-----Original Message----- From: Dr. Brian Leverich <leverich@rootsweb.com> To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com <STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, June 09, 1999 8:52 PM Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] Improving Our Ability to Serve the Public > > >One of the things about life is you either keep improving or you >become a corpse standing on your feet. > >That's true for RootsWeb, and it's equally true for USGenWeb. Since >USGenWeb was founded, many other organizations have sprung up that >partially or wholly attempt to clone USGenWeb's content: ALHN, >GenExchange, Broderbund's GenForum, Ancestry, Randall Haight's >genweb.net, ... > >If USGenWeb is going to stay the premier geographically-oriented >genealogy project, one of the things it's going to need to do is >continuously improve the range and quality of services it provides >to the genealogical community. > >In tonight's RootsWeb Review, RootsWeb is announcing "County >Resource" pages for every county in America. The pages include or >will include links to USGenWeb sites on RootsWeb, a mailing list, a >GenConnect suite, a link registry, search engines for the USGenWeb >Archives and the RSL, an event calendar, a guestbook, and various >other tools. > >You can see the County Resources at: > http://resources.rootsweb.com/USA/ > >We expect to be adding tools to the Resource pages as rapidly as we >can. There will surely be a Social Security Death Index search and >some other nice features coming on line in the not-to-distant future. > > ### > >So isn't this just another competitor for USGenWeb? > > ==> Not at all. <== > >While we're still working out the details, RootsWeb's intent is to >put each County Resource page and all the resources on them at the >disposal of the appropriate USGenWeb County Coordinator. CCs can >link to the pages, or they can borrow the HTML from the pages and >incorporate the tools directly into their own pages. How (or even >if) you administer those resources is largely your own choice. > >That's your own choice. The tools are there if you want them. And >there will be more and better tools available to you as time goes on. > >Speaking personally, I hope most folks choose to use the tools. >USGenWeb is one of the two most impressive projects I've ever seen >unfold on the Internet (the development of Linux is the other ... ), >and I would very much like to see USGenWeb stay on the cutting edge >of technology and provide better services to genealogists than any >of its imitators. 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 >