National Coordinator One Year Term Ending 8/31/04 Total Votes: 499 Run-off between Richard Harrison and Tim Stowell CANDIDATE Votes Received Ron Eason 89 -- 17.8% Richard Harrison 150 -- 30.1% Bill Oliver 68 -- 13.6% Jim Powell, Jr. 78 -- 15.6% Tim Stowell 114 -- 22.8% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Archives Representative Two Year Term Ending 8/31/05 Run-off between Cyndie Enfinger and Ken Johnson CANDIDATE Votes Received Cyndie Enfinger 22 -- 36.1% Ken Johnson 21 -- 34.4% Maggie Stewart-Zimmerman 18 -- 29.5% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Tombstone Project Representative To Complete The Term Ending 8/31/04 Unopposed The Election Committee hereby declares Pam Reid the winner. CANDIDATE Votes Received Pam Reid 14 -- 100% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Representative At Large Two Year Term Ending 8/31/05 Total Votes: 425 Run-off between Shari Handley and Angie Rayfield CANDIDATE Votes Received Shari Handley 141 -- 33.2% Jason Mendenhall 88 -- 20.7% Angie Rayfield 113 -- 26.6% Ellen Rohr 83 -- 19.5% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- (NENC) Northeast-North Central State Coordinator Representative Two Year Term Ending 8/31/05 Total Votes: 8 The Election Committee Hereby Declares Richard Howland Winner CANDIDATE Votes Received Richard Howland 5 -- 62.5% Marcia Ann Kuehl 3 -- 37.5% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- (NENC) Northeast-North Central County Coordinator Representative Two Year Term Ending 8/31/05 Total Votes: 116 Run-Off between Barbara Lavin and Teri Brown CANDIDATE Votes Received Teri Brown 39 -- 33.6% Scott Burow 36 -- 31.0% Barbara Lavin 41 -- 35.3% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- (NWPL) Northwest Plains State Coordinator Representative Two Year Term Ending 8/31/05 Unopposed - The Election Committee hereby declares Don Kelly the winner CANDIDATE Votes Received Don Kelly 6 -- 100% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- (NWPL) Northwest Plains County Coordinator Representative(s) Two Seats Available Two Year Term Ending 8/31/05 - High Vote To Complete Two Year Term Ending 8/31/04 - Runner-up Total Votes: 165 The Election Committee Hereby Declares: Gail Meyer Kilgore Winner - Two Year Term Darilee Bednar Winner - One Year Term CANDIDATE Votes Received Darilee Bednar 55 -- 33.3% Gail Meyer Kilgore 60 -- 36.4% Sandra Newman Sanchez 50 -- 30.3% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- (SEMA) Southeast Mid-Atlantic State Coordinator Representative Two Year Term Ending 8/31/05 Unopposed The Election Committee hereby delcares Christine Goff the winner CANDIDATE Votes Received Christine Goff 12 -- 100% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- (SEMA) Southeast Mid-Atlantic County Coordinator Representative(s) Two Seats Available Two Year Term Ending 8/31/05 - High Vote To Complete Two Year Term Ending 8/31/04 - Runner-up Total Votes: 308 The Election Committee Hereby Declares: Denise Woodside Winner - Two Year Term Linda Blum-Barton - One Year Term CANDIDATE Votes Received Linda Blum-Barton 77 -- 25.0% Ron Dailey 30 -- 9.7% Heather Jones DeGeorge 72 -- 23.4% Tom Parker 46 -- 14.9% Denise Woodside 83 -- 26.9% ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- (SWSC) Southwest South-Central County Coordinator Representative Two Year Term Ending 8/31/05 Total Votes: 129 Run-Off Between Bettie Wood and Roger Swafford CANDIDATE Votes Received Bunny Freeman 23 -- 17.8% Jeff Scism 18 -- 14.0% Roger Swafford 35 -- 27.1% Bettie Wood 53 -- 41.1%

