| Future | What do you want to see here in the future? |
| 05/10/08 | Added a link to linkpendium.com surname and county pages from surname and county pages here |
| 05/04/08 | Added a map showing the distribution of the name in England, Scotland, Wales, and Ireland |
| 04/29/08 | Added a general surname resources page for any surname. Choose "View > Surname Resources", or use the SN/Surname link at the bottom of any person's page. |
| 04/28/08 | Added the ability to customize your own view of the search results content - adding, removing, and re-ordering columns |
| 04/23/08 | Added a "Not" option to select someone's data not to include -- you can use this to search everyone's but your own. |
| 04/22/08 | Moved the graph showing number of visitors to a separate statistics page to improve the load time of the homepage |
| 04/20/08 | Changed the behavior of the "Add a note for..." link under discussions. If you are already the moderator, this links to the page for editing the main notes for the person; otherwise, it opens the window for adding entry under "Discussions" |
| 04/17/08 | Added more options, including pictures, for what to display on the descendant page |
| 04/17/08 | Added more options, including pictures, for what to display on the pedigree page |
| 04/13/08 | Added a couple online video tutorials demonstrating some of the features of the system. |
| 03/22/08 | Enabled online real-time chat between two researchers to enhance communication. |
| 01/25/08 | Added an automatic email notification for new discussion posts. |
| 01/21/08 | Added an option to save search criteria for re-use later. |
| 01/18/08 | Corrected a bug with the main menu not working in Internet Explorer 7. |
| 01/13/08 | Under Account > My Account are more options for customizing the colors, fonts, and font sizes. Whatever is chosen here is what shows for you and anyone else browsing your data. |
| 01/10/08 | Made some corrections to duplicate check, enabling it to report a few more it didn't before; and corrected the monthly email list to remove some that shouldn't have been there. See your updated list at Account > Find Duplicates. |
| 01/09/08 | Happy New Year! Under your Account options, added the choice of enabling a WYSIWYG text editor for the notes fields, giving more options for colors, bold, italics, bullets, etc. |
| 12/31/07 | Added an automatic backup copy when a person is deleted. There is not currently an interface for accessing the backup data. This may be added later, but until then, contact the System Administrator. |
| 12/29/07 | Searching by first name and duplicate checking now match on a few of the most common first name variations, such as Mary/Polly and William/Bill. |
| 12/10/07 | Separated the main entry page into two tabs, moving the general Notes field and a new second notes field restricted to moderators and subscribers for a person, to a second entry tab. Feedback welcome! |
| 12/02/07 | Added "Remind" button to submitted suggestions, for re-sending email notifications to the record moderator. |
| 11/18/07 | Notifications of suggested updates are now automatically emailed to the moderator of the information. |
| 11/12/07 | Under View > Tree View, added a new page showing a different type of pedigree for the current couple. More description under View > Help. |
| 11/12/07 | To keep things more balanced, moved "Sources", "Feasibility Checks", "Places" from the "View" menu to "Account" |
| 11/02/07 | Added "Bef Parent Marriage" checkbox. This removes someone from the feasibility check of their birthdate vs. their parents' marriage date. |
| 10/03/07 | In the Links section at the bottom of a family page, added 2 options: RS = Rootsweb Surname page, BK = Google Book search |
| 09/22/07 | On a researcher's home page, added a link to another statistics page summarizing numbers of people by birthplace and year. |
| 09/16/07 | Revamped the search options section, and added the option to assign a moderator to multiple records on the search page. |
| 09/09/07 | Added a random tip section to the home dashboard, to spotlight some features that might be under-utilized. |
| 09/09/07 | For those who have contributed records, added to the homepage statistics chart a line showing Google visits to your records. |
| 09/03/07 | Added an "Immigrate" event - for recording the date when someone immigrated, and where the came to. |
| 09/03/07 | Added an account setting (View > Account) where you can decide whether to display surnames in mixed or upper case. This applies to all records that you view -- not related to the preferences of the researcher maintaining the data. On the main viewing page, pedigrees, descendant charts, and others. |
| 08/30/07 | Added a "Blank Dates" = "Only" choice in the search options at the top of the search results page, helpful for finding and filling in those blanks. |
| 08/28/07 | Added countries and country provinces where applicable to the search options at the bottom of the View > County Map page. |
