As any of you may have seen lately many many people are bailing on what once was a great project BEFORE the self ruling advisory board nominated themselves to sainthood and crushed all those of us who put the data on line JUST to help the researchers! MIGenWeb has gone down the toilet, getting worse each year for the last 4, so I pulled Livingston and I was the first county chosen in MIGenWeb so it REALLY hurt when the state coordinator FORCED me out by ridicules lies etc. If you want to read the whole story, go to www.LivGenMI.com I fear as the rules get more oppressive, many will leave. Sadly because of all the fake p.r. out there by the corporate entity that now owns all of Rootsweb and USGenWeb and hosts it only for the millions that it brings in by people clicking on their pay per view sites advertised all over every page. The billions it makes by this more than covers the bandwidth of the remaining old gen project. People do not really understand what is happening and know about the GREAT sites like www.ahgp.org, www.ALHN.org, my MARDOS Memorial Library at www.MemorialLibrary.com and of course our server of choice www.USGenNet.org the first & ONLY 501(c)(3) host for genealogical & historical sites. Pam MARDOS Rietsch -----Original Message----- From: BerrienCo@aol.com [mailto:BerrienCo@aol.com] Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2004 12:09 AM To: MIGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [MIGEN] Berrien County Genealogy IS still online! Greetings Listers, I want everyone to know that I have not taken my jacks and left the playground. While the Berrien County Genealogy Project http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mi/county/berrien/ is no longer affiliated with MIGENWEB or USGENWEB because of it's overzealous grasp on the CCs and web sites we work hard to put out there for genealogists AND because I disagree with that club's forever changing, weakly interpreted by-laws. Additionally, I have NOT discontinued nor abandoned the MIberrie-L mailing list at rootsweb, as indicated by the simultaneous start up of a Berrien County mailing list at Yahoo (connected to my old web site at USGENWEB) and my resignation from USGENWEB. Ask the USGENWEB Michigan State Coordinator, Jan Cortez, MiBerrie-L is still there. She had the sudden urge to join the Berrien-L mailing list (?!)within minutes after I resigned from USGENWEB (why the sudden interest in Berrien?). The Berrien County Genealogy Project is now affiliated with ALHN.org and USGENNET (501(c)(3) non-profit) which are great projects, interested in keeping genealogy FREE. So, to all of you who may be feeling a bit frustrated by your present servers or FOR PROFIT affiliations, come over to the "sunny side" as the song says! from the sandy shores of lake Michigan Brenda R. Sears Berrien County Genealogy Project formerly at USGENWEB http://www.usgennet.org/usa/mi/county/berrien/ miberrie-L@rootsweb.com Southwestmichigan-L@rootsweb.com