Need some help getting started with irc (INTERNET RELAY CHAT)? Try: http://www.rare.on.ca/users/genealogyforum/index.htm ----- Original Message ----- From: B.J. Smothers <smothers@mindspring.com> To: <ALGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 12:38 PM Subject: [ALGEN-L] Logging Chat Room Sessions > Chat X-perts, > > I'm using the free XOOM/Parachat room for my county chat sessions and, of > course, you can't log the discussion. > > Has anyone else used another java freebie that has logging capability? > > Has anyone used the IIGS/Rootsweb IRC channel? I've sort of shied away from > IRC cause folks have to download and install the software but you can log > sesions. if you've used it, did you like it? How easy was it to use for > chat newbies? How easy to use admin functions? > > Thanks for suggestions, > > B.J. Smothers > Dallas and Wilcox County, Alabama Genealogy > http://www.prairiebluff.com/algenweb/dallas/ > http://www.prairiebluff.com/algenweb/wilcox/ > Black Families of Alabama's Black Belt > http://www.prairiebluff.com/blackbelt/ > >

At the request of a County Coordinator, I am putting this proposed amendment to the USGenWeb bylaws to a vote of the AL county coordinators. In order for an amendment to appear on the USGenWeb ballot in July, 5 states must sponsor it. Maryland submitted it and it is being put to a vote in several other states. You are being asked to vote for or against placing a proposed amendment on the ballot for the USGenWeb general election in July 2000. Voting *for* placing the amendment on the ballot does not imply that you necessarily favor the amendment, just that you would like to see it put to a vote of the USGenWeb membership. A simple majority of the Alabama CCs voting will constitute sponsorship or lack of sponsorship of this amendment by the state project. To vote, go to http://tx-1.rootsweb.com/~elsi/vote-al-1.html (For AOL users, the clickable link is <a href="http://tx-1.rootsweb.com/~elsi/vote-al-1.html">http://tx-1.rootsweb.co m/~elsi/vote-al-1.html</a>) Voting commences immediately and will run until 12:30am (Alabama time, CDT) Tuesday, 13 June. If you vote more than once, your last vote will be the only one counted. Each CC and Asst. CC (or Co-CC) will be accorded one vote, regardless of how many counties he or she sponsors. David Morgan has agreed to help count the votes, so a copy of your vote will be sent to David as well as to me. If you are subscribed to any of the USGenWeb mailing lists or if you've taken a look at the USGenWeb project business pages lately, you may be aware that there are other proposed amendments. I'll put any of these to a vote upon nomination by an Alabama CC. Regards, Leigh > Posted 1 June 2000 - USGenWeb Archives Project > NOTE: Proposed by the MDGenWeb Project. > > Co-sponsoring states: > > Article XIII. THE ARCHIVES PROJECT > > Section 1. The USGenWeb Archives Project shall have a Coordinator and > an Assistant Coordinator or other support team in place that can take > charge in case the Coordinator becomes unavailable for a period of 30 > days, unless there are extenuating circumstances. The USGenWeb > Archives(Digital Library) shall be a repository for public domain or > research documents and shall provide an easily accessible website for > online research by the genealogical community. > > Section 2. The name of the project shall be The USGenWeb Archives > Project. > > Section 3. The staff members of The USGenWeb Archives Project shall > elect one Representative to serve as a voting member of The USGenWeb > Project Advisory Board. > > Section 4. The Archives Project Coordinator shall be elected by the > project staff. The Coordinator in place at the time this section of > the Bylaws is amended shall be exempt from election procedures, unless > he/she is removed, resigns or is unable to perform his/her duties. > > Section 5. The Archives Project Coordinator is subject to possible > removal by a 2/3 vote of the Advisory Board and a 2/3 vote of the > project staff. A quorum of 75% of the project staff shall participate > in order for the vote to be binding. > > Section 6. If the Archives Project Coordinator is unable to perform > his/her duties, the Assistant Coordinator, or other support team, > shall serve until an election can take place among the project staff. > In the case of more than one Assistant Coordinator, they shall choose > among themselves to serve in the interim. > > ** > > Other Proposed Changes: > > Article II. > > Section 2. Change "The USGenWeb Project Archives" to "The USGenWeb > Archives Project" > > Article V. > > Change "one(1) representative each from The USGenWeb Archives Project, > The USGenWeb Census Project, and the USGenWeb Tombstone Project," to > "one(1) representative from The USGenWeb Archives Project," > > Article VI. > > Section 9. Change "and Special Project Representative" to "and > Archives Project Representative" Change "with the Special Projects" to > "with the Archives Project" > > Article VIII. > > Section 1. Change "Eight(8) voting members of the Advisory Board shall > constitute a quorum." to "Seven(7) voting members of the Advisory > Board shall constitute a quorum." > > Article XII. > > Section 2. Change "The USGenWeb Project Archives" to "The USGenWeb > Archives Project"

