At 11:46 AM 4/9/03 -0400, you wrote: >provided other material which meets the county requirements...That is what I >am saying....but there are those of us who plan to keep the material at the >county website and do not intend to change from that. Not sure where and why the difficulties developed between the county sites and the archives, but I think they both have a place in this project. I developed a lot of data for Cherokee County while I was the cc there. It is still there for the time being. And I think as long as Brenda has the page, the data will stay there. I was one of the first to push hard for data to be placed on the county pages. I tried to lead by an example for others. However, during the course of events within the project not all county cc's were interested in placing data on their sites. In fact there were some who flatly refused to place data there. I believe there have been some 'wars' over that. I am not judging anyone. But to take a site and not place data there, is wrong. Why have a site without data? At the same time, I do not like to see a page of links. Maybe it is reduntant to have data in the archives and on the pages. At some time in the future, someone may take the Cherokee page and decide they don't like me, or the way I presented the data, or for some other reason remove the data. Since I provided for it to go to the archives, as long as that stays around, then the data is available for researchers to use. I have abstracted some data in other counties. A copy was sent to the cc's of the counties involved, as well as the archives. Seems these cc's don't want the data on their pages. Or maybe they didn't like the idea of me giving the data to the archives. Anyway... the last time I looked, there were some that the data had not been presented. So... did I waste my time and effort? Seems I did, as far as the county sites are concerned. There is to much work to be done to have all this fighting over who has a file. If a person abstacts and wants it put in ONLY ONE PLACE, then it should be only in that one place. Be it on the county site, or in the archives. But if they want it in both, put it in both. I am not sure that the aim of the project hasn't been lost. When I signed on in 1996, we wanted to get data in place for researchers. Now I am not sure what the aim is. Wyndell Taylor