Tom, I have been working on the Cloud lineage & database. My wife is A Cloud from the South Carolina Clouds, descended from Austin Cloud. I have a database for Clouds. It contains name, generation, date of birth & death, where born, mother & father and spouse. Some categories are blank, of course. I have close to 1100 names, and lots more to go. I have my wife's lineage on my website (www.wvskiles.com) feel free to peruse and I would be more than willing to share whatever I have. Claude ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tom Cloud" <cloud@peaches.ph.utexas.edu> To: <CLOUD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 13, 2004 11:45 AM Subject: [CLOUD-L] help > > Dear Cloud researchers / cousins; > > As you probably know, I am the administrator for this Cloud > surname email list as well as for the Cloud bulletin boards > on rootsweb. > > That lofty title means nothing -- it is only something I > undertook to help us all out. Many of you have done or are > doing similar things. > > The reasons I write are: > > 1 - I want some input from you as to what can be done to: > a. make the list and bulletin boards more useful > b. increase the "traffic" on them so that there will > be more information available to us. > c. perhaps some "promotion" .... I am a total "dud" > when it comes to charisma. The Dalton list has > an eighty-year woman (Millicent Dalton) who does > an absolute bang-up job .... makes me feel like > a complete loser! ..... if anyone has any ideas > and maybe wants to be the promoter, let me know. > > 2 - I want suggestions about: > a. the various web sites we have for Cloud family > histories .... specifically, I have attempted to > make the site I maintain (http://mykindred.com/cloud) > be a central "jumping-off" site, but I'm not pleased > with it. > b. do you have any suggestions for how we can better > coordinate and integrate the various web sites and > data together? > > 3 - WRT this email list, specifically, I would like some ideas > for the "tag lines" that appear in sequence at the bottom of the > emails from the list. There are ten "rotating" tag lines. I have > chosen to put pointers there to three things -- the two mirror Cloud > Family Association sites (1) http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cloud, > (2) http://mykindred.com/cloud and (3) to the genealogical kindness > site (can't remember its exact name right now ... think it's "practice > random acts of genealogical kindness" or something like that. > ... soliciting suggestions for the utilization of the tag lines. > > Keep in mind as you mull over your suggestions: > > - all of this is done by volunteers, so creative cajoling is much > more productive than being forceful. > > - many of the web sites are bought and paid for by the people > who have their pages on them -- like the mykindred.com site. > None of them, to my knowledge, are owned by the Cloud Family > Association. Obviously, they aren't going to cotton to people > telling them what to put on them. Once again, creative cajoling > is the way to go. All of us, I think, share the same goals -- to > make research easier for everyone and to find out more for ourselves > and to meet new cousins -- so they might be very interested in > anything that lets them feel their contributions are being used > and appreciated. > > .... think about it and write me -- either on or off-list > > thanks, > Tom Cloud > > > ==== CLOUD Mailing List ==== > .................................................................. > Have you submitted your Cloud lineage to the List? > Submit a brief description of your ancestry. > Cloud HomePages: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~cloud >

At 12:10 PM 2/18/2004, you wrote: >Tom, I have been working on the Cloud lineage & database. My wife is A Cloud >from the South Carolina Clouds, descended from Austin Cloud. I have a >database for Clouds. It contains name, generation, date of birth & death, >where born, mother & father and spouse. Some categories are blank, of >course. I have close to 1100 names, and lots more to go. I have my wife's >lineage on my website (www.wvskiles.com) feel free to peruse and I would be >more than willing to share whatever I have. Claude Claude, Thank you for the kind and gracious offer, and I extend to you the same consideration. The email I sent was asking for ideas on how to coordinate and stimulate. How to coordinate the resources of this email list, the bulletin boards and the various web sites. How to stimulate activity and drive away those dark "clouds" of mystery surrounding so many of our ancestors. thanks, Tom Cloud