Taos County here. Karen

FYI ----- Original Message ----- From: "Bosque Lover" <nana321@earthlink.net> To: <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 3:52 PM Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] Fianlly.... I'm so glad this list is finally working again. I think all are working properly now, not just this one. Anyway--this is our (AB's) latest motion. "It has been moved by Betsy and seconded by Angie to confirm the appointment of Mike St. Clair as Recording Secretary, effective 1 January 2005, with duties consisting of taking minutes, recording votes, and handling official correspondence as directed by the Advisory Board." Mike will have some "big" shoes to fill, but I am confident that he can do the job. In case we don't "talk" again soon, Happy Thanksgiving to all Bettie <>< -- Smile -- it does a body good. ==== 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: "bookstorelady" <bookstorelady@prodigy.net> To: <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 21, 2004 11:27 AM Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] AB report Hi Everyone... Another week has gone past way to fast. AB REPORT The Advisory Board has been attempting to begin a hearing on grievances filed by members of the GAGenWeb against one of their ASCs. In fact for the last few weeks I've reported that the hearing was goin' on. Nearly 3 weeks ago Shari Handley called the hearing to order and since then there has been one delay after another. The current delay has been an illness in Mr. Pettys family. My personal best wishes for Mr. Pettys and his family members. RECORDING SECRETARY The recording secretary has asked to be released from her obligations and the AB reluctantly accepted Greta's resignation. Currently a motion is before the AB to accept Mike St. Clair as the new recording secretary... MAILING LISTS Many of the mailing lists that are provided by rootsweb have been up and down for the past week or so. Here's hoping things get back to normal quickly SEARCH ENGINES. This week I found that some of my projects were not beinging 'spidered' by my search engine. To say the least I was a bit put out that hours and hours of work wasn't easily found... Then I read the manual Yah have to have a link to your pages from the main page... These pages had links... just not on the main page... Keith Giddeon created a helper page for people interested in using the Google search engine on their website http://www.giddeon.com/googlecode.html bookstorelady@prodigy.net http://www.rootsweb.com/~waskagit - Skagit USGW http://www.thirdstbooks.com - 3rd St. Book Exchange http://www.facesfromthewall.com - Faces From the Wall - Vietnam/Washington ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== The Advisory Board: http://www.usgenweb.com/about/advisoryboard.shtml

The NMDI Projects website has been updated. Check out the progress of the NM 1930 Census Index Project and Section 3 of the NM Death Index. The NMDI website is: http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/nm/otherprojects.htm

Thank you Charles Barnum and Edwina Frazier-Hewett for your wonderful volunteer service hosting Torrance County. Edwina is unable to continue as CC, and both Charles and Edwina have resigned. Charles has very graciously given permission to use the materials on the current Torrance County Web site. Are you interested in hosting Torrance County as CC? Please let me know: susanbellomo@yahoo.com. If you think you might be interested, take a look at the CC Guidelines on our national USGenWeb site: http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/CCguidelines.shtml. Questions? Please ask. I am working on getting a basic Web site on line, but if someone is interested in doing their own, that would be great. Rootsweb has given us free Web space for Torrance County. For those of you who are traveling, have a safe trip. Happy Thanksgiving a little early to you! Susan Susan Stockbridge Bellomo susanbellomo@yahoo.com State Coordinator, NMGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmgenweb/ County Coordinator, Chaves and Otero Counties

----- Original Message ----- From: "bookstorelady" <bookstorelady@prodigy.net> To: <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 11:23 AM Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] AB report Top of the Morning... Feelin' more than a bit Irish as 2 weeks ago I found my first four leaf clover and it is only now starting to fade... I thought I would get the weekly report off so that the weekend will start that much earlier. AB NEWS The Advisory Board is now in a hearing about Richard Pettys and Georgia. Those of you that are on Discuss know Mr. Pettys views. Again any conversation I have had on this Hearing is private and I do try to keep my promises... I will guess that this hearing will not be long and drawn out. Other business... the AB has been listening to two grievances I believe one has been cleared up... The second one may require more time. USGenWeb News Magazine It's out and it's cool. If you didn't get a copy in your email... drop the list or me a line... We'll get you signed up TECH Help of the Week I noticed a few years ago that my ftp program didn't list all my files that I knew were online... but it didn't become an issue until I wanted to edit some of the files i couldn't view. I kept MIRC and Discuss humming for a couple of days... and this is what I understand that I learned...<grin> and all those people that helped.... THANK YOU!!!! 1. Most ftp will truncate the list of files/jpgs on site at some number... in my case after 2000 files nothing else was pulled up...<sigh> That meant I saw all files in alphabetical order A through the beginning of S... I needed to reduce the files/jpgs in my main directory by creating subdirectories... 2. Making subdirectories is really easy... just ask the right persons... 3. In moving and resaving - my jpgs added to their size... (I knew it already but was still sad to see each one get 1 K bigger and know I was losing quality) 4. The process I used back in 2000/2002 made my jpgs not work in the subdirectories... (they worked elsewhere but not the subs...<sigh>) That problem was cleared up by running the jpgs through another program... like an optimizer or sending to myself as email... I thank everyone who sends notes to the lists with suggestions and corrections. Yes, even the ones that tell me I'm wrong. Darilee bookstorelady@prodigy.net http://www.rootsweb.com/~waskagit - Skagit USGW http://www.thirdstbooks.com - 3rd St. Book Exchange http://www.facesfromthewall.com - Faces From the Wall - Vietnam/Washington ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== To search the mail list archives, go to http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=USGENWEB-SW