| 08/25/07 | Added county color coding for Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Missouri, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, and Texas |
| 08/22/07 | Added the ability to enter dates in the form "22 AUG 2007" or "AUG 2007", and made the prefixes "abt", "bef", "aft" accept upper or lower case. |
| 08/21/07 | Added an option to record a source with each change log entry. |
| 08/08/07 | When submitting suggested changes, added an additional field where you include a message for the moderator about the changes. |
| 08/04/07 | On the Browse page for any person or couple, there is now a "Timeline" button on the left. This shows a chronology of all events for the person or couple. More description under View > Help. |
| 08/03/07 | For the pages that have the option of showing information on a Google map, the Map button is now a  button in the upper right. |
| 08/03/07 | On several pages, added a PDF  in the upper right which opens the page in a PDF document, which can then be saved offline or emailed to a friend. |
| 07/16/07 | Under View > Reports, added an option to search for people living at the time of a census, but for whom a census is not recorded here. More information under View > Help. |
| 07/06/07 | An update for the tabs at the bottom of the Browse page - they will now each appear when clicked, rather than only one at a time; and it will remember what you have visible from page to page to page. |
| 07/04/07 | Revised the homepage layout with expanding and collapsing sections, to allow more freedom in seeing what you want. Happy Independence Day! |
| 07/04/07 | For those who have contributed records, added to the homepage a statistics chart showing visitors to your records. A more detailed description is under "Help". |
| 07/03/07 | When entering place names, there is now a button which will bring up another website gazetteer page with more information about the place. |
| 06/30/07 | A gedcom import process is setup but currently limited to me as the Administrator until testing is completed. Email me your gedcom and I will put it in for you. |
| 06/26/07 | Help needed: Someone replied to me that the site is "visually and functionally atrocious, confusing, restrictive and gaudy." While I don't agree, I don't have an objective viewpoint. Are there any web designers out there who would be able to contribute ideas for improving the interface? Email me! |
| 06/05/07 | Added Google map view to individual county pages |
| 06/04/07 | Added link to county page on search results page, when searching by county. Added complete list of county links to "View County Map" page. On county pages, added link to county page at Wikipedia. |
| 06/01/07 | On the main search page, added an option to browse by last name. Mainly for search engines, so that they will be sure to find all of the people, but anyone can use it. |
| 05/07/07 | On the main browsing page, for each place that has been identified on a map, a pin will show to the left of the place, and will link to the map showing it. |
| 05/06/07 | Enabled Google mapping for France, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Belgium, Holland, Germany |
| 04/29/07 | Enabled Google mapping for all of England, Scotland, and Wales, for places that are identifiable. |
| 04/26/07 | When entering places, a button is added to the right of the field to search on places already entered. |
| 04/17/07 | Fixed several interface problems in Internet Explorer to get them working as intended. |
| 04/16/07 | I'm starting to add Google map links for cities and towns in England (and eventually other countries). If anyone would like to volunteer for a few counties, let me know and I'll send instructions. Knowledge of England geography is not needed - just the ability to read a map, copy, & paste. |
| 04/11/07 | Added a new section to the Home Dashboard page "Recent Changes from Others", so you can keep up-to-date on what others are updating. |
| 04/10/07 | Added checkbox "Living-Private" which will hide the record for other people or search engines accessing the site, while keeping it visible for you. |
| 04/09/07 | For those of you entering your own family information, I added a semi-automated duplicate check found under Account > Find Duplicates. See the Help for more details. |
| 04/08/07 | Added map integration to pedigree charts, showing where ancestors were from |
| 04/07/07 | Added map integration to descendant charts, showing where descendants migrated |
| 04/04/07 | Added integration from any set of family history search results to plotting on a US map |
| 03/30/07 | Added an "Email a Friend" option for sending information about a family to other researchers |
| 03/27/07 | Updated the county maps to include Franklin, Warren, Vance, and Granville Counties NC, and Greensville, Sussex, and Southampton Counties VA |
