To: USGenWeb Project SCs Would you all please remind your CCs about the appropriate use of The USGenWeb Archives. CCs are welcome to LINK to whichever Archive files they would like to. However, it is not appropriate to COPY files from the Archives and place them on County Pages without the permission of the submitter. In fact, it is a copyright violation. Thank you, -Isaiah

I think someone had problems with this group and the @hotmail for a professional business is very suspect. I would advise be wary. regards, Gaila ----- Original Message ----- From: " Brenda Pierce" <ltlbit@mindspring.com> To: <GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 7:38 PM Subject: Spam Alert: [GAGEN] Your Family is in Genealogy Giants Vol. 1 > > Has anyone on the list had any dealings with this group, or is this another > Family Discover renaming group? > > > Salina Devane wrote: > >>> > >>> > 'Do you know if this company is legit?' > >>> >

Good luck, Michelle - it looks as if you have some good projects to start on. Best of researching and posting to you! Gaila Houston County > I guess it is about time I introduced myself :) > > My name is Michele Lewis and I am the new coordinator for McDuffie County. > >

Welcome aboard Michele. It always great to have someone new joining the group. Bill Clody CC Walker County, GA RC Northwest GA Region ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michele Lewis" <frugalmom@earthlink.net> To: <GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 17, 2003 3:30 PM Subject: [GAGEN] Howdy! > I guess it is about time I introduced myself :) > > My name is Michele Lewis and I am the new coordinator for McDuffie County. > > I am a 40 year old, stay-at-home mom of 5 children and I homeschool them. However, I am going back to work 1 day a week soon at McDuffie County Hosp in the ER as a RN. My husband has retired from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office in FL so he can stay home with the kids on the day that I work :) > > We moved to McDuffie Co in Nov. My husband was born in Augusta so we moved here to be near all of his extended family (inlcuding his dead ancestors!) I have been doing research in Richmond, Columbia, Lincoln and McDuffie Counties for 6 years now. I am very happy to be able to the research locally now instead of long distance. > > I am working to update the McDuffie County web page. My highest priority is getting some of the cemeteries in McDuffie surveyed. We are woefully behind some of the other counties. Today I posted two new cemeteries (Neal Family Cemetery in Dearing and Westview Cemetery in Thomson). The man that surveyed Westview is working on the Thomson City Cemetery which is WONDERFUL! That cemetery is very big and old and full of great history. > > I have been very lucky in that two local people have stepped up and have volunteered to help me. > > Another project that I am working on is trying to prove there once was a TB sanitarium in Boneville in the late 1880s. Believe it or not, I can't find any documentation though I do have access to some letters that were written by a man that died in the sanitarium. Porr little Boneville is a forgotten little speck in McDuffie County. > > And that is about it for me. > > Hugs... > > Michele > > > *** All outgoing mail checked by Norton AntiVirus *** > > > ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== > Genealogy research usually begins with our great-grandparents to preserve > the privacy of 'living persons'. If you encounter a person searching > their birth parents, the need to go to the area on the web that deals > with just this type of research. Please refer them to: > http://www.adoption.org > >

Welcome Michele!! If I can ever be of any help just ask ED GORDON CCHS Clay County GaGenWeb Early County AHGP Miller County GaGenWeb Miller County AHGP Seminole County GaGenWeb Ed and Kim's Connection's From: "Michele Lewis" <frugalmom@earthlink.net> Reply-To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [GAGEN] Howdy! Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:30:22 -0500 I guess it is about time I introduced myself :) My name is Michele Lewis and I am the new coordinator for McDuffie County. I am a 40 year old, stay-at-home mom of 5 children and I homeschool them. However, I am going back to work 1 day a week soon at McDuffie County Hosp in the ER as a RN. My husband has retired from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office in FL so he can stay home with the kids on the day that I work :) We moved to McDuffie Co in Nov. My husband was born in Augusta so we moved here to be near all of his extended family (inlcuding his dead ancestors!) I have been doing research in Richmond, Columbia, Lincoln and McDuffie Counties for 6 years now. I am very happy to be able to the research locally now instead of long distance. I am working to update the McDuffie County web page. My highest priority is getting some of the cemeteries in McDuffie surveyed. We are woefully behind some of the other counties. Today I posted two new cemeteries (Neal Family Cemetery in Dearing and Westview Cemetery in Thomson). The man that surveyed Westview is working on the Thomson City Cemetery which is WONDERFUL! That cemetery is very big and old and full of great history. I have been very lucky in that two local people have stepped up and have volunteered to help me. Another project that I am working on is trying to prove there once was a TB sanitarium in Boneville in the late 1880s. Believe it or not, I can't find any documentation though I do have access to some letters that were written by a man that died in the sanitarium. Porr little Boneville is a forgotten little speck in McDuffie County. And that is about it for me. Hugs... Michele *** All outgoing mail checked by Norton AntiVirus *** ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== Genealogy research usually begins with our great-grandparents to preserve the privacy of 'living persons'. If you encounter a person searching their birth parents, the need to go to the area on the web that deals with just this type of research. Please refer them to: http://www.adoption.org _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

