Hello CC's, Sierra, Socorro, Torrance and Valencia Counties are checking in for March. A reminder to all the CC's Gina and I are the NMGenWeb Archives File Project Managers. As it is not required, we will ask if your county does not have a link to the Project, to please consider including one. All of us are volunteers in helping NM Researchers on-line in their quest toward their goal. The link of your county/ies can be obtain at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nm/nmfiles.htm. We are always looking to host data on the NMGenWeb's Archives Files Project. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nm/info.htm for further information on how to post data to the NMGenWeb's Archives Files Project. About the NMDI Projects, we are still working on the 1930 NM Census Index. Also, We are getting the Section 3 of the Death Index (years 1941-1949) ready for our transcribe volunteers. Bye for now, Sam-Quito **** A Message from the NMGenWeb CC for Valencia, Socorro, Sierra & Torrance Counties __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com

Eddy County As Always Richard

Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lea, Quay and Roosevelt Counties are up and running. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Harold Kilmer, Coordinator for Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lea, Quay and Roosevelt Counties in the great state of New Mexico. All of these counties are linked to: http://rootsweb.com/~nmcurry/index.html

Hi, Wild Bunch. I've added an announcement for a genealogy workshop to the Chaves County home page (http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Enmchaves/) Saturday, April 6, to be held in Roswell. There is a link containing the program highlights and information on registration, an e-mail address and a phone number. Susan Susan Stockbridge Bellomo susanbellomo@yahoo.com State Coordinator, NMGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmgenweb/ County Coordinator, Chaves and Otero Counties

----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina S. Vickery" <tsvickery@adelphia.net> To: <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 3:49 PM Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] Announcement - USGenWeb Logo Poll - UPDATE To the USGenWeb Project membership: **Please forward to all USGenWeb Members and Lists** Passwords are being out for the USGenWeb Project Logo Poll. All Registered USGenWeb Members as defined in the USGenWeb Bylaws are eligible to vote. Voting will begin February 23, 2005 12:01 am EST and will end March 9, 2005 11:59 pm EST. If you do not receive your voting password in the next couple of days, please contact the Election Committee. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/current.html Sincerely, USGenWeb Project Election Committee http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/ ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== To search the mail list archives, go to http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=USGENWEB-SW

----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina S. Vickery" <tsvickery@adelphia.net> To: <STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, February 21, 2005 11:16 AM Subject: [STATE-COORD] Announcement - USGenWeb Project - Upcoming Poll - DELAY. To the USGenWeb Project membership: **Please forward to all USGenWeb Members and Lists** There has been an unavoidable delay in the issuance of passwords for the upcoming poll. Passwords will be sent out as soon as possible, and a new voting period will be announced. Hopefully the delay will not be more than a day or two. Thank you for your patience. Sincerely, USGenWeb Project Election Committee http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/

I got the logon information for San Miguel County for Rootsweb last week. It is now back on Rootsweb and linked from our NMGenWeb page. Susan

Hello, Wild Bunch. I started trying to get logon and password information February 1 on San Miguel County because it had been abandoned. The Rootsweb Help Desk referred me to Rootsweb accounts. Last week I copied Shari Handley on the my request for the information. Rather than leave researchers hanging with a nonfunctional CC's e-mail address, I've delinked the Rootsweb site and put up a barebones site with most of what was on San Miguel County on my own Web space. This way, I can catch queries and inquiries so they don't get lost in cyberspace. If and when we get a volunteer who wants to be CC for San Miguel County, that person will need to request Web space (free) from Rootsweb or find a Web host. Until then, San Miguel is located at: http://nmgen.org/sanmiguel/. This is the link that I've put on our county listing at http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmgenweb. Susan Susan Stockbridge Bellomo susanbellomo@yahoo.com State Coordinator, NMGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmgenweb/ County Coordinator, Chaves and Otero Counties