| 03/01/07 | I have updated the site to separate the genealogy data pages from the rest of the site, and added a lot of functionality to enable you as other researchers to be able to contribute directly to our common family tree. See Our Family for more information and to get started! |
| 02/06/07 | Updated the European migration maps |
| 10/23/06 | Added 264 pictures from my recent vacation in Nice, Cannes, Monaco, and Genoa |
| 08/23/06 | Added 244 pictures from my recent vacation in Paris, Lyon, Venice, Florence, and Rome |
| 07/22/06 | Website design upgrade! Feedback welcome! |
| 07/11/06 | Made a few interface improvements. Enjoy! |
| 07/04/06 | Happy Independence Day! I have posted a list of unconnected Gurganus's, hoping someone can shed some light on these... |
| 11/04/05 | Website design upgrade, much improved. :) Feedback welcome! |
| 08/07/05 | At the bottom of Browse pages, updated the links to other sources, making it easier to cross-check many families with many websites. |
| 08/01/05 | Updated the pedigree chart page to be faster, more functional, and easier to read |
| 02/17/05 | Added page for printing a family and descendents. Bring up someone's family page, and choose "Report" from the dropdown menu at the top of the page. |
| 12/11/04 | Miscellaneous updates to the search and documents pages for better performance and functionality. Comments welcome! |
| 08/08/04 | Added a FAQ page button, found in the upper left of the individual browse pages. |
| 06/21/04 | Updated the northeastern and southeastern NC Gurganus maps |
| 06/21/04 | Over the last few months, added about 900 census records for Gurganus's and related families, and updated their dates and places |
| 04/09/04 | Added a clickable county map for NC, VA, and MD genealogy. |
| 02/10/04 | In celebration of Spring coming soon (hopefully), I thought I'd change the color scheme. :) Enjoy! |
| 01/28/04 | Added a tenative line from my family in Bertie Co NC back to Henry VIII King of England, and about an additonal 1,000 people in the Royals/Medieval database. |
| 12/27/03 | Added 33 cemetery pictures from Bertie & Martin Counties, NC |
| 11/11/03 | Added a page mapping the early Gurganus's in southeastern NC |
| 10/13/03 | Finally after 10 days offline, I've gotten the website reconnected and running again. Thanks for your patience. |
| 08/28/03 | Have just received a copy of "Some Colonial & Revolutionary Families of NC Volume III" by Smallwood, and will be adding it to the website soon. |
| 08/23/03 | Added or updated 67 documents, mostly related to Gurganus's and allied families. |
| 08/20/03 | Since 8/15/03, added or updated 90 documents, mostly related to Gurganus's and allied families. |
| 08/19/03 | Added pages for the NC, VA, and MD counties most referenced here, with surnames and places from these counties. |
| 08/04/03 | Added a page for general suggestions and standards for genealogy data entry. |
| 08/03/03 | Added a general search option to the home page. |
| 07/29/03 | Added "Recent Updates" sections to each of the family pages |
| 07/06/03 | Added a page mapping the early Gurganus's in eastern NC |
| 06/28/03 | Added 12 pictures from the Biggs-Gurganus Cemetery, Martin Co NC |
| 06/27/03 | Updated document search with more functionality and added a document view |
| 06/18/03 | Added more deeds and included the deeds and other documents in the results of the main search page. |
| 06/15/03 | In the process of reorganizing deed and will entries so that all names are hyperlinked and searchable. Stay tuned.... |
| 06/12/03 | Added more in-law information for Gurganus families in Martin and Pitt Counties NC, linking some families together. Surnames include Bullock, Harris, Harrison, Leggett, Peal, Rogerson, Taylor, Ward, Whichard, Woolard, Wynn, and others. |
| 06/02/03 | Added a page for David Gurganus |
| 05/30/03 | Added 400+ records from "Related Royal Families II" by Marilu Burch Smallwood, including Burch, Harrell, Cadwell, and other families in 19th century Georgia and back |
| 05/11/03 | Added or updated 670+ records in the Royal/Medieval data, mostly in the Scottish and Welsh lines, and as always, still going.... |
| 05/06/03 | Added "What's New" to the Home page |
| 05/06/03 | Corrected various database bugs, improved pedigree chart formatting |
| 04/11/03 | Upgraded to the newest version of MySQL - should be significantly faster |
| 03/30/03 | Changed display of genealogy researcher email addresses to images so that they can't be picked up by automated spiders. |
| 03/17/03 | New website layout and various additions and corrections here and there |
| 01/28/03 | Updated the European migration maps, Added 50 pictures to people in the Royals database, corrected several website bugs. |
| 12/29/02 | Started adding links from the Royals database to corresponding pages at historychannel.com. |
| 11/10/02 | A general upgrade of the site, including an upgrade of the pedigree chart page, adding color coding by birthplace. |
| 08/01/02 | A lot of genealogy database additions that I didn't take time to list out here. |
