Many of you may notice that a new coordinator has been apponted for both the Switzerland and Jefferson County GenWeb sites. I've told her I will not contribute new information, nor will I offer my stuff that was posted on the old sites, to GenWeb. This has nothing to do with the coordinator, who seems enthusiastic. It's just I don't believe in the GenWeb system and haven't believed in it for a long. I've been through changes like this before with other sites in which I have contributed a lot of material and some in which I have contributed nothing. An old site has a lot of info--then a new coordinator is named and the great content vanishes. I simply believe the volunteer system doesn't work. The issue is continuity and volunteer sites simply can't guarantee that once posted, info will remain available. The other thing is consistency. We labored long and hard to get information on these sites. But so many times when I visited GenWeb sites for counties I am interested in, there's simply little available. This is disheartening. I'm hoping maybe that between the growing amount of content available on the Jefferson County Historical Society and Madison Public Library sites that some of this information can be provided again. And as bad the quality control is sometimes, lousy policies and lack of good customer service, Ancestry.com is worth the money simply because it has the resources to provide a lot of content (No matter how stupid their new family tree system is. I started putting up all my families in Gedcoms and had about 20 up. After I found moving them to the new tree system lost all the notes and supporting information, I delete all but two of them.) Again, this has nothing to do with the people--the coordinators--but about what I see as a better chance to have information made available and remain available Bob