On Tue, 25 May 1999, Lygia Cutts wrote: > Hi All! > > Yesterday, I wrote to Leigh Compton, our sc and Linda Lewis, Archives > Project Coordinator, giving them my resignation from the AL Archives. I > will be staying on until a replacement can be found. However, I was > contacted by another member of our community who had a suggestion and even > offered his assistance. I would consider staying on as AL Archives File > manager if I can get some help in converting and uploading files to the > archives. > > One suggestion has been to ask if any of the cc's who have knowledge of ftp > would be interested in uploading files to the archives in a timely manner > for your respective counties. One of the problems I ran into when I first > took over the Archives was that submitters were wary of contributing > because their submssions were not posted in a timely manner. I would > continue to maintain the Table of Contents (TOC) pages. The volunteer would > recieve the files and convert if necesary and add the USGENWEB Notice and > upload the files. Once the files are uploaded, then they would need to send > me the name, file name, size, submitters name and email addy and url of the > file. I will then add a link in the TOC pages to the file and post an AL > ARCHIVE Update as I have been doing. If enough cc's are interested in > working with me in the Archives, that would be great help and I would stay > on as AL Archives File Manager. Or if three or four folks would be > interested in splitting up the counties and taking on several that would > also be a great help. > > I already have a volunteer for Madsion and Clarke Co. ....I don't know if > it's okay to mention their name or not with out their consent so I won't at > this time. > > Any takers out there??? > > Thanks a bunch!! > > > Lygia Dawkins Cutts > Cuttstree@Net1inc.net I volunteer for Chambers and Talladega and anymore that I can help you with. Don't go, Lygia! David dmorgan@efn.org David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii Archives Manager --- OKGenWeb & NMGenWeb Projects Tombstone Project -- OKGenWeb & NCGenweb Projects http://www.rootsweb.com/~okbeckha/coordinate.html