• 2022 May 20. There has been a problem with the Bing map thumbnails on the Civil Parish page pop-ups not rendering properly. Fixed a coding error and regenerated the thumbnail map code.

Also replaced broken Mallow Heritage Centre links.

Added old "Information Wanted" ads from people looking for relatives that were inserted into the Skibbereen Eagle and Southern Star.

• 2022 Feb 26. Links to Mallow Heritage Centre are broken. Trying to determine the best possible replacement.

• 2021 Dec 26. Released TAB interpretations for Ballyfeard; Donaghmore (Ibane & Barryroe); Kilmaloda; Templeomalus; Kilcredan. The latter has images misfiled online. Also expanded TAB index by PLU to include a location (townland, village, etc).

• 2021 Oct 31. Sorry for the lack of updates. This has been a bad year, I am pulled in multiple directions for the time being and I am exhausted.

• 2021 Feb 11. Completed Tithe Book interpretations from Abbeymahon through Inchigeelagh have undergone one round of corrections plus footnote and citation editing. TABs for Desertserges, Island and Timoleague have been newly added.

• 2021 Jan 05. Added supplemental images for Cork United Irishmen.

• 2020 Dec 23. Added Cork Ancestors Cork Urban No. 5 1911 extracts (St. Nicholas); 1901 extracts St. Anne Shandon, St. Finbarr's, St. Nicholas.

Among the data items remaining to be done:

😞 Not all the extra information at the bottom of the TAB pages has yet been ported over.

😞 Tithe Applotment footnotes are in a messy state. More about them under 2020 Remodel Changes. These pages have not been proof-read after remodeling so I have not yet discovered missing names or a clump of names grossly out of place. The TAB pages remain the #1 priority going forward.

😞 Transcribed C of I records for Drimoleague are not ported yet. Probably #2 priority.

😞 Cork magistrates are not ported yet. Probably #3 priority.

😞 Various partially transcribed scraps of data to be introduced or reintroduced when ready. e.g., Voter lists and unpublished Griffith's notebooks that are not available online.

😞 Repro loan info is gone. Outcome records post-famine will be revisited at a future date for possible transcription.

In 2020, I had to curtail my plans for the year and stay at home. (That included cancelling a trip to Ireland.) The tenth anniversary of corkgen.org was fast approaching. The website had been getting on my nerves for a while, so since I was grounded it was a good time to remodel the website.

Over 1000 web pages and support files have been ported over into a redesigned website from May to December 2020 and (as of the time posting this) the work is STILL not done. It's been MORE than a full-time job transforming ten years of work. Some items remain discombobulated and will be straightened out over time. If significant content is missing, do not worry. All old content is still sitting on my computer and it is backed up. I don't delete ANYTHING. Check this page for anything broken or incomplete then feel free to submit a comment about anything else you find that is broken or missing.

• In addition to being usable on desktop computers with larger screens, the site is now designed to be more easily viewable on smaller hand-held and mobile devices. Some pages will say, best viewed on a desktop computer or best viewed on a wide-screen computer if I am not able to redesign old pages to fit better on your phone.

• URL addresses are at least 20 letters shorter so are easier to share.

• Pages with dense content are now sectioned. You can click to open and close whatever section you wish to view and keep the other sections closed. Hopefully this has improved readability, especially on smaller devices.

• Townland pop-up windows on the civil parish pages did not work properly if visitors accessed the old site with the secure (https) protocol. You should now be able to use the site using https if you want to.

• There is now a navigable pull-down site menu. Future content can be added without having to worry about limited screen real estate. There is plenty of room for future growth.

• Obsolete content or content I can no longer realistically maintain has been deleted.

• Some dead links that had substantial content might be relinked into the Internet archive. Other dead links have been deleted. Hopefully I've caught most of them.

• The Tithe Applotment pages were orphaned and not properly integrated into the overall site. If you clicked on those pages you probably navigated yourself into dead ends and had to hit the back button to get out. Most content is now better integrated with the site menu always accessible, so you won't get trapped.

• A lot of 15-20 year old obsolete files on my hosted space have been removed, freeing up physical room for genealogy.

• Common images such as title bars, menu icons, heraldry and sitemap graphics are gone. A number of support files rendering this website are now merged into fewer files. These measures reduce the bandwidth load on my hosted space and shrink the access logs, making those logs easier for me to analyze for security purposes. For your benefit, no common graphics means website content will load faster into your browser. Graphics are still utilized in a few appropriate places: in the TAB pages, on Surname pages, etc. In the future I hope to introduce images on the Poor Law Union / District pages, but plan to implement those pages so the images do not load until a site visitor takes explicit action to view them.

• So that the site content doesn't look all alike, certain key pages and sections have color themes.

• The chief new feature is a section on Cork surnames. They were created as a place for the Tithe Applotment Book (TAB) interpretation footnotes on surnames. Launched in December of 2020, these pages don't have much content to speak of but have plenty of room for development going forward. As they get fixed, TAB page surname footnotes will be shortened to refer to the surname pages. TAB pages are therefore less cluttered.

• The most frequently used links for Ireland and Cork research (or at least the ones I use) are now the quick links on the home page. Click Home to get to those links immediately. The former collection of links under Potpourri is now under Data Resources.

• About 40 additional pages have been added to the curated website Cork Ancestors. I have tried to keep it in good shape for Jean Prendergast in case she ever wants her old website back.

• Communication facilities have been added through which site visitors can submit an interesting link relevant to the pages they visit. Once I have had a chance to check out the link and the page has been regenerated, the new link will appear on the page.

• I've done my best to implement redirects with URL redirect files (rewrite rules didn't work). If you have a website that linked to a page on the old website, the redirect should land your link on the right page at the new site.