Rio Grande, here... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gail Kilgore" <gail.kilgore@gmail.com> To: "cogen" <COGEN@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, February 24, 2012 3:45 AM Subject: [COGEN] Check-In's > First, I want to thank those of you who are faithful in checking in > monthly. It is greatly appreciated. > > Those I need to hear from are: > > Cheyenne Co. - Karla Mahlberg who has not checked in the past two months. > Broomfield Co. - Julie Miller > Baca and Rio Blanco - Maggie Stewart > Las Animas - Sandi Barber > Rio Grande - Linda Simpson > Clear Creek - Mike Irwin > Lake Co. - Mike Irwin > > Then, I got an email today that left me with a lot of mixed feelings. > > I will only send bits and pieces of the email and the person sending it is > not from Colorado. > > "There is too much well funded competition out there. We used to be it and > now we are yesterday's news. The crap that USGenWeb did is partially to > blame but it is also a function of being out of date. Volunteers don't > have > the funds to do massive databases." > > "Thanks for asking. I don't know anyone [useful] who would be interested. > They are dropping fast - age, illness, etc. We probably have 25% adoptable > at this point." > This left me to thinking today and trying to find replacements for these > counties is becoming impossible. They have moved on with the new > technology. I would like to see a roll call from all states as to what > their vacancy is. I have a lady interested in a county and still trying > to > work it out, had another one interested but didn't know beans about web > pages. > > I agree with this person that we are now a lot older than when we started. > Life is playing on our times, there are illnesses and all that goes along > with getting older. I have been trying to bring in young blood new people > to carry on. > > I would like to hear your thoughts and thoughts on recruiting, or else I > am > going to have to back up and ask that some of us take on more counties to > get them updated. I can't do them all and Billie has been helping. I am > not asking you to adopt them but to at least work on the main pages of the > sites that are up for adoption. > > I am not quite ready to retire from COGenWeb but I may have to take a > leave > of absence and would like Billie to step up to the plate to keep things > rolling. > > I really haven't said anything but I am just finishing up radiation for > skin cancer, now I think I have found some more, will get this checked > tomorrow when I go in for my last treatment. I am falling apart.. as soon > as my MRI is done, I will be having surgery on my cervical discs. I had C > 4 & 5 fused 40 years ago and they are shrinking and C3 is in trouble and I > am in 24 hour pain with this neck problems. I can't be on pain meds and > try and think about what I am doing and pain meds really make me crabby > and > you get enough of that from me with out something else being added too it. > > Billie is very capable of handling everything... and I will let you all > know when I am going to be out of touch for a while. My computer will be > near but I will just have to see how I am doing. > > If you have any questions I am here. > > Gail > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > COGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message >