It was almost two years ago when I first noticed that Clay County was not being enhanced and date references were very old. So I wrote the SC and ASC to see if it was up for adoption. If I remember right I wrote to one address each. Several weeks went by and no response. I started looking around the state and noticed there were several counties that had not been updated, contained dead links galore, and if there were dates they were old. That wasn’t true for all of them as I noticed some sharp looking sites with lots of data. So I wrote again and this time I used, it seems, four or five email addresses. Again, after several weeks no response. I regret very much that I did not inform national people of this. Things may have recovered more easily if this was brought to someone’s attention earlier. A mistake by me. On one hand I was sorry I did not get a county where my wife’s folks were from and where I grew up across the river. But on the other I was somewhat glad I couldn’t get involved with a state and with many many counties that really didn’t seem to care. Eventually, and thanks to Kermit, the word got out that something was amiss. I looked at what was being done and who was being involved in getting it right and so I decided to volunteer again. Since that day in November over 200 pages have been added or updated and much redesign done. Along with that I had two other counties. I bring all this up because it appeared that in addition to people just ignoring there were many sites with the same coordinator and many familiar names in various places in USGenWeb and I often wondered how people managed to enhance a website regularly when they were cc’s for several places. I’m retired. I take much time out for travel. Yet, it takes a lot of time to keep just three counties going. Obviously the closer I got to it I realized much wasn’t getting done and my guess would be they had so much to handle. Much should be said for being a volunteer, there are so many I admire, but when a volunteer has all these other functions to do, eventually nothing gets done. There has been a lot done in the past three months and lo and behold some of the sites that were inactive were starting to get active again or at least the dates on the sites were being updated. I’m grateful for that and I’m grateful to Denise and Shirley and others for their knowledge, their gumption, for their forward looking attitudes, and for a desire to get done what needed to get done for all of us to get moving. I’m grateful to you Shirley for your part in trying to make Minnesota shine, for your time, for your patience, and for being a volunteer that has not only been in the process of helping but in leading without a whole lot of authority but with a desire to try and get it done anyway. And, to get at it even in some times when a serious medical problem occurs in your family and you needed to spend time with that issue. Thank you. No matter where this goes, you are a plus plus for MNGen. We don’t have a whole lot of voters in Minnesota, YET, but those who are members I sure hope you get out and vote. 100% would sure show a lot about attitudes in Minnesota and would be super great. Sincerely, Mike Clay Co From: Shirley Cullum via Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 12:36 PM To: Colleen ; List MNGenWeb Subject: Re: [MNGEN] Runoff SC Question Questions should have been asked before the run-off election time period. However, I feel that I am the best choice for the MN SC position because I am a firm believer in the USGenWeb Project and for it's purpose as intended by the founders. The state projects are extensions of the parent project and should reflect that purpose. I feel that the MNGenWeb is on the road to a great future and I sincerely want to help make the MNGenWeb Project one of the best state projects in the USGenWeb. Shirley On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Colleen via <[email protected]> wrote: > Shirley and Tim, > > Why are you the best choice for SC of Minnesota? > > Colleen > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Mike, I am one who has taken on several Counties in several States but each and everyone of them I have ties to except one, well at least when I took it I had no clue I had ties there! While I have updated and placed info on 20 FLGenWeb Counties, only 5 of them are mine, the rest I am just babysitting until we can find a CC for them. I have found it is so much easier to find a CC for a county that has been updated and put into a format that is easy for someone else to carry on with! When I get one udated, have added a few documents and such, found a couple of people who while they do not want the responsibility for the site, but are willing to help by doing transcriptions, taking cemetery photos and doing look ups, I move on to the next county needing help! The five that are mine, one there is little else to add to it since the wonderful gentleman I inherited it from was a county clerk employee and spearheaded a project to get all the county records from its inception in 1824 to 1940 indexed and transcribed and placed on the website! I have placed a few family history narrratives, updated some cemeteries, one is the youngest county in Florida and is very rural with a very small population! Besides a couple of groceries, 3 convenience stores and the State Prison there isn;t much there. The population of the prison is about equal with the population of the rest of the county. I put what I can there, it is a farming community for the most part. the other three counties are my home county and its two children, of which I am adding information weekly. Again the county I have in Georgia, is very rural and the youngest county in the state, and there again not a lot there, but I do the best I can. The County I have in Illinois is where my husband was born and I took it on as a favor to the local newspaper