Alabama Archive Updates Clarke County: Henley Cemetery ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/clarke/cemetery/henley.txt Crenshaw County: Obituary of Espy H. Brunson ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/crenshaw/obits/ehbrunson.txt Obituary of Isaac Joel Brunson ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/crenshaw/obits/ijbrunson.txt Shelby County: Probate Estate Files Index, 1818-1915 ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/shelby/probate/probateindx.txt The day has finally arrived. I will have to dismantle my computer tomorrow. I will be out of service for 2 to 4 weeks, hopefully the shorter time. This is because, as you all know, I am moving from Minnesota to Colorado. I can't wait to get this thing done. I know I will love Colorado it is just the moving part, sort of feels like a root canal - hurts now but when it is all over you feel much better. Do send your files. If my son will let me use his laptop, I may be able to get to my email within the next week. Happy June! Carolyn Golowka ALGenWeb Archive File Manager

More information about the USGenWeb elections from our Election Committee (EC). >Greetings; >Plans have been implemented to hold the elections by online ballot hosted by >a non-genealogical server. > >Very shortly the SC's shall be requested to furnish lists of qualifying >members to the EC. > >As the lists are compiled into an electorate list, each voter will be send a >unique VoterID which is mandatory for use when voting. This ID allows the EC >to cross-check and validate that votes were recorded correctly and part of >the final report of the EC shall be the posting of said ID's with vote >(without member identifying content) to a website for individual review and >validation. > >Roger Swafford <sagitta56@earthlink.net>

>Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 23:50:59 -0400 >From: "Roger Swafford" <sagitta56@earthlink.net> >Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD-L] EC - Announcement > >*Please fwd. > >To clarify, a member must have been serving in his/her position(s) and in >good standing before April 1, 2000 in order to vote or nominate. >Qualifications for nominees as contained in the bylaws are applicable. > Regards, Leigh

>Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 22:01:41 -0400 >From: "Jack C. Brooks" <jcbrooks@tidalwave.net> >To: al@usgenweb.org >CC: Marcus Thomas <mctlrt@erols.com> >Subject: Dekalb County website > >Leigh, > Please go ahead and change the link for Dekalb to: > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~aldekalb/ > >I have certainly enjoyed my three years as the Dekalb Coordinator for >AlGenWeb, watching the transition from when the Arkansas pioneers >started, to the fine set of informative pages Marcus has now. I >certainly intend to remain active in Alabama genealogy and when I get >back to nearly normal (and nearly retired), maybe I can participate in >the Walker and Sumter pages a little, chasing Kilgores and Rushings. > >Best to you and ALGenWeb, >Jack > >P.S. I meant KENTUCKY darn it !! OK - Walker and Sumter County folks pay attention. This looks like a promise to me. Jack, it was wonderful working with you. Thanks for finding Marcus to take over from you and for making the transition so smooth. I'm looking forward to your return - I have Walker County roots and really appreciate online information there. Regards, Leigh

