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Dear NDGenWeb volunteers, First of all I hope you all had a wonderful Christmas holiday with family and friends. Next my wish for each of you is a prosperous and happy new year. At present Marvin Solberg host for Grant County is leaving us. We thank him for his service to NDGenWeb and Grant County. The following counties are now up for adoption: Emmons Grant Griggs La Moure If you would be interested in hosting one of these, please contact Joe, Lee or myself. Tim

Umm, that should have been Renville County........ Since many of you suggested Norma in Steele County, I sent that along to the person who asked about Noyma, ND. Tim

Since many of you suggested Norma in Steele County, I sent that along to the person who asked about Noyma, ND. The reply I received: "I found him. Thank you again The History of the county lists John " Early settlers in the community included the Dahl Brothers, John McEwen, " Thank you again. Norma was the place." And my thanks to all of you who spoke up to offer your input in assisting this visitor. Tim

There is a small town of Norma in Renville County. Is this what you are looking for? John Stafney Renville CC The more value I put on the lives of others, the more value my own life takes on.

I've a letter from a person seeking a placename in North Dakota called Noyma. So far, in the resources at my disposal I've not found such a place in either North or South Dakota or for that matter anywhere else. If you know of such a place, please let me know or if you have an idea what it might be a misspell or phonetic of some other place, I'll like to be able to assist this person. Thanks, Tim

Please respond to this roll call of coordinators for NDGenWeb. Please include your name, email address that you wish to use for this list and/or any other address you'd like to post from along with what counties, projects you work on for North Dakota. Thanks, Tim

In other news the Rootsweb lists2 is back: "Mail Lists: 2003-10-16 The mailing list server (LISTS2) that has been off-line for maintenance has now been turned back on, and e-mail is being processed. Mail will be processed from the queued mail concurrently with incoming mail. This will mean that not all mail will arrive chronologically until the backlog in the queue has been cleared. It will probably take the better part of the day to get mail from the queues to processing and then depending on the traffic to your ISP further time to get delivered. We did have difficulties with a small number of lists that has meant that these lists are not currently operational and will not be until we have manually checked and fixed any outstanding issues. A list is not currently available." Addendum on that - from Andrew - listmaster: * 77 lists are not operational and will need to be manually fixed, though we still need to grab data from an older backup * if you are upset/grumpy/narky/..., that is nice * if you are an admin for one of the lists you can email me, however I will be emailing you when I have further information. * mail sent to these lists ends up in my mailbox <sigh>, it isn't lost There are 6 county lists in AL, SD, MT, MO, GA and ID and a bunch of surname lists. Tim

I thought this would be working my now but since it isn't --- Something you might find helpful: Per Rootsweb: Mail Lists: 2003-10-09 One of our mailing lists servers (lists2) has been taken offline for maintenance. Any unprocessed mail will be distributed after the server is brought back online. ================================== To find out if the list you are not receiving mail is on this server - after you open a piece of mail from such a list select the blah,blah,blah function of your email client - and you should see something like this: Received: from lists2.rootsweb.com (lists2.rootsweb.com [207.40.200.39]) Tim

