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. Check out Today's Hot 5 Travel Deals! (http://travel.aol.com/discount-travel?ncid=emlcntustrav00000001)

Sheila, Well said. Thanks for your comments. Ed Hill -----Original Message----- From: KFurBallKell@aol.com [mailto:KFurBallKell@aol.com] Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 7:00 PM To: inswitze@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [INSWITZE] Jefferson and Switzerland County GenWeb sites 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. Check out Today's Hot 5 Travel Deals! (http://travel.aol.com/discount-travel?ncid=emlcntustrav00000001) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to INSWITZE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message