Visible corrections and depth upgrades. Honest dates — not a marketing feed.

2026-07-13 — Road to A+ polish

• Retired legacy “Cities and towns of…” blocks and “Cemeteries (legacy notes)” when modern panels exist.
• News geography gate: SC/county signals required; NC / out-of-state heritage noise dropped from county hubs.
• SCDAH & repository series inventory on all 46 hubs (honest catalog framing; no invented reel IDs).
• Nine cited educational abstracts at /transcriptions.
• Service worker no longer stores HTML navigations (stale-cache incident closed); county hubs max-age=300, must-revalidate.
• Default Open Graph card 1200×630; meta scgen-build fingerprint on every page.
• New pages: For libraries · this changelog.
• CI gate: php cli/qa_a_plus.php.

2026-07-13 — Credibility punch list

• Canonical courthouse addresses (e.g. Abbeville Box 99); society PO boxes labeled separately.
• Wrong courthouse imagery purged (Balwearie / non-courthouse matches).
• WP ad shortcodes stripped; Church Street typo corrected (legacy misspelling).
• Week-in-history window aligned (±7 days label matches events).
• Legacy first-person prose attributed: “From the original site, c. 2005 — Avery J. Parker.”
• Admin link login-only in site footer.

2026-07 — Phase 2–4 depth

• Statewide-recording trap (pre-1785 Charleston) on every land matrix row.
• District-era jurisdiction map + record survival narrative topics on all 46 counties.
• AA pathways, denser OTD calendar anchors, surname query archive, district-era atlas flagship.

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