April 3, 2007 : Galizien Village Family Books on CD's are updated to 03/27/2007
September 27, 2006 : Galizien Village Family Books on CD's are updated to 09/01/2006
May 6, 2006 : Galizien Village Family Books on CD's are updated to 05/06/2006
March 22, 2006 : Galizien Village Family Books on CD's are updated to 03/01/2006
Oct 3, 2005 : Galizien Village Family Books on CD's are updated to 10/01/2005
Sept 15, 2004 : Galizien Village Family Books on CD's are updated again
August 25, 2004 : New and
updated Galizien Village Family Books on CD's are available!
Website Updates :
March 16, 2008: GGD Newsletter #54,
April 2008 added and the Member codes were updated on the GGD Members
Only page. Also
added a link to Doling marriage records (Bottom of Researching page, on to
Records and Archives) and a link to Polish villages.
January 18, 2008 : 43 years of
Ranischau birth, death or marriage records added to the GGD Members
Only page.
December 28, 2008 : GGD Newsletter
#53, Jan 2008 added and the Member codes were updated on the GGD Members
Only page. Some photos were added to the Photo Albums page using
links to a new Coppermine based database.
September 18, 2007 : GGD Newsletter
#52, Sept 2007 was added and the Member codes were updated on the GGD
Members Only page. Some photos and postcards were added to Gassendorf and Dolina in the Photo Albums page.
June 23, 2007 : GGD Newsletter #51, July 2007 was added and the Member codes were updated on the GGD Members Only
page. The Tips & Techniques page has been updated.
June 19, 2007 : Photos added to the Brigidau, Dobrohostow and Gassendorf Photo Albums. Felizienthal album was updated.
May 12, 2007 : Member codes are updated to be current as of May 10.
April 3, 2007 : Dave Gorz' Galicia Map index, Links page and member codes are updated. GGD Newsletter #50 is added.
Feburary 13, 2007 : Many changes to the Photo Album page to repair failing links.
Feburary 5, 2007 : Reichsheim and Bandrow village data added. Cascading Style Sheets implemented on all web pages. Copyrights updated. Members codes and SOH updated.
January 1, 2007 : The Ranischau village marriage records file on the GGD Members Only page has been updated to add records for 1889 & 1890. The plot map for Brigidau has been replaced with a newer and much improved version of the original map (courtesy of R. Jethon at www.jethone.de). The GGD members codes page has been updated to be current as of Dec 24, 2006.
December 6, 2006 : The GGD Members Only page has been updated with new information from our Galicia Archives researcher for the village of Ranischau. The Tips & Techniques page has been updated.
December 5, 2006 : The GGD Members Only page has been updated with new information from our Galicia Archives researcher for the villages of Steinau and Kaisersdorf. The Visiting the Old Country page was updated.
Sept 27, 2006 : The GGD Members Only page has been updated with : New information from our Galicia Archives researcher for the villages of Bandrow and Steinau, the GGD members codes page was refreshed and new GGD newsletters have been added. The Galizien Familybooks page was updated to advise users of a new ordering policy and the village list was updated to Sept 1,2006. A large tips and techniques page has been added to the Research page. The Sharing our Heritage data files have been updated. A number of other pages have minor updates.
July 19, 2006 : New information from our Galcia Archives researcher for the villages of Bandrow and Steinau has been added to the GGD Members Only page. The GGD members codes page was refreshed.
April 2006 : The tool we used to allow members to view submitted GEDCOMs was modified by hackers to download VIRUSes instead of GEDCOM pages. We have removed our current tool and and we have no schedule for a replacement yet.
March 22, 2006 : New information from our Galicia Archives researcher has been added to the GGD Members Only page. Numerous updates to other pages were made to cross connect this information with the rest of the pages.
Feb 07,2006 : GGD has a researcher in the Galicia Archives looking for information on our villages that is available no where else. New pages of information on the village of Bandrow added to our web pages today are the first results of this research.
