WholeTech Network Master To-Do v2

WHOLETECH NETWORK — MASTER TO-DO LIST v2
Updated April 4, 2026 (afternoon)
108 websites | Ordered by importance
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TIER 1: REVENUE & BUSINESS (1-10)
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1. Follow up with Nancy Bergeron on DNS access and $800 payment (no response to 2 emails)
2. Send Alice the corrections email (draft in Gmail, ready to send)
3. Order Barney's autobiography "A World of Possibility" from AbeBooks ($75-150 signed)
4. Order "Spring Grove: Minnesota's First Norwegian Settlement" by Chad Muller
5. Set up email capture forms on top-traffic sites (firth.com, austen.com, tvreviewer.com, wholetech.com)
6. Research monetization: affiliate links on touroftexas.com (hotel bookings, Airbnb)
7. Research monetization: aiwholetech.com AI tool affiliate links
8. Create a services page on wholetech.com offering web development
9. Set up Packy/Brian Rodgers as a potential client (page exists at wholetech.com/packy/)
10. Invoice tracking: Nancy $800, any other outstanding

TIER 2: GOOGLE & SEO (11-25)
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11. Submit sitemaps for ~40 remaining domains in Google Search Console
12. Submit sitemap for touroftexas.com
13. Submit sitemap for gamesked.com
14. Submit sitemap for whensthegame.com
15. Submit sitemap for robopodcast.com
16. Submit sitemap for changebastrop.com
17. Submit sitemap for all 50 rebuilt sites
18. Generate sitemap.xml files for any sites missing them
19. Check Google Search Console Coverage reports for indexing errors
20. Verify structured data (Schema.org) on all sites
21. Add meta keywords to rebuilt sites
22. Check robots.txt on all sites
23. Submit taichipaul.com, aiwholetech.com, aquachifit.com to Google News
24. Set up Google Business Profile for wholetech.com
25. Add 3 new domains to UptimeRobot monitoring

TIER 3: FAMILY SITES — CONTENT (26-45)
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26. Incorporate Grandpa Ed's full story into barneyfrauenthal.com main narrative (partially done)
27. Add Ed's name to familytree.html (detailed tree)
28. Add Ed's name to build-family.py master script so rebuilds don't overwrite
29. Add the Ebsworth oral history quotes throughout the Ebsworth section
30. Add Muriel "lettered in eight sports" and class bully story
31. Add the full O'Keeffe wedding story (Maggie Lopez, black dress, two weddings only)
32. Add the NCO Club / "I signed his paycheck, he signed my passes" story
33. Add Somerset Maugham book inspiration for the Louvre
34. Add "I went to the Louvre Museum every weekend for a year"
35. Add Charles Buckley "12 greatest paintings / little Charlie behind the barn"
36. Add the Dan Terra tap-dancing as Uncle Sam story
37. Add "never graduated" — petitioned out 9 hours short, WashU later graduated him
38. Add Chop Suey purchase story ($200K, accidentally negotiated)
39. Add "no cell phone" and smoke signal stories
40. Add Bill Gates as neighbor / "the last great Homer" story
41. Add Craig McCaw's 1918 mansion "room for about two pictures"
42. Add the Louisiana Museum (Denmark) as floor plan inspiration
43. Add O'Keeffe was "90 percent blind" — binoculars directing a young painter
44. Add Juan Hamilton argument: "Barney knows what he's talking about"
45. Add "I'd take the experience every day" over owning the pictures

TIER 4: FAMILY SITES — RESEARCH (46-60)
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46. Research Grandpa Ed Frauenthal — find dates (birth, death, marriage)
47. Research the paperboy car contest in St. Louis
48. Research University City / Gannon Avenue — find the specific house
49. Download and read the 1966 Chautauqua program from Internet Archive
50. Contact Giants of the Earth Heritage Center about Walhus records
51. Contact Hadeland Lag about Mikkel Larsen Dahl in Gran parish records
52. Contact Chautauqua Historical Society (Elsah, IL) for cottage records
53. Contact O'Keeffe Museum about Barney Ebsworth Papers collection
54. Request Smithsonian oral history PDF transcript (we have the text)
55. Research Henry Frauenthal's brother Herman — more details on his life
56. Research the Annie May Stengel dispute — was it really Henry or Elmer Taylor?
57. Research Ida Baridon Frauenthal — more on her Swiss family
58. Research Samuel Frauenthal — AR Supreme Court opinions, cases
59. Find photos of Grandpa Ed, Virginia, Donald, Alice-Ann, the Chautauqua cottage
60. Ask Ally for family photos when she returns from San Diego (late April)

