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Here is a list of the new items on the website and when they were added.

July 17, 2008
 
Added 1920 to the Davis-Graham Funeral Home Records
Added 1921 to the Davis-Graham Funeral Home Records
Added 1922 to the Davis-Graham Funeral Home Records
Added 1923 to the Davis-Graham Funeral Home Records

July 15 2008
 
Added the year 1915 to the Davis-Graham Funeral home records
Added the year 1916 to the Davis-Graham Funeral home records
Added the year 1917 to the Davis-Graham Funeral home records
Added the year 1918 to the Davis-Graham Funeral home records

July 13, 2008
 
School Bus Crash 1946 - article and picture to When Things Go Wrong / Automobiles
 
Added new stories to the 1920 Tornado page
Added new images of the 1920 Tornado also
New category of Indians was added to from our shelves on the research page and a story was added to it called Woodlot Cleared by Band of Indians

May 30, 2008
 
Added a new section to the Research page called Old Terminology
Added a page to that section entitled Old Medical Terms

May 14, 2008
 
Added Letters to the Books and Diaries section.
Added A.H. Marsh Civil War Letters.
Added B.F. Marsh Civil War Letters.
Added 1912-1914 Davis Graham Funeral records

April 29, 2008
 
Added Clough Hill Cemetery
Added Argentine Cemetery History and an article about the people in it.

April 25, 2008
 
Adde "Our Holdings" to the Navigation Bar, and a page which will be for our holdings at the Research Room at the museum. Added the Handwritten Books including Diaries / Autographs / Accounts / Cookbooks.

April 23, 2008
 
Added Argentine Cemetery

April 21, 2008
 
Combined Books & Diaries on the Research Page.
Made a New Section on the Research Page called "When Things Go Wrong!" for housing our Disasters / Accidents / Murders / pages on the Research Page.
Biographies / Maps & Plats /  GAR Post / Disasters / Haunted / all moved to the Research Page under their respective categories.
Created a new page for stories and articles of local people remembering the past called "Peek Into the Past". Moved Harry Bidelmans "A Peek Into the Past" there as the opening one.
Added a pages for Accidents / Murders to the Research page under When Things Go Wrong!
Added 3 murder articles and 1 train accident article.
Added a new page for Historical Buildings, also added pages / images /and text for it.

April 12, 2008
 
Added Newburg Cemetery

April 10, 2008
 
Added Smith-Griswold Cemetery
Added Chalker Cemetery

April 9, 2008
 
Working on loading the data for the Cemeteries and Funeral Homes please be patient as they are loaded!
Added Gage Cemetery
Added Gaylord Cemetery
Added Burgess Cemetery
Added Kimble Cemetery
Eliminated the Family File Form
Eliminated the Family File List
Changed the order of Whats New from Newest to Oldest
Moved Dibbleville Map and Original Land Grants from the Research page to the Maps and Plots page

April 8, 2008
Changed the names of some headers on the research Page.
Moved a few items around.
Added to the Research page a listing for Cemeteries.
Added to the Research page a listing for Funeral & Burial Records.
Added our new 1920 Tornado photo to the appropriate page.
Added the old Downtown Fenton photo to the Fenton Twp. History page.
 

February 25, 2008
Added 20 pages (2 Tables) to the Fenton Independent Deaths 1938-1943
Added the Haunted page.
Added a web link and logo for The Other Side of Life Paranormal Investigation Group

February 22, 2008
Added the Fenton Township Maps 1873, 1920, 1930-40 and 1959 to the website with a main link to Maps & Plats on the navigation bar.
Added Early Michigan Maps 1831, 1846, 1881.

February 9, 2008
 
Added "Our History" and "Biographies" to the main links in the website. Added the History of Fenton Township to the Our History page. Added a couple Bios for prominent people in Fenton and photos for them.
Added a photo to the 1920 Tornado page.

February 7, 2008
Added the heading Around Town to the Happenings page. Added the articles Did You Know That... and Events in Fenton During 1935
 
Added up to Feb. 4th 2008
 
The Miscellaneous Section on the reasearch Page has been all re-worked. It is now split into 3 sections. Stories and Articles / Facts and Tidbits / and Daily Happenings.
Alot of articles are going into these catagories.
Look up the page and you will either find a link right to the article, or you will find a link to a page of which under the link it will show what all is on that page.
 

Added Jan 28, 2008
The Disasters Page has been made to include the Tornados and other disasters that took place in Fenton. The Tornado information has been moved there and a new page for the Tornado in 1920 has been added also.
New trees please! has been added to the 2006 Tornado page if you would like to donate please see that section in green.
Added a Poem of Fenton and an article on Firsts in Fenton to the Facts and Tidbits.
Added a section for Fires to the Disasters page and and article for it.
 
Added Jan 27, 2008
The Boomerang newspaper
Oak Tree's additon to Stories and Articles
 
New Additions on the Research Page ......
 
William Fenton's Civil War Diary
Fenton Independent Death 1938-1943
"Memories" A Book by Ruth Parker Ramage

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