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What’s New to the Web Site?

 

List of Web Site Changes/Additions (reverse chron)

 

Date                        Change

 

10/2/08                    Added photo tour of the Waterman and Winsor cemeteries in Rhode Island. The Waterman and Winsors were George A. Ide's mother's ancestors who descend from Roger Williams, the famous puritan firebrand and founder of Rhode Island.

Summer '08            Re-designed www.theide.net and incorporated a wordpress blog for information sharing.

2/23/05                    Added a slide show of some of the historical sites of interest around Providence, Rhode Island .

2/23/05                    Added July 2004 Family Reunion Group Photograph.

8/3/04                      Added Blue Ribbons from winning first prize at the Union County Fair for Pedigree Wall Chart and Reunion Memory Book.

6/17/04                    Added historical E. Providence Churches:  Newman Congregational (George A. Ide) and First Baptist (Ellen Frances Allen).  Includes photos and interesting excerpts from their Memoirs.  Links also provided at Photos/Items of Interest

                                 Added write-up from Ellen Ide’s memoirs about burying Carrie in the small family farm cemetery plot.

6/16/04                    Added California Governor Ronald Reagan’s forward to 1967 edition of Simeon Ide’s book about William B. Ide.

Added c. 1912 Ide School House photograph (with Fritz and John) to Ide School House farm tour page

Added 1927 Quit Claim Deed, conveying present-day Roger & Jean Ide’s farm to Fritz Ide.  Signed by Frank and all of Frank’s other children (John, James , Frances (Slaman), Agnes), and notarized by Fred W. Ide.

6/3/04                      Updated the family tree charts and reports.

5/31/04                    Added a convergence family tree showing the relationship between George A. Ide and William B. Ide, President of California.

                                 Added Pearson Coen-Beaty (Fred Ide’s residence in Creston) to Farm Tour

5/23/04                    Expanded the 1876 map to include Highland twshp., including Congregational Church and some information from G. Ide’s memoirs.  Now you can compare the 1876 map to the present day map.

5/22/04                    Added Grant and Highland Township Abstract Maps, and identified the farm tour stops.

                                 Added c. 1650 map of Providence showing land holdings of direct ancestors:  Williams, Waterman, Winsor families.

5/18/04                    Added Roger Williams family tree.

5/6/04                      Added a navigable family tree and family group report to the Family Tree portion of the site.

                                 Updated the detailed descendent report for changes made through 4/24/04.

4/24/04                    Added Graphical Family Tree – George A. & Ellen Ide’s descendants

                                 Added ancestral family tree – the “Ide” line from c. 1620

                                 Added Frank Ide signed US Currency

4/9/04                      Added Ezra & Abel Ide headstone monument photos to Photos/Items of Interest (courtesy Dawn Ide)

                                 Added list of Mysteries and Questions.  Help to solve them!

4/2/04                      Added 1876 Map of Grant Township to Photos/Items of Interest

3/24/04                    Added William B. Ide bio (President of California) to Photos/Items of Interest

3/20/04                    Added Family Tree – George A. and Ellen Ide’s descendants (updates continue . . . )

3/15/04                    Added virtual Farm Tour, and pictures of farms