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| − | == Open Issues ==
| + | 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.
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| − | == Content Conversion Status ==
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| − | All content from the old website has been converted '''''except the following:'''''
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| − | : Census Record content pages - IN PROGRESS
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| − | : [http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/extracts/phoenix/index.html Phoenix Book] - IN PROGRESS
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| − | : Databases
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| − | : [http://www.whitneygen.org/archives/biography/eliletters.html Four Letters of Eli Whitney]
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| − | : [http://www.whitneygen.org/misc/ussconst.html U.S.S. Constitution]
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| − | * Detailed [[WRG:Conversion List|Conversion List]]
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| − | == Tim's Projects ==
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| − | :* <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>
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| − | :* <s>'''Quick Start Guide''' - finish</s>
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| − | :* '''Help files''' - finish importing
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| − | ::* [[Project:User preferences help]]
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| − | :* <s>Pierce Transcription - write code to convert, upload family groups</s> - COMPLETE
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| − | :* [[Pierce Conversion Project|Pierce Family Group Project]] - mostly complete
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| − | :* Phoenix Project - <s>finish template sample</s>, write code to convert, upload all pages
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| − | :* <s>Search - create an advanced search page</s> - COMPLETE
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| − | :* Finish posting records on [[Archive:Parish Register, All Saints Church, Isleworth, Middlesex, England]]
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| − | :* Census Records content pages - IN PROGRESS
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| − | ::* <s>1790</s> - COMPLETE
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| − | ::* <s>1800</s> - COMPLETE
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| − | ::* <s>1810</s> - COMPLETE
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| − | ::* <s>1820</s> - COMPLETE
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| − | ::* <s>1830</s> - COMPLETE
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| − | ::* <s>1840</s> - COMPLETE
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| − | ::* <s>1850</s> - COMPLETE
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| − | ::* <s>1860</s> - COMPLETE
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| − | ::* <s>1870</s> - COMPLETE
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| − | ::* 1880
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| − | ::* Miscellaneous
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| − | ::* <s>1890-1930</s> - COMPLETE
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| − | :* Whitneys in other countries, not U.S. or U.K.
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| − | :* Trace English Whitneys to present for DNA study enlistment - IN PROGRESS
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| − | == Robert's Projects ==
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| − | * Write article on ancestry of Thomas Whitney of Westminster - IN PROGRESS
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| − | * Resolve inconsistencies in the main line of [[Whitneys of Whitney]], or at least note discrepancies between sources.
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| − | * <s>[[Medieval Whitney Families|Medieval English family groups]]</s> - DONE
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| − | * Link Medieval sources back to family group records: - IN PROGRESS
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| − | :* [[Archive:The Ancestry of John Whitney]] - IN PROGRESS
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| − | :* [[Archive:Golden Grove]]
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| − | :* [[Archive:Fasti Herefordensis]]
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| − | :* <s>[[Archive:Llyfr Baglan]]</s> - DONE
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| − | :* <s>[[Archive:Hundred of Grimsworth]]</s> - DONE
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| − | :* <s>[[Archive:Bishop of Hereford Court Books]]</s> - DONE
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| − | :* <s>[[Archive:History of Radnorshire]]</s> - DONE
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| − | :* <s>[[Archive:The Visitation of Herefordshire, 1569]]</s> - DONE
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| − | :* <s>[[Archive:Visitation of Gloucestershire, 1623]]</s> - DONE
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| − | :* <s>[[Archive:The First Known Use of Whitney as a Surname]]</s> - DONE
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| − | :* <s>[[Archive:Memoranda of Whitney in England]]</s> - DONE
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| − | :* <s>[[Archive:Phoenix, ix-xv]]</s> - DONE
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| − | :* <s>[[Archive:Phoenix, xvi-xxii]]</s> - DONE
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| − | :* <s>[[Archive:Phoenix, xxiii]]</s> - DONE
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| − | :* <s>[[Archive:Hundred of Huntington]]</s> - DONE
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| − | :* <s>[[Archive:Pre-American Ancestries]]</s> - DONE
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| − | :* <s>[[Archive:The Pedigree of Whitney, An Investigation]]</s> - DONE
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| − | :* <s>[[Archive:Whitney Origins Revisited]]</s> - DONE
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| − | :* <s>[[Archive:Prerogative Court of Canterbury Records]]</s> - DONE
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| − | * Unattached/unidentified Whitney people
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| − | :* 1600-1700
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| − | :* 1700-1749
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| − | :* 1750-1799
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| − | * Materials from [[User:Lynne_Alber|Lynne Alber]] - IN PROGRESS
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| − | * Create pages for missing sixth-generation families descended from John<sup>1</sup> Whitney
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| − | * Add locality categories to all of Andaleen's pages.
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| − | * Source all fourth- and fifth-generation pages from John<sup>1</sup>.
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| − | * Make separate pages for children with substantial information on their parents' page.
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| − | * At least 464 sixth generation Whitney families from John<sup>1</sup> (321 male), less those from Pierce
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| − | * At least 329 seventh generation Whitney families from John<sup>1</sup> (259 male), less those from Pierce
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| − | * At least 169 eighth generation Whitney families from John<sup>1</sup> (152 male), less those from Pierce
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| − | * Phoenix Import
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| − | :* Template for future Phoenix page transcriptions - IN PROGRESS
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| − | :* [[Family:Whitney, John (b1645-b1720)]] ([[Family:Whitney, Henry (s1615-1673)|Henry<sup>1</sup>]])
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| − | :* Third generation families from [[Family:Whitney, John (b1645-b1720)|John<sup>2</sup>]] (Henry<sup>1</sup>)
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| − | :* Fourth generation families from Henry<sup>1</sup>
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| − | :* Fifth generation families from Henry<sup>1</sup>
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| − | * Import U.S.S. Constitution page
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| − | * Import [[Archive:Eli Whitney Letters]]
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| − | == Closed Issues ==
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| − | * Determine appropriate namespaces - COMPLETE
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| − | * Decide if the ''My Lineage'' links on user pages is sufficient, or if we should also have the Member Lineages page - COMPLETE
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| − | * Decide on appropriate census index page names - COMPLETE
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| − | * Pierce Project - write code to convert and then upload all pages - COMPLETE
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| − | :* Strip off the existing header and footer information
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| − | :* Split up the sets into individual pages
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| − | :* Add new anchors for children if they don't already exist
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| − | :* Convert the existing links from referencing the sets to referencing the exact pages
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| − | :* Add new header and footer information
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| − | :* Convert all links to wiki style
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| − | :* Convert the PRE sections to DIV ID="Plaintext" sections (they allow embedded anchors, PRE sections don't in the wiki)
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| − | * '''Citations''' - It appears that the ''Cite'' functionality that I was investigating will not work for our website.
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| − | * Decide on appropriate usage of category pages.
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| − | * Create [[Help:Style Guidelines|style guidelines]].
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| − | * Transfer from old web site:
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| − | :* City Directories - DONE
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| − | :* Probate Records - DONE
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| − | :* Newspapers - DONE
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| − | :* Cemeteries - DONE
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| − | :* Phoenix Errata - DONE
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| − | :* Source and clean up early Family pages - DONE
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| − | :* Combined Index to MA VRs - DONE
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| − | :* Indexes to Pierce - DONE
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| − | :* Reunion photos - DONE
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| − | * Finish John<sup>1</sup> Whitney descendants Family Group Records through fifth generation - DONE
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| − | * Civil War Pension Files from Ken Whitney e-mails - DONE
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