To Dan, Doris and others: As much as we would like to be able to provide the program info to our members, we are constrained because most of our speakers are presenting their programs as little or no cost to our society. The presentations are the property of the presenter, not D-OGS. As much as we would like to videotape or record the programs for our distant members and posterity, we are really not allowed to do so without explicit permission of the speaker. We have asked many speakers to provide us with handouts or other such materials that we could make available to our members. Several presenters have done this and those materials are available on the bottom of the "members only" portion of our website at http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ncdogs/memberspage/. These materials are not necessarily complete transcripts of the program, but they will give you the gist of the program. Our recording secretaries have done a very good job of providing running notes of the programs in our meeting minutes. These minutes are published in our monthly newsletters. If web-based materials are available, we try to include that info also. I truly wish that we could do more to share with our distant members. Hopefully, those of you that are not local will let us know how we can help. Give us some specific ideas and we will see what we can do. We also hope that you will endeavor to share with us your own personal knowledge of Durham & Orange counties by providing some of your own personal research materials (queries, family histories, family trees, oral histories & traditions, etc.) for reprint in our journal and newsletter. As editor of the newsletter, I can assure you that I am ALWAYS looking for pertinent materials to include for all to see. I know the same is true for the journal editors, Cathy & Rob Elias. Many genealogical & historical societies are dropping by the wayside. Many of the ones that remain no longer have ANY regular publications for their members. We can continue to have a newsletter & journal only with the continued cooperation of ALL our members. - Richard Doris Saunders wrote: > Thanks Dan for asking for meeting info to be provided for those members (me included) who live too far away to attend. Doris Saunders> From: [email protected]> Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2008 20:01:20 -0400> To: [email protected]> Subject: [NCDOGS] D-OGS Meeting Reminder, Wednesday, 2 July 2008, "The Professiona...> > Unfortunately, I won't be able to attend this meeting. I wish that you had a > program whereby you would either video tape or record on a cassette or CD > these meetings so that those of us who can't attend could either borrow or > purchase a copy. That way we could still obtain the valuable information provided.> > -- Dan Durham> Lacey, Washington> > > **************> Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos > for fuel-efficient used cars.> > (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007)> *************************> Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/> Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~n cd! > ogs/memquery.html> > -------------------------------> 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 > _________________________________________________________________ > Introducing Live Search cashback . It's search that pays you back! > http://search.live.com/cashback/?&pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=introsrchcashback > ************************* > Visit the D-OGS web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/ > Please post all queries using the D-OGS query form: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ncdogs/memquery.html > > ------------------------------- > 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 -- =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= Richard K. Ellington ITS Facilities Manager Information Technology Services University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 440 W. Franklin St., CB 1150 Chapel Hill, NC 27599-1150 Control Center - http://control-center.unc.edu 919-698-8591 (voice) 919-843-9153 (fax) [email protected] "We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire...Give us the tools and we will finish the job". -Winston Churchill =+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=