Bless You, Pam, Your kindness over the years, and your heroic efforts to help as many of us family researchers as possible, has truly and deeply inspired me to do my own part as best I can. Last year I therefore volunteered as County Coordinator for ILGenWeb's Fulton County, Illinois website, and as listmom for ILFulton-L. For one month I have been working night and day to post scans and transcribed information onto the ILFulton website from the treasured and rather rare 1871 Atlas Map of Fulton Co., Illinois (publ: Andreas) after paying a small fortune for it on eBay. My NEBRASKA family came directly from Fulton Co., Illinois in the 1860s, along with many other families. I invite all of you Nebraska researchers to visit our ILFulton website to SEARCH YOUR SURNAMES using our simple search engine which checks our 1,000 pages at once. The 1871 Fulton Co., Illinois Atlas homepage where I am adding links to these pages as I post them is at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilfulton/1871FultonAtlas/1871AtlasMap.htm Pam, I am already receiving terrific response from other family researchers who are in turn inspired by my all-out sharing efforts, and they are volunteering to help me do more than I could by myself. All this sharing is attributable to your magical and selfless giving. Thank you for being the Mother Theresa of genealogy! Love and hugs, Alice, a grateful granddaughter of Seward Co., Nebraska a grateful great-granddaughter of Fulton Co., Illinois NEBRRoots-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > >NEBRRoots-D Digest Volume 03 : Issue 275 > >Today's Topics: > #1 [NEBRRoots] the 1895 Atlas is Tota ["Pam Rietsch" <pam@livgenmi.com>] > >Administrivia: >To unsubscribe from NEBRRoots-D, send a message to > > NEBRRoots-D-request@rootsweb.com > >that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > >and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software >requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > >______________________________ > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: > [NEBRRoots] the 1895 Atlas is Totally Redone! ALL URLS HAVE CHANGED, > please change your links! > From: > "Pam Rietsch" <pam@livgenmi.com> > Date: > Sat, 22 Nov 2003 01:25:42 -0500 > To: > NEBRRoots-L@rootsweb.com > > >Greets All! > >Finally after almost 8 months I have totally redone the 1895 atlas! For >those of you who have used the atlas for many years, the url has gone back >to the original url: www.LivGenMI.com/1895 > >If you have added any links to the atlas over the years, please check to see >what the new url is for whatever page you linked to. > >EVERY SINGLE PAGE url has changed! > >I will be leaving the old pages up for about 2 weeks until people can get >the links corrected. Basically, there is now a folder for each state inside >the atlas, and inside each of the states there is 2 folders, one for the >county maps and one for the index pages. > >For the first 6 years of the atlas it was supported by my nephew but when he >sold his company and I had to change servers, and they wanted $2000 a year, >I could no longer afford those costs. So it was find a place for the atlas >or pull down all of my sites which I hoped I would not have to do. > >Since I had been on the Board of Directors of the USGenNet.org site, which >is the first & only 501c3 host for genealogical & historical sites, it >seemed to be the best idea to move everything over to their server. The only >problem was that the urls were not compatible, and thus I have had to recode >every page again. I am sure that thousands of you found out about the "404 >not found errors" over the last 10 months, and I apologize for the time it >took for me to recode the pages but many of you may recall that I was hit by >a red light runner in 2001 and have been through 13 surgeries and numerous >other procedures which slowed down my computer capabilities to get things >done. > >I have also added a challenge grant thermometer that I hope all the visitors >and those who have been helped by the maps might consider a donation to >USGenNet.org to keep these maps on line. Because the bandwidth of the >USGenNet.org site has almost doubled with the addition of all my sites, >there was no way that the donations that were being given at that time would >be able to support all of the addition of 4 gigs of new data. > >So I looked into the figures of those people that have visited the atlas and >found that just between May & November over 10,000 people went from the >atlas to the main page of USGenNet.org. If just half of those people would >donate $1 that would complete the grant thermometer that I have set up and >would cover the costs of the site for almost 6 months. Since I love to beat >even my own goals I would love to see that total doubled, but it is up to >you the viewer and what you think the data is worth. > >When you make a donation, please make sure to put the phrase either on your >PayPal donation or snail mail donation "1895 Atlas" that way I will know to >make sure that our Treasurer will note next to your name on our Members page >that the atlas is the project you support, and also I will be able to grow >the thermometer! > >Keep in mind that ALL donations are tax deductible. > >I will continue to add more data as soon as I recode the rest of the pages >of all the sites to make all the pages work correctly for you. Be sure to >send a message if you are experiencing any difficulties by making SURE YOU >GIVE ME THE URL that has a problem, and the exact problem you are finding. >Each of the pages has now been double checked 4 times but knowing my luck, >there are still some glitches! > >I apologize if this message is a duplicate, just delete it. If you are a >list owner or are on a discussion group and this message has not been seen, >please feel free to copy and send it. > >Thanks for all the great thoughts about how the atlas has helped you over >the years! > >Pam MARDOS Rietsch > > > >www.LivGenMI.com Home of the 1895 atlas www.LivGenMI.com/1895 >MARDOS Memorial Library many more historical maps & books for the U.S. in >the www.MemorialLibrary.com > >www.ChaseGenNE.com Chase County Nebraska data, this new url was recently >changed and all non Chase data was moved over to my Memorial Library. > >www.ShepherdsVoice.org Home of Shepherd of the Lakes LC-MS Brighton MI. >Come pay us a visit! > >www.HotShepherd.org Home of Heart of the Shepherd Lutheran Church Howell >MI. Our new Daughter Congregation, come sample the flock! > >If you use any of the above or any of the hundreds of bits of information I >have put on the net for you.....Your Obligation is to complete your "Hug >Homework"! > >Pam - List Lady pam@livgenmi.com > >