Part 1 - Big Pigeon Website Log

bigpigeon.us webpage Home > Big Pigeon Website Log, updated by RAC 14 jul '19.

==> Part 1 - Big Pigeon Website Log:

2019 Big Pigeon Website Log:
  • 7 Oct '19: Finished Version 2 of the Pottawattamie County WW II Dead - now 344 records.
  • 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.
From the St. Paul’s History area:
  • 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.​
From the Family History area:
Selected chapters of Robert Christiansen’s Family History - Christiansen, Rasmussen, Larsen and Hansen.
My Allied Families reports.

==> Part 2 - Big Pigeon Background Information
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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.
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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.