I thought all the logos were made. But I would like one on the state level. What program is being used to make the logo and what file extention will it have? Dan On Nov 27, 2013 5:59 AM, "Joyce Gaston Reece" <bjreece@bellsouth.net> wrote: > ALHN is on a roll. We now have a wonderful person doing logo’s for us. > > If you have a photo that would be suitable for use in a logo would you > please forward them to me with a description of what it is. > > bjreece@bellsouth.net > > > Joyce Gaston Reece,President > American Local History Network > Join us in celebrating our 20th year! > www.alhn.org > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks to the board for all the hard work they are doing! Nathan

Ahh. Very understood. I have capped out my net for at least three or four more days. So I will be fixin my site at home and upload next week. I think part on what I will be doing is similar to what the us gen web sites are set up. But then even those sites are in similar need of repair as Joyce says . So... i also think its time to either parly up to par or give some one else a chance on those sites who do not answer... replace em. I can read my emails but I need to keep my net use low till I loose the cap. I went way over limits. My truck tossed a rod and I got towed home last night so also have some agenda for this sunshine. Dan

Thanks to the board for all the hardwork they are doing! Nathan On Sun, Nov 24, 2013 at 12:51 PM, Joyce Gaston Reece <bjreece@bellsouth.net>wrote: > Cyndy, myself and the remainder of the board have been going thru the > state linked ALHN web sites. > > Almost half have a lot of room for improvement just to make them anywhere > near usable. We’ve run across some that were originally posted and nothing > else done to them since 2000, 2005 or 2007. There have been no counties > adopted, no data added, no copyrights updated.....nothing. For ALHN to > become a viable and important part of the genealogical community we have to > do better than this. Have some pride in your site and allow ALHN to > reflect this pride for you. We do history and genealogy because we love > it....lets be the same way with our web sites. If you are the webmaster > for a state site please, please upgrade your site. If you need help with > it we have volunteers that are in place and waiting to help you bring your > site into modern day compliance. ALHN cannot and will not improve without > the help of each and every state web site manager...we can’t start anything > without your help. This board of directors is determined to yank alhn up > out of the muck and mire by it’s boot-straps and anything else we can get > hold of. So, you’all might as well get used to it. > > I recently had some people contact me to volunteer data for a state. When > I sent the state coordinator an email to tell them of this donation I got > NOTHING. Not even a ‘no thanks’ or ‘kiss my foot’....just got nothing. Is > this the future of ALHN? > > The other states are just fantastic. They look great, are being updated. > > > Joyce Gaston Reece,President > American Local History Network > Join us in celebrating our 20th year! > www.alhn.org > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALHN-BOARD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Cyndy, myself and the remainder of the board have been going thru the state linked ALHN web sites. Almost half have a lot of room for improvement just to make them anywhere near usable. We’ve run across some that were originally posted and nothing else done to them since 2000, 2005 or 2007. There have been no counties adopted, no data added, no copyrights updated.....nothing. For ALHN to become a viable and important part of the genealogical community we have to do better than this. Have some pride in your site and allow ALHN to reflect this pride for you. We do history and genealogy because we love it....lets be the same way with our web sites. If you are the webmaster for a state site please, please upgrade your site. If you need help with it we have volunteers that are in place and waiting to help you bring your site into modern day compliance. ALHN cannot and will not improve without the help of each and every state web site manager...we can’t start anything without your help. This board of directors is determined to yank alhn up out of the muck and mire by it’s boot-straps and anything else we can get hold of. So, you’all might as well get used to it. I recently had some people contact me to volunteer data for a state. When I sent the state coordinator an email to tell them of this donation I got NOTHING. Not even a ‘no thanks’ or ‘kiss my foot’....just got nothing. Is this the future of ALHN? The other states are just fantastic. They look great, are being updated. Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network Join us in celebrating our 20th year! www.alhn.org

Nathan, Use of the Executive Board mailing list is no different than using an email system to send a message to ALHN's board members. The current board is putting a lot of energy into ALHN. We now have a Membership, Web Site, Marketing and Volunteer committee with chairpersons and committee members that have stepped up and are executing ways to move ALHN on up to the top of the list of genealogical web sites. We believe this will happen! We're proud of our accomplishments so far and we're working hard to make ALHN a great genealogy and historical resource for people just like yourself. And, there is something else that ALHN's board is doing ... we're forming relationships with each other. We're working together, getting along with each other and are becoming friends and that is a beautiful thing! Now, back to the Executive Board or using an email system to communicate ... we are not "meeting" in "secret" to form ALHN policies. As