Kingston Branch OGS Website Deep in the Throes of Phase 2 Reorganizing

Phase 2 Underway

We are through the intial activities of getting the website ported over to the new Theme and making sure it basically works.

Now, we are deep in the throes of Phase 2, which is a lot of very finicky reading, moving, adding, testing, fiddling some more, and testing some more.

So there will be a bit of churn on the website for another week or two, but we are confident that the end result will make it worthwhile.

In the meantime, we apologize for the on-going interruptions. Thanks for your patience while we make the site more stable and logical.

Testing Still Needed

As the system becomes more stable, we will be happy to have people snoop around the website and let us know if anything is broken. Candidates for the bug list include

Links that don’t work (take you to a non-existant page, resulting in a 404 error)
Graphics that cover text
Text that covers graphics
Text that seems to be missing, truncated, or not flowing the way it used to
Typos and grammar errors
Factual errors

Send an email to [email protected] to report any bugs found.
Please indicate the page title, or URL if you can.
Describe the bug as extensively as is necessary.
If you know the proper solution (e.g. “link doesn’t work but it should be https:\\abcde.feg.ij.com), then please send that along to save me looking it up or guessing. Or if it needs a picture of Daisy Mae and you can send me a copy of the photo used in the past, it will be easier to deal with quickly.

Collecting Notes for the Next Phase of Upgrade

Anything that really belongs on the long-term to-do list (i.e. is not urgent to deal with in the 2.0 release), we will deal with separately.

Please provide the same level of detail, again with a solution if you have one.
Note the suggestion as a “nice-to-have-soon” for Phase 3, not a “gotta-have-now” for phase 2.

Again, you can help immensely if you are able to provide the solution (like the missing image, the correct wording, the needed paragraphs, the correct link).

Submitting Images and Articles

We would really like to see this website become a dynamic, growing medium for communications, research, sharing of information, and recruiting! You can help out if you are able to contribute material. We are looking for:

Family history stories
Research stories
“How to” tips and instructions
Research aids
Book reviews
Webinar summaries and reviews
Reviews of tools and sites for making trees, analyzing DNA, collecting stories, etc.
Intesting links to follow
Photographs
Graphics
Flow Charts
Trees