Duh - It would help if I provided the URL ! - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndemmons/ ---- Although I was gone a good four weeks since I took over the Emmons County NDGenWeb site, we are moving right along. Our visits to the site are increasing and I'm starting to receive more contributions from volunteers for the site; in fact, now I have a "Things To Do" waiting list. We've received some queries and our surname list is growing so if you have anything at all which would contribute to the Emmons County NDGenWeb project, such as obituaries, biographies, pictures, history, and so on, please contact me and we'll arrange to get it on the site. My goal is to double (at least) the monthly average number of visitors to Emmons County over the next year. Can you help? Sincerely, Mike Peterson NDGenWeb Emmons County Coordinator geanie@cox.net
Although I was gone a good four weeks since I took over the Emmons County NDGenWeb site, we are moving right along. Our visits to the site are increasing and I'm starting to receive more contributions from volunteers for the site; in fact, now I have a "Things To Do" waiting list. We've received some queries and our surname list is growing so if you have anything at all which would contribute to the Emmons County NDGenWeb project, such as obituaries, biographies, pictures, history, and so on, please contact me and we'll arrange to get it on the site. My goal is to double (at least) the monthly average number of visitors to Emmons County over the next year. Can you help? Sincerely, Mike Peterson NDGenWeb Emmons County Coordinator geanie@cox.net
On Thursday, June 03, 2004 10:29 PM [GMT+5=ET], Michelle Savre <ndcounty@att.net> wrote: > > What would you think about a discussion of some format updates to the > State page? Any advice you'd have would be appreciated, Michelle -- I'm doing the best I can to build the page, but (as you can tell by looking at my county pages) I'm no expert at design. I do prefer a plain page to one that has lots of bells and whistles. In my experience, I've found that many researchers have older computers and want info -- not flashy stuff or something that's graphics intensive. But that doesn't mean we shouldn't have an attractive page... I did manage to create an image map so we can point and click to whatever county from a map on the main page. Took many hours to code the coordinates by hand... *whew* If anyone finds any 'oopses' on that map, let me know and I'll fix them... BTW, in all the hecticness of the last few days, Michelle, I neglected to say "Welcome aboard" so I say it now! :-) ~Lee S. King ND CC and ASC
Joe- As a newly appointed ASC, I'd be interested on your take of my duties. Obviously, I didn't get much of an opportunity to learn the job.... On my Barnes page, I have an icon of a wild prairie rose....but no pictures, yet. What would you think about a discussion of some format updates to the State page? Thanks! Michelle North Dakota ASC CC - Barnes, Cass & Ransom On Jun 3, 2004, at 9:23 PM, Garnett J.(Joe) Zsedeny wrote: > I have been asked by the Board to act as temporary SC for ND and have > agreed to do so until an election, under the direction of the Project > Election Committee (EC), is held within 60 days to allow you to > select an SC of your choice. I will let you know when the EC opens > the nomination period and hope everyone will participate in this > selection process. > > In keeping with the desire of most of you, politics will be kept off > this list. Any additional information about this can be obtained by > contacting your Board representative or contact me privately and I > will obtain the information for you. > > I am available to help anyone in any way in maintaining their pages > or answering questions so please don't hesitate to contact me or one > of the ASCs. BTW, does anyone have a nice photo of a wild prairie > rose? > > Joe Zsedeny > Temporary SC > NDGenWeb Project > > > > ==== NDGENWEB Mailing List ==== > The AB/NC - don't allow them to take your Project from you! >
I have been asked by the Board to act as temporary SC for ND and have agreed to do so until an election, under the direction of the Project Election Committee (EC), is held within 60 days to allow you to select an SC of your choice. I will let you know when the EC opens the nomination period and hope everyone will participate in this selection process. In keeping with the desire of most of you, politics will be kept off this list. Any additional information about this can be obtained by contacting your Board representative or contact me privately and I will obtain the information for you. I am available to help anyone in any way in maintaining their pages or answering questions so please don't hesitate to contact me or one of the ASCs. BTW, does anyone have a nice photo of a wild prairie rose? Joe Zsedeny Temporary SC NDGenWeb Project
