I think this is a good idea. I would appreciate any new ideas plus any links that would be helpful to my Sabine Parish researchers. I haven't done much research in LA, but need to for my Furlow, Mayfield, McFaddens. <grin> Gloria ----- Original Message ----- From: "Edward Hayden" <ehayden@sbcglobal.net> To: <LAGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, December 31, 2003 7:01 AM Subject: [LAGENWEB] LAGenWeb Parish websites > Since I MAY have some extra spare time over the rest of this week, I am > going to be visiting all the LAGenWeb sites if possible during that time. I > promise I will not be firing anyone except myself, but I will be looking for > things that I believe will make the sites better. > > So when, if, you receive a message from me pointing out improvements I think > you need to make to your sites to make them better, believe me, I will be > checking my sites against yours and making the same suggestions to myself. > I am definitely not running sites that are any better than anyone else in > this project. Mine are worse than a number of yours. > > So, I am taking this time of the year to review my own sites as I review all > of yours and apply some of what I learn from each to the others. I will > probably look for unique items in your sites and share what I find with all > of us here in the mail list as well. > > I promise not to bombard you all with criticisms, or make you feel bad, it > is just that we probably all need to freshen up our sites and raise them to > a little higher level. > > > By the way, overall, things go very smoothly here at LAGenWeb. I get very > few complaints about any of the sites. I am not "after" anyone, and I doubt > that anyone is doing a worse job of keeping their sites up to date than me, > so I hope that everyone can take my visits in the spirit in which I am, that > is to take this new year as an opportunity to improve the entire look and > value of the project. > > If anyone wants to help by letting us know about neat ideas you are applying > to the project, let us all know here in the mail list. > > Thanks to everyone for another year of contributions to the LAGenWeb > Project! and a Happy New Year to you all from me. > > Edward Hayden > LAGenWeb Project Coordinator >