The GenConnect server is down for maintenance. The NOC staff has built a new RAID and is in the process of backing everything up to the new raid. When this is completed they will put the server back online. Hopefully this will solve the problems we've been having with this server recently. No word on exactly when the server will be back online. We'll let you know when that happens. Joan ==== GC-ANNOUNCE Mailing List ====

Our pledge fund drive for the trade mark filing will end on Feb 1. Attached is my previous message on this subject. Tim --------------------- Fellow volunteers, The USGenWeb Advisory Board is working on the application for registration of our name (USGenWeb) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). To properly accomplish this, we must hire an attorney to review the paperwork and advise us as to proper procedures. The application fee is $325 but the real cost will be the attorney fee. With attorney fees running upwards of $75 per hour we are uncertain of the total amount needed for the filing. We already have pledges from 60 members amounting to $2067, probably more than enough to accomplish this very important task. But the Board feels that everyone should be given the opportunity to participate in funding this effort, and I agree. It is my sincere wish that we could join together and, ideally, that each member would pledge $1.00 toward this very important goal. This would be a wonderful way to bring all into full participation in protecting our name through PTO registration. When we are certain of the total cost and the total number of persons making pledges, we will call in pledges based on the maximum amount needed per person, but in no case exceeding the amount of anyone's pledge. For example, if $18 per person should be necessary to cover all costs, those who pledged less than $18 will be asked to contribute their pledge amount and those who pledged more than $18 will be asked to contribute only $18. If you would like to join in this effort, please send an e-mail by February 1 to Joe Zsedeny, jzsed@westelcom.com, with a cc (carbon copy) to John Schunk, jschunk@skpub.com, with (1) the amount of your pledge (any amount from $1 on up) and (2) a yes or no as to whether it is OK to add your name as a pledge drive participant at http://home.kscable.com/jschunk/pledge.html). We would like to allow everyone who wants to participate to do so. Won't you join in this very important endeavor? Tim Stowell National Coordinator USGenWeb Project

If you have a page at Rootsweb and are using code such as: You are our <!--#exec cgi="/cgi-bin/counterord"--> visitor since 14 Jan 2001 -- thanks for stopping by! on your pages - and getting this message when visiting there: 'timeout locking file' in place of a number you need to know the following: According to Rootsweb guru MadDoc - The file that is hit for incrementing the counters is now trying to keep counts for 1.2 million pages - in a file that is 104 megs in size and has basically died for the moment. They will fix this problem but when is the question. So if you can't wait he suggests using counter.rootsweb.com as an alternative. Tim

I am sure many of you remember Mary Lindbo from my posts here concerning her newspaper transcriptions. She just completed an index for the 1900 Towner Census which is now in the Archives with the Images for that census. So I welcomed Mary some time ago informally. Now I will join in saying formally, welcome, Mary. Joe Tim Stowell wrote: > > Everyone, please welcome Mary Lindbo as the new CC for Nelsow, Rolette and > Towner counties. > Mary takes over from Jackie Hanna who has been with us for a long time. > > Welcome Mary! > > Tim Stowell > State Coordinator - NDGenWeb Project -- Zsedeny Genealogy - http://www.rootsweb.com/~jzed/home.htm NDGenWeb Archives - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nd/ndfiles.htm Pembina County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndpembin/pembina.htm Ramsey County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndramsey/ramsey.htm

> Everyone, please welcome Mary Lindbo as the new CC for Nelsow, Rolette and > Towner counties. > Mary takes over from Jackie Hanna who has been with us for a long time. Welcome Mary! Glad you could join us! :-) Lee S. King Sheridan, Mercer, Oliver, Morton, Bowman, Adams, Griggs and LaMoure Counties

Hi Mary Nice to have you aboard! George L. Barron, 8399 33rd St. SE, Jamestown, ND 58401-9655 Eddy, Foster, Kidder, Stutsman, and Wells Counties and James River Genealogy Clup pages

Everyone, please welcome Mary Lindbo as the new CC for Nelsow, Rolette and Towner counties. Mary takes over from Jackie Hanna who has been with us for a long time. Welcome Mary! Tim Stowell State Coordinator - NDGenWeb Project

Fellow volunteers, The USGenWeb Advisory Board is working on the application for registration of our name (USGenWeb) with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (PTO). To properly accomplish this, we must hire an attorney to review the paperwork and advise us as to proper procedures. The application fee is $325 but the real cost will be the attorney fee. With attorney fees running upwards of $75 per hour we are uncertain of the total amount needed for the filing. We already have pledges from 60 members amounting to $2067, probably more than enough to accomplish this very important task. But the Board feels that everyone should be given the opportunity to participate in funding this effort, and I agree. It is my sincere wish that we could join together and, ideally, that each member would pledge $1.00 toward this very important goal. This would be a wonderful way to bring all into full participation in protecting our name through PTO registration. When we are certain of the total cost and the total number of persons making pledges, we will call in pledges based on the maximum amount needed per person, but in no case exceeding the amount of anyone's pledge. For example, if $18 per person should be necessary to cover all costs, those who pledged less than $18 will be asked to contribute their pledge amount and those who pledged more than $18 will be asked to contribute only $18. If you would like to join in this effort, please send an e-mail by February 1 to Joe Zsedeny, jzsed@westelcom.com, with a cc (carbon copy) to John Schunk, jschunk@skpub.com, with (1) the amount of your pledge (any amount from $1 on up) and (2) a yes or no as to whether it is OK to add your name as a pledge drive participant at http://home.kscable.com/jschunk/pledge.html). We would like to allow everyone who wants to participate to do so. Won't you join in this very important endeavor? Tim Stowell National Coordinator USGenWeb Project

I Want I want ancestors with names like Rudy Montagnard or Mechiznick Von Steuben or Spetznatz Giafortoni, not Mary Smith or William Johnson. I want ancestors who went to school, could read and write, purchased land, left detailed wills (naming a huge extended family as legatees), had their photographs taken once a year - subsequently putting said pictures in elaborate acid free albums with names, dates, and places. I want relatives who managed to bury their predecessors in established, still-extant (and indexed) cemeteries, with carved voluble and informative inscriptions on their headstones. I want family members who wrote memoirs, kept diaries, enlisted in the military, particularly officers who served in strategically important (and well documented) skirmishes. I want relatives who served as Congressional members, judges, councilmen, school teachers, county clerks, police officers, firefighters. I want relatives who had their children baptized in recognized houses of worship, "religiously" wrote in the family Bible, recording every little event and detailing the familial relationship of every visitor. I want immigrant progenitors to have arrived only in those years wherein passenger lists were indexed by the National Archives, to have applied for citizenship in those jurisdictions which have since established indices. I want relatives who were patriotic and clubby, joined every patrimonial society, kept journals, listed all their addresses, dated every piece of paper they touched and had paintings made of their houses. I want forebears who were wealthy enough to afford, and keep for generations, the tribal homestead and left all the aforementioned pictures, diaries and journals in the library. But most of all I want relatives I can FIND! ------------------------- Source: The Parkhurst Family Journal - Vol. 5, No. 1, Mar, 1999 - used by permission. With this short article, I wish to each and every one of you a blessed Holiday Season. Tim Stowell

I ran across this site today, while looking for something else. It has census figures in a little table by county by census for the years 1900-1990 with increase/decrease figures and percents. http://recenter.tamu.edu/Data/popcd/popcs38.html It has some commercial interest too, but the data is in a nice format. Tim

May each of you enjoy the Thanksgiving holiday, spending if you can time with your family and extended families. Tim Stowell

Hansboro News Newspaper, Towner County, uploaded for the years 1915 and 1916, courtesy Mary Lindbo. For anyone wanting the flavor of the times reading these transcrips are a window on the past. Joe -- Zsedeny Genealogy - http://www.rootsweb.com/~jzed/home.htm NDGenWeb Archives - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nd/ndfiles.htm Pembina County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndpembin/pembina.htm Ramsey County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndramsey/ramsey.htm

