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Record
of Changes to the Website
In order to keep the
message on the index page short and relevant, the "Welcome and
What's New" messages will be archived here. Changes to the
website previous to this version (version 4.0) are not archived.
A visual look at how the website has evolved over time, and the
software programs used to create and maintain it can be
found here.
21 May
2011
It has been far too long since we've had a major update to the
site. We've been working on a massive upgrade to the database
software that will allow you to search and see the information in a
variety of ways, including the family group list, the graphic family
tree, ancestors and descendants. We still don't have all the
bugs out, but we thought we'd give you a sneak peek --
take a look
and tell us what you think.
We have added several branches of various family trees and made
many changes to the database itself, but not all changes/corrections
have been completed yet. We have over 3,200 individuals in the
database, and some of the corrections we're getting conflict.
We also have some complicated branches that interconnect with other
complicated branches, so please be patient -- we will figure it all
out and get it done for you. One of the advantages of this new
software is that individual branches of the Vladimirets Family Tree
can be edited by different people, so Terryn won't be the bottleneck
anymore for uploading information.
Speaking of bottlenecks, we have also had many photographs that
need to be uploaded into the family albums, additional stories and
writings by Vladimiretsers, and additional research on Vladimirets
itself. As we get the database up and running, our
attention will turn to uploading these items.
Also, Facebook has updated its groups format and the
Vladimirets Landsleit Connection is seeing a
lot more action! New members, lots of new posts. . .it is
especially good for the younger generation to connect via Facebook,
and now you can invite your children, grandchildren and other family
members to join.
18
Dec
2010
This year we lost 3 people who had been instrumental in building
this site.
I typed my first family notes on Sheila Barill's old manual Royal
typewriter. She provided hundreds of photos for the family album,
sitting with me for hours, giving me names, letting me write down
notes. She was a supporter of the website from the beginning. I
always wanted to record her telling some of her stories. She always
said she would. We ran out of time in March.
Bernice Barill followed in October. It took my Uncle Irving to
let me see what an amazing woman Bernice was. Her hospitality was
legendary, and she made a point of telling me that I always had a
place in Detroit with her. She also provided many photos for the
family album and gave of her time as knowledge as well. Her
tradition of family gatherings, her stories and her keen insights
into people will be greatly missed.
On paper, Harry Bick & I shouldn't have been that close, but he
was more like a 1st cousin than a "2nd cousin once removed"- I saw
him at all the family get-togethers and he & Joyce hosted me & my
family during a trip to Montreal. He had a bigger than life
personality and was generous in every way. He helped with the family
tree, provided details that helped flesh out stories, and always
sent photographs for the album. Whenever I saw him, I always knew a
good time would be had by all.
Some of you knew one or more of these people, I was graced to
know them all, to have been loved and supported by all of them (and
many of you as well) in this effort to create a place where our
history can reside & our family trees can continue to flourish and
remain connected.
20 Sept
2010
We have finally changed mailing list providers! Our old list
was great when we were growing, but we've had too many problems over
the past year -- people falling off the list, messages arriving
mangled, subscribe/unsubscribe not working correctly. Since
the list is too big to send through regular email, we've chosen a
new provider who has given us new features and a whole new
easier-to-use look.
We tried to make sure that everyone was invited onto the new list,
but if we missed anyone, please let them know that they can simply
re-subscribe and they'll be back on the list. No
offense meant.
Now back to content updates. . .
13 Sept
2010
Two more videos have been uploaded and are
accessible in
Multimedia -
Video. Right now,
they all play separately. As soon as I can get the playlist
function working, you'll be able to access them on a single page,
much like YouTube videos.
8 Sept
2010
This year has
been crazy, crazy, crazy and I apologize for any delays in uploading
information. If anyone would like to take even one of my
full-time jobs, please let me know. I could use the sleep!
A long-time
desire has been to digitize some of the old movies and make them
available. The first of many can now be seen on our
Multimedia page.