owner, my husband and the local genealogy society, so I have lots of help there! The county in New Jersey I took as a favor to Denise Wells the SC and our current NC, she had been trying to adopt it out for a couple of years to no avail, so I said I would at least get it updated and try to find some new stuff to put on it! Lo and behold while updating it I fount the 7th Great g-pa I had been seeking for 10 yrs! I had absoluetly no clue the family had originated in Cape May County NJ or that Dennis Twp was named for him. Denise asked if I would help by taking a MN County just to get it updated and sit it til a local coordinator could be found. I said yes, but only if LeSeur or Nicollet was available as I had a great great aunt who settled there with her family in the 1850's and I had a few things I could place on it from my own files Well as luck would have it, at the time Nicollet was available so here I am. As I am pretty much confined to a recliner with legs propped and don;t get out a lot because of bad legs I have the time to devote to them, but I am getting spread thin and will not be taking on anymore sites anywhere until I get a few adopted out! I do not plan to be a permanent fixture here in MNGenWeb, I hope within the next 12 to 18 mo or sooner to find someone to take it over as I do not have either the contacts or the resources to do it full justice. In the mean time I will just plug away and do the best that I can! Florida is my home, has been all my life but 6 yrs, and I am the 7th gen of my family born and raised here, so that is where my true passion lies. Laverne On 2/26/2015 10:15 PM, Mike (Dino) Peterson via wrote: > It was almost two years ago when I first noticed that Clay County was not being enhanced and date references were very old. So I wrote the SC and ASC to see if it was up for adoption. If I remember right I wrote to one address each. Several weeks went by and no response. I started looking around the state and noticed there were several counties that had not been updated, contained dead links galore, and if there were dates they were old. That wasn’t true for all of them as I noticed some sharp looking sites with lots of data. So I wrote again and this time I used, it seems, four or five email addresses. Again, after several weeks no response. I regret very much that I did not inform national people of this. Things may have recovered more easily if this was brought to someone’s attention earlier. A mistake by me. On one hand I was sorry I did not get a county where my wife’s folks were from and where I grew up across the river. But on the other I was somewhat glad I c! ouldn’t get involved with a state and with many many counties that really didn’t seem to care. Eventually, and thanks to Kermit, the word got out that something was amiss. I looked at what was being done and who was being involved in getting it right and so I decided to volunteer again. Since that day in November over 200 pages have been added or updated and much redesign done. Along with that I had two other counties. I bring all this up because it appeared that in addition to people just ignoring there were many sites with the same coordinator and many familiar names in various places in USGenWeb and I often wondered how people managed to enhance a website regularly when they were cc’s for several places. I’m retired. I take much time out for travel. Yet, it takes a lot of time to keep just three counties going. Obviously the closer I got to it I realized much wasn’t getting done and my guess would be they had so much to handle. Much should be said for being a ! volunteer, there are so many I admire, but when a volunteer ha! s all th ese other functions to do, eventually nothing gets done. There has been a lot done in the past three months and lo and behold some of the sites that were inactive were starting to get active again or at least the dates on the sites were being updated. I’m grateful for that and I’m grateful to Denise and Shirley and others for their knowledge, their gumption, for their forward looking attitudes, and for a desire to get done what needed to get done for all of us to get moving. I’m grateful to you Shirley for your part in trying to make Minnesota shine, for your time, for your patience, and for being a volunteer that has not only been in the process of helping but in leading without a whole lot of authority but with a desire to try and get it done anyway. And, to get at it even in some times when a serious medical problem occurs in your family and you needed to spend time with that issue. Thank you. No matter where this goes, you are a plus plus for MNGen. We don’t hav! e a whole lot of voters in Minnesota, YET, but those who are members I sure hope you get out and vote. 100% would sure show a lot about attitudes in Minnesota and would be super great. > Sincerely, > Mike > Clay Co > > From: Shirley Cullum via > Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 12:36 PM > To: Colleen ; List MNGenWeb > Subject: Re: [MNGEN] Runoff SC Question > > Questions should have been asked before the run-off election time period. > However, I feel that I am the best choice for the MN SC position because I > am a firm believer in the USGenWeb Project and for it's purpose as intended > by the founders. The state projects are extensions of the parent project > and should reflect that purpose. I feel that the MNGenWeb is on the road to > a great future and I sincerely want to help make the MNGenWeb Project one > of the best state projects in the USGenWeb. > > Shirley > > On Thu, Feb 26, 2015 at 1:35 PM, Colleen via <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Shirley and Tim, >> >> Why are you the best choice for SC of Minnesota? >> >> Colleen >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes >> in the subject and the body of the message >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message