David Morgan has recruited Lynda Eller as co-County Coordinator for Chambers County. Lynda <deller@mindspring.com> lives in Chambers County and maintains quite a library about Chambers and Randolph counties (among others). She's been helping David for a long time, and we're really glad that she'll be taking on a more visible role in ALGenWeb. Barbara Dore <rootslady@email.msn.com> has adopted Escambia and Baldwin counties. This now means that there is only one county (Crenshaw) that doesn't have a permanent caretaker. Regards, Leigh

Guys - the following was posted to the State Coordinator's list today. Alabama is in the SE/MA region and thus we will have the priviledge of nominating and voting on one CC representative and the National Coordinator. Anyone interested in serving on the USGenWeb Advisory Board is welcome to nominate himself (or herself) or have someone else in the project nominate you. Regards, Leigh >Greetings; > >The following AB positions shall be open for election during this election >cycle. >National Coordinator - one year term - Tim Stowell, incumbent >NE/NC CC Rep. - two year term - Richard Howland, incumbent >NWP CC Rep. - two year term - Virginia Cisewski, incumbent >SE/MA CC Rep. - two year term - Jim Powell, incumbent >SW/SC SC Rep. - two year term - Betsy Mills, incumbent >SW/SC CC Rep. - two year term - Gloria B. Mayfield, incumbent > >Nominations will be open commencing 0001(CDT) June 01,2000 and continue >through 2359 (CDT) June 15, 2000. To participate, members must have at least >60 days continueous service in good standing prior to commencement of the >election cycle, April 1, 2000. > >Members are requested to submit nominations to the appropriate regional >contact as listed below. Please include the name and email address of the >nominee. >Nominations Sub-Committee Members; > >NorthWestPlains ------------- Jerimiah Moerke moer0020@tc.umn.edu > >SouthWest/SountCentral -- Shirley Scott shirleyscott@juno.com > >NorthEast/MidAtlantic ------ Alice Gayley agayley@dgs.dgsys.com > >SouthEast/SouthCentral --- Vicki Shaffer tngibson@worldnet.att.net > >The above member (as applicable) shall; contact the nominee to determine >acceptance/rejection of the nomination and obtain qualifying details as >provided by the nominee. >Forward acceptance and qualifying details to the Election Committee.

At 07:53 AM 05/31/2000 -1000, you wrote: >Can anybody help? > >The only address I can come up with is on Broome Street, which is at least >two years old. > >David David, Back when I was the CC for Talladega County, I received an e-mail from a lady who said that the newsletter had been published by her eldery uncle who had recently passed away. And, she asked me to please remove the address from the county web page. I'm pretty sure that the Broome Street address was his home. I'll look through my archived stuff and see if I can find the note. Found it -- >>>> From: PBeck4046 <PBeck4046@aol.com> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 1998 19:44:03 EST To: lcompton@ONRAMP.NET Subject: Talladega Historical Society Sorry, but the Talladega County Historical Association Newsletter is no longer being published from 106 Broome St. Talladega. My great uncle, Vern Scott, wrote it for many years and passed away last year. I don't know if anyone else is publishing it or not. Peggie Beck <<<< I have her mailing address and phone number if you want it - though I won't post it to the list. Regards, Leigh

Can anybody help? The only address I can come up with is on Broome Street, which is at least two years old. David ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 12:36:43 +0000 From: Angela Fox <Afox@acpl.lib.in.us> To: dmorgan@efn.org Subject: Talladega County Historical Association I'm writing on behalf of the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Periodicals department. I know that this may be a long shot, but that's about all I have left! A few years back, we'd been subscribing to the Talladega County Historical Association Newsletter. It stopped coming 1997; we received our last issue in April 1997. I've been trying to find out what happened to it since--whether it's stopped publishing, whether we inadvertently got removed from the mailing list, etc. However, I've been meeting dead ends. When I tried to call the Talladega County Historical Association, I was told that my "call could not be completed as dialled." Do you happen to know how I could contact the Talladega County Historical Association? Do they have a current e-mail address or telephone number? Are they still in existence? If you have any information on the historical association (or the newsletter), it would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for your help. Angela Fox Allen County Public Library Genealogy Periodicals P. O. Box 2270 Ft. Wayne, IN 46801-2270