They come from the collection of Sheila Barill z"l and the first two
are her 1962 wedding and a 1965 Thanksgiving held at Doris & Eugene
Gottlieb's house. The wedding is of particular interest
because it was attended by many Vladimiretsers from Detroit,
Montreal, Boston, and many other places. The attendees are
identified in the
photograph album because the movie was silent.
I had hoped to
have much more uploaded before Rosh Hashona, but as usual, there is
too much to do, so watch for more video, more photographs and a new
updated family tree over the next few weeks. We are also
updating our mailing list software, so you may be getting a
confirmation notice for that as well.
L'Shana Tova to
all.
To join the Vladimirets Landsleit Connection, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=267466705727
17 July
2010
Some back-end
changes have been going on that may affect how you view the
Vladimirets website. After over a year of warning, we finally
got around to taking down the rootsweb mirror site. If you
have any bookmarks to that site, you'll now see just a basic page
telling you the site has moved to
www.vladimirets.org.
We have also
moved to a new hosting server, so the GoDaddy banner at the top of
the page should be gone. We are in the process of moving to a
new mail server, which should eliminate the issues we've had with
people not getting the website updates in a readable format.
With over 100 people on the mailing list, I think we were hitting
the limit of the old rootsweb mailing list.
Over the next
month or so, we'll be making more changes and will keep you all up
to date as they happen. We're also working on content changes and
updates, haven't forgotten those!
15 May 2010
The Vladimirets
Information page has been updated, and the essay on
The History of Jewish Life in
Vladimirets is now available in pdf format as well.
12 Apr 2010
As promised, the
Family Web Gallery has been updated. We
have over 200 new photographs, some of which had been up before, but
somehow fell out of the albums. If you've submitted
photographs, please check to make sure they're all showing up.
We've had a bit of a baby boom across the family, welcoming Asaf
Brill, Nicolai Baril and Hayden Alexander Bick in just the last 6
months. I still have photographs to upload, so if you have
photos to contribute to the album, especially
the older photographs, please send them in. The more we can
include in the family album, the more connections we make on the
family tree.
Back by popular demand are graphic family
trees. Because the database contains individuals not attached
to trees, and because the trees themselves are so intertwined, we
can really only do graphics for descendants from a specific
individual. We can generate these trees for any name in the
database, so if yours isn't shown, just ask. Happy to run the
report for you. The files are in Adobe pdf format and are available
from the
Vladimirets Family Tree page.
We've also made some updates to the
Vladimirets surname list, adding names listed on
passenger manifests (but not anywhere else) and from Pages of
Testimony at Yad Vashem.
Some people have asked if they can submit
stories, little memories, or other remembrances of what someone was
like. Absolutely! We have the
Stories & Writings page
for just such a purpose. It has memories of Vladimirets,
Vladimiretsers and their descendants. It is the place where
the names and dates from the family tree become real people.
Your grandchildren will not know who your grandparents really were.
. .if they were special to you, let us get to know them the way you
knew them, and make sure your memories aren't lost.
Our new
Facebook group for Vladimiretser descendants was announced a couple
of weeks ago and is at 36 people and growing quickly. While the website is a great
place to get information out, it doesn't allow for all of us cousins to
connect, reconnect, or just get to know each other.
Please join us at
the Vladimirets Landsleit Connection, by following the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=267466705727
3 Mar 2010
Now that all chapters of the
Sefer Vladimirets are online, I have turned my
attention back to the family tree. At this point, all updates
that have been sent to me are now in the database and uploaded.
If you sent me something and don't see it in there, please resend
it. I often get information from several different sources and
sometimes in trying to reconcile information, I think I have entered
it but have not. Many apologies. Please see the
Family Tree page for the latest version of the
database.
Somehow, the GoDaddy server managed to lose photos out
of some of the photo albums in the web gallery. I am out of
town next week, but when I return, I will be focusing on updating
and fixing all photo albums. If
you have photos you would like added to the albums, please submit
them as soon as possible.
