I note the following from the Eastman's article: "Several years ago I spent several days working in a genealogy society's booth at the Eastern States Exposition, an event locally referred to as "The Big E." This Exposition is similar to a state fair, except that it covers all six New England states. It was an eye-opening experience. More than one million people attended this 17-day event, and an estimated 750,000 of those people walked by the genealogy booth where I worked. To be sure, not all of the attendees stopped to talk, but thousands did. Yes, thousands. I think we (the society) talked with more people at this one 17-day event than we do the rest of the year at all the genealogy events combined." Perhaps D-OGS should consider having a booth at the upcoming Durham CenterFest? Perhaps a coalition of D-OGS and the other local historical societies should consider a booth at the state fair? jeff -----Original Message----- >From: Richard Ellington <[email protected]> >Sent: Aug 26, 2008 9:49 AM >To: D-OGS closed list <[email protected]> >Subject: [NCDOGS] Eastman Genealogical Newsletter article > >There is an excellent article in Dick Eastman's newsletter today. The >title of the article is Expanding the Reach of Genealogical Societies >and Conferences". You can read it at: > >http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2008/08/expanding-the-r.html > >He discusses the functions and forms of societies; how they grew and >decline. He has some good thoughts that we all could benefit from. > >He points out that many societies need more motivation and leadership. >Many members are just there to "cherry pick" without adding anything >beneficial to others in their society or the public, in general. I'm >sure we have some of those, too. > >We can look at his comments and see if they apply to us. What can we do >(all of us, not just a few members) to improve the field of genealogical >or family history research for others that are looking in our area? We >can share what we already have and endeavor to make more of it available >to the masses via records transcriptions, indexing local materials, etc. >I'm sure that all of us, whether in Durham or Orange counties or Texas >or New York, have much to contribute to the public good. All that good >stuff gets out on the web because folks like us put it there. We can't >wait for Ancestry to do it because they will take longer and want to be >paid to access it. > >So, why don't we do just that? Blow the dust off that list of family >members you extracted from the marriage or birth registers (for >instance) and send it in to the editors of the Trading Path Journal to >share with everyone. I'll bet it will surprise you with the response you >will receive. > > >-- Richard > >=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= > > Richard K. Ellington > ITS Data Centers 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 > >=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+= >************************* > 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 ________________________________________ PeoplePC Online A better way to Internet http://www.peoplepc.com