To: All USGenWeb Members From: The USGenWeb Election Committee **Please forward to all USGenWeb Project lists and members.** Important reminder - The EC will begin accepting nominations for Advisory Board Representatives beginning at 8 AM ET Tuesday morning June 1, 2004, to 8 AM ET Monday, June 14, 2002. Please visit the EC National 2004 Election Pages for more information: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/national-2004/index.html If you were a USGenWeb Member on February 1, 2004, you are probably already registered. If you joined the Project after February 1, you have until midnight tonight, May 31, 2004, to register. After tonight the registration form will be disabled until the conclusion of the election. If you have a question, please take a few moments to read the Election FAQ. The EC encourages everyone to participate and vote! Thank you, The USGenWeb Election Committee
Hello all! Check out these URLs -- some very helpful info there: Taking the Mystery Out of Land Records: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas/land/index.html Where to Obtain a Land Patent http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas/learningcenter/patentlocations.html Lee S. King CC
I agree. This is all stupid. Bob Hill Burke/Divide Counties >From: "Mike Peterson" <geanie@cox.net> >To: NDGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [NDGENWEB-L] Here's the latest poop >Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 07:07:42 -0700 > >This is getting so I'm thinking of resigning my CC positions; I don't care >who is wrong or who is right or if both are wrong and both are right - this >isn't genealogy and it isn't helping anyone !!! Mike Peterson, Emmons CC > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Tim Stowell" <tstowell@chattanooga.net> >To: <NDGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 11:25 PM >Subject: [NDGENWEB-L] Here's the latest poop > > > > Here's the latest poop - > > > > The NC/AB are going to illegally ignore the USGenWeb Bylaws and create > > their own rules - > > by forcing a SC election in North Dakota - > > > > It's much like the President in Washington, along with his cabinet telling > > you - your > > Governor did something we didn't like - ie he called us on the carpet for > > illegal acts and > > we can't have folks telling us we're wrong - so we're tossing out your > > Governor - putting > > in our hand selected replacement and then perhaps you can vote for someone > > who'll please us. > > If not, we'll do it again until we approve of your choice. > > > > I suspect that they will declare me not eligible to run - so even if you > > want me, they are > > going to tell you tough cookies - we're gonna help you decide on someone >else. > > > > Word is that former resigned ASC Joe Z - CC Pembina and Ramsey - will be > > interim SC. > > > > To that end I've removed my work from the State site. I refuse to let the > > nationals > > steal my work. > > > > If this continues - the national folks will increase their control, for in > > their proposed > > bylaws - they want to tell you how to design your page, where to place the > > logos and so forth > > so that sites can be cookie cutter look alikes. > > > > I've enjoyed being your State Coordinator and would hope that each of you > > continue to build > > your sites for the visitors to your North Dakota counties. > > > > I shall continue with my sites whether or not they will be a member of the > > once upon a time > > USGenWeb Project. > > > > For those in cahoots with the National organization - shame on you. > > > > Please feel free to write me. > > > > Tim Stowell > > State Coordinator NorthDakotaGenWeb > > >
This is getting so I'm thinking of resigning my CC positions; I don't care who is wrong or who is right or if both are wrong and both are right - this isn't genealogy and it isn't helping anyone !!! Mike Peterson, Emmons CC ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tim Stowell" <tstowell@chattanooga.net> To: <NDGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, May 31, 2004 11:25 PM Subject: [NDGENWEB-L] Here's the latest poop > Here's the latest poop - > > The NC/AB are going to illegally ignore the USGenWeb Bylaws and create > their own rules - > by forcing a SC election in North Dakota - > > It's much like the President in Washington, along with his cabinet telling > you - your > Governor did something we didn't like - ie he called us on the carpet for > illegal acts and > we can't have folks telling us we're wrong - so we're tossing out your > Governor - putting > in our hand selected replacement and then perhaps you can vote for someone > who'll please us. > If not, we'll do it again until we approve of your choice. > > I suspect that they will declare me not eligible to run - so even if you > want me, they are > going to tell you tough cookies - we're gonna help you decide on someone else. > > Word is that former resigned ASC Joe Z - CC Pembina and Ramsey - will be > interim SC. > > To that