This is definitely information not only for the Cassville and Monett papers, but Springfield and Joplin as well. Have any other Missouri counties been recognized with this honor? Thank you, Donna, and core group of workers for making this site what it is. LoVella ----- Original Message ----- From: Donna Cooper To: mobarry@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:24 AM Subject: [MOBARRY] county of the month Good Morning: My thanks to a great group of volunteers who made this possible. See below copy of the newsletter that was in my box this morning. Donna Cooper ------------------------------------- The USGenWeb Project N E W S Volume 5, Number 1 January 2008 You are receiving this Newsletter because you are a member of The USGenWeb Project. Rather Read the NL on-line? http://www.usgenweb.org/~usgw/newsletter/NL-01-2008.shtml Content: Spotlight County of the Month Award - Barry Co., Mo. Project News Other News of Interest Tutorial: Creating County Maps with Google Maps API Links of Interest - Map links Featured Articles: Where to Draw the Line Spot Light County of the Month Award: Barry Co., Mo. (http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/barry.htm) Donna Haddock Cooper. CC Barry Co., Mo. is a shinning example of what the founders of the USGenWeb Project had in mind. The site is filled with information for the Barry Co. Mo. researcher - transcribed and abstracted records, history, photos, maps and much more , all presented in a easy to use, visitor friendly layout. Donna Haddock Cooper's site is outstanding and the Newsletter Committee is pleased and proud to award the County of the Month award to Donna Haddock Cooper and the Barry Co., Mo. site. - - - - - Project News: Page Banners: The Advisory Board is still negotiating with RootsWeb and The Generations Network (Ancestry.com) about the banners TGN wants to put on the Project sites. Election Committee - New Members: The EC has seated its new members and elected its 2008 officers. Shirley Cullum was elected EC Chair and Paula Vaughn as Publicist Secretary Fact Finding Group: Every so often over the years the subject of incorporating the Project pops up. This time the Advisory Board decided to find out if incorporating as a non-profit would benefit the Project or not so they established a Fact Finding Group. The committee's first report can be found at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/BOARD/2007-12/1197467682 Grievance Committee: The Grievance Committee is looking for new members. See: http://archiver rootsweb.com/th/read/BOARD/2007-12/1197267961 for details. Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) membership - 2008: Once again an anonymous donor has paid the Project's membership fees. For the past couple of years the Friends of the USGenWeb Project has had a booth at the FGS annual conference. Newsletter Committee: If you have any news, have a suggestion for a tutorial, etc. please contact the NL editor: editorusgenwebnl@gmail.com - - - - - Other News of Interest: PBS is airing the 2nd part of its African American Lives series in early Feb The previews say ""Once again, this is essential viewing for anyone interested in genealogy, history, or powerful stories of humanity." Information and local viewing times at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/aalives/aal2/ 4th Annual Family History EXPO in St. George, Utah http://www.myancestorsfound.com/events/upcoming.php?event_id=1 Formerly known as the Genealogy and Family Heritage Jamboree this conference/convention probably has the largest attendance of plain, everyday family historians. The past two or three years Project members have hosted a USGenWeb Project booth at the conference and will do so again this year. The Project's booth is always a busy place and each year the volunteers run out of handouts. If you'd like to put together a handout for your state or county here's a page that has helpful hints - http://www.rootsweb com/~usgwpub/index.htm. If you have questions about where to send handouts etc. contact Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com. - - - - - Tutorial: Maps always add interest to our websites but we can't always find a map that fits our needs. When google first introduced their mapping section I was excited and jumped right in to create a map of the cemeteries for my county site. Hours of frustration later I threw up my hands and quit. Now here comes David Crosby and Joy Fisher with a way to quickly and easily generate maps for our sites.Many thanks to Joy for this months tutorial.(editor) Creating County Maps with Google Maps API By Joy Fisher: I created my first Google map from scratch: http://www.sdgenweb.com/union/cemeterymap/countymap.html I started out by going to the Geonames Server and collecting a list of all the cemeteries in their database for Union Co., SD. I carefully converted all the latitude and longitude from degrees, minutes and seconds to decimal degrees. I created a template for adding a map marker for each cemetery, including a link to my cemetery file for that cemetery. Lastly I created a boundary file with the latitude and longitude of all the points that make up the county boundary. The boundary file was generated . (read the full article - http://www.usgenweb.org/newsletter/articles/200801/countymaps shtml ) - - - - - Links of Interest: Map Links: USGenWeb Map Project: Not every state has maps available but it's an excellent resource: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/ 1914 Atlas: Janie found this old atlas and is putting all the maps on line. She is offering them freely to any CC who would like to put one on their site. