I have used many different method to do my county queries for two different counties. They have ranged from Guestbook, to GeoCities guestbook, to one of my own. I have now converted all my county queries to GenConnect, it is just too easy. Takes a little while to set up, but it is a very good package. I highly encourage you to try GenConnect if you haven't already. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tom Martin Olympia, WA tommy@martinfamily.tzo.com http://www.martinfamily.tzo.com ----------------------------------------------------------------- -----Original Message----- From: Richard White <white@hiwaay.net> To: ALGEN-L@rootsweb.com <ALGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, January 31, 1999 10:09 AM Subject: Re: Queries >Hi, Gang... > >I have to agree with the line of thinking here on queries. As your former >SC, I can vouch for the fact there was a lot of confusion from our state >visitors between the two sites and why there were two different places to >post queries. While I do have links from Clarke County to the queries on >Tracking Your Roots, I don't on Madison County and will be removing the link >for Clarke County. David and Leigh have both made excellent suggestions for >handling queries on your own with GenConnet and CCHelper and I would like to >urge everyone to take a serious look at these two options. I can see >problems continuing to arise from our visitors with "two ALGenWeb" sites, >sorta speak. > >I've heard/seen so much good about GenConnect since it was created (maybe >I'll switch over myself!). At the moment, I have my two counties on >mailmerge programs at Rootsweb and have been very pleased with it, as well. > >BTW, Troy, any Clarke/Madison query connections sent to you, please forward >them on to me. No problem. Leigh has also sent me 2 or 3 recently to be posted. > >My two cents... > >Richard >-------------------------------------------------------- >At 02:16 PM 1/30/99 -0600, you wrote: >>Hello people: >> >>I have just been visiting Lisa Franklin's excellent site, "Tracking Your >>Alabama Roots", at http://members.aol.com/GenWeb/Lisa/tyralachart.htm >> >>Like many of you, I have links to her county query pages, and I just >>discovered that ALL of her query site is down with the exception of >>archived 1996 and 1997 queries which are downloadable .zip files. Lisa's >>main page says that she is busy archiving the 1998 queries and will reopen >>her query forms as soon as she can. > > <rest snipped> >