(**Please forward to all appropriate project lists**) First I wish to thank everyone who has sent comments and suggestions regarding the latest revision draft. I'm confident that some rewording and grammar changes will be made during final review. Our project consists of volunteers with a common purpose. To provide "free access" information. Project members are those who maintain a website as a component part of the project or a XXGenWeb project, and abides by the basic requirements for those websites, such as the display of the logo. It follows then that when the bylaws refer to websites it means those which are associated with The USGenWeb Project. It has been commonly accepted that whenever a change in CC's (Local Coordinators) occurs, material contributed to the website remains with the associated website (regardless of where hosted). The task of being a CC is to provide the means of "free access" to those materials on behalf of the project and to add to those materials whenever possible. Therefore, the CC (Local Coordinator) is also a contributor. It is reasonable to expect that all contributions to a project website remain part of the website regardless of who the coordinator is or where the site is hosted. The draft revision contains "shall remain with the website, unless the contributor(s) otherwise request." Very often contributors can't be contacted to obtain permission to continue use or to move to another host. Therefore all contributions should be considered as for permanent use by The USGenWeb Project as long as the material is available for "free access". The purpose of the project and the spirit of volunteerism in providing free access material is best served by XXGenWeb county websites which continue to grow and remain intact. Members who depart are entitled to keep copies of their own work and are expected to provide copies for continued use by the project. Roger

The Bylaws Revision Committee (BRC) has completed a first draft revision of Section 4 of Article X. Local Projects. Section 4. If a Local Coordinator can no longer perform their duties for any reason, (including, but not limited to, abandonment of the site, resignation or dismissal for valid cause), content of the website submitted by contributors shall remain with the website, unless the contributor(s) otherwise request. All revision drafts may be viewed at http://home.mchsi.com/~sagitta56/ Members are encouraged to send comments or questions related to this or other revision drafts. Roger Swafford BRC - Chairman ==================================== The Discuss list, the Wisconsin state list have exploded today (7/29) regarding this issue. Some folks (the revisionists and some others) seem to think that anything you contribute to your county site - that when you leave this Project, that you must leave your work as part of the site. While you can take a copy with you - these folks are saying you MUST leave a copy with the USGenWeb Project. The policy thus far has been that when a person leaves they are free to take the items they have contributed to the site, if they so desire - while leaving the queries or other material contributed by others to the site. Also the policy thus far has been that if you adopt x site that if the former coordinator gives their site and its entire contents to the Project that the new coordinator would leave the previous person's work - modify the contact information, but leave the data as is. I do not support the proposed policy change. Tim

Tim I would like to take a moment to compliment you and all of your county assistants on the quality of your web presentation. I consider it the most informative, user friendly, well maintained site on the internet. I have been researching my family, Martel's of Stutsman, Logan and McIntosh Counties, for years now and have used your site many, many times. Other branches of my tree go back in the US as far as 1644 and cover 90% of the states, I have used them all and only one, Pennsylvania, even comes close to North Dakota. Please thank all concerned for me, WELL DONE. Ron Ryan rryan@starband.net

To All USGenWeb Members - This is an announcement message from the USGenWeb Election Committee. Please forward to all USGenWeb Members and appropriate lists. This is a reminder that voting for the USGenWeb National Election 2003 will end this Thursday, July 31, 2003 11:59 pm CST. Any votes cast after that time will not be counted. All Passwords have been sent. If you have not received a password, please contact the Election Committee immediately via either Ellen Pack <e.j.pack@natchezbelle.org> or Marti Graham <marti4@cox.net> Time is short. The EC will do everything possible to see that a password is sent or resent, but members who wait until the last minute may not have an opportunity to vote. To vote, go to https://www.indiana.edu/~riskmgmt/National.html Follow the instructions on the form. It is recommended that you copy and paste the password into the voting form to ensure accuracy. You may only vote one time. If you cast a second vote it will be discarded UNLESS your first attempt was an error where NO vote was cast. Votes cast by ineligible members will not be counted. 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 Please carefully read the FAQ before contacting the EC with questions. Information about the candidates can be found at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/candidate.htm Election results are expected to be announced around August 4 or 5, 2003. The Election Committee would like to encourage every member to participate in the election. Please vote! Thank you, The USGenWeb Election Committee

