Differences

This shows you the differences between two versions of the page.

--- history [2025/01/10 10:02] – created sallyr
+++ history [2025/01/10 13:21] (current) – sallyr
@@ Line 1: / Line 1: @@
 I started keeping notes about people important in Yukon history when I first came to the Yukon in the mid-1970s. I had a history degree, but my knowledge of Yukon history was almost non-existent. There was no time constraint on the entries as the people around me were as fascinating as the historic ones. The Yukon was changing fast in the 1970s and ‘80s – and it hasn’t stopped.
-I read a lot in my jobs and contracts over the years and every time I came across an interesting event, I make a note of the names of those involved. I think it is clear in the Yukon that a determined person can make big changes. The more useful my data base became the more I became addicted to adding more names until the numbers reached into the two thousands.
+I read a lot in my jobs and contracts over the years and every time I came across an interesting event, I made a note of the names of those involved. I think it is clear in the Yukon that a determined person can make big changes. The more useful my database became the more I became addicted to adding more names. The wiki entries are now approaching 3,500.
 Yukon has a wealth of sources for information about Yukon history including books, newspaper articles and series, magazines, and internet pages and sites. I will single out Murray Lundberg and the amazing crew that supports and grows the //ExploreNorth// website, and Sam Holloway and Dianne Green for their //Yukon Reader// and //Yukoner Magazine//. And of course, our very own treasure house, the Yukon Archives.
-I have often volunteered as a judge as the Heritage Fairs in Dawson and then Whitehorse and got pretty tired of hearing about Henry Hudson when there are so many interesting Yukon stories. I realized that, even though there is a ton of written information, there was no easy place for the kids to start and I started thinking about publishing my notes around 2016.
+I have often volunteered as a judge as the Heritage Fairs in Dawson and then Whitehorse and got pretty tired of hearing about Henry Hudson when there are so many interesting Yukon stories. I realized that, even though there is a ton of written information, there was no easy place for the kids to start and I began thinking about publishing my notes around 2016.
-I became seriously interested in filling in the obvious holes and broadening the biographies past my particular focus in 2018 and am still busy doing that. I realized the work in progress will always by that, so in 2024 I applied for a grant to put a Yukon Who Is Who online.
+I became seriously interested in filling in the obvious holes and broadening the biographies past my particular focus in 2018 and am still busy doing that. I realized the work in progress will always be that, so in 2024 I applied for a grant to put a Yukon Who Is Who online.
-A grant from the Historic Resources Fund allowed me to search out a programmer willing to work on creating a wiki. Thank you, Petrus Lommerse, at Mammoth Micro Systems! The biographies were in an ancient version of FileMaker Pro in the beginning, but the search function was a serious time waster as the entries grew. I switched the data into Word but decided to keep the formatting to a minimum and leave the credit lines in the text. What a happy choice, as it has made the wiki formatting easy.
+A grant from the Historic Resources Fund allowed me to search out a programmer willing to work on creating a wiki. Thank you Petrus Lommerse at Mammoth Micro Systems! The biographies were in an ancient version of FileMaker Pro in the beginning, but the search function was a serious time waster as the entries grew. I switched the data into Word but decided to keep the formatting to a minimum and leave the credit lines in the text. What a happy choice, as it has made the wiki formatting easy.
-Thank you too all of those who helped proof the texts. The errors are all mine so email me if you find some or want to add a name.
+Thank you to all of those who helped proof the texts. The errors are all mine so email me if you find some or want to add a name.
 Hope you enjoy the site! Sally Robinson