| 05/04/02 | Added a graphing page for counting people by birth years. |
| 04/04/02 | Upgraded the Pedigree Chart page, allowing anywhere from 4 to 10 generations at once - your choice! |
| 03/31/02 | As always, continuing to add more people as they are found. Recently added 500 more people to the Royals database, all ancestors to my own lines. |
| 03/22/02 | Database Upgrade: I have finished upgrading the genealogy database engine to MySQL, which should prove to be much faster than before. |
| 07/15/01 | Added spouses to the children listings on the browse screen. |
| 07/08/01 | Added parent and spouse names to search results screen. |
| 07/07/01 | Added Volume II of "Some Colonial and Revolutionary Families of NC" by Marilu Burch Smallwood. |
| 06/10/01 | Added birth & place charts for each database, showing migrations, and linking to individual records. |
| 06/09/01 | Added a graphical chart showing migrations of some of my family from Europe to the USA |
| 05/28/01 | Added maps of Creeksea, Essex, England, home of Edward Gurgany |
| 05/20/01 | Added 500 people to the Royals database |
| 05/12/01 | Updated NC county maps showing Gurganus migrations |
| 04/19/01 | Added the ability for anyone browsing to leave their own comments for any individual in the genealogy data, then displayed with that individual. Try that with other online genealogy websites! :) |
| 04/12/01 | Started online database of data in "Some Colonial and Revolutionary Families of NC" by Marilu Burch Smallwood. |
| 04/09/01 | Added or updated 125 records in the Gurganus database with info found at ancestry.com |
| 01/06/01 | Added a links button  listing other web links related to the current surname. |
| 12/28/00 | Added 16 pictures some of my immediate ancestors, of old photos and graves |
| 10/29/00 | Changed Gallery page to load thumbnails much quicker for slow connections. Up to 70+ pictures. |
| 10/15/00 | Added the "Gallery" page and 27 pictures |
| 09/17/00 | Added help text information for genealogy search fields (IE4+ or Netscape 4+); began re-design of color scheme setup |
| 09/03/00 | Updated NC County maps with updated Gurganus data, added counts for other states |
| 08/22/00 | Restructured the website without using frames. Added 200 people to Royals database |
| 08/19/00 | Added 200 people to Royals database and a few updates to the Gurganus database |
| 08/13/00 | Added 700 people to Royals database, including 2 more lines back to Adam & Eve |
| 08/07/00 | Added a pedigree chart view for all databases, accessible by the "Chart" button at the top of each screen. Let me know what you think! |
| 08/06/00 | Updated 125 Gurganus database records with dates and/or places found at www.familysearch.org |
| 07/29/00 | Added 6 images to the Royals database and 1 to the MyFamily database |
| 07/28/00 | Added 12 castle pictures for people in Royal database |
| 07/25/00 | Added 200 people to Royals database |
| 07/24/00 | Added 6 coats of arms images to the Royals database |
| 07/23/00 | Added links to Gurganus genealogy message boards |
| 07/21/00 | Added 15 castle pictures and 1 abbey picture for people in Royal database |
| 07/19/00 | Corrected searching by firstname to ignore upper/lower case. |
| 07/19/00 | Added 4 pictures - 2 Royals, 2 MyFamily, and an option to search for people with pictures. More to come... I will be working on collecting pictures of these people, their homes or graves to add here. If you have any to share, let me know! |
| 07/02/00 | Added the "European Medieval and Royal Migrations" maps |
| 06/25/00 | Added 500 people to Royals database |
| 06/24/00 | Added 500 people to Royals database; corrected a couple of display problems related to long place names and long URL sources |
| 06/20/00 | Added 300 people to Royals database |
| 06/18/00 | Added 400 people to Royals database; added Royals database to "birthday" list |
| 06/06/00 | Added graphical charts for the Gurganus, MyFamily, and Royal databases |
| 05/28/00 | Updated MyFamily genealogy database (mainly surnames Andrews, Coburn/Cockburn, Hatton, Pindel, Robbins, Speight) |
| 05/28/00 | Out of MyFamily database I split the royal lines, now included in a much larger database of royal and Biblical lines |
| 05/23/00 | Upgraded server to the Office 2000 database drivers, hopefully more stable and more efficient? Only time will tell. |
| 05/22/00 | Updated MyFamily genealogy database with sources that were not showing up, and cleaned out garbage records |
| 05/21/00 | Updated MyFamily genealogy database (mainly surnames Askew, Baker, Barcroft, Chancy, Keile, Outlaw, Sampson, Watford, Wilson) |
| 05/21/00 | Added What's New page |
| 05/20/00 | Redesigned website |
| 05/16/00 | Added page for NC county migrations of Gurganus's |
| 05/14/00 | Updated Gurganus genealogy database |
| 05/13/00 | Corrected several bugs in genealogy searching |
| 05/13/00 | Updated Gurganus origins information |
| 05/07/00 | Added option for searching all data at once |
