Hello Mike and Greetings All: Your view on this is the correct one in my judgment. Every state in the USGenWeb has county sites that are largely abandoned or updated on a very infrequent basis. Part of this is the SCs that simply do not respond to emails, such as from myself or other interested people. The result is the sites that are seemingly never adopted and left to languish for years! This of course only dissuades researchers and other interested people to look elsewhere. Also, when a site is adopted, most sites are never fully reviewed by the new CC. A few pages are added here and there, a name and date are changed, and dead links and other site content are ignored. I import my sites into a new application which results in every page, every link, every graphic, and all text being looked at. Regarding my sites in the other state genwebs; most of the sites I took over were either abandoned or not updated for 5 plus years. Two of the sites had inappropriate content in terms of personal resumes, a crude on-line store, personal letters, inappropriate graphics, links to porn sites that were in these two sites for over 5 years. What message does this send to any site visitor or researcher? Obviously, the CC never looked at any of the previous and existing content. I think the county sites should be reviewed by the SC and if the CC is overwhelmed or cannot continue, then its just best to give up the site. Volunteering to be a CC gives most anyone a very unique and rewarding opportunity to directly preserve and promote history and genealogy, all from the comfort of your home or office! Thats my 2 cents worth. Joe Mike St. Clair/ST wrote: > You all know I have been in the process of evaluating counties whose coordinators have been missing in action. This month I will be announcing several more counties that will become adoptable. Of that group, I have chosen to appoint myself the coordinator of the county that seems to have the least to offer visiting researchers at this time - Madison County. I will be working to build up the value of the Madison County website, but will be open to stepping aside for an enthusiastic volunteer who has a stronger personal connection with the county or other motivation to turn it from what looks to me like the "poorest cousin" in IDGENWEB at present, to something of real value to researchers. I will be taking on Madison County effective immediately, after having received no response to attempted contacts with the former coordinator, including roll calls, and finding that nothing has been done there for many years. > > I invite and encourage you all to speak up if you ever feel I am stepping out of line in any of my State Coordinator actions. My only desire is to make this project more useful to the researchers and more rewarding to the coordinators. I greatly appreciate the many of you who are actively working on your websites. Thank you for your efforts. Do let me know if there is anything I can do to help you. > > Mike St. Clair > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to IDGEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >