WHAT'S NEW

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What's New
Date Update Information Details
29 January 2007 Added the Zoom Search Engine to help find information on the site, courtesy of Wrensoft.com, an Australian web software company. It works differently to Google, and might find something that Google misses (but perhaps the opposite is true too).
27 December 2006 Added photo album Australia and New Zealand 2006 to the Photo Gallery.
28 November 2006 Added links to five more sites on the Useful Links page: the family tree of William Tilbury, Ship's Carpenter (whose grandson Henry married Martha Vousden); the Tunbridge Wells Family History Society; Kent Archives Service Online Catalogue; Here's History Kent - an archive of historical material relating to Kent Parishes and Towns; and Kent Registration Services.
3 October 2006 Not exactly this website, but have created and published a profile of the Vousden One-Name Study on the Guild of One-Name Studies website.
1 September 2006 David Stephenson has added his name to the list of Vousden Researchers. He is most familiar with them living in Eastry near Sandwich in east Kent, but like most Vousdens they hailed from Goudhurst. Richard was a gamekeeper there for many years.
29 August 2006 I am not generally dedicated to following fashion, but today I joined millions of others and started a Web Log (a.k.a. "blog"), courtesy of www.blogger.com, now part of the Google Empire. My Blog is at the Vousden One-Name Study Blog page, and is accessible from the main menu. The idea is that it will complement the What's New page on this site with a running commentary of what my Vousden researches and the One-Name Study are up to. It remains to be seen how well I keep this up, only time will tell. Thank you to Google Blogger for giving us such a good product.
23 August 2006 Two new web sites with lots of photographs and data for Vousden researchers added to the Useful Links page. One is an excellent collection of photos of Kent Churches. The other is to do with Sandhurst parish and nearby villages on the Kent/Sussex border.
9 August 2006 Added photo album Canada and US 2005 to the Photo Gallery section. We stayed with cousins in two places in Canada and I managed a little family history research in Seattle-Tacoma across the border in the United States.
8 August 2006 Added two photo albums to the Photo Gallery section. This is personal stuff. One album is the construction of a garden patio last year, the other is of a recent weekend family visit.

After some experimentation with web photo album software I have settled on the excellent free product Porta, named after Giambattista della Porta (1535-1615), who was the first to add a convex lens to the camera obscura. This amplified its light sensitivity significantly and thus constituted a major step towards the cameras of today.
2 August 2006 Added a new section to the Canada page about the Saskatchewan Homestead Index Project and its online records of Vousdens who were granted ownership of land for a homestead in the province.
20 June 2006 Added the first entries to the index of Vousdens in The Times page of the Resources / Data section.
15 June 2006 Added the Kent Online Parish Clerks and Canterbury Cathedral Archives sites to the Useful Links page.

Added a facility on the What's New page for visitors to receive e-mail notification of new and updated information on the site, with thanks to ChangeNotes.com.
14 June 2006 Updated the Canada genealogy page with more Vousden records and a map of southern Saskatchewan.
13 June 2006 Added a Canada genealogy page to the Vousden One-Name Study.
8 June 2006 The new Site Map page lists all the planned pages for the site. It is an alternative to the side menu for navigating around the site. The Site Map clearly shows those pages that have content as links that can be clicked on to go to those pages. Also, it shows just how much I have left to do!
5 June 2006 Added a Link to the CityArk web site of the Medway Council Archives Service, for the archives of the Medway area of Kent and also the parish records of north-west Kent.

Added the introduction to the Vousden One-Name Study.
1 June 2006 Added the first Wills page in the Resources / Data section, my transcription of the indexes to UK Vousden Grants of Probate (Wills) and Administrations from 1853 to 1972.
31 May 2006 Added the first part of my own Vousden family story page in the My Family section.

Added Keith Skudder's research interest in Harriet Vousden, born 1822/23, place unknown, parents unknown.
25 May 2006 Noah Clinch is the second entry in the Vousden Researchers page.
24 May 2006 Added an introduction to my personal family history, under the menu item Pockets worn thin by hope page.

Added the biography of Sir Frank Short, creator of the Wrought Nails etching used in the banner picture for the non-Vousden One-Name Study part of the site.
23 May 2006 Added a page about the software I have used to create this web site, at Creating this Website.
20 May 2006 Karen Thatcher is the first entry apart from my own in the new Vousden Researchers page.

Also added the page of Useful Links to other web sites for Vousden researchers.
17 May 2006 Beta testing of the first few pages starts. Many thanks to Noah Clinch and Karen Thatcher in particular for their helpful suggestions and comments, not to mention spotting one or two problems.

The shape of the site, including the menu, is in place. The initial content comprises the HOME page; Creating this Website; a connection to my Turpin family history; and a Contact Me by e-mail page.