The Caperton Society

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Details: Category: Caperton Society Blog; Created: 03 February 2025

Web Site Updates
The Society Website was in desperate need of some love! The The Content Management System (Joomla!) underwent a significant upgrade, then the software I use to generate the tables within Joomla! required updating and since there was no direct upgrade pathway, each of the tables needed to be rebuilt. Since I was rebuilding them I took the opportunity to also improve the quality of the source images and the way they are presented on the web. While the quality is considerably better, this did take quite a bit of time and I am still working thru a couple of the collections.

Details: Category: Caperton Society Blog; Created: 25 November 2024

The WWII Draft Registration collection is now back online and has over 50 new entries and all new images. I have also added the BMC/DLC number to all of the previous entries and some of the new entries. Also Back online are the Newspaper Clippings colection. This includes all new images as well as a few more entries. I still have over 150 to add but I want to get all of the other collections online before then. The Newspaper collection also has the BMC/DLC numbers added to the entries. Finally the UK Births records are also now back online with updated images. This collection is still small but beginning to grow!

Details: Category: Caperton Society Blog; Created: 19 October 2023

In what can only be described as an epic digital meltdown, the Website Hosting company, that the Society website is hosted thru lost basically their entire Dallas Server Farm on October 1st and the server that capertonsociety.org is on did not come back online until October 8th. This naturally included email so anyone emailing This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. simply received a bounceback. While I cannot believe that it took them over a week to fully restore service, I will admit that this is the first time in the nearly 20 years that a blackout like this lasted longer than about 15 minutes.

If you are interested in the full story you can find it here: https://www.rochen.com/docs/documentation/us-vsan-network-status/

The site is now fully back up and running, but it was an incredibly helpless feeling while it was down. Thanks everyone for your patience in this!

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Caperton Society Blog

Web Site Improvements Continue

WWII Draft, UK Births and Newspaper Clippings back online

Server Crash