Vivian, you too have made a lot of solutions to the problems which we CCs face and the visitors face when visiting the sites. And I agree with those solutions and could live with that. The county site is usually the first place that a researcher comes to and most of our sites are warm and friendly and inviting to the visitor. We make them feel welcome and those of us who try to share our own memories or others memories of the county and the people allow those visitors to glimpse at what life may have been like growing up there for their relatives and ancestors. With both counties that I maintain I am fortunate that I can do that. Some of the people who subscribe to the mail list are people that I met when attended kindergarten. Some are my own blood relatives..in fact many are as the people in our counties intermarried so much when they came into GA that everybody is related to everybody else if their ancestors were Southerners to begin with. And they moved from state to state and county to county in clusters. This is also my link with my home which I miss very much at times..this keeps it alive for me and keeps the many people alive who are now gone. This has been a labor of love for me and one that I hold very dear to my heart and like a mother with a child I will defend those county sites when I feel anyone is threatening them.. Some said the mail lists was not active when I was being attacked..the mail list is there and there is also the boards which I host and anytime someone sees a message posted one of our subscribed cousins takes hold and does the lookup from the many sources which we have within our lookup library...on the board there are "cousins" who come to anyone's aid when they need it...We are a little community and we welcome people in when they respect us and we never turn anyone away. All messages do not need to be public..there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes in the way of helping people who need lookups and such..so no we don't have a big problem with any of that with either county and most of us have the books, census records, cds and such that if someone has a problem with their pc not being able to read the material we will get that information to them. And I for one would love to be able to place plain text documents on the sites I host for the people who can not view tables...I would gladly do that..the county site allows a personal contact with people which is important. Gloria ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Saffold" <msaffold@bellsouth.net> To: <GAGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 09, 2003 2:16 PM 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 >