Ancient Cemetery, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
8. William J. Truhe sent info on Ralph Edgerton Smith (i57048), including parents
9. William J. Truhe sent correction to place of death or Ralph Smith
10. William J. Truhe sent name used in 1920 census to find Ralph Smith and family
11. 1930 census for Ralph Smith & family
12. 1910 census for Ralph Smith & family
13. 1900 census for Ralph Smith & family
14. Kim Beatty sent Deacon Thomas Freeman’s (i34782) grave headstone
15. Kim Beatty sent Rebecca Sparrow Freeman’s grave footstone
16. Kim Beatty sent Mercy Freeman Sear’s grave headstone
17. New Cemetery: 1549. Sears Cemetery, Barnstable County, Massachusetts
18. Kim Beatty sent Paul Sears gravestone. We did other updates to his family

Data Improvements for week

1. People: 147531 to 147,551 or a gain of 20 individuals
2. Families: 63457 to 53462 or a gain of 5 families
3. Locations: 16389 to 16402 or a gain of 13
4. Sources: 3547 to 3559 or a 12 new sources
5. Email backlog: from 718 to 691 or 28 removed
6. New Documents: 12
7. New Photos: 23
8. New Headshots: 0
9. New Gravestones: 6
10. First name cleanup of improper parenthesis: last 249 of 1089 problems a week ahead of the deadline
11. Last name fixes: ten Broeck, 11
12. Last name fixes: ten Eyck, 22
13. Last name fixes: de la Warr, 7
14. Last name fixes: van Aken, 17
15. Last name fixes: van Auken, 5
16. Last name fixes: van Breestede, 7
17. Last name fixes: van Buren, 8
18. Last name fixes: van Camp, 6
19. Last name fixes: van Campen, 256
20. Last name fixes: van de Cuyl, 5
21. Last name fixes: van der Linde, 3
22. Last name fixes: van Deursen, 2
23. Last name fixes: van Duzer, 5
24. Last name fixes: van Etten, 25
25. Last name fixes: van Garden, 23
26. Last name fixes: van Heyningen, 1
27. Last name fixes: van Keuren, 41
28. Last name fixes: van Leuven, 6
29. Last name fixes: van Steenwyck, 2
30. Last name fixes: van Vliet, 17
31. Last name fixes: van Voorhees, 2
32. Last name fixes: van Wagenen, 22
33. Last name fixes: van Weelt, 2
34. Last name fixes: van Weyen, 4
35. Last name fixes: de Wynnington, 1
36. Last name fixes: de Vere, 70
37. Last name fixes: de Knowsley, 2
38. Last name fixes: de Ferrers, 60
39. Last name fixes: de Eggerton, 2
40. Last name fixes: de Baugency, 1
41. Last name fixes: d’Albon, 2
42. Last name fixes: d’Evereaux, 4
43. Last name fixes: ap Jenkin, 1
44. Cleanup of improper use of commas in first names: 118, note two weeks ahead of schedule.
45. Last name fixes: de Dammartin, 9
46. Last name fixes: de Beaumont, 69
47. Last name fixes: de Say, 11
48. Last name fixes: de Vienne, 3
49. Cleanup of improper use of hyphens in first names: 103, three weeks ahead of schedule.

Pending General Data Cleanup Pressures

1. Email backlog: 753 emails: in process, 8% done
2. First Names cleanup:
   in process, very aggressive goals set for project through Dec 31, 2012:
   2 weeks ahead of target
   Actual progress: 304 plus this week’s work of 1310 = 1614 .
3. Last Names cleanup
4. Albums rebuilt
5. News system comments display
6. Photo hover links for photos with 3 or more people in them.
7. Multiple parents resolved (except for adoptions, etc.) (i121712 re Lori Renolds email)
8. Possible duplicate name entries rechecked
9. Membership cleanup (remove inactive members)
10. Start the newsletter
11. Help videos made and implemented

