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