Hi, fellow CC's, I am wondering if anyone could share experiences of using Founders day, Centennial Events and local festivals as a way to promote your page? I have two opportunities coming up in the county I host- one is a founders day annual event and the following year a bicentennial of the county seat. I would like to use these events as an opportunity to encourage people to share historical documents & pictures, and family pictures as well. I could easily bring a laptop and portable scanner. Figure I should partner with the local historical society? Any and all input and suggestions will be greatly appreciated! Nancy Thomas Thigpen CC Johnson County, Ga. ************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com.

Working with local genealogical and historical societies can be a great way to promote our project and encourage people to donate data. I have two cautions: Sometimes genealogical/historical societies are aggressively involved in publishing data. If this is the case, the society might not be too receptive to having "competition." We have to be careful on our sites to avoid the appearance of "selling" anything. A reciprocal link with a society, for example, would be appropriate. Saying "Join the society today" would not. As long as the event sponsors and/or local societies are agreeable and our county sites continue to emphasize free data, I think it's a good idea. Vivian At 08:47 AM 3/16/2007, you wrote: > >Hi, fellow CC's, > > I am wondering if anyone could share experiences of using Founders day, >Centennial Events and local festivals as a way to promote your page? I have >two opportunities coming up in the county I host- one is a >founders day annual >event and the following year a bicentennial of the county seat. I would like >to use these >events as an opportunity to encourage people to share historical documents & >pictures, and family pictures as well. I could easily bring a laptop and >portable scanner. Figure I should partner with the local historical >society? Any >and all input and suggestions will be greatly appreciated! > > > > > > > Nancy Thomas Thigpen > > > CC Johnson County, Ga. > > > > > > >************************************** AOL now offers free email to everyone. > Find out more about what's free from AOL at http://www.aol.com. > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >GAGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message