Charles, We hope to get all the cc and sc's subbed to this list as soon as possible. That is true as you state about search engines but the same is true for any web site. Not much we can do about that. I guess it'll be our job to figure out ways to make users WANT to come back. Thanks for commenting and we'll welcome any ideas you have Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network www.alhn.org -----Original Message----- From: Charles Gregory Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 7:10 PM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] 'marketing alhn' roll call of cc's so how many cc's are subbed to this list ..... one problem we have is the researcher don't have to go to the main States page or even the individual state page they can google the county only so if we don't have data for that county they don't come around anymore unless they want to join the ALHN to get data online!! I'm just saying Charlie Smith Co TN On 11/8/2013 2:08 PM, Joyce Gaston Reece wrote: > 'marketing alhn' ------------------------------- 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 Cyndy LOL Sharon In a message dated 11/8/2013 7:24:25 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, cyndycox@gmail.com writes: This is a list of the responses that I received from state coordinators. Keep in mind that I did not contact board members since I already knew that they were still active. Cyndy Alabama Rhonda Smith gassaway@juno.com reply received 6/25 Alaska Colleen Pustola ladyaudris@earthlink.net response 6/22 Arkansas Judy Tate Leither-Edgmon@cox.net reply 6/3 Colorado Mary Sabin msaban@wyoming.com confirmed 10/15 Idaho Rhonda Smith rhonda@erfenterprises.net confirmed 6/15 Indiana Linda Simpsom greyoaks@brightok.net Reply received 5/22 Kansas Millie Mowry rock2plate@aol.com reply received 5/22 Missouri Don Wright <dew79@att.net> response 25 October Ohio Leona L Gustafon OhioALHN@yahoo.com llgbug@genealogybug.net Confirmed 6/23 Oklahoma Donna Dreyer jmbc2000@yahoo.com confirmed (10/15) Rhode Island Sherrye Woodworth SherryeW@aol.com confirmed 6/23 Wisconsin MAK makkuehl@yahoo.com Confirmed 8/29 Wyoming Mary Sabin msaban@wyoming.com confirmed 10/15 On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Joyce Gaston Reece <bjreece@bellsouth.net>wrote: > I neglected to tell of > Nebraska > Nevada > > > > Joyce Gaston Reece,President > American Local History Network > www.alhn.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Joyce Gaston Reece > Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 6:03 PM > To: ALHN-GENERAL > Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] available states > > ALHN currently has a need for coordinators & web site volunteers for the > following states > > (List is as accurate as I know for right now. We are working toward > contacting state coordinators.) > > Please consider adopting one of these states or helping us find volunteers > for them > > Arizona > Florida > Illinois > Michigan > Mississippi > North Dakota > South Dakota > > > > > > > Joyce Gaston Reece,President > American Local History Network > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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

Yes, Charlie, that is what I do as well. Cyndy On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 7:10 PM, Charles Gregory <gregoryc@charter.net>wrote: > so how many cc's are subbed to this list ..... > > one problem we have is the researcher don't have to > go to the main States page or even the individual state page > > they can google the county only so if we don't have data > for that county they don't come around anymore > unless they want to join the ALHN to get data online!! > > I'm just saying > > Charlie Smith Co TN > > > On 11/8/2013 2:08 PM, Joyce Gaston Reece wrote: > > 'marketing alhn' > > > ------------------------------- > 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 a list of the responses that I received from state coordinators. Keep in mind that I did not contact board members since I already knew that they were still active. Cyndy Alabama Rhonda Smith gassaway@juno.com reply received 6/25 Alaska Colleen Pustola ladyaudris@earthlink.net response 6/22 Arkansas Judy Tate Leither-Edgmon@cox.net reply 6/3 Colorado Mary Sabin msaban@wyoming.com confirmed 10/15 Idaho Rhonda Smith rhonda@erfenterprises.net confirmed 6/15 Indiana Linda Simpsom greyoaks@brightok.net Reply received 5/22 Kansas Millie Mowry rock2plate@aol.com reply received 5/22 Missouri Don Wright <dew79@att.net> response 25 October Ohio Leona L Gustafon OhioALHN@yahoo.com llgbug@genealogybug.net Confirmed 6/23 Oklahoma Donna Dreyer jmbc2000@yahoo.com confirmed (10/15) Rhode Island Sherrye Woodworth SherryeW@aol.com confirmed 6/23 Wisconsin MAK makkuehl@yahoo.com Confirmed 8/29 Wyoming Mary Sabin msaban@wyoming.com confirmed 10/15 On Fri, Nov 8, 2013 at 6:20 PM, Joyce Gaston Reece <bjreece@bellsouth.net>wrote: > I neglected to tell of > Nebraska > Nevada > > > > Joyce Gaston Reece,President > American Local History Network > www.alhn.org > -----Original Message----- > From: Joyce Gaston Reece > Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 6:03 PM > To: ALHN-GENERAL > Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] available states > > ALHN currently has a need for coordinators & web site volunteers for the > following states > > (List is as accurate as I know for right now. We are working toward > contacting state coordinators.) > > Please consider adopting one of these states or helping us find volunteers > for them > > Arizona > Florida > Illinois > Michigan > Mississippi > North Dakota > South Dakota > > > > > > > Joyce Gaston Reece,President > American Local History Network > 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 > > > ------------------------------- > 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 neglected to tell of Nebraska Nevada Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network www.alhn.org -----Original Message----- From: Joyce Gaston Reece Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 6:03 PM To: ALHN-GENERAL Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] available states ALHN currently has a need for coordinators & web site volunteers for the following states (List is as accurate as I know for right now. We are working toward contacting state coordinators.) Please consider adopting one of these states or helping us find volunteers for them Arizona Florida Illinois Michigan Mississippi North Dakota South Dakota Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network 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

so how many cc's are subbed to this list ..... one problem we have is the researcher don't have to go to the main States page or even the individual state page they can google the county only so if we don't have data for that county they don't come around anymore unless they want to join the ALHN to get data online!! I'm just saying Charlie Smith Co TN On 11/8/2013 2:08 PM, Joyce Gaston Reece wrote: > 'marketing alhn'

ALHN currently has a need for coordinators & web site volunteers for the following states (List is as accurate as I know for right now. We are working toward contacting state coordinators.) Please consider adopting one of these states or helping us find volunteers for them Arizona Florida Illinois Michigan Mississippi North Dakota South Dakota Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network www.alhn.org

One of the agenda items for the current meeting is discussing how to get more volunteers. Barbara Hutchinson has been appointed volunteer committee chairperson. The focus of this group is to act as a buffer to recruit more volunteers and to help them with getting web space, answering questions and offering advice and ideas. As a matter of fact it comes up on the agenda for tomorrow morning. Colleen, if you would like to volunteer for this committee your input and help would be very appreciated. On the agenda following this item is 'marketing alhn'. After 12 years of existence I still have people tell me that they've never heard of ALHN. ALHN has done a very poor job of getting it's name to mainstream genealogy researchers. Everyone should know about it. So just how we achieve this is the subject of this discussion. IMO, one thing we really have to do is to get volunteers to 'CARE' again. Some of us are complacent and haven't updated our sites in years. When I've been to a site and thoroughly researched it I have no reason to return if nothing new is ever posted. We are the American Local History Network. Our goal is to get historical and genealogical data to the public. It doesn't take a lot of effort to update a site and add new data every couple of months. Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network www.alhn.org -----Original Message----- From: Colleen Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 1:27 PM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] thoughts on clusters Hi Darlene, You wrote: "I'm not sure if this would work because we don't have volunteers to do 1 county in a lot of states much less a volunteer for a cluster of counties. I think ALHN needs more work and more volunteers for this to be a viable option for us." Although it's going against what I wrote in my first message, working from the top down IS a good idea because empty states get filled with fewer volunteers and data gets added more quickly. Hence, Joyce's idea is a good one. However, and here is where I jump the fence, I agree with you because ALHN does need more volunteers. But where is one to find them? I've looked through most of the project's states and see that there just aren't that many volunteers. So, what needs to happen? In my opinion, top down should most, if not all, the states adopted. Working a state isn't much different than working a single county, believe it or not. I guess what I'm really saying is use what you have (volunteers) and spread them out to an effective use, work the states and THEN go after volunteers again by publicizing. Colleen -----Original Message----- >From: Darlene Anderson <darlene-anderson@hughes.net> >Sent: Nov 8, 2013 8:31 AM >To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] thoughts on clusters > >Hi Colleen, > >Would you please clarify for me what you believe my opinion is? I just want >to be sure we're on the same page with the cluster idea so that there are >not any misconceptions about what I said. Thanks! > >Make it a Great Genealogy Day! > >Darlene Anderson, Vice-President >American Local History Network >http://www.alhn.org/ >State Coordinator for South Carolina-ALHN >And Kentucky-ALHN! > > >-----Original Message----- >From: alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com >[mailto:alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Joyce Gaston Reece >Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 10:05 AM >To: ALHN-GENERAL >Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] thoughts on clusters > >I see where Joyce and Darlene are headed with her opinions. > >A project I