end I've removed my work from the State site. I refuse to let the > nationals > steal my work. > > If this continues - the national folks will increase their control, for in > their proposed > bylaws - they want to tell you how to design your page, where to place the > logos and so forth > so that sites can be cookie cutter look alikes. > > I've enjoyed being your State Coordinator and would hope that each of you > continue to build > your sites for the visitors to your North Dakota counties. > > I shall continue with my sites whether or not they will be a member of the > once upon a time > USGenWeb Project. > > For those in cahoots with the National organization - shame on you. > > Please feel free to write me. > > Tim Stowell > State Coordinator NorthDakotaGenWeb >
Here's the latest poop - The NC/AB are going to illegally ignore the USGenWeb Bylaws and create their own rules - by forcing a SC election in North Dakota - It's much like the President in Washington, along with his cabinet telling you - your Governor did something we didn't like - ie he called us on the carpet for illegal acts and we can't have folks telling us we're wrong - so we're tossing out your Governor - putting in our hand selected replacement and then perhaps you can vote for someone who'll please us. If not, we'll do it again until we approve of your choice. I suspect that they will declare me not eligible to run - so even if you want me, they are going to tell you tough cookies - we're gonna help you decide on someone else. Word is that former resigned ASC Joe Z - CC Pembina and Ramsey - will be interim SC. To that end I've removed my work from the State site. I refuse to let the nationals steal my work. If this continues - the national folks will increase their control, for in their proposed bylaws - they want to tell you how to design your page, where to place the logos and so forth so that sites can be cookie cutter look alikes. I've enjoyed being your State Coordinator and would hope that each of you continue to build your sites for the visitors to your North Dakota counties. I shall continue with my sites whether or not they will be a member of the once upon a time USGenWeb Project. For those in cahoots with the National organization - shame on you. Please feel free to write me. Tim Stowell State Coordinator NorthDakotaGenWeb
Michelle Savre, CC for Barnes, Cass and Ransom counties asked to be the new ASC. After I told her the duties, she agreed to accept the position. It is with great pleasure - as perhaps my final act as your State Coordinator to welcome Michelle as your new ASC. Tim Stowell State Coordinator NDGenWeb
This came up Saturday. I believe this is being voted on now - Your AB members are: National Coordinator - Richard Harrison IsaiahH@cox.net Representative at Large - Shari Handley srh@tyaskin.com County Coordinator Representative - Gail Meyer Kilgore gkilgore@globalcrossing.net County Coordinator Representative - Darilee Bednar bookstorelady@prodigy.net Cyndie is the Archives Representative mentioned below. It has been moved by Shari and seconded by Cyndie: - that all Georgia County Coordinators and Assistant County Coordinators who have been dismissed in the past 6 months be immediately reinstated to their previous positions as CC, ACC or RC in GAGenWeb without prejudice, and with no loss of seniority. - that Tim Stowell be immediately suspended (removed temporarily) from membership in The USGenWeb Project for a period of 60 days or until the results of a removal hearing are known. - that immediate steps be taken to hold elections for State Coordinator in Georgia as soon as such elections can be arranged with the EC. - that immediate steps be taken to hold elections for State Coordinator in North Dakota as soon as such elections can be arranged with the EC. - that Richard Pettys be immediately suspended (removed temporarily) from membership in The USGenWeb Project for a period of 60 days or until the results of a removal hearing are known. - that Brenda Pierce be immediately suspended (removed temporarily) from membership in The USGenWeb Project for a period of 60 days or until the results of a removal hearing are known. The removal hearing(s) shall be conducted by the Advisory Board. Since the election nominations period is scheduled to begin June 1st, and the outcome of this motion will have an impact on the ability of those named to run for USGenWeb office, the following provision is included in this motion: In the event that the results of this motion are not known by 11:59 p.m. May 31, 2004, The USGenWeb Elections Committee is directed to place a "hold" on any nomination received for any of the persons named in this motion, pending the results of the motion. If the motion passes, those named will be considered to have been suspended from membership as of the date this motion was made. If the motion fails, any such nomination may proceed normally. The floor is open for discussion.
