Cassie, I would LOVE to help. I think it is a great idea. I think that modifying the current page would be a great idea. What can I do to help? Jayne -----Original Message----- From: Cassie Elam [mailto:celam@pdq.net] Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 1999 12:16 AM To: ELAM-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [ELAM-ROOTS-L] Elam Family Research Page and a couple of ideas... This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------616F47093C8B Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Hi cousins -- I have received several offers to help out in paying for the move of the website to Rootsweb. While it's not necessary, if you really want to I would happily accept your kind offers. That brings to mind something I've been mulling over in my feverish brain of late. What would people think about making an organized effort to try and contact some of our "snail-mail only" Elam cousins? Since we have lists of Elams from every state we could do some sort of a mailing to try and get some more folks contributing to our research. Who knows what knowledge is lurking in someone's attic who doesn't belong to the list? I've checked with the Post Office and pre-stamped postcards can be purchased from it for 21 cents each. The postage for a regular postcard is 20 cents, so this seems to be the most economical route. If you all are interested in going this route, I could either send lists of addresses to those of you who would like to participate or you could make a contribution to be used for purchasing the postcards. Another idea would be to set up an "official" Elam Family History Association. While I don't have time to undertake its organization, I have done some research into how other such groups are set up and would be glad to pitch in with getting it up and running. For a yearly subscription, you typically get a membership card or certificate and a periodic newsletter. The dues are used to cover such items as the newsletter, advertising the association, establishing a research library, etc. The associations I looked at all have a website that, while varying in content, seems to look pretty much like the one I've already got set up. If people are agreeable, I could modify it to become the official association website and we could go from there. Well, what do you think? Any volunteers? Cassie --------------616F47093C8B Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-AIGFROM: <ELAM-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com> X-AIGTO: celam@PDQ.NET Received: from bl-11.rootsweb.com [204.212.38.27-2] by meg.pdq.net ID 49_77614; Mon, 02 Aug 1999 03:47:35 -0500 Received: (from slist@localhost) by bl-11.rootsweb.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) id BAA17989; Mon, 2 Aug 1999 01:47:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Mon, 2 Aug 1999 01:47:01 -0700 (PDT) From: ELAM-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com Message-Id: <199908020847.BAA17989@bl-11.rootsweb.com> Subject: ELAM-ROOTS-D Digest V99 #119 X-Loop: ELAM-ROOTS-D@rootsweb.com X-Mailing-List: <ELAM-ROOTS-D@rootsweb.com> archive/volume99/119 Precedence: list MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/digest; boundary="----------------------------" To: ELAM-ROOTS-D@rootsweb.com Reply-To: ELAM-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com - ---------------------------- Content-Type: text/plain ELAM-ROOTS-D Digest Volume 99 : Issue 119 Today's Topics: #1 [ELAM-ROOTS-L] Fwd: Court Records [LDRAM2058@aol.com] #2 Re: [ELAM-ROOTS-L] Elam Family Res [dloy@mindspring.com] Administrivia: To unsubscribe from ELAM-ROOTS-D, send a message to ELAM-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com that contains in the body of the message the command unsubscribe and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. ______________________________ - ----------------------------