Leigh and All CC's If you haven't checked lately, another suggestion for the ALGenWeb logo has been submitted. This one came from Travis Hardin, county coordinator for Cherokee County. If anyone else has something to submit, please sent it to me so I can get it on the page. <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/butlercounty/contest.htm">ALGe nWeb Logo Contest</A> Mildred Stinson Brown Butler County Co-Ordinator <A HREF="http://geocities.yahoo.com/butlercounty">Butler County, Alabama</A> - ALGenWeb Site <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/martyb1448/">Families of Butler County, Alabama</A> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/kenneth1051">Kenneth Brown's Genealogy Page< /A> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/martybrown/33rd.htm">In Memory of The Seventeen - 33rd Ala Vol</A> <A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/martyb1448/">The Open Gate</A><A HREF="http://www.geocities.com/martyb1448/">©</A> . . . a civil war story

Today must be ALGenWeb's lucky day. We've picked up yet another new County Coordinator. Please welcome Kathy Selman <please@bellsouth.net> as the coordinator for Connecuh County. She's taking over from Lygia Cutts. With all the adoptions processed today, there are only two orphaned counties left: Crenshaw and Escambia. It's getting to be a full house around here! Regards, Leigh

Just in ... St. Clair County will now be hosted by Rev. John Evans Pace, III <Evangail49@aol.com> who lives in Talladega. I've sent him everything he needs to get started and subscribed him to this list. He may be asking for help on occasion, but I know you guys will all be willing to answer questions. We've got such a good group of volunteers. Maggie Stewart <73777.25@compuserve.com> has agreed to care for Elmore County. I really hate to see John Robertson go, but he's been really good to keep the county pages up while waiting for a new County Coordinator. Betsy Mills <betsym@1starnet.com> will be working on Pickens County. As you may remember, Jo Carrell was maintaining this site along with Jefferson County. We'll miss her too. I don't know how your weekend and Memorial Day has gone, but mine has been wonderful. I've taken care of some needed housecleaning (on my computer, not for real) and added some information to the ALGenWeb site. There's more to be done - isn't there always? - but I'm making progress. I've more information to pass on to you guys about the USGenWeb annual elections, but that's for another note. Regards, Leigh

It's been a couple of weeks since I last wrote, and we've had a few more volunteers come forward. Sherry Ledlow <SLLedlow@aol.com> is taking the reins as the County Coordinator for Jefferson County. This was a very popular county and I've had to disappoint 4 other people who have volunteered. I'm sending their names to Sherry and hoping that she can use their help in putting as much information online as possible. Marcus Thomas <mctlrt@erols.com> has just about completed the move of DeKalb County web pages to their new location. With the help of the former CC, Jack Brooks, this has gone quite smoothly. Kristy Williams <KDWIAM@Email.MSN.Com>, who is CC for Montgomery County, has volunteered for Sumter County. Once she gets the passwords to the web space at RootsWeb, she'll be updating those pages. And, it appears that I failed to let everyone know that Earl Johnson has taken over as CC in Colbert County. Earl worked as co-CC with Mary Hudson for quite a while and she handed off to him in February. I apologize for not posting this change and for taking so long to get the right name listed on our County index page. It looks to me like the following counties still do not have coordinators: Connecuh Crenshaw Elmore Escambia Pickens Saint Clair If I've made any other mistakes, please let me know. Regards, Leigh

Folks, I've been using two different computers since the first of the year and I'm trying to reconcile the e-mail on both of them. I've lost track of which of the volunteer forms have been forwarded to you, so you may be getting a duplicate e-mail from me today. At any rate, some of you will be receiving copies of volunteer forms which were posted at the ALGenWeb state site. Please follow up with these volunteers and put them to work. You'll want to make sure that they've read the guidelines for lookups - then list their e-mail addresses on your county web page. Of course, if you can talk them into doing other things like transcribing original records or donating data, then go for it! Regards, Leigh