a matter of fact, we have had one Executive board meeting and the minutes from this meeting will be posted on our web site as soon as possible. The remainder of conversation is merely board members getting to know one another. I believe this is a good thing because we're doing all this for ALHN and we are really enjoying each other's company and the work we're doing for the benefit of ALHN. We've asked for volunteers, been in contact with SC's and Joyce and others on the board have taken various items to the General List and we will continue to do so. And, something else, we are not a Board that votes "yes" just to be voting on an Agenda item. All of us take the Agenda items to think about them, talk about them and yes, some disagree with them. So in other words, we're not voting just because "status quo" expects a yes vote. There has been more activity the last couple of months than what I've seen in a long time and we're glad about that. Make it a Great Genealogy Day! Darlene Anderson -----Original Message----- From: alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Nathan Zipfel Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 8:46 PM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] ALHN Board Execute list Is the ALHN Board preparing Rules governing the use the ALHN Board Execute mailing list? I fully support the need of the ALHN Board to be able to enter into executive session. However that should be an extremely rare occurrence as there is not much that happens within the scope of the Boards business that needs to occur in secret. Will this be an item on the December agenda? I would kindly ask the Board not to conduct routine business (i.e. making policies and plans) on this Executive list. All normal business of the Board should be conduct on the public list. Nathan ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Nathan and all members: There have been NO secret agenda's as you seem to think. Any policy's and procedures that affect the membership of ALHN have been and will always remain open to all ALHN members. Under YOUR presidency there was a set of bylaws created and passed by the membership that offered the membership the means to offer alhn legacy web sites. How those web sites will be stored will be the subject under discussion. In the past there has been no structure that would allow abandoned sites or sites left to alhn any alternative except you moving it to your pa-roots family of web sites which, as of now, there are 21 states connected to the server that you and others control and own. The current bylaws that allow people to leave their data to alhn needs an archive type web site. A web site that is controlled by the board, which was elected by the membership of alhn. If you think that this is a secret maneuvering and forming 'secret' policy's and procedures then, unfortunately you are mistaken. Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network Join us in celebrating our 20th year! www.alhn.org -----Original Message----- From: Nathan Zipfel Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 8:46 PM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] ALHN Board Execute list Is the ALHN Board preparing Rules governing the use the ALHN Board Execute mailing list? I fully support the need of the ALHN Board to be able to enter into executive session. However that should be an extremely rare occurrence as there is not much that happens within the scope of the Boards business that needs to occur in secret. Will this be an item on the December agenda? I would kindly ask the Board not to conduct routine business (i.e. making policies and plans) on this Executive list. All normal business of the Board should be conduct on the public list. Nathan ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Is the ALHN Board preparing Rules governing the use the ALHN Board Execute mailing list? I fully support the need of the ALHN Board to be able to enter into executive session. However that should be an extremely rare occurrence as there is not much that happens within the scope of the Boards business that needs to occur in secret. Will this be an item on the December agenda? I would kindly ask the Board not to conduct routine business (i.e. making policies and plans) on this Executive list. All normal business of the Board should be conduct on the public list. Nathan

I have donated mine to Monroe County Archives. The reason for that is that many of the major libraries will simply pack the information away in boxes and let it rot. I know that won't happen at the archives there. We actually received the work of Gwen Starns there a few years ago and managed to increase our family files to apx 1,150 files...beginning from apx 125. When you donate your data make sure it is to a place that will actually use it...not pack it away for the mice. Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network Join us in celebrating our 20th year! www.alhn.org -----Original Message----- From: Darlene Anderson Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 10:49 AM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] Article about genealogical collection Dan, I haven't decided what I plan to do with my library. I have a lot of stuff for Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia (southwestern). It's either going to my children or I'll divide it up between states and send to a library where I have the most info. Make it a Great Genealogy Day! Darlene Anderson -----Original Message----- From: alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dan M Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 10:43 AM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] Article about genealogical collection Mine will go to the Portland history museum. On Nov 18, 2013 5:15 AM, "Darlene