-----Original Message----- From: Pat Hamp <hamp@voyager.net> To: Hamp, Pat <hamp@voyager.net> Date: Thursday, June 10, 1999 10:37 AM Subject: USGW-CC-L: Rootsweb "and" USGenWeb >We have all had the option of using Rootsweb for our pages or going to >another server to put our pages up. The statement that the queries >belong to the poster is correct, whether they are on the county page or >on GenConnect. We have also had a choice in that. > >My reasoning behind my county sites has been to make them accessible to >the people who will be using them, and make them as user friendly as >possible. Thus I have stayed with Rootsweb and used GenConnect for the >counties I "coordinate" or "manage" (not own) due to the search >possibilities that Rootsweb offers vs. other sites that offer, little if >any at all. > >My problem with this situation is the lack of communication between >Rootsweb and USGenWeb and I think there may be some valid reasons for >this. Mainly, that everytime Rootsweb tries to implement a new resource >on "their" servers, many USGenWeb people have slammed them with >negativity and "conspiracy theories". Thus it is the USGenWeb board's >responsiblity to keep communication lines open since the USGenWeb >project is generating the negativity and also getting "free" space to do >it. > >There has been an announcement that some of the links are not in place >yet on the cluster pages, etc. and are being worked on. > >Advertising on our sites, the archive pages, and cluster pages: There >are none on the county sites unless a coordinator has "chosen" to place >the HTML coding to get them. The archive pages: There is one banner >which is not blasting "buy me." They are mainly to the sponsored pages >on rootsweb and are not blatant ads. In order for USGenWeb to have space >on any server I am we will have to pay a price and as far as I've seen >on the free servers Rootsebs is the least intrusive and their links all >have to do with genealogy and many of the ads point to a free resource. >The cluster pages are only pages leading to sources on Rootsweb with >county resources. They are also asking people to submit resources to >USGenWebs archives on those pages. > >If all the negativity that is being blasted at Rootsweb right now was >channelled into making USGenWeb better we would have the best of the >best resources to do genealogy by geographical areas. > >Now excuse me while I unsub from a few lists that are tearing down >instead of building up, as I don't have time to delete everything and >make my sites more user friendly. > >Pat Hamp ><hamp@voyager.net> >-- AOL Messenger: "downbound2" -- to chat >Houghton Co., MI USGenWeb <http://www.rootsweb.com/~mihought> >Keweenaw Co., Mi USGenWeb <http://www.rootsweb.com/~mikeween> >Gratiot Co., MI USGenWeb <http://www.rootsweb.com/~migratio/index1.html> > >G.L. Shipping Genealogy-Downward Bound ><http://www.rootsweb.com/~migls/index.html> >AUGER Family Surname Assoc. <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~augerfsa/> >BURNHAM Surname <http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~hamp/index.html> > >