From: "Sally Pavia" <sallypavia2001@yahoo.com> February 15, 2005 Do sure and watch; check your local PBS channel for correct time .. here in the Phoenix area it's on at 8:00pm. Sally Never have a few pieces of animal hide been subject to such meticulous and expensive attention. But these aren't just any old pieces of parchment. They are America's priceless Charters of Freedom: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution, and the Bill of Rights. On "Saving the National Treasures," NOVA tells how a seemingly simple project became a five-year, multimillion-dollar technological odyssey. With the newly restored documents now on display at the National Archives, NOVA offers the exclusive behind-the-scenes story of how a team of specialists created the gleaming high-tech encasements for the Charters, which have experienced flaking ink, improper storage, and overexposure to light during their long and sometimes perilous history. "Saving the National Treasures" not only gives viewers a fascinating glimpse of cutting-edge preservation technology, it also explores the background and meaning of these documents, particularly the Declaration of Independence, whose significance changed over time from a simple catalog of grievances against the English king to a stirring proclamation of the rights of all people. The Declaration of Independence is also the most imperiled of the founding Charters. Penned with the purpose of officially dissolving colonial ties with Great Britain in 1776, the document led a fugitive existence throughout the American Revolution, traveling from town to town in a strongbox with other records of the Continental Congress, often barely ahead of advancing British troops. After the Revolution, the Declaration was almost loved to death by the new nation (see <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/charters/damage.html> The Damage Done). An engraver made a copy in the early 1800s, probably by moistening the original and transferring some of its ink to a clean sheet in order to engrave a copper plate. Later, the original hung for decades opposite a sunny window, further fading the already disappearing text (see <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/charters/fading.html> Fading Away). In 1952, the Declaration of Independence was put on display at the National Archives along with the Constitution and the Bill of Rights-all sealed in airtight enclosures of tinted glass filled with helium gas. The encasements were unsurpassed when they were created, but over time they have developed unanticipated problems. The glass began to deteriorate and form tiny crystals, with unknown effects on the documents inside. NOVA captures the consultations of a blue-ribbon panel appointed to preserve the Charters using whatever technology necessary. The project goes hand-in-hand with a complete redesign of the Rotunda at the National Archives, where more than one million visitors a year view the documents. Given the stakes and the range of disciplines represented on the panel-from archivists to conservators to scientists and engineers-there is a healthy debate about what course to take. Will specially milled titanium and aluminum frames hold a vacuum? Should the humidity inside the frames be controlled with silica gel, which has proven trouble free in similar applications? How far should conservators go in repairing physical damage to the Charters? A riveting moment comes after the decisions are made, the frames are built to perfection, and the team begins the painstaking process of removing the documents from their 1950s mounts and making them ready for their new metal boxes designed to protect against every imaginable natural and human-made disaster. Only then do we see the Declaration of Independence out in the open on a table for the first time in half a century, much as it was over 200 years ago when a group of brave patriots took quills in hand to affix their signatures. But the crowning moment comes in the refurbished Rotunda, with the Charters of Freedom in their lustrous cases (see <http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/charters/case.html> Case Closed), as new American citizens from every corner of the globe swear allegiance, not to a ruler or a piece of geography but to a set of ideas-words written with quills on the skins of animals, more than two centuries ago. -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.300 / Virus Database: 265.8.7 - Release Date: 2/10/2005

----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Swafford" <sagitta56@mchsi.com> To: <STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 09, 2005 2:36 PM Subject: [STATE-COORD] Bylaws Revision -- News ** Please Forward to appropriate project email lists** The BRC (Bylaws Revision Committee) has approved the following amendment to Article VIII to be included when the BRC reports out. Note: The amendment contains two hyperlinks ... visit http://home.mchsi.com/~sagitta56/amendments.htm to access additional information. Members are encouraged to send comments to appropriate project lists or directly to BRC members linked from the BRC website. Roger - BRC website > http://home.mchsi.com/~sagitta56/ _____________________________________________________________ *Amended version* ARTICLE VIII. ADVISORY BOARD PROCEDURES Section 1. A majority of the current voting members of the Advisory Board shall constitute a quorum. Section 2. The vote requirements for motions to be adopted shall be in accordance with the parliamentary authority, except as specified in these bylaws. In all cases determination shall be made by the legal votes cast. Section 3. The Advisory Board shall utilize "roll call votes". Members are responsible for expeditiously responding to vote calls. The duration of voting time for motions shall be a minimum of 24 hours. The maximum duration shall be at the discretion of the presiding officer, except that the voting period shall not exceed 72 hours. Section 4. Voting records of the Advisory Board shall be posted publicly. *Current bylaw* ARTICLE VIII. ADVISORY BOARD PROCEDURES Section 1. Nine (9) voting members of the Advisory Board shall constitute a quorum. Section 2. Issues shall require a 2/3 majority, of those board members voting, to pass. Section 3. For major issues, the Advisory Board will announce, at least 48 hours in advance, when the vote will be taken in order for members to have the opportunity to voice their opinion. Section 4. Voting records of the Advisory Board membership shall be posted publicly.

