Carol, I do have equal important tasks! Besides my position as the FLGenWeb State Coordinator and providing assistance to FLGenWeb County Coordinaors when they need it; I manage six florida county genweb sites, and sites for a genealogical society and a historical society. I spend upwards of 160 hours a month online pursuing information to place on each of these county websites, this doesn't include the time I spend in the local library, or making phone inquiries. I am a disabled veteran and have chronic Post Traumatic Stress Disorder! If you've nothing better to do than nag when I don't jump when you send me information, then maybe you need to direct your attention elsewhere. In order for me to provide equal support for researchers, I need postive support, not negative open page flaming from someone like you. The FLGenWeb and USGenWeb Projects are based on volunteer participations and cooperation. If this is what I'm to expect from you, then I don't want it. True, I depend on input from those who reside in counties where I don't have local access to information. I appreciate all the suppost that I receive, and just because I don't stop in the middle of a project to post something that been sent, doesn't mean the information will not be posted. Darrel R. Bell FLGenWeb State Coordinator Carol Gore wrote: > > Dear Marie, > > To tell you the truth, I became so frustrated with all the pettiness on the > Marion County site that I decided to focus my energy elsewhere. The Marion > County site is a mess with incomplete and misspelled words. Darrell Bell > either has more important things to do or he doesn't know any better. I > sent him the information on the new LDS Family History Center in Ocala which > he has yet to put on the site. > > Jenny Lind is sitting on a pile of information that she won't post for other > researchers to find. Lot's of folks won't contact a "look up volunteer" > because they feel they might be imposing or would rather find it themselves. > > Susan McCue has written a book she can be very proud of. It was a lot of > hard work. Yet, when I walked and transcribed the Gore Cemetery, which is > also in her book, she raised such a fuss that Patti Peterson took it off > line. Susan's EMail address is no where to be found on the Marion County > site for those with questions for her. I volunteered to transcribe > cemeteries in Marion County and was ignored. Susan's Gore line and our Gore > line may indeed be connected back in the 1700's, but her mind is closed to > that. > > All kinds of disasters like fire, flood etc. have and can destroy "hard > copy" records. What is posted to the internet will remain for all > posterity. In genealogy, there is no better service than posting vital > records to the net. > > With all that in mind, I am now volunteering at the new LDS Family History > Center in Ocala, transcribing as a volunteer for the Immigrant Ships > Transcriber's Guild, and transcribing and indexing marriage records for > Monroe County, Michigan, where my paternal ancestral roots are firmly > planted. > > Perhaps when there is a "new administration" in genealogy on the Marion > County site, I will be able to help. > > Please keep in touch as I feel you are a genuine researcher who cares about > preserving history for those who come after us. > > Sincerely, > > Carol Lyons Gore > Lyonsden1@alltel.net > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <MNations@aol.com> > To: <Lyonsden1@alltel.net> > Sent: Wednesday, October 04, 2000 6:18 PM > Subject: Old Fort Cemetery > > > Hi, Carol, > > > > Never did hear from you. Wondering if you ever discovered the old Fort > > cemetery that someone had told you about in southeastern Marion. I keep > > wondering about it. > > > > Let me know. > > > > Marie Nations > > Weirsdale > >