Fresh from the workbench
What's new
Thanks for stopping by. Here is what I have been tinkering with lately: new sources, fixes, and small things that make the atlas nicer to use. Newest first.
18 things since 27 October ✦ 10 new↑ 7 better✓ 1 fixed
-
- ↑ Better Roots & Routes fix list: grouped by what to do, with the Atlas's records, rulers and flags under each row, and a PDF
- ✦ New Greenland: 18 parishes and 118 church-ledger volumes from the National Archives, with the ones held offline marked
- ✦ New Roots & Routes: animated views, where to look for what is missing, and the old name of each place (Fiume, Salisbury)
- ✦ New Say your name: every form of a given name or a surname, and which ones a register has shown
- ✦ New 277 wars, uprisings and massacres of 20,000+ dead on the map, with sources and where to find their dead
- ↑ Better Zimbabwe's flag history now shows the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, 1953 to 1963
- ✦ New Wars, famines, genocides and epidemics, from the Holocaust to the Croatian war, now list where to find their dead
- ✦ New 994 record regions now show who held the ground, era by era, across Africa, Asia and beyond
-
- ↑ Better Places outside a record region now show each era's leader and system
- ✦ New Surname spellings: one catalogue, with the evidence for each
-
- ✓ Fixed The home page no longer freezes browsers: map layers load when you switch them on
- ↑ Better Add a source: a tidier form, and a header button that no longer squashes
- ✦ New A new source: UK Genealogy Archives, with free census, parish-register and marriage transcripts
-
- ✦ New Mass mortality on the map: 75 epidemics, famines, massacres and sieges, with what the sources say
- ✦ New History: focus on one country and watch only its movements and the flags it flew
- ↑ Better Full screen is a button on the map, under the zoom controls