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== Open Issues ==
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From 2006 to 2008, the contents of the old Whitney Research Group website were converted to this new wiki-based website. While this project has now been completed, the history of this page can be used to view the progress of this effort.
* Create appropriate [[Help:Contents|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
 
: [http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/phoenix/index.html Phoenix Book] - IN PROGRESS
 
: Databases
 
: [http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/biography/eliletters.html Four Letters of Eli Whitney]
 
: [http://www.whitneygen.org/misc/ussconst.html U.S.S. Constitution]
 
 
 
* Detailed [[WRG:Conversion List|Conversion List]]
 
 
 
== Tim's Projects ==
 
:* <s>'''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.</s>
 
:* <s>'''Quick Start Guide''' - finish</s>
 
:* '''Help files''' - finish importing
 
::* [[Project:User preferences help]]
 
:* <s>Pierce Transcription - write code to convert, upload family groups</s> - COMPLETE
 
:* [[Pierce Conversion Project|Pierce Family Group Project]] - mostly complete
 
:* Phoenix Project - <s>finish template sample</s>, write code to convert, upload all pages
 
:* <s>Search - create an advanced search page</s> - COMPLETE
 
:* Finish posting records on [[Archive:Parish Register, All Saints Church, Isleworth, Middlesex, England]]
 
:* Census Records content pages - IN PROGRESS
 
::* <s>1790</s> - COMPLETE
 
::* <s>1800</s> - COMPLETE
 
::* <s>1810</s> - COMPLETE
 
::* <s>1820</s> - COMPLETE
 
::* <s>1830</s> - COMPLETE
 
::* <s>1840</s> - COMPLETE
 
::* <s>1850</s> - COMPLETE
 
::* <s>1860</s> - COMPLETE
 
::* <s>1870</s> - COMPLETE
 
::* 1880
 
::* Miscellaneous
 
::* <s>1890-1930</s> - 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 ==
 
 
 
* Write article on ancestry of Thomas Whitney of Westminster - IN PROGRESS
 
 
 
* Resolve inconsistencies in the main line of [[Whitneys of Whitney]], or at least note discrepancies between sources.
 
 
 
* <s>[[Medieval Whitney Families|Medieval English family groups]]</s> - DONE
 
 
 
* Link Medieval sources back to family group records: - IN PROGRESS
 
:* [[Archive:Golden Grove]]
 
:* [[Archive:Llyfr Baglan]]
 
:* [[Archive:Hundred of Grimsworth]]
 
:* [[Archive:Fasti Herefordensis]]
 
:* [[Archive:Bishop of Hereford Court Books]]
 
:* <s>[[Archive:History of Radnorshire]]</s> - DONE
 
:* <s>[[Archive:The Visitation of Herefordshire, 1569]]</s> - DONE
 
:* <s>[[Archive:Visitation of Gloucestershire, 1623]]</s> - DONE
 
:* [[Archive:The Ancestry of John Whitney]] - IN PROGRESS
 
:* <s>[[Archive:The First Known Use of Whitney as a Surname]]</s> - DONE
 
:* <s>[[Archive:Memoranda of Whitney in England]]</s> - DONE
 
:* <s>[[Archive:Phoenix, ix-xv]]</s> - DONE
 
:* <s>[[Archive:Phoenix, xvi-xxii]]</s> - DONE
 
:* <s>[[Archive:Phoenix, xxiii]]</s> - DONE
 
:* <s>[[Archive:Hundred of Huntington]]</s> - DONE
 
:* <s>[[Archive:Pre-American Ancestries]]</s> - DONE
 
:* <s>[[Archive:The Pedigree of Whitney, An Investigation]]</s> - DONE
 
:* <s>[[Archive:Whitney Origins Revisited]]</s> - DONE
 
:* <s>[[Archive:Prerogative Court of Canterbury Records]]</s> - DONE
 
 
 
* Unattached/unidentified Whitney people
 
:* 1600-1700
 
:* 1700-1749
 
:* 1750-1799
 
 
 
* Materials from [[User:Lynne_Alber|Lynne Alber]] - IN PROGRESS
 
 
 
* Create pages for missing sixth-generation families descended from John<sup>1</sup> Whitney
 
 
* Add locality categories to all of Andaleen's pages.
 
 
 
* Source all fourth- and fifth-generation pages from John<sup>1</sup>.
 
 
 
* Make separate pages for children with substantial information on their parents' page.
 
 
 
* At least 464 sixth generation Whitney families from John<sup>1</sup> (321 male), less those from Pierce
 
* At least 329 seventh generation Whitney families from John<sup>1</sup> (259 male), less those from Pierce
 
* At least 169 eighth generation Whitney families from John<sup>1</sup> (152 male), less those from Pierce
 
 
 
* Phoenix Import
 
:* Template for future Phoenix page transcriptions - IN PROGRESS
 
:* [[Family:Whitney, John (b1645-b1720)]] ([[Family:Whitney, Henry (s1615-1673)|Henry<sup>1</sup>]])
 
:* Third generation families from [[Family:Whitney, John (b1645-b1720)|John<sup>2</sup>]] (Henry<sup>1</sup>)
 
:* Fourth generation families from Henry<sup>1</sup>
 
:* Fifth generation families from Henry<sup>1</sup>
 
 
 
* 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 [[Help:Style Guidelines|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 John<sup>1</sup> Whitney descendants Family Group Records through fifth generation - DONE
 
 
 
* Civil War Pension Files from Ken Whitney e-mails - DONE
 

Latest revision as of 13:46, 22 August 2008

From 2006 to 2008, the contents of the old Whitney Research Group website were converted to this new wiki-based website. While this project has now been completed, the history of this page can be used to view the progress of this effort.