once belonged to had a problem enlisting volunteers and decided >to work from the top down -- volunteers will adopt entire states as opposed >to individual counties, in an effort to get all the states adopted. >Definitely that's a cluster idea. That idea, however, didn't work. > >I gave up long ago trying to get volunteers to work on Alaska. Though I >still have borough/census area pages up, I decided to forego volunteers and >do the work myself. It isn't for everyone, but when you talk about >clustering... in my lowly opinion, working the state overall is simpler >than working individual counties. I'm not alone in my belief here as there >is another state whose manager declares names in the million and has done >the work alone. > >So, it's six of one / half dozen of another. > >I will add one thing -- as successful as ALHN is, I believe ALHN is sort >of on the fringe of that other, well-established project. The only way to >defeat 'that other project' is to out-do them, pure and simple. Build ALHN >so much that the traffic comes this way and not the other -- it's uploading >fresher data and out-trafficking the peer project. > >I had a point to make here and in this missive somewhere; I hope I made it. > >Colleen > > >-----Original Message----- >>From: Darlene Anderson <darlene-anderson@hughes.net> >>Sent: Nov 7, 2013 3:58 PM >>To: alhn-board@rootsweb.com >>Subject: Re: [ALHN-BOARD] thought >> >>I'm not sure if this would work because we don't have volunteers to do 1 >>county in a lot of states much less a volunteer for a cluster of counties. >>I think ALHN needs more work and more volunteers for this to be a viable >>option for us. Maybe if enough folks see that ALHN is changing we can >>increase the county site volunteers. This is my hope anyway. And from >>these volunteers, we can encourage them to take on more than 1 county to >>create the cluster. For example, in Middle Tennessee, I volunteered for >>Hickman and Maury and I could volunteer for Williamson and Dickson (not >>volunteering yet though) and this would be a cluster. >> >>I don't know that we need an additional person to manage the cluster. >>Maybe what we need to do first is write an article for the county cluster >>project explaining what it is. Have a county coordinator maintain the web >>sites and then ask for volunteers to help with transcribing documents, >>taking photographs, and so on. Maybe a county transcriber, county indexer >>(there are tons of books not indexed). We could pick up folks to volunteer >>for something other than doing web sites. >> >>Joyce, I think the idea might work. Just needs planning, ideas and so on. >>My 2 cents worth. >> >>Make it a Great Genealogy Day! >>Darlene Anderson, Vice-President >>American Local History Network >>http://www.alhn.org/ >>State Coordinator for South Carolina-ALHN And Kentucky-ALHN! >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: alhn-board-bounces@rootsweb.com >>[mailto:alhn-board-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Joyce Gaston Reece >>Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 5:16 PM >>To: ALHN-BOARD R/W >>Subject: [ALHN-BOARD] thought >> >>I ve been bouncing around a thought for awhile and thought to see what >>you all thought. >> >>Rather than confine our state coordinators to seeking county sites we >>offer regional sites. That may or may not work for all state >>coordinators. But I know that here in southeast Tennessee it is a huge >>mistake to confine research to one county. IE, we have one community now >>in McMinn that was in three other counties first. The families in the >>area show in records for all 4 counties. Early county lines in east TN >>were constantly changing. We could offer clusters of counties???? Or at >>least plant the idea as an option?? >> >> >>Joyce Gaston Reece,President >>American Local History Network >>www.alhn.org >> >Joyce Gaston Reece,President >American Local History Network >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 > > > >------------------------------- >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 Colleen, You wrote, " I guess what I'm really saying is use what you have (volunteers) and spread them out to an effective use, work the states and THEN go after volunteers again by publicizing." I couldn't agree with you more. Great idea, and I hope this will actually happen with ALHN. Make it a Great Genealogy Day! Darlene Anderson, Vice-President American Local History Network http://www.alhn.org/ State Coordinator for South Carolina-ALHN And Kentucky-ALHN! -----Original Message----- From: alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Colleen Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 1:28 PM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] thoughts on clusters Hi Darlene, You wrote: "I'm not sure if this would work because we don't have volunteers to do 1 county in a lot of states much less a volunteer for a cluster of counties. I think ALHN needs more work and more volunteers for this to be a viable option for us." Although it's going against what I wrote in my first message, working from the top down IS a good idea because empty states get filled with fewer volunteers and data gets added more quickly. Hence, Joyce's idea is a good one. However, and here is where I jump the fence, I agree with you because ALHN does need more volunteers. But where is one to find them? I've looked through most of the project's states and see that there just aren't that many volunteers. So, what needs to happen? In my opinion, top down should most, if