I received a message from a person who donated some civil material to one of my counties a long time ago. That county has changed hands a couple of times between then and now. The site is still up, but identified as not being a genweb site. The person was confused as to why the information was on the other site rather than the official Genweb site. I very tactful told them that the person had passed the baton on but still maintained the information and the website as an independent site. I don't intend to contact the former CC and ask for the information. Is there anything else that could have been done or said? This is one reason that while I do post information given me to the County site, I still encourage people to post to the archives. When I give up my counties I fully intend that all of their content goes with the counties. Deborah Byrd

I had something similar to that happen shortly after I took the Gordon County site - the person asked me why the material she sent wasn't on the site - turned out she'd submitted it to another place and was confused about the different genealogy sites. Anyway - I asked her to send it to me and I uploaded it and it all turned out fine - she's sent more info since then. I can understand why it's confusing to some people. They don't know the structure of the organization and send things in in good faith. Most people are very understanding and glad for you to be interested in what they've taken the time to transcribe and send. I believe the rule of thumb is that the material belongs to the submitter - so she has the right to say where her material is posted. Beth ----- Original Message ----- From: "D W Byrd" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 4:19 PM Subject: [GAGEN] Donors and former GAGENweb sites. >I received a message from a person who donated some civil material to one >of my counties a long time ago. That county has changed hands a couple of >times between then and now. The site is still up, but identified as not >being a genweb site. The person was confused as to why the information was >on the other site rather than the official Genweb site. > > I very tactful told them that the person had passed the baton on but still > maintained the information and the website as an independent site. > > I don't intend to contact the former CC and ask for the information. > > Is there anything else that could have been done or said? This is one > reason that while I do post information given me to the County site, I > still encourage people to post to the archives. When I give up my > counties I fully intend that all of their content goes with the counties. > > Deborah Byrd > > > > > ==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== > GAGenWeb By-Laws Committee Information Web Site: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~gacolqu2/bylaws/ > >