Wiki Log

An append-only, chronological record of what has happened to this wiki — ingests, queries and maintenance passes. Newest entries at the bottom.

Tip: entries use a consistent prefix so the log is greppable — e.g. grep "^## \[" log.md | tail -5.

[2026-08-02] ingest | Whillas–McLeod history spreadsheet (Rev 4), 1860s–1970s

Ingested 12 decade CSV sheets from source/ (the family history spreadsheet, "Whillas–Mcleod history from … Rev 4"), covering 1860–1979. Each sheet is a years × months matrix of dated events plus footnotes.

Created:

• 12 timeline pages — one per decade, 1860s through 1970s.
• 39 people pages — the full Whillas and McLeod/Gunn lines from the 1846-born John Foggo Whillas down to the 14 children of Dick and Cath.
• 19 place pages — Scotland/Ireland origins, South Australian towns and lighthouses, and the family's Victorian and WA homes.
• 9 event pages — emigrations, marriages, Norman MacLeod's WW1 service, and the 1970 Hopetoun truck accident.
• 3 document pages + index, including a scan of the Catherine Gunn death certificate (1950).
• Family tree (Mermaid diagram + outline), index, and this log.

Notes / open questions carried from the source:

• Cath's birth year is recorded as 1921 on her certificate but appears as 1920 in some family records.
• Norman MacLeod's post-1936 lighthouse postings (Althorpe Island, Cape du Couedic) rest on Cath's recollection; the SA Archives have no record after Cape Northumberland.
• Several "when was the move to …?" questions (Brae, Sth Purrumbete, Invergordon, Fremantle) remain open in the source.
• Timeline is organised by decade (matching the source sheets). Individual year pages (e.g. timeline/1963.md) can be split out later as content grows.
• The bulk photo archive in source/Mcleod, Whillas family/ has not yet been catalogued — see photos index.

[2026-08-02] maintenance | Open-questions page & timeline convention

• Created open-questions.md, collating every unresolved question/gap flagged in the source (family moves, Norman's records, missing certificates, unidentified relatives, etc.), each linked to its relevant page. Linked from home and the index.
• Updated CLAUDE.md to document the by-decade timeline convention (timeline/1960s.md) in place of the original per-year example, with a note that year pages can be split out as coverage grows.