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2020 Big Pigeon Website Log
2019 Big Pigeon Website Log:
2018 Big Pigeon Website Log:
2017 Big Pigeon Website Log:
Kirsten Pedersen's Family Website Log:
Initial Additions - As of 4 Apr ’16 when I began this log, the site contained the following:
From the Local History area:
Selected chapters of Robert Christiansen’s Family History - Christiansen, Rasmussen, Larsen and Hansen.
My Allied Families reports.
==> Big Pigeon Background Information
Brief Site History:
Caveats:
2020 Big Pigeon Website Log
- 29 Dec '20: Moved most of WW II Dead > Their Homes > Other Counties into three new webpages, for Harrison, Mills and Shelby Counties.
- Oct '20: Added five Harrison Co. men to the WW II Dead roster: George R. Spencer, Homer Max Guyett, Marion Duane Trowbridge, James Lowell Seeley, Charles William Peterson.
- 24 Aug '20: Added The Air Dead report to WW II Dead > Using the Roster.
- 12 Aug '20: World Wars > My WW II Project clarifies the relationship between bigpigeon's World War - related webareas.
- 16 Jul '20: Redid WW II Dead - Outliers webpage.
- 16 Jul '20: added Clayton Arthur Goltry, first veteran to die before Pearl Harbor, to WW II Dead roster.
- 19 Jun '20: Finished filling WW II Dead > Their Homes webarea with data from WW II Dead > Roster Access webpages.
- 23 May '20: Added Delbert Sherman Brazzle to WW II Dead roster.
- 20 May '20: Added Chester Raymond Nelson, grandson of Swen Nelson, to WW II Dead roster.
- 16 Apr '20: Added Where They Died > After Separation webpage to WW II Dead webarea.
- 9 Apr '20: WW II Dead roster now is broken into eleven webpages: AB, C, DEF, GHI, JKL, M, NO, PQR, S, TUV, WXYZ, each containing about 20-50 records. Accessible both from WW II Dead and WW II Dead - Rosters webpages. (Return to WW II Dead - Rosters is not yet implemented.)
- 4 Apr '20: Added new records to the WW II Dead roster creating Version 3; records are divided into nine webpages.
- 15 Feb '20: Added Home > Resources > Search Engines webpage.
- 6 Feb '20: Added Pigeon Central webpage and removed redundant links from major webpages.
- Jan 2020: Prepared Version 3 additions to WW II Dead.
- 30 Jan 2020: Moved LDS History from high-level to Pott. Co.
- 30 Jan 2020: Moved WW II Dead from World Wars to high-level.
- 30 Jan 2020: Changed Pigeon Central to Big Pigeon Management.
2019 Big Pigeon Website Log:
- 27 Nov '19: Added WWII Dead - Non Pott. Co. webpage.
- 25 Oct '19: Split WW II links webpage into WW II - Useful Links & WW II Dead - Useful Links.
- 7 Oct '19: Finished Version 2 of the Pottawattamie County WW II Dead adding names from the Pott. Co. Veteran's Plaza - now 344 records.
- 25 Aug '19: Now 307 records in Pott. Co. WW II Dead
- 11 Aug '19: Finished ETO > Rhineland Campaign.
- 14 Jul '19: Finished reorganizing WW II - Germany > ETO.
- 24 Jun '19: Added new high-level Pott. Co. webarea, incorporating Big Pigeon, Avoca, and More History. Added high-level webareas WW II - Japan and WW II - Germany.
- 14 Feb '19: Reorganized high-level World War organization, adding two pages.
- 16 Jan '19: Split Avoca, Iowa material into a separate webarea.
- 8 Jan '19: Updated my World War II deaths list for Pottawattamie County; access from World Wars > World War II Death List webpage; now 191 records.
2018 Big Pigeon Website Log:
- 7 Oct '18: Reorganized introductory elements of the Home webarea.
- 30 Jul '18: In Local History page, installed Version 2 of Immigration to Boomer Township from Dronninglund Parish.
- 17 Jul '18: Updated Jens Christian Skaksen section of Immigration to Boomer Township from Dronninglund Parish report.
- 16 Jul '18: Updated most Gold Star Avoca reports.
- 26 May '18: Added to Gold Star Avoca individual reports for 20 Avoca-area servicepeople with WW II deaths.
- 22 Apr '18: Added World War II History page to More History > American History and seeded with Operation Cartwheel map.
- 12 Apr '18: Added Gold Star Avoca page to More History > Avoca & Vicinity.
- 19 Mar '18: Changed Big Pigeon webpage name to Local History.
- 17 Mar '18: Organized A House Divided subarea of Mormon History.
- 27 Jan '18: Reorganized Kirsten Pedersen subarea of Mormon History.
- 14 Jan '18: Added Links to Mormon migration to Mormon History.
- 10 Jan '18: Added Big Pigeon Surveys & Plats page to Big Pigeon > Big Pigeon Maps & Plats.
2017 Big Pigeon Website Log:
- 29 Dec '17: Added plats of Boomer #9 school district.
- 26 Dec '17: Added plats of Hazel Dell #3 school district to Big Pigeon Plats; added Beebeetown school photo to Big Pigeon Towns.
- 23 Dec '17: Added remaining page headers.
- 21 Dec '17: Cleaned up the Mormon History webarea.
