Hi, Sorry to come into this so late in the conversation, but I would like to say a few words abt this myself. I Pay $30.00 a month to have enough webspace to not only put my family lines on the internet, but I also co-share Lawrence Co. AR and have Izard Co. Ar as another webpage... All of this I do at my own expense. I do free lookups in the many books I have and the cost of thesas were considerable... I use my "free" time to help make the Civil War Pages in AR worth visiting. No one re-imburses me for this and I guess if I had to, I could come up with a dollar amount for my time and money that I give away every day of my life. I wouldn't mind donating to rootsweb, but I think I have already done my share of giving and I rarely get the chance to just "cruse around" on the net. Hope no one is offended, but I feel that those of us who do give so much shouldn't be asked for more money... Anyhow, that's just me! :-D Jeri Helms Fultz LOMilam@aol.com wrote: > > In a message dated 12/20/98 6:31:24 PM Eastern Standard Time, morgana@ghg.net > writes: > > > I am not particularly worried myself about them misappropriating funds, > since a lot of this has been done from crisis to crisis, and there probably > haven't been enough funds to really misappropriate... > > Hi Sue, > I have never said anything about misappropriation of funds. In fact, I don't > know how you could "misappropriate" funds when there has never been a legal > statement of how funds are supposed to be used, as far as I know. All there > seems to be is a murky, non-specific "understanding" that "if you send us > money we will use it to run Rootsweb" (my words, not theirs). Obviously, that > could mean anything, and leaves a lot of latitude. > > My point is, why not eliminate any possible doubt, and/or any possible > appearance of improprieties? It can only have positive results. After a > while, people are going to equate silence on the subject as concealment, and > if people start to think they are being "suckered," Rootsweb will dry up and > blow away. None of us want that. > > If everyone concerned is as altruistic as it appears, and I have no reason to > doubt that they are, then there should be no problem bringing the finances > into the clear light of day. It's time. > > This is off the subject of this list, so I'll shut-up and not mention it > again, but when you mentioned Rootsweb donations, it reminded me of my > concerns. Take care, Oliver. -- "but I remain your affectinate cosin untill death." Thank you again ggrandpa Davis for those words. Never dreamed I'd get to use em! ---------------------------------------------------- AR Civil War Pg: http://www.insolwwb.net/~egerdes/ Memorial Pg: http://members.tripod.com/~egerdes/index.html http://www.couchgenweb.com/lawrence/ Personal Pg: http://idt.net/~jfultz19 Izard Co. AR: http://idt.net/~jfultz19/izardco1.htm Original AR Gen PG: http://www.CouchGenWeb.com/arkansas/ Helms Research PG: http://members.tripod.com/~irahelms/index.html