What's New at This Site

Here is a log of the latest updates, changes, and additions to this Washington DCGenWeb site.

2024 Sep 18 - Thanks to Susan Salus, added paragraph to Bridwell Oysters narrative
2024 Jul 09 - Thanks to Susan Salus and Susan Thurtell Miller, added Deal Funeral Home history page
2024 Jul 09 - Thanks to Susan Thurtell Miller, added resource link to Thurtell & Related Families website
2024 Jul 05 - Added resource link to Who's Who in the Nation's Capitol
2024 Jun 28 - Thanks to Susan Thurtell Miller, added resource link to BooksWeOwn
2024 Feb 28 - Thanks to Templates in Time, this site has a new look
2024 Feb 05 - Added resource link to A Short History of Brookland
2024 Jan 22 - Removed some of the access coding to Ray's database (because it stopped working and I didn't know how to fix it)

2023 Sep 26 - Thanks to Timothy Stowell, added resource links to ACPL and Washington: Baltimore & Ohio
2023 Sep 12 - Thanks to Martha Graham, added Obituary Index from Legacy and Memory of Jose Rivera Nieves

2022 Nov 16 - Thanks to Ray Gurganus, added links to Charles Sumner School Archives
2022 Sep 10 - Thanks to Bob Sullivan, added HonorStates.org Resource link
2022 Sep 04 - Thanks to Liz Lauderdale, added 1933 Powell class photo
2022 Feb 15 - Added CCC resource
2022 Feb 14 - Added a few 1880 newspaper extractions

2021 Dec 23 - Added a couple marriages, a divorce, and a few deaths
2021 Dec 22 - More navigation and page tweaks
2021 Dec 15 - Welcome Susan Salas, new assistant site coordinator
2021 Dec 05 - Rearranged site content and navigation a bit
2021 Dec 04 - Thanks to Pam Reitsch, added 1895 atlas map and neighborhood listing
2021 Dec 03 - Added more online resources to the Links page, including Maps and Digital Library categories
2021 Dec 03 - Replaced GoogleSearch with FreeFind
2021 Dec 02 - Added some genealogy sites to Links page
2021 Dec 01 - Site coordinator, Ray Gurganus, retired, and new site coordinator, Norma Hass, installed

06/25/2020 - Added Historical Markers for downtown - Woodward & Lothrop, Willard Hotel
06/22/2020 - Added Historical Markers for Shaw, Bloomingdale, Judiciary Square, and Chinatown
06/19/2020 - Added Historical Markers for Eastern Market and Bloomingdale
06/02/2020 - Added City Directory Advertisements
06/02/2020 - Added Historical Marker for Matthew Gault Emery
04/03/2020 - Added more people to list of occupations, and new entry for "Agencies and Associations", listing people at government agencies, professional associations, and neighborhood associations.
03/28/2020 - Added list of DC people by occupation, listed under "Employment"

1/20/2015 - Added photo for Powell Junior High School

1/21/2013 - Added the remaining alphabet P through Z of the 1834 Georgetown Directory.
1/9/2013 - Posted 1855 Georgetown directory

9/1/2012 - Posted two unknown photographs
7/29/2012 - Added list of early divorces, list of schools in 1868
6/18/2012 - Added 9 old photographs of Businesses and Schools
4/10/2012 - Added 1843 Washington City Directory
3/24/2012 - Added World War I Memorial for DC residents
3/20/2012 - Added Eastern High School photos
2/20/2012 - Added two early photographs
2/20/2012 - Added Some Early Marriages Reported in DC Papers (1803-1810)
2/18/2012 - Added Grace Episcopal Burials
2/12/2012 - Added Grace Episcopal Families and Baptisms
2/9/2012 - Added Selected Georgetown Records, 1834-1919
1/23/2012 - Added Anacostia Methodist Episcopal Baptisms, 1893-1903
1/9/2012 - Added Businesses page and Central High photograph
1/8/2012 - Added Some Early Marriages Reported in DC Papers (1796-1802)

