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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!

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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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Category: Caperton Society Blog

Created: 23 July 2023

Well, it has been a bit of a challenge but I have sorted out the bulk of the technical issues that were keeping the Collections section closed.I have had to totally rebuild each collection to get it to work with the new software. So, while I was at it I also significantly improved the qualite of every image as I rebuilt the collection! I have completed work on the US Censuses for 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840 and 1850. I have also finished work on the first of the UK Censuses - 1841. The War of 1812 and US Births and US Deaths are also back online and I have added a button to these last two collections that will allow you to PDF not only the transcription but also the source record! This is a beta so let me know what you think and if there is interest I will build the link into other collections as well. Next up will be the rest of the Censuses (US and UK) and the US Marriage Records, followed by the remaining War records.

One thing that is very different from the old way of looking at Collections involves the image of the Source Record. In the past the record would pop up in a box for viewing. However this was causing resolution quality issues with the image. As such now the source record will open in a new browser window for viewing and downloading. I have also eliminated the icon of the image in most cases and replaced it with a button. This was mostly to streamline the pages and make it a little easier for me to code the pages.