Hello all - this just in from the USGenWeb Project Election Committee. I'll have more information later about nominations and voting. Regards, Leigh >Greetings, >The recommendation of the NC is accepted and the following members >appointed; >Tina Vickery, Shari Handley, Marti Graham, Alice Gayely, Kristen Howell, >Jerimiah Moerke, Shirley Scott, Vicki Shaffer. > >Alternates; Carolyn Ward, Carol Montrose, Gerald Westmoreland, Diane >Montgomery Parsons. > > >

Hi, I just wanted you to know that Penny Dodd has sent me a new text version of her 1850 transcript for Chambers County. The version on Lisa Franklin's web site was somehow corrupted and only about 93 kb of a 900 kb census is there. I am uploading to ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/chambers/census/1850/ The first two complete files are 1850cen1.txt and 1850cen2.txt. I am breaking the files Penny is sending me into 100 kb chunks. I will try to have this finished today, then will link the Chambers county web site to it instead of to Lisa's page. Penny is trying to contact Lisa too, to get it updated on her page. David dmorgan@efn.org David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ga/gafiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/okfiles.htm http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm

Alabama Archives Updates: Baldwin County: Gideons Family Cemetery ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/baldwin/cemetery/gideons.txt Coffee County: Warren Jackson & Elizabeth Thompson Wilson Family Bible ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/coffee/bible/wilson.txt Jackson County: Ivey's Chapel Cemetery (was posted as Perry County incorrectly) ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/jackson/cemetery/iveys.txt Jefferson County: Elmwood Cemetery, blocks 8, 9, & 10, Willianson, Wiltshire, Davis, Hale, Vernon ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/jefferson/cemetery/elmwood2.txt Perry County: Medline Cemetery ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/perry/cemetery/medline.txt Smith-Campbellite Cemetery ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/perry/cemetery/smithcambelite.txt Pike County: Jessie Bryant & Mary Smith Thompson Bible ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/pike/bible/thompson.txt Shelby County: Marriage Records, 1896 - 1899, Brides ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/shelby/marriage/marriagerecsb2.txt Marriage Records, 1896 - 1899, Grooms ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/shelby/marriage/marriagerecsg2.txt Military Records, Civil War: Register of Names of Alabama Soldiers in the Cemetery, University of Virginia, Alderman & McCormick Streets, Charlottesville, VA ftp://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/al/military/civilwar/cemetery/uofvacem.txt More later, Carolyn Golowka

On 18 May 00, at 5:52, Lamont Palmer wrote: > What does volunteering consist of? > > > >From: kshort <kshort@kroo.com> (by way of Elsi <elsi@augustmail.com>) > >To: ALGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ALGEN-L] [STATE-COORD-L] Election > >Committee Date: Wed, 17 May 2000 21:22:36 -0500 > > > >TO: ALL State Coordinators > > > >Please forward this message to all cc's. > > > >Its time for elections and the advisory board is asking for County > >Coordinator (CC's) volunteers to serve on the election committee. If > >you are willing to serve, forward your name, position (CC of x > >county) to <nominate_2000@yahoo.com>, not later than Sunday, 21 May > >2000, 2400 hours, EDT. The election committee is 5-10 people who will oversee this years elections: receive nominations for the advisory board, contact the nominees and determine if they are willing to serve, and supervise the voting. In the past, Tim Pierce has run automated voting software on his personal server. There has been some criticism of this since Tim is an employee of RootsWeb, so the election committee may investigate an alternative way of casting ballots and tallying the results. I'm not sure what plans have been made for voting this year. Regards, Leigh Regards, Leigh

TO: ALL State Coordinators Please forward this message to all cc's. Its time for elections and the advisory board is asking for County Coordinator (CC's) volunteers to serve on the election committee. If you are willing to serve, forward your name, position (CC of x county) to <nominate_2000@yahoo.com>, not later than Sunday, 21 May 2000, 2400 hours, EDT. Ken Short Board Secretary