In thinking what is best for the Project - I turned over the domains .net and .org to two different AB members in trust this afternoon after overcoming a wicked set of instructions to do so on the .net domain. I'm tired of this mess. I want to go back to building pages. Now it appears the NC is playing politics despite this, showing on the Who's Who page at http://www.usgenweb.com/ that the North Dakota project only has a ASC - Lee King. If this concerns you, please write to the National Coordinator stating your thoughts about the matter. I know most of you don't like politics and don't want to be bothered by such, but it seems the NC/AB will now tell you, whether you like it or not who will or won't be your State Coordinator. Tim Stowell tstowell@chattanooga.net Chattanooga, TN The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing.
This note is in regard to politics in the USGenWeb Project - but since it may effect you here in NDGenWeb, you may wish to read it. =============================================================== In case you are wondering why Lee sent the Fw: An Invitation to the list instead of me - the National Coordinator has unsubbed me from the State-Coordinator's list, which he has not allowed me to freely post to since December 2002, because at that point in time, I disagreed with him on policy matters, when I was on the AB. Even after I left the AB, he never lifted his sanction against me. When I wrote him earlier this year if he would lift the sanction, he said 'I'll think about it.' Never another word on this since that time. The current NC asked the Advisory Board to label me MNIGS (so I couldn't run against him in the elections about to come up in July) and so he could further try to take other privileges from me - under an authority that doesn't exist in the Project Bylaws. Upon that action, even though the NC stated that such action would not effect my status in the various xxgenweb state projects - the Wisconsin SC delinked my 2 county sites there - that I had since 1996 and 1999. It is the researchers of Wisconsin, that come via the WIGenWeb page that suffer, for with search engines and the county mailing lists, the sites will still be known. The disagreement comes over the domains usgenweb.org and usgenweb.net for which I've paid the freight on for 3 years and 2 years respectively. When he became NC two years ago, I was in the process of paying the annual fees on the domains. Since I was paying the freight, he allowed one of the domains to be assigned to me, the other to himself. When the time came again in 2003 to renew, he had moved, left no new address or phone number, thus I had no valid address to put down for him. Even after the AB illegally declared me MNIGS, one of the AB members approached me to see if an arrangement could be set up to effect the transfer of the domains and to ask what I wanted in return. Since the current NC has since early in his administration in September, 2002, steadily eroded the rights of members to voice complaints, disagree with his administration, I felt this was a chance to get some of those rights returned to the membership. I asked that I be reinstated in Wisconsin since the SC acted with prejudice towards me. I asked to be granted the same privileges that every other ASC/SC in the Project is allowed - the right to speak freely on the State-Coord list. I asked to be subscribed to the project list USGW-Discuss, from which the moderator (WIGenWeb SC) had removed me supposedly for life. This was denied as I was told the AB would not force a SC to take back a CC they had dismissed. I asked to be left alone in GAGenWeb where the AB/NC has been trying for the last two years to harass me out of office. The domain .net was xfered to the AB member in trust, so that at some point in time they could xfer it on to the NC for under AB motions 04-07 and 04-11 they state the NC is to be the admin contact. Period. Late in the negotiations, the AB trust member asked for total control of the domain. As that was not part of the agreement as I understood it, nor had it been mentioned prior to that, I balked. Due to some misunderstanding of what I had turned over and what the AB person was talking about - the AB member vamoosed from the agreement. I wrote the NC that as far as I was concerned, the agreement still stood. I asked if another AB member could stand in trust instead. The NC stated that would suffice. I replied, ok, that