Anderson" <darlene-anderson@hughes.net> wrote: > This is an article about "What will happen to your genealogical collection" > I thought some of you might be interested in reading. > > > http://www.newsherald.com/lifestyles/tracing-pasts-what-will-happen-to > -his-g > enealogical-collection-1.235900 > > Written by, By Patsy D. Herring | Bay County Genealogical Society | > Special to The News Herald > > > > Make it a Great Genealogy Day! > > Darlene Anderson > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Dan, I haven't decided what I plan to do with my library. I have a lot of stuff for Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia (southwestern). It's either going to my children or I'll divide it up between states and send to a library where I have the most info. Make it a Great Genealogy Day! Darlene Anderson -----Original Message----- From: alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dan M Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 10:43 AM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] Article about genealogical collection Mine will go to the Portland history museum. On Nov 18, 2013 5:15 AM, "Darlene Anderson" <darlene-anderson@hughes.net> wrote: > This is an article about "What will happen to your genealogical collection" > I thought some of you might be interested in reading. > > > http://www.newsherald.com/lifestyles/tracing-pasts-what-will-happen-to > -his-g > enealogical-collection-1.235900 > > Written by, By Patsy D. Herring | Bay County Genealogical Society | > Special to The News Herald > > > > Make it a Great Genealogy Day! > > Darlene Anderson > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi Janet, If he has Ancestry tell him to search for Romania. This is the page I found, http://search.ancestry.com/Places/Europe/Romania/Default.aspx If he doesn't have ancestry, he can go to his local library to view these records. Also, here is another resource for him, https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Romania_Vital_Records_Index_%28Family Search_Historical_Records%29 Be sure to check the next line for this link, sometimes it drops to the next line. Also, if he will search Google or any search engine for Romania Genealogy Resources he'll find other resources as well. Make it a Great Genealogy Day! Darlene Anderson -----Original Message----- From: alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Janet Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 7:38 AM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] ALHN Hi all......... I received the note below but have no resources I can refer the sender to. Please contact him if you can be of help! Your friend, Janet From: Paul Forster [ paulforster@verizon.net ] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 6:36 AM To: Leon G. Konieczny ; Schwarze ; ClarkCoGroup Subject: Romania Greetings: I am in desperate need of guidance on finding records in Romania for the early 1900's. The specific places are: my friend's mother's parents lived in Cluj and in a village called Macau. his father's parents lived in Cluj and in a village called Rediu. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Paul Forster 8306 Thunder Ct Clinton, MD 20735 Tel: 301-8564269 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks Darlene! I did pass your note on to him. Janet -----Original Message----- From: Darlene Anderson Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 7:29 AM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] ALHN - Romania Resources Hi Janet, If he has Ancestry tell him to search for Romania. This is the page I found, http://search.ancestry.com/Places/Europe/Romania/Default.aspx If he doesn't have ancestry, he can go to his local library to view these records. Also, here is another resource for him, https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Romania_Vital_Records_Index_%28Family Search_Historical_Records%29 Be sure to check the next line for this link, sometimes it drops to the next line. Also, if he will search Google or any search engine for Romania Genealogy Resources he'll find other resources as well. Make it a Great Genealogy Day! Darlene Anderson -----Original Message----- From: alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Janet Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 7:38 AM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] ALHN Hi all......... I received the note below but have no resources I can refer the sender to. Please contact him if you can be of help! Your friend, Janet From: Paul Forster [ paulforster@verizon.net ] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 6:36 AM To: Leon G. Konieczny ; Schwarze ; ClarkCoGroup Subject: Romania Greetings: I am in desperate need of guidance on finding records in Romania for the early 1900's. The specific places are: my friend's mother's parents lived in Cluj and in a village called Macau. his father's parents lived in Cluj and in a village called Rediu. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Paul Forster 8306 Thunder Ct Clinton, MD 20735 Tel: 301-8564269 ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

This is an article about "What will happen to your genealogical collection" I thought some of you might be interested in reading. http://www.newsherald.com/lifestyles/tracing-pasts-what-will-happen-to-his-g enealogical-collection-1.235900 Written by, By Patsy D. Herring | Bay County Genealogical Society | Special to The News Herald Make it a Great Genealogy Day! Darlene Anderson

