WRG:Website Conversion Project

Open Issues

• Create appropriate help topics - IN PROGRESS.

Content Conversion Status

All content from the old website has been converted except the following:

Census Record content pages - IN PROGRESS

Phoenix Book - IN PROGRESS

Databases

Four Letters of Eli Whitney

U.S.S. Constitution

• Detailed Conversion List

Tim's Projects

• Page Creation - create a system using the InputBox extension and a set of templates to allow the easy creation of new families and other pages.
• Quick Start Guide - finish
• Help files - finish importing

• Project:User preferences help

• Pierce Transcription - write code to convert, upload family groups - COMPLETE
• Pierce Family Group Project - mostly complete
• Phoenix Project - finish template sample, write code to convert, upload all pages
• Search - create an advanced search page - COMPLETE
• Census Records content pages - IN PROGRESS

• 1790 - COMPLETE
• 1800 - COMPLETE
• 1810 - COMPLETE
• 1820 - COMPLETE
• 1830 - COMPLETE
• 1840 - COMPLETE
• 1850 - IN PROGRESS
• 1860
• 1870 - COMPLETE
• 1880
• 1890-1930 - COMPLETE

• Whitneys in other countries, not U.S. or U.K.
• Trace English Whitneys to present for DNA study enlistment - IN PROGRESS

Robert's Projects

• Medieval English family groups - IN PROGRESS

• George Whitney (s1526-?) of Icomb - DONE
• Watkyn Whitney (s1495-?) of Clyro - DONE
• Eustace Whitney (s1550-1599) of Clifford - DONE
• James Whitney (s1575-1617) of Clifford - DONE
• Eustace Whitney (s1600-1648) of Clifford - DONE
• Others, unattached - IN PROGRESS

• Link Medieval sources back to family group records: - IN PROGRESS

• Archive:The First Known Use of Whitney as a Surname
• Archive:Memoranda of Whitney in England
• Archive:Phoenix, ix-xv
• Archive:Phoenix, xvi-xxii
• Archive:Phoenix, xxiii
• Archive:The Ancestry of John Whitney
• Archive:Pre-American Ancestries
• Archive:Whitney Origins Revisited
• Archive:The Pedigree of Whitney, An Investigation

• Unattached/unidentified Whitney people

• 1600-1700
• 1700-1749
• 1750-1799

• Materials from Lynne Alber - IN PROGRESS

• Create pages for missing sixth-generation families descended from John¹ Whitney:

• Add locality categories to all of Andaleen's pages.

• Source all fourth- and fifth-generation pages from John¹.

• Make separate pages for children with substantial information on their parents' page.

• At least 464 sixth generation Whitney families from John¹ (321 male), less those from Pierce
• At least 329 seventh generation Whitney families from John¹ (259 male), less those from Pierce
• At least 169 eighth generation Whitney families from John¹ (152 male), less those from Pierce

• Phoenix Import

• Template for future Phoenix page transcriptions - IN PROGRESS
• Family:Whitney, John (b1645-b1720) (Henry¹)
• Third generation families from John² (Henry¹)
• Fourth generation families from Henry¹
• Fifth generation families from Henry¹

• Import U.S.S. Constitution page

Closed Issues

• Determine appropriate namespaces - COMPLETE
• Decide if the My Lineage links on user pages is sufficient, or if we should also have the Member Lineages page - COMPLETE
• Decide on appropriate census index page names - COMPLETE
• Pierce Project - write code to convert and then upload all pages - COMPLETE

• Strip off the existing header and footer information
• Split up the sets into individual pages
• Add new anchors for children if they don't already exist
• Convert the existing links from referencing the sets to referencing the exact pages
• Add new header and footer information
• Convert all links to wiki style
• Convert the PRE sections to DIV ID="Plaintext" sections (they allow embedded anchors, PRE sections don't in the wiki)

• Citations - It appears that the Cite functionality that I was investigating will not work for our website.
• Decide on appropriate usage of category pages.
• Create style guidelines.
• Transfer from old web site:

• City Directories - DONE
• Probate Records - DONE
• Newspapers - DONE
• Cemeteries - DONE
• Phoenix Errata - DONE
• Source and clean up early Family pages - DONE
• Combined Index to MA VRs - DONE
• Indexes to Pierce - DONE
• Reunion photos - DONE

• Finish John¹ Whitney descendants Family Group Records through fifth generation - DONE

• Civil War Pension Files from Ken Whitney e-mails - DONE