Let the webpage 'Gateway to Ontario Cemeteries' remain as it is as it is growing in popularity. If the Canada wide page wants to give a link to your page fine. It seems that everytime something goes Canada wide it gets too big & unmanageable. And besides, you were there first. I am a Kent County volunteer on your page and like things the way they are at the present, just Ontario. GEN wrote: > Dear Listers: > > I want your opinion of this important item. > > As most of you already know, this mailing list started a website > entitled" Gateway to Ontario Cemeteries" in late March or early April > of 2004. With the cooperation of many we have started a website that > covers every county and district in Ontario. I would be telling a lie > if I stated we had every Cemetery in Ontario covered........we don't > but that is our goal. > > Janet and I made a point of seeking out other cemetery sites and ask > the owners if we could link their sites to theirs. They were > agreeable. Some sites not only had databases on a cemetery, but also > had photos. > > About two months ago I got wind of a project that I thought was great, > a Canada wide cemetery database providing location, transcripts etc. > > For some unknown reason they have never heard of our site, which I > made the project managers aware of. > > Did I mention this project was launched late October of last year? > > I cannot understand why this project would want to duplicate work that > is already done. > > Am I wrong for being annoyed? > > Should Janet and I just pull the plug on our Ontario Cemeteries > Resources website when we were here first? > > I am not against the project, but I am against the duplication of > something that is already up and running. > > The ladies who are in charge of the Ontario section of Canada GenWeb > cemetery Project have been nice and have placed a link to our site. > > I am more than willing to carry the GenWeb banner on our site, but I > feel we have been overlooked and snubbed, when{ in my opinion} we > should be the official site for Ontario. > > Sheila > > List Mom and co-owner of Gateway to Ontario Cemeteries. -- Bob === Robert Neil Chatham-Kent, ON rneil@sympatico.ca