Darilee Bednar is the county coordinator representative from the Northwest/Plains Region on the USGenWeb Advisory Board. She posted the message below on the USGW Discuss mailing list, and gave her permission for it to be re-posted here. Hats off to Alan Anderson and tbass for their great site! Vivian >Resent-Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 19:18:50 -0700 >X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Thu Mar 24 19:18:49 2005 >Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 18:18:45 -0800 (PST) >From: bookstorelady <[email protected]> >Old-To: usgenweb-discuss <[email protected]> >X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 >To: [email protected] >Resent-From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/9881 >X-Loop: [email protected] >Resent-Sender: [email protected] >Subject: [USGW-Discuss] [email protected] > >I spent the day at the Seattle Public Library in the Genealogy department.... > >The gal there showed off all the new gizmoos and gadgets... available and >then showed me the library's direct link to the USGenWeb Project... right up >there with Ancestry and Heritage Quest... > >What she wanted to talk about was Sumter County Georgia >http://www.sumtercountyhistory.com/ what an outstanding webpage it is >and how amazing the CC was to placed all this information online. I >listened to her talk about all the wonderful attributes of the county for >at least >10 minutes... and she was called away by a phone call or I might still be >there... > >Anyone who has ever dealt with the genealogy librarians at the Seattle >Main Branch will tell you these are committed enthusiastic people... >if they like or know something, they share it... > >My face was grinning... > >Darilee > > >[email protected] >http://www.rootsweb.com/~waskagit - Skagit USGW >http://www.thirdstbooks.com - 3rd St. Book Exchange >http://www.facesfromthewall.com - Faces From the Wall - Vietnam/Washington