Dale, How long have you been the GenWeb coordinator for Plymouth County? Years ago, from about 1995-1998 or 99, I was the coordinator for Digby Co, NS, Canada. The first for that county. GenWeb was in its infancy back then, and there were many vacant seats for coordinators. I was also working as the US "lead" for the IIGS project, which took off after I moved on, apparently, but is not all that well-known, today. International Internet Genealogy Society had a lot to do with getting rootsweb more established, but we truly failed by not ensuring it remained absolutely free. Surely it is still free, but as it is now "owned" by Ancestry.com, it's not as free as we'd hoped for it to remain. Someone has to pay for the growing numbers of required servers, though, so perhaps we were just too short-sighted on the speed with which internet genealogical research was going to grow! :-) Good to see GenWeb is still surviving, as well! Cheers, Jared > At 02:33 PM 5/29/2015, Diane Scannell wrote: > >>In my database I have 89 men named William Elgie ... >>I use the BK number to identify text files, and photographs that pertain >> to each of the separate individuals. > > I do the same. Although I don't have 89 people sharing a name I have > duplicates of many names (do you know how many Samuel Packards there were > in Bridgewater MA in colonial times?) and I find that using the BK numbers > for the files works very well for me. > > I am not concerned about changing programs - I have been a registered BK > user since the program was MS-DOS only, and John Steed and the program > will likely both outlive me. > > Dale H. Cook, Member, NEHGS and MA Society of Mayflower Descendants; > Plymouth Co. MA Coordinator for the USGenWeb Project > Administrator of http://plymouthcolony.net > > Remember - Use the Archives at > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/search > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in > the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------ Jared "Jed" Handspicker Usque Saeculis Vigilem