I am working on adding what I can to my website and ancestry. I have found almost 200 members living of my matneys and found that my rogers go back to john the myrtr and king rogers. And maybe my matney/ mattingly (lore says) they built ships for the queen of england and might have built the ones that brought the pilgrims. This is so far trully a tale. But being found in 1024 doomday book puts them way back far enough we go to matttingly england and I have living folk on my genealogy groups from there also say the ship story is unproven ...butt.. my great great grand father was named Broadwater matney. So must some how be related. The broadwater by Lippingcots surname dictionary says ( big man on the water) so goes the hardy boys mystery lol Dan On Nov 18, 2013 7:56 AM, "Darlene Anderson" <darlene-anderson@hughes.net> wrote: > Dan, > > I haven't decided what I plan to do with my library. I have a lot of stuff > for Indiana, Tennessee, Kentucky and Virginia (southwestern). It's either > going to my children or I'll divide it up between states and send to a > library where I have the most info. > > Make it a Great Genealogy Day! > Darlene Anderson > > > -----Original Message----- > From: alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dan M > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 10:43 AM > To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] Article about genealogical collection > > Mine will go to the Portland history museum. > On Nov 18, 2013 5:15 AM, "Darlene Anderson" <darlene-anderson@hughes.net> > wrote: > > > This is an article about "What will happen to your genealogical > collection" > > I thought some of you might be interested in reading. > > > > > > http://www.newsherald.com/lifestyles/tracing-pasts-what-will-happen-to > > -his-g > > enealogical-collection-1.235900 > > > > Written by, By Patsy D. Herring | Bay County Genealogical Society | > > Special to The News Herald > > > > > > > > Make it a Great Genealogy Day! > > > > Darlene Anderson > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Mine will go to the Portland history museum. On Nov 18, 2013 5:15 AM, "Darlene Anderson" <darlene-anderson@hughes.net> wrote: > This is an article about "What will happen to your genealogical collection" > I thought some of you might be interested in reading. > > > http://www.newsherald.com/lifestyles/tracing-pasts-what-will-happen-to-his-g > enealogical-collection-1.235900 > > Written by, By Patsy D. Herring | Bay County Genealogical Society | Special > to The News Herald > > > > Make it a Great Genealogy Day! > > Darlene Anderson > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

I have a world sub in case some one needs a look up also. Dan On Nov 18, 2013 5:32 AM, "Darlene Anderson" <darlene-anderson@hughes.net> wrote: > Hi Janet, > > If he has Ancestry tell him to search for Romania. This is the page I > found, > http://search.ancestry.com/Places/Europe/Romania/Default.aspx If he > doesn't > have ancestry, he can go to his local library to view these records. Also, > here is another resource for him, > > https://familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Romania_Vital_Records_Index_%28Family > Search_Historical_Records%29 Be sure to check the next line for this link, > sometimes it drops to the next line. Also, if he will search Google or any > search engine for Romania Genealogy Resources he'll find other resources as > well. > > > Make it a Great Genealogy Day! > Darlene Anderson > > -----Original Message----- > From: alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Janet > Sent: Monday, November 18, 2013 7:38 AM > To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] ALHN > > Hi all......... > > I received the note below but have no resources I can refer the sender to. > Please contact him if you can be of help! > > Your friend, > > Janet > > From: Paul Forster [ paulforster@verizon.net ] > Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 6:36 AM > To: Leon G. Konieczny ; Schwarze ; ClarkCoGroup > Subject: Romania > > Greetings: > > I am in desperate need of guidance on finding records in Romania for the > early 1900's. The specific places are: > > my friend's mother's parents lived in Cluj and in a village called Macau. > his father's parents lived in Cluj and in a village called Rediu. > > Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. > > Paul Forster > 8306 Thunder Ct > Clinton, MD 20735 > Tel: 301-8564269 > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi all......... I received the note below but have no resources I can refer the sender to. Please contact him if you can be of help! Your friend, Janet From: Paul Forster [ paulforster@verizon.net ] Sent: Wednesday, November 06, 2013 6:36 AM To: Leon G. Konieczny ; Schwarze ; ClarkCoGroup Subject: Romania Greetings: I am in desperate need of guidance on finding records in Romania for the early 1900's. The specific places are: my friend's mother's parents lived in Cluj and in a village called Macau. his father's parents lived in Cluj and in a village called Rediu. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Many thanks. Paul Forster 8306 Thunder Ct Clinton, MD 20735 Tel: 301-8564269

Whatever genealogical or historical information posted on the ALHN county sites is usually left up to the county coordinator. Jeff Weaver was the founder of ALHN and a degreed historian, not a genealogist and he said that to me many times. History was his focus primarily and as such that's why ALHN has the name it does. In my view, we can't have history without genealogy and genealogy without history. Make it a Great Genealogy Day! Darlene Anderson -----Original Message----- From: alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Dan M Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2013 10:38 AM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] cemetery info on ALHN One thing I think would be nice is for volunteers to share lookups for other volunteers in their respective areas. As for find a grave. Great resource. And a lesson in what a good website data base can do. I plan to link all my relations on my site to find a grave when one exhists. No matter who is the admin of that site. I think my wife and I have about 100 not to mention the other 800 relations I am aware of. I was wondering a out the title history network was meaning more about local history than a genealogy data base such as rootsweb ancestry and us gen web. Are are just cloning those? Why? ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I've been 'quoted' on find-a grave many times Sherrye. This is a valuable resource as for the cemetery records themselves. Some of the family information being posted along with them isn't always correct but tombstone information is usually a good source. I do agree with Mary that Generations network/Ancestry purchasing Find-a-grave won't see much of a change in the organization. After all, we do still have rootsweb with the same premise it's always had...just better and more stable. Ancestry.com is always a subject of much disagreement. How they do business and the fact that they have subscription costs. I've been doing genealogy and history for a LONG time and have had web sites since 2004. They've always cost me something...somehow so I know that all the data ancestry and fold3 is posting isn't going to come free. What many of us don't realize is just how many thousands of rolls of microfilm there are in state and national archives that are gathering dust in back rooms and nobody knows what's on them until somebody like us comes along. I know this to be fact. Most of us can't travel to archives so we have to sit back and wait on the info to come to us and the only way that will happen is when someone comes along that has the financial backing to make info available to the public somehow. That's what ancestry, fold 3, genealogy bank, newspaper archives and a dozen other sites are doing. And it's up to us as individuals to choose whether or not we want to tap into those. I do agree that we have to be diligent in locating information that is outside the box. LDS is doing the basics....the wills, estates and a couple other things for individual counties but that's not to say they'll have everything. I believe that one thing many don't realize the importance of is the Geographic's of researching. I know I mentioned deeds in my earlier email. I have been working with the Overhill Tourism in a program designed to place the trail of tears in Monroe and McMinn Counties. Within the scope of that I have learned where the earliest roads were in McMinn Co. Plus a few other facts. The post offices were what determined much of how the roads lay. The larger land owners and wealthier people are the ones who lived on or near the roads as they were the ones who were responsible for the upkeep of the earliest roads. That there were first and second class roads depending on federal funding for 'post' roads. The churches were on the roads. The earliest churches were instrumental in daily life and censuring those who'd been 'bad'. So we know that everyone attended church somewhere and had to have the easiest means to get there.....roads. By determining the roads and who maintained them it will help determine where other individuals lived by comparing the 'neighbors' on census records. Marriages usually occurred, in this county, anyway, within close area of where they lived and/or within the church. Travel was naturally limited. They weren't going far away to find a wife on a routine basis. If my searches get close to hitting a brick wall I'll use every tool I can think of to learn info. This is just one of them Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network Join us in celebrating our 20th year! www.alhn.org -----Original Message----- From: SherryeW@aol.com Sent: Friday, November 15, 2013 9:47 PM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] cemetery info on ALHN Joyce, this isn't disagreeing with me at all. I agree courthouse records online would be a wonderful thing for ALHN sites. These are the kind of things that would be very useful to a genealogist and would make them come back to our websites. Hard to find records of any kind would be great for ALHN pages. I just think cemetery records are not going to attract people to small websites anymore when a major cemetery website already exists offering a "one-stop shopping experience". I never used Find-A-Grave until this past summer when I found some ancestors on the site. Now I have been putting all my info on that site. If you are not familiar with Find-A-Grave, there is a place for the birth and death info, a space for adding the tombstone inscription, a place for a biography if you want, a place to add the lot number/GPS info, a place to add tombstone photos or any other photos of the person, a place to add a memorial with your name so other cousins can contact you, and in my opinion the best feature is that you can link spouses and children to each page and so create an online family tree of burial sites. It is much more "usable" than a page of typed cemetery info. I feel the future of ALHN is not in adding more census or cemeteries, but to create a niche of offering hard to find local records/photos/bios that just aren't available anywhere else. Sherrye In a message dated 11/15/2013 11:07:50 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, jgreece55@gmail.com writes: Sherry, I agree with your statements to a point but here is my disagreement. I research in a region of counties....Hamilton ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ALHN-GENERAL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Do you spose I could get folks to snip the messages. They are getting rather long. Some of us have internet caps and run out of resources fast when downloading many over loaded messages with old texts still included. Dan