I personally don't consider AHGP a USGenWeb Project a wannabe. It is just another repository for information with NO politics, BASIC guidelines, and NO fighting either! Kim >From: Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> >Reply-To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: RE: [GAGEN] data placement >Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 02:14:06 -0400 > > >While we're at it - consider AGHP or ALHN and other wannabe USGenWeb >projects. > >Tim > >At 02:34 PM 4/9/03 -0400, you wrote: > >Shall we include the two census projects in here, too and contemplate > >there are 4 possible places for census files to be on-line? > > > >Connie > >Acc: Heard > > > > > >-----Original Message----- > >From: Michael Saffold [mailto:msaffold@bellsouth.net] > >Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 2:16 PM > >To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: [GAGEN] data placement > > > >Issues in the current debate seem to be fairly simply solved, in my > >opinion. > > > >Submitters, those who offer their data to be placed online (regardless > >of > >whether it is a CC or an outside source), should make the final call as > >to > >where their data goes. They should be made aware that they can have > >their > >data both places, but certainly should be free to choose one or the > >other. > > > >There are advantages to each: > >1. County sites generally are the researcher's first portal to the > >GAGenWeb > >project and potentially provide the researcher with "one stop shopping." > >2. Text presentation may be more suitable than html to some researchers. > > > >Ease of searching differs from site to site, and some days I've had > >trouble > >with the Archives search engine, too. > > > >Posting data in both locations also has its advantages: > >1. More people are likely to see it. > >2. Built-in redundancy gives some insurance that the data will remain > >available. > > > >One would hope we would not need to remind experienced researchers like > >our > >volunteers that *taking* data and presenting it as your own is illegal, > >not > >to mention wrong. > > > >Vivian Price Saffold > >Meriwether County > > > >3570 Hildon Circle > >Chamblee, GA 30341 > > > > > >==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== > >Do you have a suggestion to include in our taglines? If so, please > >write > >GAGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com > > > > > > > > > > > >==== 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 > > > > > > >==== GAGEN Mailing List ==== >This list is for volunteers of the GAGenWeb Project. If you wish to >address only the GAGenWeb Board, send your email to: > <GAGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> > _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

> I personally don't consider AHGP a USGenWeb Project a wannabe. It is > just another repository for information with NO politics, BASIC > guidelines, and NO fighting either! > > > Kim Did I say that? No. I said AGHP or ALHN and other groups who wannabe USGenWeb projects. >>From: Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> >>Reply-To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >>To: GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com >>Subject: RE: [GAGEN] data placement >>Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 02:14:06 -0400 >> >> >>While we're at it - consider AGHP or ALHN and other wannabe USGenWeb >>projects. >> >>Tim >> >>At 02:34 PM 4/9/03 -0400, you wrote: >> >Shall we include the two census projects in here, too and contemplate >> >there are 4 possible places for census files to be on-line? >> > >> >Connie >> >Acc: Heard ------------------------------------------------------via webmail---- Tim Stowell tstowell@chattanooga.net