> My name is Michele Lewis and I am the new coordinator for McDuffie County. Hi Michele!! I am your neighbor over in Richmond County http://www.rootsweb.com/~garichmo/ I am so glad some one is finally going to give this McDuffie some TLC. I haven't looked yet--is the URL the same? Are you a Texas gal too? I just wondered cause of your Howdy. Bettie Wood <>< -- If Fed Ex and UPS were to merge, would they call it Fed UP? -- All outgoing mail virus free, scanned by Norton 2002, http://www.symantec.com/

Welcome Michele! Good luck with your county! Kim Gordon Clayton & Habersham CC >From: "Michele Lewis" <frugalmom@earthlink.net> >Reply-To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [GAGEN] Howdy! >Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 15:30:22 -0500 > >I guess it is about time I introduced myself :) > >My name is Michele Lewis and I am the new coordinator for McDuffie County. > >I am a 40 year old, stay-at-home mom of 5 children and I homeschool them. >However, I am going back to work 1 day a week soon at McDuffie County Hosp >in the ER as a RN. My husband has retired from the Hillsborough County >Sheriff's Office in FL so he can stay home with the kids on the day that I >work :) > >We moved to McDuffie Co in Nov. My husband was born in Augusta so we moved >here to be near all of his extended family (inlcuding his dead ancestors!) >I have been doing research in Richmond, Columbia, Lincoln and McDuffie >Counties for 6 years now. I am very happy to be able to the research >locally now instead of long distance. > >I am working to update the McDuffie County web page. My highest priority >is getting some of the cemeteries in McDuffie surveyed. We are woefully >behind some of the other counties. Today I posted two new cemeteries (Neal >Family Cemetery in Dearing and Westview Cemetery in Thomson). The man that >surveyed Westview is working on the Thomson City Cemetery which is >WONDERFUL! That cemetery is very big and old and full of great history. > >I have been very lucky in that two local people have stepped up and have >volunteered to help me. > >Another project that I am working on is trying to prove there once was a TB >sanitarium in Boneville in the late 1880s. Believe it or not, I can't find >any documentation though I do have access to some letters that were written >by a man that died in the sanitarium. Porr little Boneville is a forgotten >little speck in McDuffie County. > >And that is about it for me. > >Hugs... > >Michele > > >*** All outgoing mail checked by Norton AntiVirus *** > > >==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== >Genealogy research usually begins with our great-grandparents to preserve > the privacy of 'living persons'. If you encounter a person searching >their birth parents, the need to go to the area on the web that deals >with just this type of research. Please refer them to: >http://www.adoption.org > _________________________________________________________________ Tired of spam? Get advanced junk mail protection with MSN 8. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/junkmail

I guess it is about time I introduced myself :) My name is Michele Lewis and I am the new coordinator for McDuffie County. I am a 40 year old, stay-at-home mom of 5 children and I homeschool them. However, I am going back to work 1 day a week soon at McDuffie County Hosp in the ER as a RN. My husband has retired from the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office in FL so he can stay home with the kids on the day that I work :) We moved to McDuffie Co in Nov. My husband was born in Augusta so we moved here to be near all of his extended family (inlcuding his dead ancestors!) I have been doing research in Richmond, Columbia, Lincoln and McDuffie Counties for 6 years now. I am very happy to be able to the research locally now instead of long distance. I am working to update the McDuffie County web page. My highest priority is getting some of the cemeteries in McDuffie surveyed. We are woefully behind some of the other counties. Today I posted two new cemeteries (Neal Family Cemetery in Dearing and Westview Cemetery in Thomson). The man that surveyed Westview is working on the Thomson City Cemetery which is WONDERFUL! That cemetery is very big and old and full of great history. I have been very lucky in that two local people have stepped up and have volunteered to help me. Another project that I am working on is trying to prove there once was a TB sanitarium in Boneville in the late 1880s. Believe it or not, I can't find any documentation though I do have access to some letters that were written by a man that died in the sanitarium. Porr little Boneville is a forgotten little speck in McDuffie County. And that is about it for me. Hugs... Michele *** All outgoing mail checked by Norton AntiVirus ***

