We've added a page under "Interesting Bits" called "Genealogical Information Needed" . We've listed quite an extensive list of information that we need to be completed on the database. Please have a look and see whether you can fill in the blanks for us. Here's the link to the page.
We've just updated the Family Tree database to 30 July 2012. There's quite a few new entries in our database with all the details that has been given to us recently by some of you.
Our site security is going strong. Mollom.com has blocked 59 SPAM posts on the website in the last 53 days! We know of 1 spam post that slipped by yesterday, but based on the small amount of spam increase, it shows that the spam-engines knows we're not an easy target :)
We've recently registered the domain www.maartensfamily.co.za to link to www.martensfamily.co.za to accommodate for the Maartens' clan as well as we are all one family!
We wish to welcome the Maartens' clan to our website. We hope that the cooperation will extend the website's capability and functionality extensively and so broaden the reach of the website and so grow the geneological database.
We've just updated the Family Tree database to 30 June 2012. There's quite a few new entries in our database with all the details that has been given to us recently by some of you.
We've added a new page "Complete A - Z Surnames listed in Database" under the menu "Interesting Bits" which lists all the surnames currently on the database. This will be updated as the database gets updated.
This will help with searches on Google when people search for their genealogical information.
We are continually striving to better this website. If you have any ideas, critique or questions, please let us know!
A recent blog post from Darren Rowes shed the light on what makes a blog/news website great and what people look for when they get to your website.
An excerpt from that post:
7 Questions People Ask When They Arrive on your Blog for the First Time
We've seen some SPAM hit our website in recent times (even this morning) which has forced us to tighten security on martensfamily.co.za. We've employed a brilliant service called Mollom which is a prominent spam counter-measure!
It is being used by the likes of Twitter, The Economist, Thomson Reuters, Symantec, Sony, MIT and Stanford University amongst others.
We've done quite a few updates to the website during the last month. We've just updated the Family Tree database to 28 May 2012. There's quite a few new entries in our database with all the details that has been given to us recently by some of you.
We've also added a newsletter facility which will make it easier for us to let people know when we've made some major changes especially wrt the family tree database. We've also added a link on the menu on the right-hand side under "Interesting Bits" where you can view all past newsletters to see if you missed anything.
As you can see, we've made some changes to the existing menu structure on the right-hand side to accommodate for more information.
We've also added parts of the dairy entries of Anna Katherina Martens(Shroenn) that we received from Andrew Harty. Thank you Andrew! We've also added a link to a .pdf of a newspaper clipping of the "The Martens of Doornhoek" article also from Andrew.
We love hearing from all of you and sharing in the history of your family so please let those stories and info continue to come in!
Well done Dewald for all your work - its looking great and very informative. Still battling to move around it but will learn - Fantastic and thanx
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