I joined the project in the summer of 1996 - adopting the county where I live, where my parents and wife were from or associated with. Since my only computer, at the time, was at work, learning HTML as part of my job, learning about lists I was finally able to put pages up in the fall of 1996. I've been doing genealogy since 1977, when I finally became curious enough to determine how all these relatives my parents would speak of were connected. Of course the Internet and it's continually growing assets were a boon to help make those connections. By that time though except for a connections made with relatives through the Internet, I was mostly done, or so I thought with my on family tree. Three of my previous generations had collected newspaper articles, pasted them in books and scrapbooks, so it seemed only right to share such with others. Thus in Minnesota I host Wilkin (wife from there) since 1996; Yellow Medicine (mother-in-law) since 2003; Traverse (sister-in-law) since 2014. I served as National Coordinator from 1999-2001, SC for North Dakota 1996-2003?, SC for Georgia 1999-2003?, ASC for Georgia around 1998-1999. It's been a while so I'm not sure of the ending dates. In other states I host the following counties - Tennessee (live there) - Hamilton and James (defunct county) both since 1996; New York (Dad from there) - Chenango & Madison (1996); Cortland & Sullivan (2005) and NYCentra (a links page for NYGenWeb for the central part of the state). I manage the mailing lists for 4 counties in MN, 3 in NY and 2 in TN that are associated with the counties I host. I host counties for ALHN and AHGP plus my own private sites, mostly for extra data I've picked up along the way and for counties I lost after a round of unpleasantness with the folks on the national level ten years ago. Short term goals - continuing to improve the status of the sites as they existed when the NC stepped in, campaign on the various lists for coordinators for the orphan counties. Listen to all the coordinator's wishes for our joint effort, keep communication lines open. Encourage coordinators, provide tools, data, assistance as requested. Long term goals - to make MNGenWeb a shining example of what the founder envisioned for the project nearly 20 years ago, yet moving forward to embrace new technologies while protecting the rights of all. Tim Stowell On Wed, Feb 4, 2015 at 1:11 PM, Mike Peterson via <[email protected]> wrote: > To the candidates: You may not have to post anything but it sure would be > great to see a post as to your long-term and short-term goals for MNGenWeb. > Also, a little background on your experience(s) with XXGenWeb. > Mike > Clay Co