This list is for the discussion of items of interest to assist fellow CCs in improving their sites or for resources to assist visitors. This list is not the complaint list nor is it the political list. You may take such to GALINA. For those who persist, you will be moderated for 1 week on the first offense, 2 weeks on the second offense. ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== Got a problem? Contact your RC or ASC at GAGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com

Just a thought, all the new folks that have come in might want to send in their photos to Jimmy. eppy@ticnet.com Some have sent them in with and without bios, this is not mandatory, but it is nice to put a name with a face. Jimmy is good at resizing, so even a large one he can work with. Just make sure you put Gagen photo in your subject line so Jimmy will know you are are not sending him a virus. Oh, the url for the ones that are up are at -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~gaoconee/GAGenWeb/CCPics/ Thanks, Brenda Pierce

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Thats a Copy and Paste if I ever saw one!!! ED GORDON CCHS Clay County GaGenWeb Early County AHGP Miller County GaGenWeb Miller County AHGP Seminole County GaGenWeb Ed and Kim's Connection's From: "Linda Barton" <lab@boone.net> Reply-To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [GAGEN] Unanswered Complaint / list rules Date: Sun, 16 Mar 2003 16:22:02 -0500 This does not look like linking to me. It seems to be copied and pasted to a webpage. Am I confused? L. Barton -----Original Message----- From: Debra Crosby [mailto:poohbos@poohbos.com] Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 4:10 PM To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [GAGEN] Unanswered Complaint / list rules I for one am totally confused about which list Georgia CC's are to use for communication about Ga and problems CC's may be having??? Once again we are threatened with shut up or be moderated. So who's file is this? http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacrawfo/Census/1830census.htm Debra Crosby ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Stowell To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 6:15 AM Subject: Re: [GAGEN] Unanswered Complaint / list rules At 10:54 AM 3/15/03 -0500, you wrote: >I wanted all the CC's to know what is going on. I sent this email to Tim, >Brenda, Margie, and Isaiah on Wed, 3/12/03 at 7:11 PM and have had no >response at all from any of them and the files are still being used by >Margie Daniels. You can view the files at >http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacrawfo/Census/censuslinkframe.htm Yep, we have lives outside GAGenWeb and USGenWeb. >I sent this request as a contributor, not a CC. Makes me wonder how many >contributors are being treated the same way, probably a lot of them. Wondering and conjecture are like heresay - they mean little in the real world. >"I wish to request that a specific CC (Margie Daniels, Crawford County) on >the GaGenWeb do not link to files which I have posted to the GaArchives. >These files were posted where I want them to be posted as part of the >USGENWEB ARCHIVES Project and I do not give this CC permission to link >directly to those files as if hers. I am requesting that she remove any of >the files that she has taken from there off of her server and off her >Crawford County pages. This is not a battle between the GaGenWeb and the >GaArchives, it is a personal choice of mine and one which I choose to >exercise as the contributor and owner of those files. I understand that the >CC can link to the archives table of contents as is her choice but I want >the files to clearly be noted as GaArchives files and therefore do not give >her permission to link directly to each file. The fact of the matter is - with the Internet persons are free to link to any site they wish to, with or without the linkee's permission or knowledge. The frames you mention do not cover the fact of where the files are located, who contributed them, nor does the Crawford County site claim ownership of them. We had another person elsewhere falsely claiming someone was stealing their files when in fact it was a pure link - something the person making the accusations was incapable of understanding no matter how many times they were told that it was just a link - and that when one clicks on a link one obviously sees the material that the link points to. I have seen frames that total encapsule the data so that there was no way to tell where the files were or who created them - but this is not the case in this particular situation. It has been my understanding that files are in the Archives not to be hoarded but to be shared - linked to. Just because you or I may not like someone - is no reason to say you can't link to my data unless one truly is a Scrooge - and then one would have to wonder why would they make data visible if they didn't want to share it in the first place. >I asked Virginia what could be done about this and she followed on my >request. This list is for the discussion of items of interest to assist fellow CCs in improving their sites or for resources to assist visitors. This list is not the complaint list nor is it the political list. You may take such to GALINA. For those who persist, you will be moderated for 1 week on the first offense, 2 weeks on the second offense. Since some folks may respond to this list prior to seeing this note - this policy will go into effect 12 hours after posting. Tim ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== Genealogy research usually begins with our great-grandparents to preserve the privacy of 'living persons'. 