If you've not voted yet in this year's annual election, I urge you do to so. For our Northwest Plains representative, I recommend Sandra Newman Sanchez whose campaign page is located at: http://www.usgennet.org/usa/ia/county/linn/campaign.htm I recommend her because I feel of the candidates running, she offers the best ideals as far as the members are concerned. I'm running again for National Coordinator on the premise that the Project does not need more regulations and rules for people to follow - that keeping things simple, is the best approach for success of the organization. Regardless of whom you choose, please do exercise your right to vote. If you have not received a password with which to vote, please contact: To vote, go to https://www.indiana.edu/~riskmgmt/National.html Follow the instructions on the form. It is recommended that you copy and paste the password into the voting form to ensure accuracy. Information about the candidates can be found at http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/candidate.htm Tim Stowell tstowell@chattanooga.net Chattanooga, TN

Again, farewell and good wishes to Lori. Thanks, Kathleen, for taking on Grand Forks, and welcome to Richard! :-) ~Lee

Lori Bush, long time CC is retiring - which has already been announced. Lori hosted Grand Forks and Cavalier counties. Kathleen Hunt current host of Mountrail and Steele counties has offered to take on Grand Forks county. This will be changed as soon as she alerts me to the fact that the site shows her as the new CC. Richard Pettys is joining NDGenWeb as the new host for Cavalier County. Welcome Richard! Finally, it is my pleasure to introduce a new ASC, while Joe is gone, in the person of Lee S. King. Tim

Thanks for all your work and effort, Lori, and best wishes in your new career. ~Lee S. King

Thanks a lot Lore For all the help over the years. Yood luck on your next chore. George L. Barron

Best of luck on your future endeavors, Lori! Mike Borchardt CC for McHenry Co. ----Original Message Follows---- From: Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> To: NDGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NDGENWEB-L] Departing CC Date: Fri, 04 Jul 2003 13:03:41 -0400 It is with mixed emotions that I announce the retirement of Lori Bush as CC for Cavalier and Grand Forks counties. Lori has been with NDGenWeb - as best as I can tell since the beginning of the Project. The oldest note I have from her is dated December, 1996. Lori has in the time we've worked together gotten married, gone to school and is now launching into a new career. On behalf of all of NDGenWeb, thank you so much Lori for all your hard work with and for NDGenWeb and your two counties. I know that your sites have helped many folks and I know they too shall miss you. Our blessings to you and Chuck in your future endeavors. If at some future time you wish to return, please know that you will be welcome to do so. To the other members of NDGenWeb - may we have a round of applause for Lori - for a job well done? Tim _________________________________________________________________ Add photos to your messages with MSN 8. Get 2 months FREE*. http://join.msn.com/?page=features/featuredemail

What a terrific job she has done. We will miss you, Lori. Kathleen A. Hunt Coordinator Mountrail County County, ND Steele County, ND www.knjenterprises.com/kahgene/index.htm <http://www.knjenterprises.com/kahgene/index.htm> -----Original Message----- From: Tim Stowell [mailto:tstowell@chattanooga.net] Sent: Friday, July 04, 2003 10:04 AM To: NDGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NDGENWEB-L] Departing CC It is with mixed emotions that I announce the retirement of Lori Bush as CC for Cavalier and Grand Forks counties. Lori has been with NDGenWeb - as best as I can tell since the beginning of the Project. The oldest note I have from her is dated December, 1996. Lori has in the time we've worked together gotten married, gone to school and is now launching into a new career. On behalf of all of NDGenWeb, thank you so much Lori for all your hard work with and for NDGenWeb and your two counties. I know that your sites have helped many folks and I know they too shall miss you. Our blessings to you and Chuck in your future endeavors. If at some future time you wish to return, please know that you will be welcome to do so. To the other members of NDGenWeb - may we have a round of applause for Lori - for a job well done? Tim

It is with mixed emotions that I announce the retirement of Lori Bush as CC for Cavalier and Grand Forks counties. Lori has been with NDGenWeb - as best as I can tell since the beginning of the Project. The oldest note I have from her is dated December, 1996. Lori has in the time we've worked together gotten married, gone to school and is now launching into a new career. On behalf of all of NDGenWeb, thank you so much Lori for all your hard work with and for NDGenWeb and your two counties. I know that your sites have helped many folks and I know they too shall miss you. Our blessings to you and Chuck in your future endeavors. If at some future time you wish to return, please know that you will be welcome to do so. To the other members of NDGenWeb - may we have a round of applause for Lori - for a job well done? Tim

O, Beautiful! my Country! ours once more! Smoothing thy gold of war-dishevelled hair O'er such sweet brows as never other wore, And letting thy set lips, Freed from wrath's pale eclipse, The rosy edges of their smile lay bare, What words divine of lover or a poet Could tell our love and make thee know it, Among the Nations bright beyond compare? What were our lives without thee? What all our lives to save thee? We reck not what we gave thee; We will not dare to doubt thee, But ask whatever else, and we will dare! - James Russell Lowell Written at the close of the Civil War.

