I had contributed (several years ago) information on the Malin, Dalmazzo, Mendenhall, Johnson families - is that still available on the site or do I need to resend it? I would presume that information contributed to the web site to be used for all would continue to be available. Thank you for all your work. -------------- Original message from KFurBallKell@aol.com: -------------- > > To all concerned; > > I hope I can answer some of your questions and concerns. As Bob Scott > said he did refuse to allow me to use any of his information for the new sites > and for the reason he cited. He does not believe in the GenWeb concept. > > Long before I became a County Coordinator, I was a user of the GenWeb > system, and my feeling about its value are obviously different than his. > > As to why the information on the old site has disappeared, believe me by > no choice of my own. I deliberately linked to what was up for the old sites > as long as it was there and I hope the Hoggatts will choose to put it back for > us all to use. There are rules for Gen Web Coordinators, some of those rules > include, fixing broken links, updating on a regular basis (if for some > reason you cannot do your updates you only have to notify the State Coordinator > and help will be given help to add the all things people send in). I feel the > Hoggatts Jefferson & Switzerland County sites were excellent and I used them > frequently. Yes, I would like to have seen updates but more important to me > was the information they had there for all of us to use. The Hoggatts have > chosen to block their sites, GenWeb or I had nothing to do with that choice. > > I needed two more sites like I need another hole in my head. I know for > at least the nearly two years I have been Coordinator for Jennings County the > State Coordinator had been asking for the Hoggatts to do the maintenance > required. I e mailed Ruth and offered to help in any way I could. The response > was nothing happened. A difficult decision was made by the State Coordinator to > de link the sites from GenWeb because of this non compliance. I had some > choices to make. I love Southern Indiana, my family roots are there, I intend > to retire there. I live in Indianapolis because I have to work because I have > to support my mother and myself. I was offered the sites and because I want > them to be active and informative I took on the challenge. I am not an author, > or a Genealogist. I love family history, Southern Indiana and trying to help > others when I can. I make many research trips a year to the area and take > photographs of old documents which I then transcribe and will add to sites as I > have done in Jennings County. > > I pains me that this has happened, but I personally do not believe in > copyrighting information as has been done on many sites. These people are just > not my family, what each of us have found in doing research may be just the > thing someone else needs to discover theirs. That is what interests me, I was > adopted as an infant and did not discover it until I was in my 30's so finding > ones Roots has many meanings for me. It is fun, challenging and something I > will continue to do as long as I can. Nothing on a site I am connected with > is copyrighted because neither the site or the information on it is "mine" it > is ours, all of us who search and hope to find. > > Here is a quote I have on the main page of the Jennings Site and it pretty > well explains how I feel. Contributing to the Jefferson & Switzerland County > sites is your choice, of course I would love to have anything you are > willing to share but the key word here is share, not keep and refuse to share if > things do not go the way you think they should. > > Thank You and Please read the following; > > Sheila Kell > County Coordinator > Jennings, Jefferson & Switzerland Counties INGenWeb > > > "The Chosen" > We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the > ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the > family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy > is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who > have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. > We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry > out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find > ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost > count. > How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you > would be proud of us.". How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt > somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just > documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do. It goes to > seeing > a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I > can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my > flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our > ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It > goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving > up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to > deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a > nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for > us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, > without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we > can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So > we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because > we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I > tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation > to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family > storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls > those young > and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known > before." > by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann > McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943." > > > > **************Plan your next getaway with AOL Travel. 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