Linda ³Lin² Ziemann SC Candidate MNGebWeb Greetings to all, I appreciate your time and consideration during this upcoming election for SC of MNGenWeb. A few weeks back I signed on for Rock County MNGenWeb CC. I did so because I wanted to ³make a difference² with that county website. I am working at doing thatand have already sparked an interest apparently in one fellow who is emailing with ³tidbits² of good history for the county! My StoryAs It Goes. Family History has been Lin¹s hobby since young adulthood. Through childhood years, it was Lin¹s delight to sit and listen to her grandparents (both sides of the Tree) tell stories about the ancestors. Both Grandmothers nurtured Lin along by donating wonderful family photos. Lin listened and documented the stories that went along with each picture in her scrapbooks. In the year 2000 Lin began a long and successful journey in locating her Mother¹s birth parents. Her Mother was placed in her adoptive home at the age of 3 weeks old, in the Fall of 1924. Mom¹s birth roots led Lin to search courthouses, cemeteries, libraries in Minnesota and South Dakota, and adding to the ground searches were long hours of deep internet searching! The internet was blossoming and flourishing, which aided in the search process. (Lin FOUND Mom¹s birth mother & father¹s lines. And she met 3 of the four men who were her Mother¹s half-brotherswhich Mom never knew she had!) As a result of the experience that Lin gained researching her Mother¹s birth roots, Lin does volunteer research for others on the internet today. Lots of man hours of research on the web, some ground searching also and telephone calls..all of it exciting progress toward the finish line of finding those elusive ancestors for others!! Also Lin is still doing her own family genealogy research and preserves it for her children and grandchildren. Lin joined the IAGenWeb project in August 2003, becoming CC of Plymouth County, Iowa, her home county. She is also the CC for 3 other Iowa counties, Monona, Sioux, & Kossuth counties. In all four of these Iowa counties, she has been building relationships with local genealogy enthusiast folks, who have become the very best volunteers and contributors of the county history. Lin is also one of the coordinators for the IowaOldPress Special Project with IAGenWeb, being involved with this since its inception. Linda Ziemann became the IAGenWeb State Coordinator for the year beginning July 1, 2010 - June 30, 2011. In January 2012, she became the Acting SC once again (due to medical leave of the SC at that time.) Lin acted as State Coordinator IAGenWeb from January-June 2012. Prior to the SC duty, Lin spent one full year as Assistant SC for IAGenWeb. On December 7, 2012, another IAGenWeb Special Project site was launched with Linda as the Coordinator for ³Iowa in WWII.² Lin¹s Dad (still living today, age 90 and doing very well) was one of Iowa¹s young soldiers who served during WWII, Army ground forces in Italy, France, Belgium & Germany.) Currently Lin is also the CC of two NDGenWeb counties, Mercer County and Oliver County. (My hubby is from North Dakota.) During several of Linda's research trips to Iowa over the past years, Lin has been guest speaker at several different genealogy society meetings. Several years ago Lin served a two-year term on the USGenWeb Election Committee. Now she has volunteered to serve out the second year of another EC term, which ends in Dec 2015. It is because of the recent Election Committee work that Lin realized that MN was reaching out for help. About Me: Married nearly 40 yrs, come May 2015 Three children, all marriedand 7 grandchildren. Lives in Keller, TX, near Ft. Worth. Raised in Iowa, Met my husband in Colorado Hubby is from North Dakota. Lin is RETIRED from the Telephone Company after nearly 30 Yrs. SC MNGenWeb Goals: **To study & learn all I can about the state of MN and its history. In the summer of 2007, I did spend several days in ³the Cities² and visited the Minnesota History Center in St. Paul. What a fabulous placeenjoyed also the library microfilm there, too. Visited Ft. Snelling Natl Cemetery before leaving the area. **To support & work along side the many other MN County Coordinators **To appoint an Assistant SC (at least one, perhaps two) MN has many counties and the assistants would be a second and/or third pair of eyes and hands to get the work done **To keep the MN state pages updated **To do my utmost in recruiting new CCs for ³adoptable² MN counties **To be ³available² for all the daily tasks that the SC duty encounters **To ³lead² discussion regarding the NEEDS of MNGenWebthis could lead to eventual formation of bylaws, rules & procedures. **To ³listen & understand² as issues ariseand to perform the SC duty using honesty & integrity. **To ³be there² for MNGenWeb , helping create a state project site that we can all be proud to be affiliated with now and into the future. Thanks for your consideration and I will be glad to try and answer questions that anyone may want to send my way. And I promise to SUPPORT and WORK DILIGENTLY with MNGenWeb, no matter who becomes SC. ³We are ALL in this Together!² Linda Ziemann Rock County MNGenWeb