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

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?

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