- 20 Dec '17: Began adding high-resolution farm plats of Big Pigeon vicinity neighborhoods to the Big Pigeon > Big Pigeon Plats webpage.
- 18 Dec '17: Spilt the local history area into two subareas, Big Pigeon and More History.
- 14 Dec '17: Portions of website access were very slow for past few days; seems ok today.
- 14 Dec '17: Reorganized the LDS History webarea.
- 26 Nov '17: Reorganized main menu (and sitemap) to Home, History by Region, St. Paul's History, LDS History, Family History, Resources.
- 1 Nov '17: Added Resources > Printed Resources page and added links to Pottawattamie County historical locations and museums to Resources > Big Pigeon Links.
- 29 Sep '17: Added Resources > PigeonCentral > Reunion Use page.
- 29 Sep '17: Added St. Bridget Cemetery report to Big Pigeon Area.
- 4 Sep '17: Revised The Family of Joseph Walsh with Appendix The Legacy of the Lafayette Escadrille accessed from Family History > Allied Families.
- 3 Sep '17: Added St. Paul's Cemetery report and updated St. Paul's Burials report accessed from the St. Paul's page.
- 1 Sep '17: Added brief biographical sketch of the Thomas Hansen and Christiane Jensdatter family to Local History > Big Pigeon Area.
- 23 Aug '17: Updated Local History > Big Pigeon Area > Danes in the Big Pigeon Area and Resources > About Denmark pages.
- 3 Aug '17: Added my list of St. Paul's burials accessed from the St. Paul's page.
- 20 Jul '17: Added Grange Cemetery and Hazel Dell Cemetery burial lists in Local History > Big Pigeon Area.
- 19 Jul '17: Added the remaining chapters to my extended family history.
- 15 Jul '17: Added 1884 Iowa Gazetteer entries for small towns in the Pigeon Creek area. See the Local History > Big Pigeon Area Towns page.
- 8 Jul '17: Added a number of password-protected pages to hold my history projects management information. A directory of such pages is on the Resources > Pigeon Central page.
- 18 Jun 2017: May 19 - Jun 18 statistics: Maximum daily page views 128; maximum daily visitors 28.
- 18 Jun 2017: Added thumbnail images to the main content pages. Click on these thumbnails to see an image related to the content of that website area.
- 10 Jun '17: Added Weebly's search feature to the About the Big Pigeon Website page.
- 5 Jun '17: Added new page headers.
- 28 May '17, Allied Families: Added a draft version of The Family of Joseph Walsh with appendix The Legacy of the Lafayette Escadrille.
- 22-23 May '17: Reorganized site content to parallel Big Pigeon sitemap.
- 21 May '17: Changed Big Pigeon password to match password of associated E-Mail.
- 20 May '17: Linked new domain bigpigeon.us to existing site kirstenpedersen.weebly.com and began changes.
- 19 May '17: Rented domain bigpigeon.us for ten years for $100 through Weebly.
Kirsten Pedersen's Family Website Log:
- early '17, Resources: Added Pottawattamie County Historical Resources.
- 23 Mar '17, Resources: Added About Denmark, Finding Your American Ancestors, and Finding Your Danish Ancestors.
- 31 Aug '16, Allied Families: Updated The Shatsky and Allied Families of Terre Haute, Indiana.
- 30 Aug '16, Local History: Updated Pottawattamie County, Iowa - An Historical Overview.
- 15 Jul '16, Local History: Added Reel's Cemetery in Boomer Township and North Germans in the Boomer Township Area.
- 10 May '16, Family History: Added provenance files for contributions of family artifacts to the Christiansen, Larsen and Hansen areas.
- 10 May '16, Local History: Added B-17 Stories.
- 7 May '16, Local History: Added links to Boomer and Hazel Dell Township Reports; added Boomer #8 report.
- 2 May '16, Local History: added links to the bulk of my local history reports.
Initial Additions - As of 4 Apr ’16 when I began this log, the site contained the following:
From the Local History area:
- My Pottawattamie County, Iowa Rural Schools report.
- Hazel Dell School #3 in 1930-1934 - tribute to Ethel (Larson) Torneten.
- My St. Paul’s Boomer-Neola Brief History.
- My St. Paul’s Boomer-Neola Early Families (biographical sketches of 43 extended families).
- My St. Paul’s Boomer-Neola - World War II Veterans.
Selected chapters of Robert Christiansen’s Family History - Christiansen, Rasmussen, Larsen and Hansen.
My Allied Families reports.
==> Big Pigeon Background Information
Brief Site History:
- In 2015, I developed the initial version of this site, accessed from kirstenpedersen.weebly.com, to gain experience with website construction and to explore the capabilities of the Weebly website builder.
- Subsequently, I designed and wrote the Danish American Heritage Society's website, danishheritage.org, also using Weebly. (In April 2017 I turned danishheritage.org over to Jennifer Tørgensen of the University of Nebraska.)
- In 2016, I began repurposing this site to serve as a repository for my historical work of the past twenty years.
- In May 2017, I provided site access through the domain bigpigeon.us and reorganized site content.
Caveats:
- If you visited this website earlier, you may have recalled it as Kirsten Pedersen's Relatives or Maggie Larson's World. As of 20 May '17, it is Big Pigeon.
- I write using Microsoft Word. Until recently my writings were devoid of photographs. Thus most of what I have written is not very inviting to view. In late 2018 I hope to begin adding some of the old family, neighborhood and church photos in my possession.