Thanks for the insight on how these creatures work :~) Now one other query - you had a conversation going on with someone about leaving research, photos and such to the historical society - perhaps in a will? Having invested years of work, and recently come across many old photos, I would hate to see them in a storage locker somewhere or get tossed after I'm gone (although I guess I wouldn't really "see" it, now, would I?). Web pages come and go . . . the state library or historical society would be a wonderful idea for the original photos and certified copies of recorded documents, newspaper stories and such that I have currently acquired. I am currently scanning all the photos, grouping them by family/generation/name. Then I intend to burn copies of all the CD's and distribute them to all the family I can find!! That way, as many as possible will have what I have so far. Hopefully the bug will bite a couple of them, and they will "play it forward" so to speak. How would I go about leaving my research to either the state library or historical society? Barb Galt, CA -----Original Message----- From: Linda Lambert [mailto:ktlkate@extremezone.com] Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 1:21 PM To: ILEFFING-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [ILEFFING-L] Important --- Re Queries on the Effingham County Genweb Site There are no threaded messages on the Genweb page. They are on the Ancestry/Rootsweb message boards. If you get an answer from a query on the genweb page, it is an email that goes directly to you and does not become part of the Genweb site. That's why so many people use the message boards....the thread is archived there. Linda > -----Original Message----- > From: Barbara Smith [mailto:xsnos@softcom.net] > Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 12:50 PM > To: ILEFFING-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: RE: [ILEFFING-L] Important --- Re Queries on the Effingham County > Genweb Site > > Linda, > > Would the responses to the queries be deleted as well? I have gleaned many > a tip from the threaded messages while searching for my BAILEY relatives. > It's too bad all that information has to be lost. Even if they could be put > on an informational page only - with no links - where a person could do an > "Edit" "Find" search. Sometimes it's just the littlest bit of information > that can open it wide open for someone else. > > Barb > Galt, CA > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linda Lambert [mailto:ktlkate@extremezone.com] > Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 11:48 AM > To: ILEFFING-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [ILEFFING-L] Important --- Re Queries on the Effingham County > Genweb Site > > While I was updating the Effingham County, Illinois Genweb site this morning > (yes, it's still morning in Arizona)...I noticed that it took "forever" to > upload the queries page. I decided that was time to do some necessary > streamlining so that the site worked properly and efficiently. > > > > I ran a little utility program that I have that checks for broken links and > found that a good half of the posts prior to 2000 had bad email addresses. > So..all the queries posted prior to 2000 have been deleted. > > > > That still leaves 5 years of queries on the site. In those 5 years, there > are also many bad email addresses. If you have a posting there, please > check to make sure that the email address is a good one. If not, email me > so that I can update the address. I'll run the utility again at the end of > July. At that time any posting on the queries list with a bad email address > will be removed with no additional warning. > > > > Hope you understand what I'm doing and why... > > > > Linda > > Effingham County Illinois Mailing List Volunteer/Administrator > > Effingham County Illinois GenWeb Site Volunteer/Administrator > > Effingham County Illinois Ancestry/Rootsweb Message Board > Volunteer/Administrator > > > > ==== ILEFFING Mailing List ==== > If you want to subscribe to this list or unsubscribe from it, send e-mail to > ILEFFING-L-request@rootsweb.com or (for the > digest list) ILEFFING-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe or > unsubscribe in the message body. > > > > ==== ILEFFING Mailing List ==== > If you want to subscribe to this list or unsubscribe from it, send e-mail to ILEFFING- > L-request@rootsweb.com or (for the > digest list) ILEFFING-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe or > unsubscribe in the message body. ==== ILEFFING Mailing List ==== If you want to subscribe to this list or unsubscribe from it, send e-mail to ILEFFING-L-request@rootsweb.com or (for the digest list) ILEFFING-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the message body.