Pending Family Tree files

1. Elrod Cemetery (in process)
2. Nelda Griffiths black binder (in process): Deadline set for May 4, 2012
3. Roger Family Descendants report (in process)
4. Register Report for John Newton Gambrell (in process, about 15 pages left)
5. Nelle Rowland family photos (in process)
6. Croeni family (in process)
7. Old website file on Glynn & Nelda Douthit (in process)
8. Old website file on Leonard Erhardt (in process)
9. Old website file on the Zehrts
10. Old website Finney files
11. Old website Green files
12. Old website Hartman files
13. Old website Melvin Macomber files
14. Old website Schunke files

Patsy Bacon contacted us because she recently inherited four photos of Thomas and Sarah Gannaway. The couple is not in her family tree, but since two of them are large, and marked with a 1904 date, she does not want to throw them away. If you are related and would appreciate them, contact me immediately. I only ask that I get digital photos of them so I can add them to our family tree data! I’m not including her email, so that she does not get spammed, but I will forward any correspondence about the offer to her.

Two of the photos are of 11 x 14 inch reproductions of the original portraits which appear to be oil portraits originally.

The same collection has photos of Amos Hayden marked 1904 and Clarissa Mudge Hayden also marked 1904.

To see the little information I have use the following link:

Thomas & Sarah Gannaway family group sheet

Something went wrong with my email program (Microsoft Office Outlook) and I have not gotten or have lost several emails this last week. If you do not hear from me by tomorrow and you had sent an email, please resend it! I am sorry to have had this problem and have returned to Mozilla Thunderbird, and am surprised at the immediate increase in daily emails, which indicates the problem was worse than I knew.

Specifically the person that sent the Bedell gravestone, please resend it and recontact me! I want to both get that gravestone and know who you were! I am so sorry to have lost your work. I went online and read it, and then in trying to get the email transferred to my desktop email reader, it got lost in transit. I am so sorry, and frankly do not understand it.

Family Additions & Fixes for week

1. Douthit expansion, see Douthit directory news: 2 new people
2. Elrod updates: see Elrod family directory news
3. Erhardt updates: see Erhardt directory news
4. Finney fixes: see Finney directory news
5. No Gambrell updates: see Gambrell family directory news
6. Macomber updates, see Macomber directory news: 4 new people
7. Schunke updates, see Schunke directory news

Data Improvements for week

1. People: 147432 to 147531 or a gain of 98 individuals
2. Families: 63427 to 63457 or a gain of 30 families
3. Locations: 16364 to 16389 or a gain of 25
4. Sources: 3549 to 3547 or a reduction of 2 sources
5. Email backlog: I just found out I have been counting “conversations” and not actual emails! I now have 635 conversations left, making me think I had eliminated 54 emails from the pile put instead I have 718 actual emails awaiting attention! I don’t know that the actual count was when this started, so we will keep the one we have been using but instead of decreasing the tally, adjust it for accuracy? We have 718 of 753 emails left or 95% of the backlog to do!
6. The 106 missing media document problems were finished along with their archaic sources!
7. Three missing media photos fixed in TNG
8. New Documents:  There were around 31 documents reset and made visible
9. New Photos:  4
10. New Headshots:  3
11. First name cleanup of improper parenthesis: 450 done leaving 249 of 1089 problems
12. Last name fixes: de Flete, 3
13. Last name fixes: de Furneaux, 13
14. Last name fixes: de Garlande, 3
15. Last name fixes: van Loon, 19
16. Last name fixes: de Ponthieu, 10
17. There was a serious breakdown of the desktop software database, adding dozens of marriages between family members and all sorts of weird things. This took several hours to clean up and repair. At this point the data seems to have been restored, but their may be many problems I have not found yet.
18. Spam has gotten bad using the comments portal of the website software. At this point, it seems to be robotic spam, so NUCaptcha was added to help stop it. We will see how effective it is, and if we need to do more.
19. We also added a new Mod Manager Logger setup for behind the scenes mod checking.
20. Sarah Dewitt Christofferson (i64576) gravestone photo sent by Karmell Fenton.
21. New Cemetery: 1546. Lehi City Cemetery, Utah County, Utah
22. Peter Christofferson (i64577) stuff.

Pending General Data Cleanup Pressures

1. Archaic document folder upgrades, 106 problems: DONE!!!
2. Email backlog: 753 emails: in process, 5% done
3. First Names cleanup: in process, very aggressive goals set for project through Dec 31, 2012: On target.
4. Last Names cleanup
5. Albums rebuilt
6. News system comments display
7. Photo hover links for photos with 3 or more people in them.
8. Multiple parents resolved (except for adoptions, etc.) (i121712 re Lori Renolds email)
9. Possible duplicate name entries rechecked
10. Membership cleanup (remove inactive members)
11. Start the newsletter
12. Help videos made and implemented

Pending Family Tree files

1. Elrod Cemetery (in process)
2. Nelda Griffiths black binder (in process)
3. Roger Family Descendants report (in process)
4. Register Report for John Newton Gambrell (in process, about 15 pages left)
5. Nelle Rowland family photos (in process)
6. Croeni family (in process)
7. Old website file on Glynn & Nelda Douthit (in process)
8. Old website file on Leonard Erhardt (in process)
9. Old website file on the Zehrts
10. Old website Finney files
11. Old website Green files
12. Old website Hartman files
13. Old website Melvin Macomber files
14. Old website Schunke files

Family Additions/Fixes

1. Douthit expansion, see Douthit directory news section
2. Macomber updates, see Macomber directory news

Data Improvements

1. People: 147266 to 147432 or a gain of 166 individuals
2. Families: 63368 to 63427 or a gain of 59 families
3. Locations: 16328 to 16364 or a gain of 36
4. Sources: 3540 3549 or an overall gain of 9 sources
5. Improper use of double quotes in first names fixed (finished!)
6. Email backlog: 689 of 753 left or 8% done: no change this week
7. Previously unsorted documents as part of sources moved to be viewable: 47 items of about 105: no change this week
8. New Documents: 19
9. New Photos: 1
10. New Headshots: 0 
11. Last name fix: d’Aubeney, 3
12. Last name fix: de Daubney, 5
13. Last name fix: de Montagu, 7
14. Last name fix: de Beauchamp, 93
15. Last name fix: de Dinan, 8
16. Last name fix: de Holand, 3
17. Last name fix: de Jongh, 8
18. Last name fix: de Warren, 3
19. First name cleanup of improper parenthesis use: about 300 fixed, with 745 of about 1084 left.
20. We finally got around to testing our last attempt at adding links to individual’s pages. Our last plan worked! Hooray! So now we can start linking to static webpages from the dynamic ones.

Pending General Data Cleanup Pressures

1. Archaic document folder upgrades, about 105 problems: in process almost half done
2. Ability to link to webpages in software: DONE!!!
3. Email backlog: 753 emails: in process, 8% done
4. First Names cleanup: in process, about 2000 problems left
5. Last Names cleanup
6. Albums rebuilt
7. News system comments display
8. Photo hover links for photos with 3 or more people in them.
9. Multiple parents resolved (except for adoptions, etc.) (i121712 re Lori Renolds email)
10. Possible duplicate name entries rechecked
11. Membership cleanup (remove inactive members)
12. Start the newsletter
13. Help videos made and implemented

Pending Family Tree files

1. Elrod Cemetery (in process)
2. Nelda Griffiths black binder (in process)
3. Roger Family Descendants report (in process)
4. Register Report for John Newton Gambrell (in process, about 15 pages left)
5. Nelle Rowland family photos (in process)
6. Croeni family (in process)
7. Old website file on Glynn & Nelda Douthit (in process)
8. Old website file on Leonard Erhardt (in process)
9. Old website file on the Zehrts
10. Old website Finney files
11. Old website Green files
12. Old website Hartman files
13. Old website Melvin Macomber files
14. Old website Schunke files

Family Additions/Fixes

1. Elrod updates: see Elrod family directory news
2. Erhardt updates: see Erhardt directory news
3. Finney fixes: see Finney directory news
4. Gambrell updates: see Gambrell family directory news
5. Macomber updates, see Macomber directory news
6. Schunke updates, see Schunke directory news

