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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
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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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.
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Well, it has begun. I started the weekend of 6/10/2023 to upgrade the site. As previously mentioned this is a pretty major upgrade.The Content Management System (CMS) I use to run the site is ending support on version 3 this August so I have put this off as long as I could! The good news is I have finished migrating the site onto version 4. The not so good news is I am still chasing bugs and broken links. You may notice that not all of the Collections are available. The major set of collections missing is the
- Major Website Update Coming!
- Family Trees Back on CapertonSociety.org!
- ftDNA Comes Clean About "Their Definition" of Privacy
- Joaktree - End of Life
- KAC Reprint, New Shipping Rate and Price Adjustments
- Rev. Jane Caperton Johnson 1946-2018
- https:// and Some Website Updates
- 'The Capertons' Book Published
- Document Camera Part 2
- Document Camera Part 1