I would contact the agency/group that you want to leave them to. Talk to them and see if they are interested in acquiring your data. My suggestion would be to contact the genealogy/historical society where people are most apt to go when they are looking for information. Since my research is pretty well localized to Effingham County, guess where my stuff is going <grin>. Find out what their conditions are. Do the records need to be in a paper or hard copy format? Do they need to be on a CD/DVD? Every location is different because their equipment and resources are different. Work with them so that you can submit your data in a format that they can use. And yes, I definitely would make that part of your will with a specified time frame for this to be accomplished. You don't want your records languishing indefinitely in someone's closet until they "get around to it". Also make your wishes known to your family and the executor of your will. Now, to expound on the message board/Genweb site query/surname differences. Remember I recently posted a message that said the Ancestry/Rootsweb message boards would be "gatewayed" to our mailing list. That means that every message on the message boards (and their responses) will be forwarded to our mailing list. I was trying to come up with a way that we could have the best of both worlds, and I think the gateway will do that, as the message boards archive the thread. The only downside to the Genweb page that I know of is that when an email address for a query or a surname goes bad, the entire query/surname contact ability is gone. You can't respond or contact that person. That's why I delete the queries and the surnames if the email goes bad. I usually find out about it from someone trying to contact them, the email bounces and I get an email asking why it bounced. If you change your email address you absolutely must contact me to have me manually update the information and change the link to the email format that pops up automatically. There's quite a bit that goes on behind the scenes on a Genweb page <grin>. I've been doing this for the Effingham County Genweb since 1997 on a volunteer basis. Goodness! That's 8 years already!!!! My reward is knowing that perhaps I helped someone yesterday....or today...or will help someone tomorrow.... <grin> Linda > -----Original Message----- > From: Barbara Smith [mailto:xsnos@softcom.net] > Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 1:33 PM > To: ILEFFING-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: RE: [ILEFFING-L] Important --- Re Queries on the Effingham County > Genweb Site > > Thanks for the insight on how these creatures work :~) > > Now one other query - you had a conversation going on with someone about > leaving research, photos and such to the historical society - perhaps in a > will? Having invested years of work, and recently come across many old > photos, I would hate to see them in a storage locker somewhere or get tossed > after I'm gone (although I guess I wouldn't really "see" it, now, would I?). > Web pages come and go . . . the state library or historical society would be > a wonderful idea for the original photos and certified copies of recorded > documents, newspaper stories and such that I have currently acquired. > I am currently scanning all the photos, grouping them by > family/generation/name. Then I intend to burn copies of all the CD's and > distribute them to all the family I can find!! That way, as many as > possible will have what I have so far. Hopefully the bug will bite a couple > of them, and they will "play it forward" so to speak. > How would I go about leaving my research to either the state library or > historical society? > > Barb > Galt, CA

Barbara, If there are any pictures or history of business, church or schools, is things that I would be interested in. We here in Effingham are gathering artifacts of the county to be on displayed at the museum that will be in the county courthouse. So that all will be able to see what it was like here in Effingham County. This takes a lot of items to make a display. So if you have anything that could be on displayed we sure would appreciate it. So many of the artifacts have left the county. We have been collecting for the past several years what we could. If you would go on the Effingham Illinois web site [not the genealogy site] you will see the Effingham County and National Road Museum Association. Would appreciate anything that you might want to share with us. Thank you, Kate Keller Bourland katekb@consolidated.net 217-342-3709 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barbara Smith" <xsnos@softcom.net> To: <ILEFFING-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 3:33 PM Subject: RE: [ILEFFING-L] Important --- Re Queries on the Effingham County Genweb Site > Thanks for the insight on how these creatures work :~) > > Now one other query - you had a conversation going on with someone about > leaving research, photos and such to the historical society - perhaps in a > will? Having invested years of work, and recently come across many old > photos, I would hate to see them in a