Forwarded with permission - several North Dakota items here that may interest you: Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2003 22:09:40 -0500 From: Margit <margit@eot.com> Subject: [NDSDMN] Books I have To: NDSDMN-L@rootsweb.com I have the following books and resources for Lookups. "Tydalsslekten Stuedal Med Inngiftede Slekter" (borrowed from relatives) It has information on the following farms in Tydal, Sør Trøndelag: Gårdshistorie vedkommende StuedalSlektsregister for den mannlige gren på Stuedal Øvre Graaeslekten Løvøslekten Ljungdalsslekten En gren av Næsvoldslekten Jens Halstein Nygård. Haltdalen og Haltdalingen, vol. I, 1949 (general history); vol. II. 1949. Farm and family Aud Mikkelsen Tretvik. Ålen og Ålbyggen, vol. I, 1989 (farm and family) vol. II, 1993(farm and family) vol. III, 1998 (general history) Bygdebok for Tydal, Book #3, Gards- og slekthistorie for Hilmo, Gresli, Aune Svelmo, Lian, Åsgrinda, Åsdalen og Ås Bygdebok for Tydal, Book #4, Gards- og slektshistorie for Østby, strekningen Nebrua-Fossan, Løvøya, Moen og Stugudal Røros bygdeboks: Røros bergstad, Røros landsogn, Brekken og Glåmos kommuner Vol III, 1957. Jon O. Indset - Oliver Moen - Olav Kvikne: Røros landsogn - Brekken gårds- og slektshistorie Vol IV, 1974. Røros bergstad Vol V, 1974. Glåmos - gårds- og slektshistorie Ulen Minnesota, Clay County, Biographical Histories of people in Ulen area Fort Ransom, North Dakota Biographical Histories Morton County, North Dakota Biographical Histories Almont, North Dakota Biographical Histories Hawley, Minnesota, Clay County History Book (NOT INDEXED) Norman County Biographical History Book Sims, North Dakota Book 24,000 obituaries for Norman County Minnesota and area's surrounding. All indexed and indexes online here: <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~maggiebakke/normanobituarybooks.ht ml> Norman County Veteran's in WW I Polk County Veteran's in WW I Homepage here with much much more on resources for the area of Minnesota I live in: <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~maggiebakke/flom.html> Aspelund Lutheran Church Cemetery Records Immanuel Lutheran Church Cemetery Records Wild Rice Lutheran Church Cemetery Records Bethlehem Lutheran Church Cemetery Records All located in Flom Township, Norman County, Minnesota. Margit

On Wednesday, August 27, 2003 11:17 PM [GMT+1=CET], Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> wrote: > As best I can determine and in talks with other folks it appears that > the search engine on Rootsweb designated 'seeker' has gone the way of > the dodo bird. > > If a user had code similar to this: > > form method= post action= http://seeker.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/htsearch > font size="-1" Match: select name=method > option value="and" All /option > option value="or" Any /option > option value="boolean" Boolean</option > /select > Format: select name="format" > option value="builtin-long" Long /option > option value="builtin-short" Short /option > /select > /font > input type=hidden name=config value=htdig > input type=hidden name=restrict value= > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndcccccc input type=hidden name=exclude > value="" > br>Search: input type="text" size="30" name="words" value="" > input type="submit" value="Search" > /form /center > > beginning < > and ending > removed in hopes that the rest of the 'code' would make > it through to the list. > > then they need to find themselves a new search engine. Yikes! Well, for those who might be looking for a new search engine, here's a list of some free ones: http://www.freefind.com/ http://www.fusionbot.com/default.htm http://www.picosearch.com/ http://www.sitelevel.com http://www.atomz.com/search/trial_account.htm FWIW, I've personally used Atomz and FreeFind, and like them both. HTH, ~Lee > > > > Tim Stowell tstowell@chattanooga.net > Chattanooga, TN

As best I can determine and in talks with other folks it appears that the search engine on Rootsweb designated 'seeker' has gone the way of the dodo bird. If a user had code similar to this: form method= post action= http://seeker.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/htsearch font size="-1" Match: select name=method option value="and" All /option option value="or" Any /option option value="boolean" Boolean</option /select Format: select name="format" option value="builtin-long" Long /option option value="builtin-short" Short /option /select /font input type=hidden name=config value=htdig input type=hidden name=restrict value= http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndcccccc input type=hidden name=exclude value="" br>Search: input type="text" size="30" name="words" value="" input type="submit" value="Search" /form /center beginning < and ending > removed in hopes that the rest of the 'code' would make it through to the list. then they need to find themselves a new search engine. Tim Stowell tstowell@chattanooga.net Chattanooga, TN

I've received the following from a visitor and am asking for feedback concerning this whether or not you have any objections, thoughts regarding this: "I have discovered the North Dakota GenWeb Project site and found it really interesting. I would like to know how to gain permission to use some of the newspaper stories for a daily program I'm writing for ND Public Radio called Dakota Dateline. The program will be about 3 minutes long and will be aired up to 5 times each day starting in October. Every day's story has to link to a specific day in ND's past, and dates are not very easy to find. Can you please help me out? Some of the stories from those newspapers would be really fun to air.We have been working with the ND Historical Society on this program, and they provide a lot of information on bigger topics, but some of the more obscure stories would be terrific to add to some of the scripts -- I'm trying to include as many different towns in the stories as I can, and this would provide a means of doing that." Tim

I've received an inquiry from a visitor asking if there were any units from North Dakota that may have served in the Spanish American War and/or with the Rough Riders. Does anyone know of such? Thanks, Tim