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I for one am totally confused about which list Georgia CC's are to use for communication about Ga and problems CC's may be having??? Once again we are threatened with shut up or be moderated. So who's file is this? http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacrawfo/Census/1830census.htm Debra Crosby ----- Original Message ----- From: Tim Stowell To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, March 16, 2003 6:15 AM Subject: Re: [GAGEN] Unanswered Complaint / list rules At 10:54 AM 3/15/03 -0500, you wrote: >I wanted all the CC's to know what is going on. I sent this email to Tim, >Brenda, Margie, and Isaiah on Wed, 3/12/03 at 7:11 PM and have had no >response at all from any of them and the files are still being used by >Margie Daniels. You can view the files at >http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacrawfo/Census/censuslinkframe.htm Yep, we have lives outside GAGenWeb and USGenWeb. >I sent this request as a contributor, not a CC. Makes me wonder how many >contributors are being treated the same way, probably a lot of them. Wondering and conjecture are like heresay - they mean little in the real world. >"I wish to request that a specific CC (Margie Daniels, Crawford County) on >the GaGenWeb do not link to files which I have posted to the GaArchives. >These files were posted where I want them to be posted as part of the >USGENWEB ARCHIVES Project and I do not give this CC permission to link >directly to those files as if hers. I am requesting that she remove any of >the files that she has taken from there off of her server and off her >Crawford County pages. This is not a battle between the GaGenWeb and the >GaArchives, it is a personal choice of mine and one which I choose to >exercise as the contributor and owner of those files. I understand that the >CC can link to the archives table of contents as is her choice but I want >the files to clearly be noted as GaArchives files and therefore do not give >her permission to link directly to each file. The fact of the matter is - with the Internet persons are free to link to any site they wish to, with or without the linkee's permission or knowledge. The frames you mention do not cover the fact of where the files are located, who contributed them, nor does the Crawford County site claim ownership of them. We had another person elsewhere falsely claiming someone was stealing their files when in fact it was a pure link - something the person making the accusations was incapable of understanding no matter how many times they were told that it was just a link - and that when one clicks on a link one obviously sees the material that the link points to. I have seen frames that total encapsule the data so that there was no way to tell where the files were or who created them - but this is not the case in this particular situation. It has been my understanding that files are in the Archives not to be hoarded but to be shared - linked to. Just because you or I may not like someone - is no reason to say you can't link to my data unless one truly is a Scrooge - and then one would have to wonder why would they make data visible if they didn't want to share it in the first place. >I asked Virginia what could be done about this and she followed on my >request. This list is for the discussion of items of interest to assist fellow CCs in improving their sites or for resources to assist visitors. This list is not the complaint list nor is it the political list. You may take such to GALINA. For those who persist, you will be moderated for 1 week on the first offense, 2 weeks on the second offense. Since some folks may respond to this list prior to seeing this note - this policy will go into effect 12 hours after posting. Tim ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== Genealogy research usually begins with our great-grandparents to preserve the privacy of 'living persons'. If you encounter a person searching their birth parents, the need to go to the area on the web that deals with just this type of research. Please refer them to: http://www.adoption.org

Ah a pun! The Vanishing Georgia database vanished! <VBG> Thanks for the heads up Jacki. Tim At 04:35 PM 3/16/03 -0500, you wrote: >Hello everyone, > >Quite a while back I mentioned the Vanishing Georgia database at the GA >Secretary of State Archives site. If you have linked to it, you need to >change your link -- they've moved it to: >http://www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/web/vg/vgsearch.asp. Some counties >have more picture than others. > >Enjoy, > >Jacki > > >Colquitt County GenWeb Coordinator >http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacolqu2/ >Administrator, >RootsWeb Message Board for Colquitt County GA

In a message dated 3/16/03 5:24:11 PM Eastern Standard Time, sylvia@studiosr.com writes: > and we > learned that the last of the Cherokee to leave this area agreed to remove > themselves and were led by their own leadership. That is correct. The "trains" that got into trouble were those under the command of the Cherokees (Ridge and Ross' later problems stemmed from this.). The earlier ones conducted by the Federal Government did not have those problems. After that the Cherokees were paid to move individually. Actually, the last one to be paid from Forsyth County was in the mid 1840s. He was paid for the 3rd time as he kept coming back. Congress then passed a law against being paid more than once. Source - microfilms of the original records from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Of the Indians that were censused on the 1835 Roll in Forsyth County, the majority applied for Georgia Citizenship and remained here. That list is available in the Georgia Archives. Donna Parrish

