-----Original Message----- From: Don Tharp <det@fn.net> To: USGENWEB-ALL-L@rootsweb.com <USGENWEB-ALL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Thursday, June 10, 1999 2:17 PM Subject: Re: [USGENWEB-ALL-L] Improving Our Ability to Serve the Public >At 02:22 PM 06/10/99 -0500, you wrote: > ><BIG SNIP> > > >>>These "county cluster" resources are not a replacement for the USGenWeb >>>county pages. There is no intention to provide the type of information >>>that USGenWeb provides such as addresses of libraries, addresses of court >>>houses, locations of cemeteries, etc. It will not provide assistance in >>>locating reference material for the county. It will simply provide a single >>>point of entry to ROOTSWEB resources. > >The above paragraph says it all. Your county web site has been reduced to >providing addresses and locations. Every bit of the information mentioned >above can be put on one state home page and save the researcher a great deal >of time. Your web site will no longer be needed except as a link to rootsweb >and a plea for money. > >If the present trend continues, i.e., taking material off the county web >sites and putting them on national pages, why would a researcher visit your >page, maybe once, but not twice. Do you really want to waste your time >maintaining a web site just for that? Or, do you wish to take back your >counties importance to USGW and the researchers? How, by putting surnames, >queries, raw material on your web sites. Yes, more work for you, but we >didn't join this organization for convenience. > >We developed our web sites so that researchers seeking information could >find the information on our county pages. I was never told that links to >rootsweb were all that would be needed on our web sites. > >Don >det@fn.net > >> > > >==== USGENWEB-ALL Mailing List ==== >The USGenWeb Project is not a commercial project. >