Dear fellow coordinators for North Dakota: It seems that the political season brings out the worst in some folks. Some folks seemingly don't have enough to do so they must put down other folks efforts. Today I received two emails from persons who have a personal axe to grind with me who are trying to do so, while talking about the quality, quantity and freshness of our sites in North Dakota. The first is the new SC of Iowa - "Gail Meyer Kilgore" <gkilgore@globalcrossing.net> - whose state is embroiled in controversy for their state project has a page that is soliciting funds for their state project which is against our National Bylaws. However, since the current NC also hails from IAGenWeb - it seems perfectly ok by him. The second person bad mouthing our Project is a person who has most likely made money off the project as he posts his URL with some frequency as he copies and sells wills and other court documents to folks around the country - "W. David Samuelsen" <dsam@sampubco.com> These two folks complain that some sites don't have a recently updated last date on their main page. I took a look at about half the state this afternoon and saw without exception beautifully designed sites with a clean, clear, crisp look and feel - some have more data than others but that is to be expected. >From the last time I sent mail to the state list - no one's email was bouncing save Joe's. Joe is still settling in from his move New York to Minnesota. So if I may ask of each of you, please take a look at your front page - and if you've done any work on it or your site recently, please change your last updated date to when that took place. Also please make sure the email address you show on your site - and the one on this list are the same - if you wish them to be the same. Please send any corrections to Lee or myself. Also feel free to let these folks know what you think of their actions with regard to us and your work. I personally don't mind folks asking questions about a site - but to castigate every volunteer in the State Project - I find repugnant. Tim

Candidates for National Coordinator and Representative at Large are participating in a debate. Questions were submitted by members of the USGenWeb Project in order to ascertain the Candidates positions on various issues. You can view the questions and the Candidates answers at: http://usgwp.org/boards/ncral/ncral.pl The debate is scheduled to run into next week so you may want to follow it before voting in the runoff election. Please remember to vote at https://www.indiana.edu/~riskmgmt/NationalRunoff.html. If you have not received your password by tomorrow morning please contact the Election Committee. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/nationals-index.htm

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You may find the following URL of interest and useful: http://www.stellar-one.com/copyright_concepts/fundamentals_gene.htm Tim

Thanks Tim! This is very timely as LaMoure has a new contributor who has asked for just such a resource! ~Lee On Saturday, August 09, 2003 8:40 PM [GMT+1=CET], Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> wrote: > You may find the following URL of interest and useful: > > http://www.stellar-one.com/copyright_concepts/fundamentals_gene.htm > > Tim

To all USGenWeb Members: This is an Announce-only mailing. There will be five Run-Off Elections for the following positions: National Coordinator One Year Term Ending 8/31/04 Candidates: Richard Harrison Tim Stowell -- Archives Representative Two Year Term Ending 8/31/05 Candidates: Cyndie Enfinger Ken Johnson -- Representative At Large Two Year Term Ending 8/31/05 Candidates: Shari Handley Angie Rayfield -- Northeast/North Central County Coordinator Representative Two Year Term Ending 8/31/05 Candidates: Teri Brown Barbara Lavin -- Southwest South-Central County Coordinator Representative Two Year Term Ending 8/31/05 Candidates: Roger Swafford Bettie Wood -- Voting will begin Friday Aug 8, 2003 8 am CT, and end Friday Aug 22, 2003 12:00 noon CT. Passwords will be sent out beginning Friday, August 8, with instructions as to where to go to vote. If you do not receive a voting password by Tuesday August 12, please contact the EC via Ellen Pack <e.j.pack@natchezbelle.org> or Marti Graham <marti4@cox.net>. A list of candidates with links to available campaign pages may be found on The Election Committee National Election 2003 web page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/candidate-run-off.htm All USGenWeb Members as defined in the USGenWeb Bylaws are eligible to vote. All members may vote for National Coordinator, and Representative At Large. Only those members qualified to vote in a given region/area/position may vote for a candidate in the respective region/area/position. On the Election Committee National Election 2003 FAQ page you will find a list of the Regions, and states within each region. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/nationals-general-info.htm Votes cast by ineligible members will not be counted. If you have any questions, please carefully read the FAQ before contacting the Election Committee. Please forward to all USGenWeb Members and appropriate mail lists. Respectfully, The USGenWeb Election Committee