Feb 06,2006 : The tool we used to allow users to submit new SOH updates online was being used by SPAMMERs. We have disabled our current tool and installed a new tool with advanced security features to allow the form to continue to be used. The Members lists and SOH files have been updated. (UPDATE: the tool is again functional)
Dec 24,2005 : Minor changes to many pages. Updated icons to better indicate PDF format files and Members Only files.
Dec 4,2005 : Unlocked Polish Archive document which was locked in error. Added a number of new village photographs to the Village Photo Album page courtesy of C. Bechtloff. Made minor updates to most pages on the website.
Nov 29, 2005 : Add December edition of the Mennonite newsletter. Reworked a number of pages to consolidate research resources on one page and updated the left menu to point to this research page. Added two new GGD members-only files: Polish Archive Holdings and the November GGD membership roster.
Oct 3, 2005 : Membership fees reduced to $15 per year worldwide. Updated various pages to reflect this. Updated Mennonite pages to add archive of earlier newsletters and latest newsletter. Combined About and Pubs pages into the About page.
July 9, 2005 : Added Member GEDCOMs feature, updated SOH.htm, updated most other pages on the site.
June 4, 2005 : Added 403.shtml. Updated SOH.htm to allow form based submissions to our SOH database. Restricted directory listings.
May 8, 2005 : Added 404.shtml, robots.txt & favicon.ico. Removed message about server availability from Home.htm as it has been a month since our server prob.
April 25, 2005 : Website updated
April 17, 2005 : New "Along the Galician Grapevine" newsletter added to the Mennonite pages. New links to a high speed server with photos of Zaleszczyki added to the Photo Album page. Sharing our History databases updated. Index to the latest version of the "Galician German Descendants" publication added to the Publications page. Numerous other minor changes.
April 15, 2005 : Please excuse the unavailability of our website from April 6th through until today. Our service provider had a major hardware failure and was unable to restore our files on a timely basis. Consequently we have been forced to move to a new service provider. All pages have been restored from our own backups to the new server and all parts of the GGD website should be operational now. We also expect page uploads to be faster.
March 20, 2005 : Added Mennonite Galician Family Study data to the website
January 31, 2005 : Added plat maps for Augustdorf, Michalowka/Josefowka, Beckersdorf, Horocholina, Maleniska, and Padew. Also updated the Annaberg plat map, Sharing Our Heritage A-L and M-Z database files, the GGD newsletter tables of contents file to include up to issue #41 (Jan 2005) and related web page references. Reorganized Map directory.
January 16, 2005 : Added a number of new photos, links to Galician web pages and a link to a new travel opportunity.
November 29, 2004 : Added new pictures of Annaberg. Updated Recipes & Links pages. Split "Family Stories and Recipes" TOC item.
November 11, 2004 : Added new Plat Maps and moved maps to one place. Added new "Plat Map" TOC item
November 2, 2004 : Added photos for Ugartsthal and Augustdorf as well as a new photo of the church in Josefsberg
October 29, 2004 : Added plat map for Annaberg and photo credits and map references to the Photo Album
October 20, 2004 : Added more information on the Map page
October 17, 2004 : Added photos for Tuczapy and Falkenstein. Re-organized the Photo album page to implement collapsible photo lists. Added link to UC Berkeley topographic maps.
September 23, 2004 : Added new articles on the History of Germans and Galicia. Reorganized the table of contents. Updated the Sharing our history databases to include all updates up to GGD #40.
September 18, 2004 : Added new photos for Tuszyma & Einseidel and a typical Ukrainian farm to the Photo Album page
September 15, 2004 : Links page newly refreshed and Galizien Village Familybooks page added
September 7, 2004 : Newly refreshed home page and numerous other changes to the GGD web pages
August 20, 2004 : 1939 Resettlement Data made available on the website
July 2004 - August 12, 2004 :
Initial setup of website