storage locker somewhere or get tossed > after I'm gone (although I guess I wouldn't really "see" it, now, would I?). > Web pages come and go . . . the state library or historical society would be > a wonderful idea for the original photos and certified copies of recorded > documents, newspaper stories and such that I have currently acquired. > I am currently scanning all the photos, grouping them by > family/generation/name. Then I intend to burn copies of all the CD's and > distribute them to all the family I can find!! That way, as many as > possible will have what I have so far. Hopefully the bug will bite a couple > of them, and they will "play it forward" so to speak. > How would I go about leaving my research to either the state library or > historical society? > > Barb > Galt, CA > > -----Original Message----- > From: Linda Lambert [mailto:ktlkate@extremezone.com] > Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 1:21 PM > To: ILEFFING-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: RE: [ILEFFING-L] Important --- Re Queries on the Effingham County > Genweb Site > > There are no threaded messages on the Genweb page. They are on the > Ancestry/Rootsweb message boards. If you get an answer from a query on the > genweb page, it is an email that goes directly to you and does not become > part of the Genweb site. > > That's why so many people use the message boards....the thread is archived > there. > > Linda > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Barbara Smith [mailto:xsnos@softcom.net] > > Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 12:50 PM > > To: ILEFFING-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: RE: [ILEFFING-L] Important --- Re Queries on the Effingham County > > Genweb Site > > > > Linda, > > > > Would the responses to the queries be deleted as well? I have gleaned > many > > a tip from the threaded messages while searching for my BAILEY relatives. > > It's too bad all that information has to be lost. Even if they could be > put > > on an informational page only - with no links - where a person could do an > > "Edit" "Find" search. Sometimes it's just the littlest bit of information > > that can open it wide open for someone else. > > > > Barb > > Galt, CA > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Linda Lambert [mailto:ktlkate@extremezone.com] > > Sent: Sunday, June 26, 2005 11:48 AM > > To: ILEFFING-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [ILEFFING-L] Important --- Re Queries on the Effingham County > > Genweb Site > > > > While I was updating the Effingham County, Illinois Genweb site this > morning > > (yes, it's still morning in Arizona)...I noticed that it took "forever" to > > upload the queries page. I decided that was time to do some necessary > > streamlining so that the site worked properly and efficiently. > > > > > > > > I ran a little utility program that I have that checks for broken links > and > > found that a good half of the posts prior to 2000 had bad email addresses. > > So..all the queries posted prior to 2000 have been deleted. > > > > > > > > That still leaves 5 years of queries on the site. In those 5 years, there > > are also many bad email addresses. If you have a posting there, please > > check to make sure that the email address is a good one. If not, email me > > so that I can update the address. I'll run the utility again at the end > of > > July. At that time any posting on the queries list with a bad email > address > > will be removed with no additional warning. > > > > > > > > Hope you understand what I'm doing and why... > > > > > > > > Linda > > > > Effingham County Illinois Mailing List Volunteer/Administrator > > > > Effingham County Illinois GenWeb Site Volunteer/Administrator > > > > Effingham County Illinois Ancestry/Rootsweb Message Board > > Volunteer/Administrator > > > > > > > > ==== ILEFFING Mailing List ==== > > If you want to subscribe to this list or unsubscribe from it, send e-mail > to > > ILEFFING-L-request@rootsweb.com or (for the > > digest list) ILEFFING-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe or > > unsubscribe in the message body. > > > > > > > > ==== ILEFFING Mailing List ==== > > If you want to subscribe to this list or unsubscribe from it, send e-mail > to ILEFFING- > > L-request@rootsweb.com or (for the > > digest list) ILEFFING-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe or > > unsubscribe in the message body. > > > > ==== ILEFFING Mailing List ==== > If you want to subscribe to this list or unsubscribe from it, send e-mail to > ILEFFING-L-request@rootsweb.com or (for the > digest list) ILEFFING-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe or > unsubscribe in the message body. > > > > ==== ILEFFING Mailing List ==== > If you want to subscribe to this list or unsubscribe from it, send e-mail to ILEFFING-L-request@rootsweb.com or (for the > digest list) ILEFFING-D-request@rootsweb.com and put the word subscribe or > unsubscribe in the message body. > > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. > Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.8.1/28 - Release Date: 6/24/05 >