12/18/2011  - Added Business High and Western High photos.
12/6/2011  - Added 1889 Spencerian, 1909 Snowden, and 1920 Armstrong graduating classes.
12/5/2011  - Added 4 schools and building pictures on the schools page.
12/4/2011  - Added 2 business photographs on the photograph page.
12/3/2011  - Added 41 grade school 1889 graduate lists.
12/2/2011 - Added photo of 1891 glee club of Central High
12/1/2011 - 1822 Directory of Washington DC
11/20/2011  - Added 1834 Alexandria Directory.
11/20/2011  - Added 1894 Sidwell, 1881 Spencerian, 1888 Washington High, 1888 Washington Normal Graduates.
11/04/2011  - Added 1834 Georgetown Directory.
10/28/2011  - Added 1888 Emerson, 1888 Miner, 1888 Negro, 1883 Washington High, 1886 Washington High, 1886 Washington Normal Graduates.
10/18/2011  - Added 1900 Business High Graduates.
10/13/2011  - Added 1900 Central High, 1900 Eastern High, 1900 Western High Graduates.
9/18/2011  - Added new page for showing more details on People and Families from Washington.
9/18/2011  - Added 1894, 1895, 1898, 1901 Business High, 1901 Central High, 1901 Eastern High, 1901 Western High Graduates.
9/14/2011  - Added 1892 and 1893 Business High Grads.
9/10/2011  - Added 1897 Spencerian, 1897 Negro Kindergarten Training School, 1899 Sidwell Friends, 1930 Dunbar, and 38 grade school graduate lists.
9/7/2011  - Added 1896 and 1914 Business High Grads and 1913 and 1914 Central High Grads.
8/29/2011  - Added marriages and baptisms for North Capitol Street Methodist Episcopal Church, 1876-1879.
8/25/2011  - Added 1940 Fairmont School and Junior College Yearbook.
8/24/2011  - Added 1931 Armstrong High Yearbook and 1911 National University Law Commencement.
8/23/2011  - Added 1912 and 1922 yearbook student listings for Business High School.
8/18/2011  - Added 1926, 1930, 1937 yearbook student listings for Eastern High School.
8/16/2011  - Added 1895 Western High School class.
8/16/2011  - Added 1922 Central High School class.
8/15/2011  - Added 1896 directory of the Metropolitan Club.
8/14/2011  - Added link to the complete 1874 directory of Georgetown residents.
8/6/2011  - Added history feed from Greater Greater Washington on history page.
6/7/2011  - Added page on Central High School history.
5/22/2011  - Added Henderson Family photographs.
4/13/2011  - Added baptism records, Mount Vernon Place UMC, 1889-1900.
4/9/2011  - Functionality addition: For any archive records tables, clicking a row will highlight the row even after the mouse moves away – so if you're moving around between windows, this can act as a bookmark. Clicking again removes the highlight.
4/8/2011  - Added the first transcription of membership records, Mount Vernon Place UMC, 1869-1874. More to come.
4/2/2011  - On the newspaper pages, added a link to the Washington Bee, submitted by Taneya Koonce
3/29/2011  - Went digging in my church's archives to find more baptism, marriage, and membership records. Would anyone like to volunteer to transcribe some of what I have? For those of you in the DC area, do you have access to any church archives you can submit?
3/18/2011  - Added link to Youtube videos on Cemetery page, including new video taken at Oak Hill today.
3/12/2011  - Added news feeds for the past week for both the DC message board and email list at Rootsweb.
3/10/2011  - Added more old photographs
3/8/2011  - Added more old photographs
3/7/2011  - Added a surname registry
3/6/2011  - Added more churches - thanks Doug Brennan!
3/5/2011  - Added maps, county map of the DC area, maps on Schools and Churches pages.
3/3/2011  - Welcome to this revised website. This contains most of the content that was here before (with a few more pieces still to come), but the main difference is the in updating the organization and navigation, hopefully making it easier to access.
Over the coming days, weeks, and months, I will continue to update the existing content, will be adding in the many new submissions you will be sending in, and will be adding links, images, maps, and other resources as they are found.
Many thanks to the previous coordinator Debi Remer for her work in getting us this far!
Browse around and enjoy!

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