Data Improvements

1. People: 147127 to 147266 or a gain of 139 new individuals
2. Families: 63321 to 63368 or a gain of 47 families
3. Locations: 16315 to 16328 or a gain of 13
4. Sources: 3535 to 3540 or an overall gain of five sources
5. Improper use of double quotes in first names fixed (157 of 228)
6. David Cobb (52462) family revised
7. Last name fix: de Egerton, 17
8. Last name fix: de France, 17
9. Last name fix: de Gournay, 10
10. Last name fix: de Ingelheim, 1
11. Last name fix: de Lusignan, 27
12. Last name fix: de Melun, 5
13. Last name fix: de Toeni, 21
14. Last name fix: de Hauteville, 12
15. Last name fix: MacAngus, 2
16. Last name fix: de Heristal, 2
17. Solomon Tuttle (137764) family death location not NC but AR
18. Solomon Tuttle cemetery
19. New Cemetery: 1535. Mt. Comfort Cemetery, Washington County, Arkansas
20. Email backlog: 689 of 753 left or 8% done
21. Previously unsorted documents as part of sources moved to be viewable: items 15-47 of about  105
22. Website software updated as was desktop software. Between the two there should be a lot of small fixes all over!
23. Reinstalled all mods and updated two
24. New Documents: 22
25. New Headshot: 1

Pending General Data Cleanup Pressures

1. Archaic document folder upgrades, about 105 problems: in process  almost half done
2. Ability to link to webpages in software…
3. Email backlog: 753 emails: in process, 8% done
4. First Names cleanup: in process, about 2000 problems left
5. Last Names cleanup
6. Albums rebuilt
7. News system comments display
8. Photo hover links for photos with 3 or more people in them.
9. Multiple parents resolved (except for adoptions, etc.) (i121712 re Lori Renolds email)
10. Possible duplicate name entries rechecked
11. Membership cleanup (remove inactive members)
12. Start the newsletter
13. Help videos made and implemented

Pending Family Tree files

1. Elrod Cemetery (in process)
2. Nelda Griffiths black binder (in process)
3. Roger Family Descendants report (in process)
4. Register Report for John Newton Gambrell (in process, about 15 pages left)
5. Nelle Rowland family photos (in process)
6. Croeni family (in process)
7. Old website file on Glynn & Nelda Douthit (in process)
8. Old website file on Leonard Erhardt (in process)
9. Old website file on the Zehrts
10. Old website Finney files
11. Old website Green files
12. Old website Hartman files
13. Old website Melvin Macomber files
14. Old website Schunke files

Family Additions/Fixes

1. Erhardt updates: see Erhardt directory news
2. Finney fixes: see Finney directory news
3. Gambrell updates: see Gambrell family directory news
4. Macomber updates, see Macomber directory news
5. Schunke updates, see Schunke directory news

Data Improvements

1. People: 147091 to 147127 or a gain of 36 new individuals
2. Families: 63309 to 63321 or a gain of 12 families
3. Locations: 16312 to 16315 or a gain of 3
4. Sources: 3534 to 3535 or an overall gain of one source (actually several gained and several removed)
5. Improper use of double quotes in first names fixed (157 of 228)
6. de Vermandois fixes: 22
7. de Maurienne fixes: 5
8. de Berkeley fixes: 5
9. Headshots: from 9 to 389. Moved all plausible headshots to new folder to make sure they stay the default photos for each person. Very long and tedious work, but now done! There will probably be adjustments, but the major work is now done!!!
10. Build a special program that will turn off any documents, gravestones, cemeteries, and photos from being the “default” photo on a person’s page.
11. Built a special program to make all headshots the default files on individual pages and charts. Huge victories!!!
12. Made several thumbnails, and setup several new headshots, and eliminated the old gif photos.
13. We deleted the old folder of Pictures we used when we first set up the current software to handle our family tree data. This resulted in a long list of fixes that had to be done to upgrade the sources referenced as well as the process to make the documents referenced visible on the website.

Pending

1. Headshots System to stabilize default individual photos. (Status: mostly completed, minor programming changes)
2. Improper First Names (Status: in process)
3. Improper Last Names