It was my understanding that those were subprojects of the USGenWeb Archives. Did I misunderstand that? Ginger gingerh@shawneelink.com -----Original Message----- From: FEATHER2s@aol.com <FEATHER2s@aol.com> To: BOARD-L@rootsweb.com <BOARD-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 7:04 PM Subject: [BOARD-L] Special Projects >When did the Board vote to create additional Special Projects? The Projects >Page located at http://www.usgenweb.org/projects/projects.html was "updated" >on January 12th and now lists a "Pension Project" and a "Digital Map Library" >there. > >The Bylaws are very clear on the formation of official Special Projects and >the procedure was not followed in either case, as evidenced in the excerpt >quoted below: > >ARTICLE XIII. SPECIAL PROJECTS > >"Section 1. Special projects shall be established by The USGenWeb Project to >promote the gathering of information in specialized areas. A coordinator >shall be appointed by the Advisory Board to organize the project and enlist >volunteers. In addition, each special project shall have an Assistant Project >Coordinator or other support team in place that can take charge in case the >Project Coordinator becomes unavailable for a period of 30 days, unless there >are extenuating circumstances. Special projects shall be repositories for >public domain or research documents and shall provide an easily accessible >website for online research by the genealogical community. A collection of >links does not constitute a special project, although links to appropriate >websites maintained by other individuals or organizations are encouraged. > >Section 2. The name of the special project shall be The USGenWeb ______ >Project " > >I respectfully request that the above named "Special Projects" be removed >from that national listing. > >Virginia Cisewski >NW-Plains CC Rep >