I would wait to hear if the AB member would serve in that capacity, then went to bed thinking things were progressing. The next day at my lunch break, I read where the NC stated the negotiations had failed. I wrote him again, asking what was going on as the last I heard he had agreed and that we were waiting to see if the AB member would serve in the trust capacity. He stated that our emails crossed in cyberspace - fair enough. The AB member agreed, the transfer started again to a new person, address and so forth. When the AB member saw that the domain was in fact transferred to their name, they wrote the NC that the transfer had taken place. That was last weekend. On Tuesday or Wednesday, the NC wrote me again saying that the agreement was off. So I wrote him again asking him what was going on - since I had completed the first part of the agreement. No reply to date. In the meantime while all this was going on - an orderly transfer taking place, the NC and cronies have taken one step after another against me and my ASCs in Georgia. So, we wait to see what next action the NC will do. I have completed the first part of the agreement. =============== On another topic. With Joe's resignation this week, Lee King moves up to first ASC. I thank Joe for his long and patient service as my ASC in North Dakota. To give any other member a chance to be second ASC, please write me privately if you would be interested in this position. Tim
Shalom all! Just wanted to remind you that Griggs and LaMoure counties are up for adoption. Please email me if you are interested. ~Lee S. King
On Tuesday, May 18, 2004 2:48 PM [GMT+5=ET], Bosque Lover <nana321@earthlink.net> wrote: > Could I please get all the SCs/ASCs to forward this message to their > state mail lists? > > This is an invitation to subscribe to USGenWeb Project mail lists > Hopefully this will make CCs "aware" that there are such lists > available for discussion of USGenWeb Project matters. > > Not only are there lists for each region: NENC, NWPL, SEMA & SWSC > http://www.usgenweb.com/official/regionmail.html > but there is a project wide Discuss list > (USGENWEB-DISCUSS-L-request@rootsweb.com) > **Please note that the representative info has not been updated yet.** > > Also a list (read only) just for project news: > USGENWEB-ALL-L-request@rootsweb.com > > Not sure what region one is in???: > http://www.usgenweb.com/about/regions.html > > These lists can help establish better communication between the CCs & > their AB reps, & also keep them "in the know" of project happenings. > Bettie Wood <>< > SWSC CC rep
To All USGenWeb Members - *Please forward to all USGenWeb members and lists* Important reminder: The USGenWeb National Election is right around the corner. The nomination period will be June 1-14, 2004, and the voting period will be July 1-31, 2004. In order to vote in this election you must be Registered http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/register.html with the Election Committee no later than May 31, 2004. New registrations will not be accepted from 1 June through the election period, which may extend into August if there are run-off contests. Please visit the EC WebSite http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/ for more information, particularity the National 2004 Election Pages http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/national-2004/index.html If you have a question, please take a few moments to read the Election FAQ. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/national-2004/faq.htm . The EC encourages everyone to Register and Vote! Thank you, The USGenWeb Election Committee
Effective this morning, 05/18/04, I am resigning as ASC for the NDGenWeb. I will continue as files manager for the Archives so any data submitted to the Archives will be handled as usual. Joe Zsedeny
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We have added several new pages to our web site this past month. We invite those of you who have genealogy documents, photos, records, maps, obituaries, biographies, and so on which pertain to Emmons county to please contribute them to our site so that your data may be shared with others. Visit our "What's New" page at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndemmons/whatsnewindex.htm to see what we've done in the last month. Sincerely, Mike Peterson NDGenWeb Emmons County Coordinator geanie@cox.net http://rootsweb.com/~ndemmons/