Hello, Wild Bunch. Charles Barnum let me know a few weeks ago that he had resigned from the following two projects and suggested that some of you might want to get involved in them. In the middle of changing Internet Service Providers, I neglected to pass the message on right away. Take a look at the Web sites. This is a great service for people researching their New Mexico roots. There is a link to Charles' e-mail on the pages. If you are interested, please consult him on how you can get involved. New Mexico Family Group Sheets: http://www.rootsweb.com/~nma/nmfgs.htm New Mexico Marriage Records Project: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/marriages/newmexico/newmexico.htm Susan

Thank you, Barbara Caramba-Coker, for hosting Colfax and Union Counties for seven years! These counties are up for adoption. If you would like to host one of these counties, please e-mail me: susanbellomo@yahoo.com. San Miguel County is also up for adoption pending my receipt of the login information from Rootsweb. You should be willing and able to help visitors to your county Web site with information and suggestions for researching their genealogy questions. Web sites need to be updated periodically. Some of our volunteers use Microsoft Word or Composer, which is a free HTML editor built into the free Mozilla and Netscape browsers. Some of us use FrontPage, Dreamweaver, or plain HTML code. If you would like to co-host a county with someone, that's great, too. We've seen successful combinations where one person does the Webmaster duties updating pages, and the other person answers the genealogy queries. These are just a few possibilities. If you have questions, please ask. Susan Susan Stockbridge Bellomo susanbellomo@yahoo.com State Coordinator, NMGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmgenweb/ County Coordinator, Chaves and Otero Counties

Santa Fe checking in Marcena

Eddy County Richard

Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lea, Quay and Roosevelt are up and running. This may be a better year. Hope so. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Harold Kilmer, Coordinator for Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lea, Quay and Roosevelt Counties in the great state of New Mexico. All of these counties are linked to: http://rootsweb.com/~nmcurry/index.html

Taos County checking in. 37" of snow with more coming in tomorrow. Karen Mitchell

----- Original Message ----- From: "Shari Handley" <srh@tyaskin.com> To: <STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 12:40 AM Subject: [STATE-COORD] Correction: Proposed Bylaws Amendment There was a error in the original motion that was subsequently corrected. I erroneously copied the original motion, not the corrected version. State and Special Project Coordinators, please use the following text when disseminating it to your staff. Thanks! The USGenWeb Advisory Board is in receipt of the following Bylaws Amendment Proposal, sponsored by the ARGenWeb and co-sponsored by MSGenWeb, TXGenWeb, DEGenWeb, MIGenWeb, ORGenWeb and WIGenWeb Projects: Current Article: ARTICLE V. COMPOSITION OF ADVISORY BOARD The Advisory Board membership shall consist of: the National Coordinator, four (4) State Coordinator Regional Representatives, eight (8) Local Coordinator Regional Representatives, one (1) representative each from The USGenWeb Archives Project, The USGenWeb Census Project, and The USGenWeb Tombstone Project, and beginning in 1999, one (1) at-large representative. All shall have voting privileges except the National Coordinator who shall vote only in the case of a tie. The regions from which State Coordinator and Local Coordinator Representatives are elected shall be decided by the Advisory Board on an annual basis. Strike "one (1) representative each from The USGenWeb Archives Project, The USGenWeb Census Project, and The USGenWeb Tombstone Project," and replace with "one (1) Special Projects representative elected by members of the special projects." The amended article will then read: ARTICLE V. COMPOSITION OF ADVISORY BOARD The Advisory Board membership shall consist of: the National Coordinator, four (4) State Coordinator Regional Representatives, eight (8) Local Coordinator Regional Representatives, one (1) Special Projects representative elected by members of the special projects, and one (1) at-large representative. All shall have voting privileges except the National Coordinator who shall vote only in the case of a tie. The regions from which State Coordinator and Local Coordinator Representatives are elected shall be decided by the Advisory Board on an annual basis. In addition, the Section 3 of Article XIII regarding Special Projects would need to be amended: Current article: ARTICLE XIII. SPECIAL PROJECTS Section 3. The staff members of The USGenWeb Archives Project, The USGenWeb Census Project, and The USGenWeb Tombstone Project shall each elect one Special Project Representative to serve as a voting member of The USGenWeb Project Advisory Board. This amended section would read: Section 3. The staff members of any special projects (as defined in Section 1) shall elect one Special Project Representative to serve as a voting member of The USGenWeb Project Advisory Board.