not all, the states adopted. Working a state isn't much different than working a single county, believe it or not. I guess what I'm really saying is use what you have (volunteers) and spread them out to an effective use, work the states and THEN go after volunteers again by publicizing. Colleen -----Original Message----- >From: Darlene Anderson <darlene-anderson@hughes.net> >Sent: Nov 8, 2013 8:31 AM >To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] thoughts on clusters > >Hi Colleen, > >Would you please clarify for me what you believe my opinion is? I just want to be sure we're on the same page with the cluster idea so that there are not any misconceptions about what I said. Thanks! > >Make it a Great Genealogy Day! > >Darlene Anderson, Vice-President >American Local History Network >http://www.alhn.org/ >State Coordinator for South Carolina-ALHN And Kentucky-ALHN! > > >-----Original Message----- >From: alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Joyce Gaston Reece >Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 10:05 AM >To: ALHN-GENERAL >Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] thoughts on clusters > >I see where Joyce and Darlene are headed with her opinions. > >A project I once belonged to had a problem enlisting volunteers and decided to work from the top down -- volunteers will adopt entire states as opposed to individual counties, in an effort to get all the states adopted. Definitely that's a cluster idea. That idea, however, didn't work. > >I gave up long ago trying to get volunteers to work on Alaska. Though I still have borough/census area pages up, I decided to forego volunteers and do the work myself. It isn't for everyone, but when you talk about clustering... in my lowly opinion, working the state overall is simpler than working individual counties. I'm not alone in my belief here as there is another state whose manager declares names in the million and has done the work alone. > >So, it's six of one / half dozen of another. > >I will add one thing -- as successful as ALHN is, I believe ALHN is sort of on the fringe of that other, well-established project. The only way to defeat 'that other project' is to out-do them, pure and simple. Build ALHN so much that the traffic comes this way and not the other -- it's uploading fresher data and out-trafficking the peer project. > >I had a point to make here and in this missive somewhere; I hope I made it. > >Colleen > > >-----Original Message----- >>From: Darlene Anderson <darlene-anderson@hughes.net> >>Sent: Nov 7, 2013 3:58 PM >>To: alhn-board@rootsweb.com >>Subject: Re: [ALHN-BOARD] thought >> >>I'm not sure if this would work because we don't have volunteers to do 1 county in a lot of states much less a volunteer for a cluster of counties. I think ALHN needs more work and more volunteers for this to be a viable option for us. Maybe if enough folks see that ALHN is changing we can increase the county site volunteers. This is my hope anyway. And from these volunteers, we can encourage them to take on more than 1 county to create the cluster. For example, in Middle Tennessee, I volunteered for Hickman and Maury and I could volunteer for Williamson and Dickson (not volunteering yet though) and this would be a cluster. >> >>I don't know that we need an additional person to manage the cluster. Maybe what we need to do first is write an article for the county cluster project explaining what it is. Have a county coordinator maintain the web sites and then ask for volunteers to help with transcribing documents, taking photographs, and so on. Maybe a county transcriber, county indexer (there are tons of books not indexed). We could pick up folks to volunteer for something other than doing web sites. >> >>Joyce, I think the idea might work. Just needs planning, ideas and so on. My 2 cents worth. >> >>Make it a Great Genealogy Day! >>Darlene Anderson, Vice-President >>American Local History Network >>http://www.alhn.org/ >>State Coordinator for South Carolina-ALHN And Kentucky-ALHN! >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: alhn-board-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alhn-board-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Joyce Gaston Reece >>Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 5:16 PM >>To: ALHN-BOARD R/W >>Subject: [ALHN-BOARD] thought >> >>I ve been bouncing around a thought for awhile and thought to see what you all thought. >> >>Rather than confine our state coordinators to seeking county sites we offer regional sites. That may or may not work for all state coordinators. But I know that here in southeast Tennessee it is a huge mistake to confine research to one county. IE, we have one community now in McMinn that was in three other counties first. The families in the area show in records for all 4 counties. Early county lines in east TN were constantly changing. We could offer clusters of counties???? Or at least plant the idea as an option?? >> >> >>Joyce Gaston Reece,President >>American Local History Network >>www.alhn.org >> >Joyce Gaston Reece,President >American Local History Network >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 > > > >------------------------------- >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 Darlene, You wrote: "I'm not sure if this would work because we don't have volunteers to do 1 county in a lot of states much less a volunteer for a cluster of counties. I think ALHN needs more work and more volunteers for this to be a viable option for us." Although it's going against