I'm working on a new database to manage breeder and owner contact information. This information will be displayed on the Dog's Info page. You can see an example on Donnett's Pepper Pete Info Page. Don't worry - e-mail addresses are encoded in javascript to protect them from harvesting. :-) If you've submitted a dog to our database, and identified yourself as it's breeder, you're name and e-mail address has been added to our breeder database. An online form will be available in the future to update your contact information. For now, if you find a dog has been attributed to you by error, send us an e-mail and we'll correct the problem. The search page will also be enhanced soon to search and display breeder contact information, including a list of dogs attributed to them.

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The ChessieDB has just reached a new milestone -- we have over 20,000 dogs in the exported database! Thank you to Melanie, who's been entering paper-based pedigrees donated by Janet Wilson, and everyone else submitting pedigrees online.

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I've added a new Pedigree stats line at the bottom of each pedigree page. Hopefully this will be useful as you work towards expanding your dogs pedigree. For example, when retrieving Donnett's Pepper Pete's 11 generation pedigree, the following stats are provided: 630 unique dogs out of 2035 listed, from a possible maximum of 2047 (12 dogs missing).

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To minimize confusion, I've changed the date format to yyyy/mm/dd. This applies to all dates on pedigree pages, as well as submission forms.

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A special thanks to Janet Wilson and Don Carter of Donnett's Kennels -- they have donated several boxes of pedigree information in the form of print-outs and various publications. Melanie will be entering these slowly over the next several months (and maybe even years).

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Tenset offers a FREE application called FSpeed to calculate inbreeding co-efficients (COI). You can download a special version of the ChessieDB for use with FSpeed. This archive is updated regularly and should contain the same dogs as our online database.

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All pedigree URLs can now be bookmarked. In the past a dog's record was tied to an index pointer, which could change as the database was modified. An index record ID number is still used, but a second check is performed to make sure the right dog is located. So, feel free to bookmark you dog's pedigree page.

Contact information in submission forms will now be validated through an automated e-mail process. When you submit or update a record, and use a new e-mail and/or IP address, an e-mail is sent with a URL to continue the submission process. Once validated, additional submissions will be accepted without this e-mail verification step (until your e-mail and/or IP address changes).

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