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~shastaca/maps_index.html Historical map -University of Texas. http://www.lib.utexas edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html. A free site with links to all kinds of maps. Map History / History of Cartography: THE Gateway to the Subject: A free site with a huge number of links to individual maps or sites with lots of maps. http://www.maphistory.info/imageus.html Odden's Bookmarks - The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping. http://oddens geog.uu.nl/index.php. Fascinating is a good description of this site. Links to all kinds of maps and mapping information. Library of Congress: American Memory Map Collections - http://memory.loc gov/ammem/gmdhtml/ Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 - http://memory.loc gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html 1895 U.S. Atlas. http://www.livgenmi.com/1895/. Pam Rietsch has spent the last few years putting this historical atlas on-line. - - - - - Featured Article: Where to Draw the Line? By Everette Carr CC for Attala County, MS (http://www.rootsweb.com/~msattala/ ) and Clay County, MS (http://www.rootsweb.com/~msclay/) As county coordinators for USGenWeb, we have all had to draw a line on how much, if any time, we would devote to doing research for others. Many CC's solve the problem early on by posting a statement to the effect that they do not do any research for other individual researchers/family historians. Few of us have a personal library filled with material for the counties we host. We often have less research material than the average researcher . (read the full article - http://www.usgenweb org/newsletter/articles/200801/drawtheline.shtml ) - - - - - - The USGenWeb Project Newsletter Committee ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Please tell us about your Barry County ancestors. The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (saarisr@sbcglobal.net) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
LoVella: Here is the list of counties at this link who have had this same honor. http://www.usgenweb.org/states/counties.shtml Donna Cooper -------Original Message------- From: mobarry@rootsweb.com Date: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 8:57:14 AM To: mobarry@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [MOBARRY] county of the month This is definitely information not only for the Cassville and Monett papers, but Springfield and Joplin as well. Have any other Missouri counties been recognized with this honor? Thank you, Donna, and core group of workers for making this site what it is. LoVella ----- Original Message ----- From: Donna Cooper To: mobarry@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:24 AM Subject: [MOBARRY] county of the month Good Morning: My thanks to a great group of volunteers who made this possible. See below copy of the newsletter that was in my box this morning. Donna Cooper ------------------------------------- The USGenWeb Project N E W S Volume 5, Number 1 January 2008 You are receiving this Newsletter because you are a member of The USGenWeb Project. Rather Read the NL on-line? http://www.usgenweb.org/~usgw/newsletter/NL-01-2008.shtml Content: Spotlight County of the Month Award - Barry Co., Mo. Project News Other News of Interest Tutorial: Creating County Maps with Google Maps API Links of Interest - Map links Featured Articles: Where to Draw the Line Spot Light County of the Month Award: Barry Co., Mo. (http://www.rootsweb.com/~mobarry/barry.htm) Donna Haddock Cooper. CC Barry Co., Mo. is a shinning example of what the founders of the USGenWeb Project had in mind. The site is filled with information for the Barry Co Mo. researcher - transcribed and abstracted records, history, photos, maps and much more , all presented in a easy to use, visitor friendly layout. Donna Haddock Cooper's site is outstanding and the Newsletter Committee is pleased and proud to award the County of the Month award to Donna Haddock Cooper and the Barry Co., Mo. site. - - - - - Project News: Page Banners: The Advisory Board is still negotiating with RootsWeb and The Generations Network (Ancestry.com) about the banners TGN wants to put on the Project sites. Election Committee - New Members: The EC has seated its new members and elected its 2008 officers. Shirley Cullum was elected EC Chair and Paula Vaughn as Publicist Secretary Fact Finding Group: Every so often over the years the subject of incorporating the Project pops up. This time the Advisory Board decided to find out if incorporating as a non-profit would benefit the Project or not so they established a Fact Finding Group. The committee's first report can be found at: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/BOARD/2007-12/1197467682 Grievance Committee: The Grievance Committee is looking for new