Our new
Facebook group for Vladimiretser descendants was announced a couple
of weeks ago and is growing quickly. While the website is a great
place to get info out, it doesn't allow for all of us cousins to
connect, reconnect, or just get to know each other.
By default, anyone who wants to join our Facebook group must have a
Facebook account. While we do not promote registering to any online
social networking group per se, since Facebook is free, easy to
manage, and quite fun to maintain, we encourage all our extended
family to join our Facebook group, to tell others, especially the
younger generation, about it and to help us create a more
interactive and socially engaging connection.
A lot of family is already on Facebook and interested in the current
day connections between Vladimirets descendants – Please join us!
To join the Vladimirets Landsleit Connection, follow the link below:
http://www.facebook.com/home.php#/group.php?gid=267466705727
30 Jan 2010
All chapters of the Sefer
Vladimirets are now available online.
Some of the inserts are
still being worked on, and the complete translation still needs to
be edited for consistency and completeness, but as always, we wanted
to make the information available as quickly as possible. Please see the
Sefer Vladimirets Translations page.
The translation of the Sefer Vladimirets into
English from Hebrew and Yiddish, with liberal doses of Polish,
Russian and Ukrainian has taken over ten years. It could not
have been done without the help of the descendants of Vladimirets
who either translated or paid for a translation. Each chapter
has the name of the person who did the translation and the sponsor
when appropriate. Members of JewishGen's Ukraine SIG group
helped out with many a wayward translation (who knew there were
people with Polish dictionaries from the 1800's!) Just saying "thank
you" doesn't seem enough for this effort, but it will have to do.
Thank you.
You may notice the changes to the
Sefer Vladimirets Translations index. We
are beginning to add .pdf scans of each piece of the Sefer
Vladimirets, both to provide a copy of the original book contents
for those who do not have access and wish to see it, and to show how
contents flow from one section to another. There are many little
items, not full chapters, that will now be translated and provided
as well. We figure that if it was important enough to include
in the original yizkor book, it is important enough to be
translated.
We have also posted 2 new items on the
Stories & Writings
page: Charlie Shoock's memoir of growing up in Vladimirets,
and Stan Oshinsky's tale of visiting Vladimirets & Bile. Both
are posted with permission, and are in the original .pdf form.
If you don't have Adobe Reader, there is a download link on the
Stories & Writings page to get it for free from Adobe.
Somehow, we have managed to lose photos out
of some of the photo albums in the web gallery. We are working
on recreating the albums and will be uploading them soon. If
you have photos you would like added to the albums, please submit
them as soon as possible.
27 Dec 2009
We have another ten new chapters of the Sefer
Vladimirets posted (all translated by Laia Ben-Dov). The final
chapters will be posted by the end of
January, G-d willing. Please see the
Sefer Vladimirets Translations page. The
Vladimirets Surnames
page has also been updated with names found in the translated
chapters. We only have a few more chapters to go before the
final editing for consistency, etc., will begin. As always, we
post the chapters with minimal editing, so that everyone has access
to the information as we get it.
We have made additional updates to the database
which will be uploaded within the next day or so. If anyone
has additional information to add to the database, or photographs to
add to the photo albums, please send them now -- I'm on a roll, and
want to get as much done as possible in one shot.
We are still working with GoDaddy regarding
their banner that messes up some of the pages. Hopefully, we
will get this straightened out by the end of January.
11 Dec 2009
Happy Chanukah everyone! The database has been uploaded with some (not
all) of the backlog of
updates that everyone has sent me. I had managed to kill off a
couple of people and had to bring them back. Added a few
births (mazel tov!). And I'm still trying to enter the rather
convoluted additions to the family tree, which have become more and
more complicated as the trees interconnect and I get information
from multiple sources. Please bear with me as I get everything
entered.
One of the items taking up my time these days
is the translation of the Sefer Vladimirets. We expect
the translations to be complete by the end of December or
thereabouts. Once all the chapters have been posted, we'll
need to go back over them for consistency in terms and spelling,
etc., but we felt it was important to get the translations out as
quickly as possible.
