At 01:47 PM 11/8/2002 -0600, Jacquie Schattner <eatatfreds@attbi.com> wrote: >I wanted to let you know that I had alot of luck with the Bureau County Genealogy society.... the Bureau County has a great deal of information and a genealogy corner (room) at I think it's the Princeton Library - and they have researchers who will do look ups for members who live away... A point of information: The Bureau County Genealogical Society has moved its collection from the Matson library to its "new" building up the street a short ways. The information about the BCGS collection on the Bureau County GenWeb site is out of date. See the BCGS's web site for accurate information (<http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilbcgs/> and more specifically <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7eilbcgs/page11.html>). Rollie

--=======44A22B07======= Content-Type: text/plain; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-5AF45E4D; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I'm going to assume that since only a handful of people have bothered to contact me regarding the update to the Henry Co ILGenWeb Project site that I could have just skipped this three weeks of work and been doing something else.....like my own genealogy maybe?? I asked for people to submit their bios, obits, photos, etc. while I was doing the update--you know how many I got? I got ONE obit and two family group sheets....and bless one man who sent me a CD of photos he had previously submitted because when my computer blew up in 2001 it ate them after I found his email and contacted him directly. I asked for people to contact me if their email was wrong--a few did and I thank them for that. I asked for people to check the lookup list and see if there was some book they could offer to do lookups in because I was having to remove myself as the volunteer for several due to other projects. Where are all the volunteers??? There sure are a lot of folks who WANT a lookup, but not very many who want to DO a lookup. I had to remove three people as volunteers because their email addresses were not any good. I did get some email addresses fixed on there but after I removed myself as doing the bulk of the lookups, it is now pretty slim pickings. Volunteering to do lookups on the LIST is NOT THE SAME as signing up as a volunteer for the PAGE. If you are going to do lookups for the website, you need to notify me VIA EMAIL that you want to be on the Lookup volunteer list. I was sort of chastised for not having one lady listed on the list who has apparently been doing lookups on the list for some time---I went through all my email and there was nothing in it telling me to add this lady to the PAGE list. Then I went back through the list and discovered a discussion about another project to a project around the 1877 History of Henry Co Taxpayers and Voters when there is already such a project going on via the website. I asked the folks who were on the original volunteer sign up page to contact me if they were still interested--one did. So I have removed the list, will blank it out and repost it. I've done some of it myself over the past few days... The only project that I've been notified of and have participated in is Dave Blishs database project where he is extracting data from bios and other sources and building a Henry Co database which I think is FABULOUS and look forward to seeing. My question is this....Do you people even LOOK at the website to see what projects are going on there or what you could submit to help other researchers? A lot of folks are not ON the list--they use the website only. Granted in the past year or so I have been pretty slack on working on the website due to family matters, but I just worked my butt off for three straight weeks adding new data, making navigation more simple, trying to give you guys a good place to research and nobody even seems to have bothered to LOOK. (I have a counter, I can tell how many folks visit--I can also tell what they search for...) Even after I posted that I had just uploaded a major upgrade to the site and specifically asked people to check their email addresses on the pages, etc. It's not even HARD to check to see if your email is right or wrong...put your name in the search engine...if you find yourself, go to that page and make sure the email is right. Off my soapbox now... The list owner AND the county coordinator .... That's the only thing that's the same about both sites... --=======44A22B07======= Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; x-avg=cert; x-avg-checked=avg-ok-5AF45E4D Content-Disposition: inline --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.449 / Virus Database: 251 - Release Date: 1/27/2003 --=======44A22B07=======--