The 1900 Census images are now online for Foster and Stutsman counties with Traill County soon to follow. More historical indexes are now online for Traill County courtesy of Gerry Mohn and Leroy Madson. Joe -- Zsedeny Genealogy - http://www.rootsweb.com/~jzed/home.htm NDGenWeb Archives - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nd/ndfiles.htm Pembina County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndpembin/pembina.htm Ramsey County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndramsey/ramsey.htm

I'm here... Not much has changed with the Stark County site over the summer. I have cemetery data to input and hope to get that done this winter while we're all stuck inside! Crystal Lampl crystal@lampl.net Stark County, North Dakota -----Original Message----- From: Tim Stowell [mailto:tstowell@chattanooga.net] Sent: Monday, November 06, 2000 5:27 PM To: NDGENWEB-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [NDGENWEB-L] Roll Call Dear NDGenWeb coordinators, It's time once again to touch base with you all. I hope you all have had a nice summer. Please respond and let me know which counties and which email address you prefer to have on the county selection page if different from the one that receives this email. Please also feel free to give to this list an update of the progress and/or new additions to your county sites. Thanks, Tim

Dear NDGenWeb coordinators, It's time once again to touch base with you all. I hope you all have had a nice summer. Please respond and let me know which counties and which email address you prefer to have on the county selection page if different from the one that receives this email. Please also feel free to give to this list an update of the progress and/or new additions to your county sites. Thanks, Tim

Goerge Barron spent the summer walking and reading the inscriptions on the stones in the Jamestown cemeteries and cross referencing and clarifying them, where necessary, with the funeral director records. All in all the index to his work amounted to over 300k bytes which are now formatted, uploaded and linked to the Stutsman Archive page TOC. Thanks George, you are leaving a great legacy. Joe -- Zsedeny Genealogy - http://www.rootsweb.com/~jzed/home.htm NDGenWeb Archives - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nd/ndfiles.htm Pembina County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndpembin/pembina.htm Ramsey County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndramsey/ramsey.htm

The Election Study Committee is taking a survey! This survey is to gather input from all of you regarding participation in USGenWeb Project Elections. All responses will be kept confidential and will be used solely to assist the Committee in formulating recommendations for election procedures. Please take a moment to tell us your thoughts on this very important issue. http://www.timmweb.pair.com/esc/survey1.htm The Election Study Committee.

Two more surname indexes are up for Traill County. Pioneer names are our most important contribution to genealogical researchers and we now have four surname indexes with many pioneer names up for Traill Count. Thanks goes to Gerry Mohn for this work. She tells me she is a 73 year old grandmother just trying to stay busy. God bless her. A little later I will be linking to the 1880 Census images for Grand Forks which John Schunk uploaded this week. Let me emphasize once again the importance of linking your pages to the coresponding county page in the Archives. That way your researchers will always have the latest info that has been uploaded without you having to touch your pages unless you want to so. This Project is much more than a few links to genealogical sources. It is more about datatbases that provide source information to researchers. Thanks Joe -- Zsedeny Genealogy - http://www.rootsweb.com/~jzed/home.htm NDGenWeb Archives - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nd/ndfiles.htm Pembina County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndpembin/pembina.htm Ramsey County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndramsey/ramsey.htm

More Hansboro newspaper transcriptions (1914) are now online for Towner County. This group provides a window into the lives of the people in that area 86 years ago. Mary Lindbo is again the author of these latest transcriptions. The 1900 Census Index for Nelson County is nearly complete and will be linked to the images. Joe -- Zsedeny Genealogy - http://www.rootsweb.com/~jzed/home.htm NDGenWeb Archives - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nd/ndfiles.htm Pembina County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndpembin/pembina.htm Ramsey County, ND - http://www.rootsweb.com/~ndramsey/ramsey.htm

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