We have nine new chapters of the Sefer
Vladimirets posted (all translated by Laia Ben-Dov). We have
six more in the backlog, and the rest will be posted by the end of
January, G-d willing. Please see the
Sefer Vladimirets Translations page. The
Vladimirets Surnames
page has also been updated with names found in the translated
chapters.
Due to the ongoing problems with the rootsweb
mirror site, we are looking into moving the mirror site over to
JewishGen. The main site will continue at
www.vladimirets.org, so if
you still have your bookmarks set for rootsweb, change them now.
1 Nov 2009
We have three more chapters of the Sefer
Vladimirets posted (all translated by Laia Ben-Dov), "Back to Days
Gone By" by Moshe Appelboim, "A School for Jewish Children" by
Yitzchak Pinchuk, and "Impressions" by Y. Ben-Aryeh. Please see the
Sefer Vladimirets Translations page. The
Vladimirets Surnames
page has also been updated with names found in the translated
chapters.
I have started to dig through the backlog of
updates that everyone has sent me. The database updates in
particular are becoming more and more complicated. I'm working
on it, I am.
Due to the ongoing problems with the rootsweb
mirror site, we are looking into moving the mirror site over to
JewishGen. The main site will continue at
www.vladimirets.org, so if
you still have your bookmarks set for rootsweb, change them now.
25 Sep 2009
We have just found out that Rootsweb is having
a problem with their mailing list server. If you didn't get
the website update via UKR-Vladimirets, you will get it through my
direct email until we get this fixed.
18 Sep 2009
L'Shana Tova! The launch of our
completely redesigned site has not gone unnoticed - along with all
the glitches and problems people have sent me are wonderful emails
with lots of information.
Unfortunately, 2008/5769 was a year of upheaval
for me personally, and much of this information is still not
uploaded. I apologize and ask once again for your patience.
Everything I own is in a moving trailer and unavailable. I am
currently trying to maintain the website from an outmoded laptop
that just doesn't have the capability of my full-size desktop
computer.
However, one amazing piece of news cannot wait. With
Yael Burko Glaser's submission of her father's chapters, I wondered
whether we had reached a point where we needed to find a translator
for the remaining chapters of the yizkor book. About a month ago, I received an email from Laia Ben-Dov, who
explained that she had
been commissioned by George Zilbergeld to translate all of the
remaining chapters of the Vladimirets yizkor book from Hebrew to
English. While there have been a few glitches thanks to
international mail services, we are incredibly
grateful for this gift.
The two chapters written by David Burko and
translated for us by Yael Burko Glaser have been posted, as well as
the first drafts of the first two chapters translated by Laia Ben-Dov,
"A Noble Tradition" by Sender Tscherniak and "Old & New" by Yitzchak
Kamin. Please see the
Sefer Vladimirets Translations page.
We still have a lot of content to upload, and
we're still trying to straighten out some issues with pages not
showing up correctly in all browsers, so there will be many more
changes and updates coming.
30 Jul 2008
Welcome to
the all new and much improved Vladimirets website!
With a new look and feel, it focuses on easy navigation and a
clean modern appearance, with a lot more user-friendly functionality
and added interactivity.
The complete
genealogy database is now available online, with more features coming soon.
There are more photographs than ever, organized into photo
albums for easy browsing.
You can find the albums in the new Web Galleries section.
You can even set the “slideshow” feature at the top of the
photo album and it will flip through the photographs for you.
We now have full multimedia capability, and we are looking
forward to taking full advantage of it. We start off the new
Multimedia section with some audio clips from family
get-togethers in the 1960s, taped by Gene Gottlieb.
Many of our
page names have changed, so make sure you update your bookmarks
accordingly. And to
make it REALLY easy to find us, you can now access our home page via
www.vladimirets.org – much easier to remember than the extended
Rootsweb address. So
get comfortable, explore the site and let me know what you think!
We still have a lot of content to upload, so
there will be many more changes and updates through the end of the
year.
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