From: "Laura Gottesman" <lgot@loc.gov> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib@sunsite.berkeley.edu> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 4:27 PM Subject: [WEB4LIB] National Digital Library: The Stars and Stripes: The American Greetings: This announcement is being sent to a number of lists. Please accept our apologies for any duplicate postings: The Library of Congress' Serial & Government Publications Division is pleased to announce the release of a new addition to the National Digital Library - the online collection The Stars and Stripes: The American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919, available on the American Memory website at: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/. At the direction of General John J. Pershing, The Stars and Stripes newspaper was published in France by the United States Army from February 8, 1918 to June 13, 1919. By early 1918, American forces were dispersed throughout the western front, often mixed at the unit level with British, French and Italian forces. The primary mission of The Stars and Stripes was to provide these scattered troops with a sense of unity and an understanding of their part in the overall war effort. The eight-page weekly featured news from home, poetry, cartoons and sports news, with a staff that included journalists Alexander Woollcott, Harold Wallace Ross and Grantland Rice. On borrowed printing presses, using a delivery network that combined trains, automobiles (including three Cadillacs) and one motorcycle, the staff produced a newspaper with a circulation that peaked at 526,000 copies. This new online collection presents the complete run - 71 weeks - of the World War I edition. The collection also includes special presentations that discuss the newspaper's content: its illustrations and advertising, its publication of soldiers' poetry, its coverage of women. Brief biographies of editorial staff members and their later careers hint at the level of journalistic talent within The Stars and Stripes. A timeline and map place the newspaper within the greater historical and geographical context of the war. The collection was processed with optical character recognition (OCR) software to allow users to search the full text of the newspaper for a word or phrase. This feature expands the collection's usefulness to historians and genealogists researching names and details that do not appear in the headlines. The Stars and Stripes collection served as a pilot project in the development of search and display capabilities to be utilized on future releases of historic newspapers.

The index is also available online here: <http://www.geocities.com/mcintoshcond/wishek48.txt> The book is also online here in text form: <http://pixel.cs.vt.edu/library/towns/link/wishek48.txt> =========================================================== From: Michael Miller <Michael.Miller@ndsu.nodak.edu> Date: Tue, 17 Jun 2003 08:56:44 -0500 Subject: [GCRA] 1948 Wishek ND, Diamond Jubilee Book available Website page for this book is: www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/order/nd_sd/wishekjubilee.html ________________________ Spirit of Wishek Golden Jubilee: 1898 - 1948 Wishek Golden Jubilee Committee, Wishek, North Dakota, 1948, 185 pages, softcover The Germans from Russia Collection is pleased to provide a re-print of the 1948 Wishek Golden Jubilee book in cooperation with the Wishek Centennial Committee. An index of family names has been added to the book. The book includes the detailed section, "History of Wishek"; "Church History"; local organizations, miliary service men, and the Wishek Public Schools. German-Russian family biographies for pages 35 to 99 include: Ackermann, Aipperspach, Bader, Bauer, Boschee, Deyle, Diegel, Dockter, Doering, Donner, Eckman, Eisenbeis, Eissinger, Ernst, Fetzer, Foerderer, Frank, Frey, Furrer, Gaier, Gall, Gehring, Goebel, Gruebele, Hellmuth, Herman, Herr, Heyne, Hilscher, Hochhalter, Hofer, Hoirup, Humann, Junkert, Just, Kaseman, Kemmet, Ketterling, Kogler, Kramer, Krein, Kurle, Lang, Martel, Meidinger, Miller, Mindt, Mittelstadt, Mueller, Nickisch, Nies, Nippolt, Ottmar, Perman, Pfeifle, Preszler, Pudwill, Rath, Reich, Rieger, Ritter, Roehn, Rueb, Rudolf, Salzer, Sayler, Schaeffer, Schauer, Schilling, Schmalz, Schmidt, Schmierer, Schmitt, Schnabel, Schock, Schwindt, Siffermann, Sprenger, Staebler, Stebner, Stevahn, Stock, Stockburger, Stroh, Sukut, Thurn, Ulmer, Unruh, Vossler, Walth, Wanner, Weber, Weisser, Weider, Werre, Wiest, Woehl, and Wolff. Many of these families immigrated from the following former German village of South Russia and Bessarabia (today Ukraine and Moldova): Alt Danzig, Bergdorf, Glueckstal, Grossliebental, Gueldendorf, Johannestal, Kandel, Kassel, Klein-Neudorf, Lichtenfeld, Marienberg, Neuberg, Neudorf, Neustadt, Rohrbach, and Worms. CAPTIONS FOR PHOTOGRAPHS AT THE WEBSITE PAGE: Family sodhouse near Wishek. Creamery at Wishek. Distant view of early Wishek settlement. Wishek's first Fourth of July Celebration. ____________________ Order Form Spirit of Wishek Golden Jubilee: 1898 - 1948 The price of the book is $40 for each book plus postage and handling ($4 for shipping in the U.S.; $6 for shipping to Canada; $12 for shipping outside the U.S. and Canada). All books must be paid in U.S. dollars. Make check or money order payable to NDSU Library. Name Address City State/Province ZIP/Postal Code Daytime phone number E-mail Number of Books Total enclosed $ Mail to: Germans from Russia Heritage Collection Wishek ND 1948 Book NDSU Libraries PO Box 5599 Fargo, ND 58105-5599

