Carol C-H wrote: > > Cousins - > > Many of you have recently joined us - I hope you are having lots of success > finding your ancestors and cousins!! Everybody, PLEASE POST (or re-post) > YOUR LINES - with this many new cousins, surely we will find connections. > This list will not help us, unless we post!! > > For the benefit of new members, and as a reminder to those of us who have > been here a while: > Do NOT send Flames (criticisms) to the list. > Do NOT send Attachments to the list. > Do NOT send Virus Warnings to the list. > Do NOT send Chain Letters to the list. > > This message (below) was sent from Brian at RootsWeb to listowners last week > - with his permission, I am sharing it with you. Brian and Karen, who work > regular jobs and run RootsWeb in their time off, as volunteers (using money > from their own pockets to keep it going, when that is needed), spent nights > these past few weeks taking turns keeping the computers going during all the > horrible weather in California We owe them our heartfelt thanks and our > support - without them, we would not have these lists and all the other > genealogical resources at RootsWeb. Please help in any way you can - and if > you have ideas for other avenues of financial support for RootsWeb, PLEASE > contact Brian and Karen directly. Brian's e-address is on the bottom of his > post - Karen's is KAREN@rand.org. > > ***************************************************************** > Hi all - > > This is a question that was posed in private e-mail by a member of > the RootsWeb Webmaster/Listowner community. I'm passing along the > question and my answer to everyone because other folks might be > wondering about this. Cheers, B. > > -- Your message was: > > > Brian Leverich wrote: > > > > > The new search engine box is under construction on my bench now. I > > > can't accurately predict to the day, but if we don't have any > > > further serious disruptions (the power failures last week were sort > > > of the disruptions from Hell ... ) I expect we'll have searches up > > > within a week. > > > > > > What's the cost of something like this? > > > > I would like to make a contribution to RootsWeb and designate it toward the > > cost of the new search engine box. > > > > I realize it's not just a matter of money and that your time is also hard > > to come by. I hope my post about the search engine wasn't taken as > > impatience or ungratefulness. > > ------------------ > > Hi - > > The prebuilt VArServer 3000 we have on order from VA Research will > cost us $13,500. > > That server is planned to be used as the upgrade to the current > www.rootsweb.com server. The old www.rootsweb.com will replace the > current mailhub.rootsweb.com, which in turn will become a dedicated > DNS/MX server: nothing ever goes to waste at RootsWeb. (: > > The handbuilt search engine server, which is slightly larger/faster > than the VArServer 3000, has cost us about: > > Server case & heavy duty power supply $ 500.00 > Motherboard $ 500.00 > Pentium Pro 200 CPUs w 512KB caches[2] $ 1,000.00 > 128 MB EDO SIMMs[8] $ 3,200.00 > RAID-5 caching disk controller $ 1,800.00 > Seagate Barracuda 9 GB ultrawide SCSI drives[5] $ 4,500.00 > Tape backup $ 500.00 > IDE 4GB system drive $ 200.00 > 3COM 3C900 100Mb ethernet adapter $ 100.00 > Video board $ 100.00 > CDROM drive $ 100.00 > Keyboard & mouse $ 100.00 > Misc cables, mounting brackets, & such $ 100.00 > ---------- > $12,700.00 > > Any contribution you can make would, of course, be much appreciated. > > BTW, and folks don't often realize this, it really is *much* more a > matter of money than my time because money can easily substitute for > my time. VA Research servers cost about 15-20% more than the > machines I can handbuild, but buying preconfigured machines saves > oodles of my time. If RootsWeb ran at less of a loss, we'd always > be buying prebuilt servers and using my time that was freed up to do > more useful things like getting whizzier cgi-bin tools set up for > the Webmasters and Listowners. Cheers, B. > > -- > Dr. Brian Leverich Co-moderator, soc.genealogy.methods/GENMTD-L > RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative http://www.rootsweb.com/ > P.O. Box 6798, Frazier Park, CA 93222-6798 leverich@rootsweb.com > > Carol C-H <cch@netdoor.com> proud sponsor of RootsWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/ > To subscribe to Larry Stephens' Regional lists, including DEEP-SOUTH-ROOTS > and NC-SC-ROOTS, go to http://php.indiana.edu/~stephenl/genealog.htm > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~REMEMBER MAISER - FIGHT SPAM!!~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ==== HEAD Mailing List ==== > List problems? Contact the HEAD listowner <cch@netdoor.com> To repost my information,even tho it is VERY limited... Mary or Nancy Head,b.1816 England(unfortunately I don't know her parents name)....she married Ephriam Baker,b 1815 Rochester,Vermont children that I'm aware of: George Baker, Sarah Louise (Baker)Whitney... Clarence Edward Baker, and Morris Cutler Baker. George Baker married Carrie (Stewart)Moge/Mogue.(recently widowed.) child born was child of George Moge/Mogue who died before child's birth....Named..Frances Louise Moge/Mogue,b 9/1878 Clarence Edward Baker married step-sister Frances Louise Moge/Mogue when she was 17 yrs old...(he was 25 years older than she was.) children were Nancy(Baker)Tingley,b 1896 and Russell Head Baker b.1898/99. Frances Louise (Mogue)Baker later married Walter J. Guynes (these are my grandparents)they were married in or around 1915/1916, as my dad was born Sept.1916 Morris Cutler Baker married Elsie Newman,from South Dakota I am looking for any information that will connect Mary/Nancy Head to her Parents...brothers,sisters, just what ever info I can get will be greatly appreciated. JudyAnn (Guynes) Lairson jlairson@swbell.net