----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Swafford" <sagitta56@mchsi.com> To: <STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 18, 2005 10:13 PM Subject: [STATE-COORD] Bylaws Revision - News ** Please Forward to appropriate project email lists** The BRC (Bylaws Revision Committee) has approved the following changes to Article VIII Duties and Qualificatoins of the Advisory Board .. Section 10. 1. Insert "gross" between "following offenses:" and "dereliction of duty" 2. Strikeout "and behavior unbecoming an Advisory Board member" and replace with "or conduct characterized by a lack of fairness and good faith such as disparaging, bigoted or grossly offensive behavior that could be injurious to the project, its members or representatives" With changes applied ... Section 10. Any elected Advisory Board member may be removed from office for cause by 2/3 majority action of the AB, or, by a recall vote initiated by petition of constituents (if 100 votes elected, 51 petitioners shall cause a recall vote). Cause for removal by the AB is limited to continued, gross, and willful neglect of the duties of office. Causes for removal by constituents may include, but is not limited to, the following offenses: gross dereliction of duty, excessive failure to participate in Advisory Board votes, ethics violations, or conduct characterized by a lack of fairness and good faith such as disparaging, bigoted or grossly offensive behavior that could be injurious to the project, its members or representatives. The petition must be posted on the BOARD-L mailing list at least thirty (30) days before the vote takes place. Any vote to remove an officer must be preceded by a presentation of facts showing cause for removal and shall allow for rebuttal by the officer in question before the vote takes place. Current proposed amendments may be viewed at http://home.mchsi.com/~sagitta56/amendments.htm . Members are encouraged to send comments to appropriate project lists or directly to BRC members linked from the BRC website. Roger - BRC website > http://home.mchsi.com/~sagitta56/

----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Swafford" <sagitta56@mchsi.com> To: <STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 12:17 PM Subject: [STATE-COORD] Bylaws Revision -- News ** Please Forward to appropriate project email lists** The BRC has voted to take a final look at the following articles to include in the next report. Comments regarding these articles may be made to the [BRDL] mail list or sent directly to a committee member. Composition of the Advisory Board -- currently open for consideration Duties and Qualifications of the Advisory Board Advisory Board Procedures State Projects Special Projects Grievance Procedures and Appeals Process Roger - BRC website > http://home.mchsi.com/~sagitta56/

----- Original Message ----- From: "Tina S. Vickery" <tsvickery@adelphia.net> To: <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2005 5:55 PM Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] Notice of registration period and up-coming poll **Please forward to appropriate USGenWeb Project lists** To the USGenWeb Project membership: With the passage of Motion 04-24: Single or Multiple Logos, December 28, 2004, the Election Committee has been directed by the Advisory Board to ". . . conduct a poll of the membership to establish the wishes of the membership as to whether one or multiple logos should be used by the Project." "For Polls and other appropriate elections, a period of not less than two weeks shall be provided for Registrations." [B.3.c.ii.] http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/procedures.html You must be registered in order to vote in the poll. The Elections Committee will accept registrations for this poll from January 12, 2005 thru January 26, 2005. Please visit http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/register.html to register or to update your e-mail address and project participation. The dates of the poll will be announced as soon as they are set. Sincerely, The USGenWeb Project Election Committee http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/ ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe, send a message to USGENWEB-SW-L-request@rootsweb.com with the one word, unsubscribe. If you are subbed to the digest, send it to USGENWEB-SW-D-request@rootsweb.com