---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Michael Miller <Michael.Miller@ndsu.nodak.edu> Date: Fri, 13 Jun 2003 16:26:07 -0500 Subject: [GCRA] Photos of Glueckstal Church, Tappen ND - 1 June 2003 Go to the following website page: http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/history_culture/photo/glc.html For 16 color photographs from the "Glueckstal Lutheran Church: 1908 - 2001, 95th Anniversary Celebration & Memorial Service, rural Tappen, Kidder County, south central North Dakota. There is also a black and white photograph of the Glueckstal Sod Church. Our thanks to Bernadine Lang Kuhn, Owatonna, Minnesota, for providing these photographs to GRHC. The Lang family were members of the Glueckstal Lutheran Church. With best wishes, Michael Michael M. Miller, Bibliographer Germans from Russia Heritage Collection (GRHC) North Dakota State University Libraries P.O. Box 5599 Fargo, ND 58105-5599 USA Tel: 701-231-8416 E-mail: Michael.Miller@ndsu.nodak.edu Germans from Russia Heritage Collection Website: http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc Personal Home Page: http://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/grhc/biography.html

We are beginning our move to MN so I will be out of touch for awhile as computers will be packed tomorrow. I will send my new email as soon as we get settled. Hope all have a nice summer. Joe

(Please forward as appropriate) There are two vacancies on the Advisory Board to replace the Northwest Plains County Coordinator Representatives who resigned. The persons selected to fill these vacancies will serve until the next regular election. Candidates must have at least one year (the twelve months immediately preceding appointment) of continuous service as a Local Coordinator within the NW/P region and current activity as a member in good standing, and eligibility to vote within The USGenWeb Project. Interested volunteers should submit a brief letter stating their qualifications and reasons for wanting to serve to the National Coordinator IsaiahH@cox.net. Applications will be accepted through Monday, May 12, 2003. At that time applications will be turned over to the Election Committee who will conduct a preference poll of the NW/P voters. Results of the poll will be turned over o the Advisory Board to aid them in the selection process. -Isaiah Richard "Isaiah" Harrison National Coordinator The USGenWeb Project

Query Express will essentially cease to exist on May 1st when Surname Helper (SH) is killed. If you have any queries stored: http://qexpress.rootsweb.com/sites/xx/cccccc.html where xx = 2 letter state code cccccc = first 6 (or less) letters of your county name You will need to snag your queries, because I do not know how long rw will keep the connection open once they shut down SH. QE is also being used by many WGW countries, please pass the word on to them.