what I wrote in my first message, working from the top down IS a good idea because empty states get filled with fewer volunteers and data gets added more quickly. Hence, Joyce's idea is a good one. However, and here is where I jump the fence, I agree with you because ALHN does need more volunteers. But where is one to find them? I've looked through most of the project's states and see that there just aren't that many volunteers. So, what needs to happen? In my opinion, top down should most, if not all, the states adopted. Working a state isn't much different than working a single county, believe it or not. I guess what I'm really saying is use what you have (volunteers) and spread them out to an effective use, work the states and THEN go after volunteers again by publicizing. Colleen -----Original Message----- >From: Darlene Anderson <darlene-anderson@hughes.net> >Sent: Nov 8, 2013 8:31 AM >To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] thoughts on clusters > >Hi Colleen, > >Would you please clarify for me what you believe my opinion is? I just want to be sure we're on the same page with the cluster idea so that there are not any misconceptions about what I said. Thanks! > >Make it a Great Genealogy Day! > >Darlene Anderson, Vice-President >American Local History Network >http://www.alhn.org/ >State Coordinator for South Carolina-ALHN >And Kentucky-ALHN! > > >-----Original Message----- >From: alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Joyce Gaston Reece >Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 10:05 AM >To: ALHN-GENERAL >Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] thoughts on clusters > >I see where Joyce and Darlene are headed with her opinions. > >A project I once belonged to had a problem enlisting volunteers and decided to work from the top down -- volunteers will adopt entire states as opposed to individual counties, in an effort to get all the states adopted. Definitely that's a cluster idea. That idea, however, didn't work. > >I gave up long ago trying to get volunteers to work on Alaska. Though I still have borough/census area pages up, I decided to forego volunteers and do the work myself. It isn't for everyone, but when you talk about clustering... in my lowly opinion, working the state overall is simpler than working individual counties. I'm not alone in my belief here as there is another state whose manager declares names in the million and has done the work alone. > >So, it's six of one / half dozen of another. > >I will add one thing -- as successful as ALHN is, I believe ALHN is sort of on the fringe of that other, well-established project. The only way to defeat 'that other project' is to out-do them, pure and simple. Build ALHN so much that the traffic comes this way and not the other -- it's uploading fresher data and out-trafficking the peer project. > >I had a point to make here and in this missive somewhere; I hope I made it. > >Colleen > > >-----Original Message----- >>From: Darlene Anderson <darlene-anderson@hughes.net> >>Sent: Nov 7, 2013 3:58 PM >>To: alhn-board@rootsweb.com >>Subject: Re: [ALHN-BOARD] thought >> >>I'm not sure if this would work because we don't have volunteers to do 1 county in a lot of states much less a volunteer for a cluster of counties. I think ALHN needs more work and more volunteers for this to be a viable option for us. Maybe if enough folks see that ALHN is changing we can increase the county site volunteers. This is my hope anyway. And from these volunteers, we can encourage them to take on more than 1 county to create the cluster. For example, in Middle Tennessee, I volunteered for Hickman and Maury and I could volunteer for Williamson and Dickson (not volunteering yet though) and this would be a cluster. >> >>I don't know that we need an additional person to manage the cluster. Maybe what we need to do first is write an article for the county cluster project explaining what it is. Have a county coordinator maintain the web sites and then ask for volunteers to help with transcribing documents, taking photographs, and so on. Maybe a county transcriber, county indexer (there are tons of books not indexed). We could pick up folks to volunteer for something other than doing web sites. >> >>Joyce, I think the idea might work. Just needs planning, ideas and so on. My 2 cents worth. >> >>Make it a Great Genealogy Day! >>Darlene Anderson, Vice-President >>American Local History Network >>http://www.alhn.org/ >>State Coordinator for South Carolina-ALHN And Kentucky-ALHN! >> >> >>-----Original Message----- >>From: alhn-board-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alhn-board-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Joyce Gaston Reece >>Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 5:16 PM >>To: ALHN-BOARD R/W >>Subject: [ALHN-BOARD] thought >> >>I ve been bouncing around a thought for awhile and thought to see what you all thought. >> >>Rather than confine our state coordinators to seeking county sites we offer regional sites. That may or may not work for all state coordinators. But I know that here in southeast Tennessee it is a huge mistake to confine research to one county. IE, we have one community now in McMinn that was in three other counties first. The families in the area show in records for all 4 counties. Early county lines in east TN were constantly changing. We could offer clusters of counties???? Or at least plant the idea as an option?? >> >> >>Joyce Gaston Reece,President >>American Local History Network >>www.alhn.org >> >Joyce