TIER 5: REBUILD REMAINING SITES (61-75)
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61. austinhangout.com — Austin's best hangout spots, bars, patios
62. austinhomesearches.com — Austin real estate search guide
63. atxnews.club — Austin local news aggregator
64. austin.com.co — Austin city guide for newcomers
65. childrenstory.org — Creative writing for children
66. webarter.net — Web art, digital creativity, creative coding
67. austin.com.co — needs differentiation from touroftexas
68. colinfirth.com — verify content is substantial (has traffic)
69. adultstory.com — has full network directory, verify quality
70. childrenstory.org — differentiate from childrenstory.net
71. texascoworking.com — verify content quality (original build)
72. stonedom.com — verify content quality
73. austin.com.co — cross-link properly with Austin cluster
74. smallhomevillage.com — verify cross-links with smallhomevillages.com
75. bnbhot.com — verify content and cross-links (64KB, Paul's site)

TIER 6: INFRASTRUCTURE & MAINTENANCE (76-90)
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76. Add subnav bar to the 6 newly rebuilt batch 7 sites
77. Run add-standard-features.py on batch 6 and 7 sites
78. Run cross-links script for batch 7 sites
79. Update activesites.html on wholetech.com with taichipaul, aiwholetech, aquachifit
80. Update network-directory.txt with new domains
81. Update uptimerobot-monitors.csv with new domains
82. Update build-logs.py categories for new sites (taichipaul=Fitness, etc.)
83. Fix wholetech.com homepage to accurately list site count by category
84. Verify all www. redirects working properly
85. Check SSL certificate expiration dates (certbot auto-renews but verify)
86. Clean up .bak files on server (accumulating from all the edits)
87. Run a link check across all sites for broken internal links
88. Optimize images on sites that have them (firth.com, tvreviewer.com)
89. Add favicon to all rebuilt sites (most are missing)
90. Add Open Graph images to rebuilt sites for social sharing

TIER 7: FAMILY SITES — PHOTOS & GALLERY (91-100)
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91. Create proper gallery page with all 73 photo links (done at gallery.html)
92. Add Vice magazine Choy Kam Man YMCA photo link to taichipaul.com
93. Add 1966 Chautauqua program (Internet Archive) to sources
94. Add all Illinois Digital Archives Chautauqua photos to gallery
95. Add Library of Congress Titanic lifeboat photos to gallery
96. Add Ebsworth Park / FLW house photos to gallery
97. Add Spotsylvania battlefield photos to gallery
98. Organize gallery by topic with descriptions
99. Create a timeline page with key dates for all families
100. Create a "Research Status" dashboard showing biography progress

TIER 8: BOOKS & BIOGRAPHIES (101-115)
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101. Outline Chapter 1 of Frauenthal biography (Bavaria to America)
102. Outline Chapter 1 of Walhus biography (Hadeland to Spring Grove)
103. Outline Chapter 1 of Ebsworth biography (Buckingham Palace childhood)
104. Write the "cast of characters" page for all three books
105. Create a master timeline spanning all three families (1830-2026)
106. Organize oral history extracts by chapter for Ebsworth book
107. Order "The Jewish Confederates" by Robert Rosen
108. Read Barney's autobiography when it arrives
109. Read the 1966 Chautauqua program from Internet Archive
110. Read Elisabeth Koren's diary (frontier life primary source)
111. Contact a literary agent about the three-biography project
112. Research publishers specializing in family history / biography
113. Consider self-publishing via Amazon KDP as alternative
114. Create book proposal with sample chapters
115. Set up a writing schedule for the biographies

TIER 9: FUTURE EXPANSION (116-125)
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116. Build out aiwholetech.com with real, updated AI tool listings
117. Add API-driven sports data to gamesked.com and whensthegame.com
118. Create a podcast for the WholeTech Network
119. Build video content for YouTube channel
120. Set up social media accounts for key sites
121. Research advertising revenue (Google AdSense) on high-traffic sites
122. Consider selling some low-value domains to fund the project
123. Build the aquachifit.com community — find local pools, classes
124. Build the taichipaul.com community — find local tai chi groups
125. Register taichiyang.com if still wanted (Master Choy's style)

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COMPLETED (for reference)
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- 63 of 108 sites rebuilt with real content
- All Ally corrections applied
- Grandpa Ed details added
- Captain Smith, JFK, Ebsworth Park, Bucky Bush, oral history on live pages
- Subpages generated for all rebuilt sites (no more 404s)
- Cross-links on all 100+ sites
- Cumulative stats tracking (daily + all-time)
- Gallery page with 73 photo links
- Sources page with 220+ references
- Research overflow: 500+ lines
- Oral history extracts saved
- Family trees (visual + detailed) created and corrected
- 3 new domains live (taichipaul, aiwholetech, aquachifit) with DNS/SSL
- Nancy email sent (awaiting response)
- Alice email drafted
- Brian/Packy client page created
- Bergeron staging at wholetech.com/bergeron/
- All pushed to GitHub
- Todo lists at wholetech.com/todo.html and walhus.com/familytodo.html

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END OF TO-DO LIST v2
125 items, ordered by importance
Generated by Claude Code, April 4, 2026