Site Development History 2000


The following is a list of the major changes to this web over the last few months, with the most recent changes shown first:

21 December 2000
Brief page on The Siege of Mafeking in South Africa during the Boer War.

25 November 2000
Small Memorial Inscription added to WWI page.

24 November 2000
Some more additions to the  Biographical card Index at British Library Oriental and India Office Collection. The transcript of that card index is now complete with all the Dowlings in there too.

4 November 2000
New page on Thady Dowling 1544 and some more additions to the  Biographical card Index at British Library Oriental and India Office Collection

2 November 2000
A few additions to the  Biographical card Index at British Library Oriental and India Office Collection, with link to Biography on Robert Wright Cope Doolan and Walter Dowling held in same office. 

1 November 2000
New page copied from Biographical card Index at British Library Oriental and India Office Collection, with link to Biography on Michael Doolan held in same office.  Single addition to grave inscriptions page.  

23 October
New American Immigrants Wall of Honor page, some trivia with painted models from the trivia page, new photo of Irish Brigade monument on US Civil War page.

2 October 2000
Mick Dowling's "The Guiding Star" Tragedy.  I'll add more detail if it comes.

24 September 2000
Additional Information page on the Irish Guards in The Great War.  This links to a new Medals page.

16 August 2000
Additional Cartoon added to Joseph Patrick's story (he's the one who stepped from a WW1 prison camp into a German sub to land in Ireland to be captured by the British and kept in the Tower of London!)  It's a good picture from Peter Jones (thanks) and I think it looks good printed in high resolution and framed!  Also from Peter is information from a newspaper cutting which forms the basis of the first WW2 page on the D Day landing.  There has also been a little technical dabbling for the search engines.

13 August 2000
As it was my birthday today I converted some of my own tree to a 'gedcom' for a Dynamic Family Tree.  This is accessible from the Author's Tree page.  I also changed the Certificates page to a Wanted page.  The banners, pretty as they were, have been removed from the home page to improve loading speed.

12 August 2000
John Dowling Dowling added to Confederate side of US Civil War page.  By that page you can access a new toy I am playing with the Dynamic Family Tree that converts a 'gedcom' file to a web page,

4 August 2000
1886 to 1897 Civil Index Records of Irish Births added, that's a total of 9,407 births of Dowlings in the index.  Statistics amended.  See Lookups.  Also new information pages on a few medal for British Army serving Dowlings in India (Bhurtpore) and Burma (Ava).

29 July 2000
A full account of the incident involving Joseph Patrick Dowling coming ashore from the German U Boat in WW1.  Story kindly donated by Peter Hovenden-Jones.

20 July 2000
A few more names added to the Landowner's List from Jean Rice.

1 July 2000
Indian Mutiny Medal List, Hitler pictures added and a tiny piece on tartans.

30 June 2000
Casualty List from 1878-1880 2nds Afghan War.  Also a good update on William Dowling in the Indian Mutiny.

29 June 2000
Finally recovered after serious computer breakdown.  An electricity surge burned out the components it took from March to June for the Insurance company to replace the machine.  Of course, I had back-ups of data.  Do you back-up yours?  There is a lesson here!  NEW is the Dowlings of the World page.  You can get to it by clicking the globe at the bottom of the screen.  Marcos starts it off but others will follow.  

26 March 2000
1888 to 1895 Civil Index Records of Births added, that's a total of 8,967 births of Dowlings in the index.  Statistics amended.  See Lookups.

11 March 2000
1887's Civil Index Records of Births added, that's 254 more Dowlings in the index.  See Lookups.

7 February 2000
New banners to draw attention to certain pages from the main page.  The banners, done with Banner maker Pro, change at random as the mouse passes over the banner area.  New heading text done with Ulead Cool 3d.  A major transcription of a trial at which a Dowling is a witness from the Leinster Express.  

24 January 2000
Minor amendments all over the place.  A few new articles under the Leinster Express with a link to an new index.  A map of Dysartbeagh has gone in.  The Service of France page has had some minor help pages attached.  I have also added a researchers details in the Links Page.  My ISP doesn't do databases yet; I tried a big page of names but it would take ages to load.  One day...

4 January 2000
Some new information but mostly a re-jig of the Miscellaneous page to an Information for the Millennium page.  This page now incorporates aspects of the Ancients pages and may later replace it altogether.  I may also start putting chronological history landmarks into this page to give it perspective.  Some bad links to pictures were corrected on the Ancients pages as well.  Please e-mail me if you find things that don't work or are particularly slow.


Site Development History

1 September 1998
The site was born.

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Revised: December 23, 2003.