What's New

February 2026: The "Cross-Linking" Phase

This month marks a significant architectural upgrade for the archive, with individual content areas (Profiles, Stories, Chapters, and the Timeline) finally woven together into a connected network.

Key enhancements include:

• The Journals: Extracted and added 15 initial stories from Dr. Clifford J. Goodman Jr.'s personal journals. Grouped them effectively by era—from road trips in the 1940s to a long night at a mechanic's garage in 1989.
• The "Sink-First" Component Evolution: Developed rigorous new interaction behaviors and components reflecting the "Modern Archival" design tokens.
• Smart Story Cross-linking: Individual stories are now visibly cross-linked to matching chapters on the homepage, and people mapped directly to their individual character profiles. (E.g., clicking on the tag "Dad" on a story automatically drops you onto the biographical timeline of Dr. Clifford Goodman Jr.)
• Mobile-First Archive Browsing: Entirely rebuilt the mobile navigation overlay, finally allowing on-the-go exploration of the Family Index without scrolling past a wall of text.

January 2026: Genesis of the Digital Archive

The initial framework for the Goodman-Hofstätter Family History is pushed live.

• Establishment of the five-chapter core narrative structure.
• Completion of initial biographical profiles and ancestral timelines.
• Introduction of the interactive visual timeline built on the vis-timeline library to chart lifetimes across simultaneous generations.