members. See: http://archiver rootsweb.com/th/read/BOARD/2007-12/1197267961 for details. Federation of Genealogical Societies (FGS) membership - 2008: Once again an anonymous donor has paid the Project's membership fees. For the past couple of years the Friends of the USGenWeb Project has had a booth at the FGS annual conference. Newsletter Committee: If you have any news, have a suggestion for a tutorial, etc. please contact the NL editor: editorusgenwebnl@gmail.com - - - - - Other News of Interest: PBS is airing the 2nd part of its African American Lives series in early Feb The previews say ""Once again, this is essential viewing for anyone interested in genealogy, history, or powerful stories of humanity." Information and local viewing times at http://www.pbs org/wnet/aalives/aal2/ 4th Annual Family History EXPO in St. George, Utah http://www.myancestorsfound.com/events/upcoming.php?event_id=1 Formerly known as the Genealogy and Family Heritage Jamboree this conference/convention probably has the largest attendance of plain, everyday family historians. The past two or three years Project members have hosted a USGenWeb Project booth at the conference and will do so again this year. The Project's booth is always a busy place and each year the volunteers run out of handouts. If you'd like to put together a handout for your state or county here's a page that has helpful hints - http://www.rootsweb com/~usgwpub/index.htm. If you have questions about where to send handouts etc. contact Joy Fisher sdgenweb@yahoo.com. - - - - - Tutorial: Maps always add interest to our websites but we can't always find a map that fits our needs. When google first introduced their mapping section I was excited and jumped right in to create a map of the cemeteries for my county site. Hours of frustration later I threw up my hands and quit. Now here comes David Crosby and Joy Fisher with a way to quickly and easily generate maps for our sites.Many thanks to Joy for this months tutorial.(editor) Creating County Maps with Google Maps API By Joy Fisher: I created my first Google map from scratch: http://www.sdgenweb.com/union/cemeterymap/countymap.html I started out by going to the Geonames Server and collecting a list of all the cemeteries in their database for Union Co., SD. I carefully converted all the latitude and longitude from degrees, minutes and seconds to decimal degrees. I created a template for adding a map marker for each cemetery, including a link to my cemetery file for that cemetery. Lastly I created a boundary file with the latitude and longitude of all the points that make up the county boundary. The boundary file was generated . (read the full article - http://www.usgenweb.org/newsletter/articles/200801/countymaps shtml ) - - - - - Links of Interest: Map Links: USGenWeb Map Project: Not every state has maps available but it's an excellent resource: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/maps/ 1914 Atlas: Janie found this old atlas and is putting all the maps on line. She is offering them freely to any CC who would like to put one on their site. http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~shastaca/maps_index.html Historical map -University of Texas. http://www.lib.utexas edu/maps/map_sites/hist_sites.html. A free site with links to all kinds of maps. Map History / History of Cartography: THE Gateway to the Subject: A free site with a huge number of links to individual maps or sites with lots of maps. http://www.maphistory.info/imageus.html Odden's Bookmarks - The Fascinating World of Maps and Mapping. http://oddens geog.uu.nl/index.php. Fascinating is a good description of this site. Links to all kinds of maps and mapping information. Library of Congress: American Memory Map Collections - http://memory.loc gov/ammem/gmdhtml/ Railroad Maps, 1828-1900 - http://memory.loc gov/ammem/gmdhtml/rrhtml/rrhome.html 1895 U.S. Atlas. http://www.livgenmi.com/1895/. Pam Rietsch has spent the last few years putting this historical atlas on-line. - - - - - Featured Article: Where to Draw the Line? By Everette Carr CC for Attala County, MS (http://www.rootsweb.com/~msattala/ ) and Clay County, MS (http://www.rootsweb.com/~msclay/) As county coordinators for USGenWeb, we have all had to draw a line on how much, if any time, we would devote to doing research for others. Many CC s solve the problem early on by posting a statement to the effect that they do not do any research for other individual researchers/family historians. Few of us have a personal library filled with material for the counties we host. We often have less research material than the average researcher . (read the full article - http://www.usgenweb org/newsletter/articles/200801/drawtheline.shtml ) - - - - - - The USGenWeb Project Newsletter Committee ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Please tell us about your Barry County ancestors. The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (saarisr@sbcglobal.net) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Please tell us about your Barry County ancestors. The list-admin is Donna Cooper, address - (saarisr@sbcglobal.net) ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to MOBARRY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message .