In a message dated 3/16/03 5:40:26 PM Eastern Standard Time, ltlbit@mindspring.com writes: > please feel free to pull that information and include it > on your GaGenWeb pages. I prefer to leave it where it is, name the transcriber and then add a link. Thanks Donna Parrish

> Ask me a question and I'll answer it... and I know I'm not the only RC that will > answer questions. But be aware it may not be the answer you want though!! Yes, you usually answer questions, etc, so will Virginia, & Melody You're not my RC, though & neither are they. I have been trying for over a year to get help with Walton County. It has been months (before Christmas) since I put in my request for MK Harrison, but still haven't heard anything. > As for linking... I'd be tickled pink if every CC linked to my counties!! Oh goodness, me too. I'm always pleased when someone writes me, & asks me these things, or if they can use something from a web site of mine. If I link to a web site that says I need written permission, do I disregard that, & link anyway? > So the question really becomes whether that is what you want or not?? Yes, I want answers to my complaints Yes, I want answers to my questions Yes, I want answers to my choice of a Co-CC Bettie <><

I keep coming back to the Georgia Military Records section on the State page ( http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/records/military.htm ) -- just poking around for information, etc. I am wondering about this page and some information contained therein: (BTW -- the link should say something like War Time Line, instead of 'wartimeine', perhaps) http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/records/wartimeline.htm Notwithstanding this statement -- which is condensed down to now being totally incorrect and should be revised or removed---- "1836 War of Texas Independence More than 30,000 American settlers in Texas fight Mexico for independence." (There were a lot more Irish and Mexicans and Texicans who were there fighting than Americans.) This is the one that really worries me: "1838-39 Trail of Tears More than 7,000 soldiers relocate Cherokee, Choctaw, Creek and Chickasaw Indians from their lands in North Carolina and Georgia to territory in present-day Oklahoma. More than 4,000 Indians die during the journey." .....................Here we have a page on our state site that is titled "A Chronology of Conflict" and it lists the Trail of Tears with all of these "wars"? I feel that we might be sounding just a little insensitive here! I just completed a course at Emory on the history of the Cherokee, and we learned that the last of the Cherokee to leave this area agreed to remove themselves and were led by their own leadership. The 7,000 troops under General Winfield Scott did not "relocate" them, as stated here. Additionally, I spent a week in Tahlequah, OK in February---learning a lot about the Cherokee people, their life in "Old Cherokee Nation", and their forced migration to Indian Territory in the West. While I do not subscribe to re-writing history, I do think that we might be more objective in telling the story or presenting the "facts", perhaps. I have seen the website that this information possible came from -- but just because it's posted someplace, doesn't make it right. Additionally, I am wondering about this Military History section. It doesn't all pertain to Georgia. (Perhaps we could say that a lot of it doesn't pertain to Georgia?) What is our position in GAGenWeb relative to the Georgia pages actually containing Georgia information? See also: http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/records/IndianWars.htm

Ask me a question and I'll answer it... and I know I'm not the only RC that will answer questions. But be aware it may not be the answer you want though!! As for linking... I'd be tickled pink if every CC linked to my counties!! Are you aware some search engines have as part of their criteria is popularity? That means the more pages that link to your site, the higher the search engine will rank the page. So please... please... link to my counties all you want to!!! And speaking of Fed Ex and UPS... Yes I am fed up with all the nit picking that is going on... I think some folks have forgotten that the bottom line of what we are doing here is to provide genealogical information for our visitors. Why don't we look for ways to work together... and quit trying to be one up on someone else!! Folks, with just a tiny bit of effort, GAGenWeb can be a win-win project.... but ONLY if we ALL make the attempt!! So the question really becomes whether that is what you want or not?? Personally I believe it is time to move forward. jimmy Tim... I apologize if this should have been on galina...

Brenda Pierce has found another way to save space on our main pages. >From the guidelines: "The inclusion of the State Coordinator and Asst. State Coordinator is optional." So we can remove Tim from our main pages. Example: http://www.rootsweb.com/~gafulton/ Guidelines are located at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~gagenweb/guidelines.htm