Gaston Reece,President >American Local History Network >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 > > > >------------------------------- >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 Colleen, Would you please clarify for me what you believe my opinion is? I just want to be sure we're on the same page with the cluster idea so that there are not any misconceptions about what I said. Thanks! Make it a Great Genealogy Day! Darlene Anderson, Vice-President American Local History Network http://www.alhn.org/ State Coordinator for South Carolina-ALHN And Kentucky-ALHN! -----Original Message----- From: alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alhn-general-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Joyce Gaston Reece Sent: Friday, November 08, 2013 10:05 AM To: ALHN-GENERAL Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] thoughts on clusters I see where Joyce and Darlene are headed with her opinions. A project I once belonged to had a problem enlisting volunteers and decided to work from the top down -- volunteers will adopt entire states as opposed to individual counties, in an effort to get all the states adopted. Definitely that's a cluster idea. That idea, however, didn't work. I gave up long ago trying to get volunteers to work on Alaska. Though I still have borough/census area pages up, I decided to forego volunteers and do the work myself. It isn't for everyone, but when you talk about clustering... in my lowly opinion, working the state overall is simpler than working individual counties. I'm not alone in my belief here as there is another state whose manager declares names in the million and has done the work alone. So, it's six of one / half dozen of another. I will add one thing -- as successful as ALHN is, I believe ALHN is sort of on the fringe of that other, well-established project. The only way to defeat 'that other project' is to out-do them, pure and simple. Build ALHN so much that the traffic comes this way and not the other -- it's uploading fresher data and out-trafficking the peer project. I had a point to make here and in this missive somewhere; I hope I made it. Colleen -----Original Message----- >From: Darlene Anderson <darlene-anderson@hughes.net> >Sent: Nov 7, 2013 3:58 PM >To: alhn-board@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [ALHN-BOARD] thought > >I'm not sure if this would work because we don't have volunteers to do 1 county in a lot of states much less a volunteer for a cluster of counties. I think ALHN needs more work and more volunteers for this to be a viable option for us. Maybe if enough folks see that ALHN is changing we can increase the county site volunteers. This is my hope anyway. And from these volunteers, we can encourage them to take on more than 1 county to create the cluster. For example, in Middle Tennessee, I volunteered for Hickman and Maury and I could volunteer for Williamson and Dickson (not volunteering yet though) and this would be a cluster. > >I don't know that we need an additional person to manage the cluster. Maybe what we need to do first is write an article for the county cluster project explaining what it is. Have a county coordinator maintain the web sites and then ask for volunteers to help with transcribing documents, taking photographs, and so on. Maybe a county transcriber, county indexer (there are tons of books not indexed). We could pick up folks to volunteer for something other than doing web sites. > >Joyce, I think the idea might work. Just needs planning, ideas and so on. My 2 cents worth. > >Make it a Great Genealogy Day! >Darlene Anderson, Vice-President >American Local History Network >http://www.alhn.org/ >State Coordinator for South Carolina-ALHN And Kentucky-ALHN! > > >-----Original Message----- >From: alhn-board-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alhn-board-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Joyce Gaston Reece >Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 5:16 PM >To: ALHN-BOARD R/W >Subject: [ALHN-BOARD] thought > >I ve been bouncing around a thought for awhile and thought to see what you all thought. > >Rather than confine our state coordinators to seeking county sites we offer regional sites. That may or may not work for all state coordinators. But I know that here in southeast Tennessee it is a huge mistake to confine research to one county. IE, we have one community now in McMinn that was in three other counties first. The families in the area show in records for all 4 counties. Early county lines in east TN were constantly changing. We could offer clusters of counties???? Or at least plant the idea as an option?? > > >Joyce Gaston Reece,President >American Local History Network >www.alhn.org > Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network 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

Might be too many 'thoughts' but the thought is a good one. Same is true for states. Maine and Massachusetts come to mind. Maine became a state in or about 1818, taken from that part of Massachusetts. While efforts have been made to secure the early records in Massachusetts for Maine, one should look both places. But certainly most states started out with far fewer counties than they now have. Mary WY CO

