Just a note. I am new to the board and have few in this area but they are important to me. I for one have been busy with cemetery committee work, family reunions and working on other lines as well. Our intentions are good but time and family wait for none of us. Our health is not good but I answer most of my mail. Much goes into the "todo" file and then I go out to weed, fix meals or call or return calls, or sit grandchildren. Wish I had more hours in the day. I guess "the path to hell is paved with good intentions". Hope your wife is better soon. Many of us find the board the best company we have at times. I am sure she will enjoy the messages she gets that push her research along. Keep up the good work, you'll get your stars! HLP ---------- > From: noname <noname@no.address> > To: east-texas-roots-l@rootsweb.com > Subject: ? I don't understand this > Date: Friday, June 20, 1997 6:11 AM > > I'm genealogically stupid (& just going off of what I've been reading > the messages on the lists that my wife recieves), but I've seen a lot of > messages about people doing census information & other things coming in > my wife's lists & there is a problem that I have with this. > > My wife has been very sick in the past year, but still been able to > contribute a lot to this project. She's also a very proud woman & won't > admit to anyone just how sick she's been, & heaven help the person who > does, but she is very proud of what she does & I'm sure everyone else > who has a county out there is also just as proud of what they do. Why > do you not help them more? > > I want to tell you all first of all that I've seen it from the other > side. I've seen my wife trying to get this information online for all > of you genealogists & then I see her state coordinator trying to get > people involved . I am not a genealogist & will tell you right now, I > don't know more than the very basics of what is going on, except what my > wife has told me, but I don't understand why there are not more people > involved. If you're going to do this, do it to your best, otherwise, > why bother? > > I've seen all the posts to my wife's website & there are 2 who are > offering help & from past knowlege, this is an unusual. She is not able > to respond to these at the moment, & I feel she would like me to tell > these individuals that she will respond, when able to, but aside from > that, I have a question for everyone else on this list. > > If you are all doing genealogy & all "one small community" as my wife > seems to feel, why don't you contribute more? Is it that the county > coordinators don't want to be bothered? I've been reading e-mail for my > wife (she's indisposed until about July 15th & I have the "pleasure" of > updating her queries & deleting "unimportant" e-mail for her), and I > don't understand a lot of what I've been seeing in the e-mail. Everyone > wants to exchange information & get information, which is great, but > can't you add the data that you have to the GenWeb pages? Are you > already adding it & I'm not seeing it? I've done a search of many other > pages & it looks like the hour or two my wife does each night for her > pages is not always typical. There are a lot of sites out there that > have nothing on them. I cannot believe there are as many genealogists > out there who are willing to use the pages & not contribute. > > I have changed the e-mail resonse address on this so as to not represent > myself mainly because I don't want to have my wife having to deal with > anything negative that might come from this & also to help her maintain > her "non-sick annomous" status, but as a non-genealogist, I just wanted > to see why more isn't being done. > > Thank you for listening to me.