Caperton Society Blog
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We are now officially at 1000 original Caperton Related source recods online here at the Caperton Society! 1044 to be exact! That does not include all of the extracted or transcribed records either. This is a great milestone and one I am pretty excited about. I want to thank everyone who has donated records and transcription effort to the cause. and whatever you do, DON'T Stop! keep sending records and transcriptions to me. Sometimes it takes a while for me to get them up to the website but I do try to get everything up as quickly as I can. If there is an area or areas of records that you feel I am overlooking and you would like me to dig deeper into it, make a comment to this blog and let me know what you would like to see.
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I thought that would get your attention! What do those two topics have in common? well not much really other than they are two of the areas with the most activity on the Caperton Society Website! First some exciting news on the continuing Hunt for our origins. Marcia Behnke has been actively persuing the Caperton name on "across the pond" so to speak, in England, Scotland and Ireland. She has provided so much information recently that I have re-arranged the links on the Collections menu so that there is now a dedicated United Kingdom (UK) link where you will very soon be able to see the work being done in this area. In the meantime I have moved the UK census as well as an article on the Caperton name in Wells England into this section. As quickly as I am able to I will be updating this section with her information.
As for the Confederacy Angle, I have just recently received another 52 confederate solider records. This meant that the way I had been displaying the records (all on one page) was just not going to work any longer. Therefore I have split the existing records into individual pages and created a listing for them. This will make it far easier to add to in the future.
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A New Project is now underway! The Society recently came in possesson of over 400 pages of legal documents relating to Capertons. In the past one or two others would transcribe them for me (That would be Jane or Elizabeth) while I would continue to work on enhancements to the site such as census database setup and the like. With the arrival of all of this information however, we needed a larger team to help get these and many other documents the society is holding into readable form. Hence the Transcription Project was born! The Transcription team however is doing more than just transcribing old documents, one of the members of the team is currently busy updating the 1840 US Census database so that we can attach images. All of this help enables me to focus on improving the site and adding features to it that make it useful to those researching the Caperton name. So if you would like to help, I will shortly begin putting many of these legal documents on the site. Some will have already been transcribed and some will be abailable for transcription. If you see a page you would like to adopt, let me know by emailling me. And if you would like to know more about the the newest project, you can find information on it by following the "Projects" link on the top menu
- Website Security Enhancements
- Help With Publishing your Family History
- Collections Are Back Online!
- Two New Books Back In Print
- Map Tool Beta goes live
- VA Grants and Bible Page Cleanup
- 1830 Census Images now available
- The Caperton Society!
- And WWI Registration Cards makes 1000!
- Confederate Records Added to At War Collection