I see where Joyce and Darlene are headed with her opinions. A project I once belonged to had a problem enlisting volunteers and decided to work from the top down -- volunteers will adopt entire states as opposed to individual counties, in an effort to get all the states adopted. Definitely that's a cluster idea. That idea, however, didn't work. I gave up long ago trying to get volunteers to work on Alaska. Though I still have borough/census area pages up, I decided to forego volunteers and do the work myself. It isn't for everyone, but when you talk about clustering... in my lowly opinion, working the state overall is simpler than working individual counties. I'm not alone in my belief here as there is another state whose manager declares names in the million and has done the work alone. So, it's six of one / half dozen of another. I will add one thing -- as successful as ALHN is, I believe ALHN is sort of on the fringe of that other, well-established project. The only way to defeat 'that other project' is to out-do them, pure and simple. Build ALHN so much that the traffic comes this way and not the other -- it's uploading fresher data and out-trafficking the peer project. I had a point to make here and in this missive somewhere; I hope I made it. Colleen -----Original Message----- >From: Darlene Anderson <darlene-anderson@hughes.net> >Sent: Nov 7, 2013 3:58 PM >To: alhn-board@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [ALHN-BOARD] thought > >I'm not sure if this would work because we don't have volunteers to do 1 county in a lot of states much less a volunteer for a cluster of counties. I think ALHN needs more work and more volunteers for this to be a viable option for us. Maybe if enough folks see that ALHN is changing we can increase the county site volunteers. This is my hope anyway. And from these volunteers, we can encourage them to take on more than 1 county to create the cluster. For example, in Middle Tennessee, I volunteered for Hickman and Maury and I could volunteer for Williamson and Dickson (not volunteering yet though) and this would be a cluster. > >I don't know that we need an additional person to manage the cluster. Maybe what we need to do first is write an article for the county cluster project explaining what it is. Have a county coordinator maintain the web sites and then ask for volunteers to help with transcribing documents, taking photographs, and so on. Maybe a county transcriber, county indexer (there are tons of books not indexed). We could pick up folks to volunteer for something other than doing web sites. > >Joyce, I think the idea might work. Just needs planning, ideas and so on. My 2 cents worth. > >Make it a Great Genealogy Day! >Darlene Anderson, Vice-President >American Local History Network >http://www.alhn.org/ >State Coordinator for South Carolina-ALHN >And Kentucky-ALHN! > > >-----Original Message----- >From: alhn-board-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:alhn-board-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Joyce Gaston Reece >Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 5:16 PM >To: ALHN-BOARD R/W >Subject: [ALHN-BOARD] thought > >I���ve been bouncing around a thought for awhile and thought to see what you all thought. > >Rather than confine our state coordinators to seeking county sites we offer regional sites. That may or may not work for all state coordinators. But I know that here in southeast Tennessee it is a huge mistake to confine research to one county. IE, we have one community now in McMinn that was in three other counties first. The families in the area show in records for all 4 counties. Early county lines in east TN were constantly changing. We could offer clusters of counties???? Or at least plant the idea as an option?? > > >Joyce Gaston Reece,President >American Local History Network >www.alhn.org > Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network www.alhn.org

I’ve been doing my best to come up with ideas that would begin the rejuvenation of ALHN. I’m challenging you folks to do the same! Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network www.alhn.org

Thank you Mary....excellent idea. Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network www.alhn.org -----Original Message----- From: Mary Saban Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 11:21 AM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [ALHN-GENERAL] copyrights I use the wording "perpetual copyright created on "insert date". Advice from a lawyer friend. Never have to change or update. Mary WY CO -----Original Message----- From: Joyce Gaston Reece Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 8:11 AM To: ALHN-GENERAL Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] copyrights In reviewing some of ALHN state pages we notice that some of the copyrights are well outdated. One way to keep this current is to log on to your site and change the wording to ‘begin date (whatever date you have) to PRESENT’ By doing this your copyright claim is always current I’d also like to remind everyone that ALHN now has a LEGACY program. I recently posted the donation form for this. Please consider this for your site and pass this information on to your county coordinators. Your current Board of Directors are making every effort we can to bring ALHN into prominence and be a well used network. We’ll need the help of each and every state, county and topic coordinator. All of this will take time but if we don’t make some kind of effort this network could very well pass into obscurity. Small efforts from all of us and a small amount of time will always help. Please help us make ALHN the best of it’s kind because it began in that way and needs to be again. I invite all of you to use this mail list to post your tricks and tips to make a site the best of it’s kind. Here’s just one. Spidering. This, of course, has it’s pros and cons. Having your site registered into a program like ‘freefind.com’ will see to it that search engines find your site when folks are looking. Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network 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 ------------------------------- 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 use the wording "perpetual copyright created on "insert date". Advice from a lawyer friend. Never have to change or update. Mary WY CO -----Original Message----- From: Joyce Gaston Reece Sent: Thursday, November 07, 2013 8:11 AM To: ALHN-GENERAL Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] copyrights In reviewing some of ALHN state pages we notice that some of the copyrights are well outdated. One way to keep this current is to log on to your site and change the wording to ‘begin date (whatever date you have) to PRESENT’ By doing this your copyright claim is always current I’d also like to remind everyone that ALHN now has a LEGACY program. I recently posted the donation form for this. Please consider this for your site and pass this information on to your county coordinators. Your current Board of Directors are making every effort we can to bring ALHN into prominence and be a well used network. We’ll need the help of each and every state, county and topic coordinator. All of this will take time but if we don’t make some kind of effort this network could very well pass into obscurity. Small efforts from all of us and a small amount of time will always help. Please help us make ALHN the best of it’s kind because it began in that way and needs to be again. I invite all of you to use this mail list to post your tricks and tips to make a site the best of it’s kind. Here’s just one. Spidering. This, of course, has it’s pros and cons. Having your site registered into a program like ‘freefind.com’ will see to it that search engines find your site when folks are looking. Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network 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

In reviewing some of ALHN state pages we notice that some of the copyrights are well outdated. One way to keep this current is to log on to your site and change the wording to ‘begin date (whatever date you have) to PRESENT’ By doing this your copyright claim is always current I’d also like to remind everyone that ALHN now has a LEGACY program. I recently posted the donation form for this. Please consider this for your site and pass this information on to your county coordinators. Your current Board of Directors are making every effort we can to bring ALHN into prominence and be a well used network. We’ll need the help of each and every state, county and topic coordinator. All of this will take time but if we don’t make some kind of effort this network could very well pass into obscurity. Small efforts from all of us and a small amount of time will always help. Please help us make ALHN the best of it’s kind because it began in that way and needs to be again. I invite all of you to use this mail list to post your tricks and tips to make a site the best of it’s kind. Here’s just one. Spidering. This, of course, has it’s pros and cons. Having your site registered into a program like ‘freefind.com’ will see to it that search engines find your site when folks are looking. Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network www.alhn.org

Darlene is covered up doing the October minutes and I’m sure she hasn’t had time to do all the updates needed on the web site so I’m sending a copy to this list. If a web site owner wishes to donate contents of their site to ALHN they should show the Legacy log on their web site and the donation form should be submitted to the Board of Directors. There shall be no question of ownership of any materials by ALHN. Upon donation of a web site or any information therein this will become sole property of ALHN and not any individual(s) and be considered a LEGACY web site. All LEGACY web sites shall have a logo & will remain property of ALHN in perpetuity. LEGACY PROJECT DONATION FORM: I, (name) ___________________________________ certify that I am web site manager for (url address) _______________________________________ for (topic or physical location)________________________________________________________ By submitting & digitally signing this form I am donating this web site to the American Local History Network in perpetuity. _________________________________________ Signature _________________________________________ State Coordinator Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network www.alhn.org

Its in the standing rules Mary. Darlene is making a few changes on the web site and trying to get everything of this type all on the 'about' page. She can tell you where they are right now..... We decided to let people who wanted to give their pages to alhn the opportunity to do it and make it 'official'. Joyce Gaston Reece,President American Local History Network www.alhn.org -----Original Message----- From: Mary Saban Sent: Thursday, October 31, 2013 8:15 PM To: alhn-general@rootsweb.com Subject: [ALHN-GENERAL] Legacy Project Would someone explain what the Legacy Project and where to find it! I think I missed something somewhere. Mary WY CO ------------------------------- 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

Would someone explain what the Legacy Project and where to find it! I think I missed something somewhere. Mary WY CO