Do you belong to one of the Rootsweb lists.. like New Mexico list or the Colorado list? The coordinators are beyond nice and quite well informed. They may be able to do a look up for you. I do not recognize those names you mention. My great great grandparents Francisco Estevans and Carmelita family was in the San Luis Valley of south central Colorado and primarily the area around Chamita NM-- Espanola, Santa Fe and into Taos NM. I also have Martinez (Martin, Martine, Martines), Cantu, Garcia, Mestas, Valdez that am working with. And many more. Please stay in touch. Somewhere, someday, sometime, perhaps the Salazar's shall meet.. Gloria Salazar-Richhart Neil Rodriguez wrote: > Hi Gloria,MY great grandmother was Andrea Avelina Valdez from San > Luis (and Fort Garland), and her parents were Juan Valdez and > Apolonia Gallegos. Her husband was Ramon Salazar, the son of > Filomena Romero and Jose Antonio (de Tiberico) Salazar. I have > lots on the Valdez-Salazar side, but I hit a brick wall on the > Salazar-Romero side, but I found something that says that my > Antonio Dolores Salazar was born in 1844 in New Mexico, and > settled in San Luis valley. Someone told me once that his father > was a "Juan de Dios Salazar" and his mother was Maria Nestora > Sanchez from New Mexico, but i have nothing to confirm this.I read > the election news and want to make a connection.Thank you very > much,Neil in Alaska

Hi, Wild Bunch. Hats off to Marcena Thompson for collecting photos for two great cemeteries in Dona Ana County, and for transcribing them! Tom Bombaci has earned a virtual pair of golden spurs for applying his Webmaster skills and time (lots!) to proofread and put the index and photos on line. Take a look! It's a great resource. http://bombaci.rootsweb.com/DA/Cemeteries.html Thank you so much, Marcena and Tom! You have provided a valuable set of resources! Susan

----- Original Message ----- From: "Roger Swafford" <sagitta56@mchsi.com> To: <STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, November 01, 2004 12:50 PM Subject: [STATE-COORD] Bylaws Revision -- News ** Please Forward to appropriate project email lists** The BRC (Bylaws Revision Committee) is in recess pending appointment of replacement members. I think that bylaws revision is the most important task in progress and will likely set the course for the future of our project. Careful consideration of the rights of all components/groups that comprise the project must be balanced with the rights of the project itself. Members who have time to participate in deliberations regarding the proposed revisions at http://home.mchsi.com/~sagitta56/revisions.htm are asked to consider volunteering for appointment. Interested members contact the National Coordinator srh@tyaskin.com or the BRC Chairman sagitta56@mchsi.com

Chaves and Otero up and running. Susan Stockbridge Bellomo susanbellomo@yahoo.com State Coordinator, NMGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmgenweb/ County Coordinator, Chaves and Otero Counties

A little behind but they are all up and running. _____________________________________ Harold Kilmer - NMGenWeb Coordinator for Curry, De Baca, Guadalupe, Lea, Roosevelt & Quay Counties in the great state of New Mexico. http://rootsweb.com/~nmcurry/index.html

shared by Sally Rolls pavia with FHSA. EXPERT ADVICE: HARD COPY Got copyright conundrums? Here's a quick-and-dirty way to tell whether that old diary or photo is covered. For more genealogist- friendly copyright advice, see the December 2004 Family Tree Magazine, on newsstands Oct. 19. Due to complicated, changing laws, copyright duration depends on when a work was created and if it was published. Here are simplified guidelines (although exceptions apply). See www.copyright.cornell.edu/training/.Hirtle_Public_Domain.htm for details: * Works published before Jan. 1, 1923, are in the public domain (meaning anyone can use, adapt or copy them freely). * Works published between 1923 and 1963 were protected for 28 years--but the copyright could be renewed for 47 years, then extended for another 20. If the copyright wasn't renewed, the work is in the public domain. About 85 percent of works published during this period aren't protected anymore. * If a work was published between 1964 and 1977, the copyright lasts a total of 95 years. * Any published or unpublished work created on or after Jan. 1, 1978, is protected for the life of the creator plus 70 years. * A work created before Jan. 1, 1978, and published between that date and Dec. 31, 2002, is protected for the life of the creator plus 70 years or until Dec. 31, 2047, whichever is greater. Confused? You can assume that anything published within the past 75 years is protected by copyright. Sharon Debartolo Carmack Sharon DeBartolo Carmack is a Family Tree Magazine contributing editor http://www.familytreemagazine.com October 14, 2004

Please remove the Soaring Eagle/Millennium Logo if you have it on your NMGenWeb County site(s). Susan Susan Stockbridge Bellomo susanbellomo@yahoo.com State Coordinator, NMGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~nmgenweb/ County Coordinator, Chaves and Otero Counties ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shari Handley" <srh@tyaskin.com> To: <STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 30, 2004 9:17 PM Subject: [STATE-COORD] REMINDER: Soaring Eagle/Millenium Logo PLEASE FORWARD THIS MESSAGE TO YOUR STATE AND REGIONAL CC LISTS A reminder . . . All USGenWeb sites displaying the "Soaring Eagle/Millenium" logo must remove it. It is no longer an acceptable, approved logo because the person who made it has revoked permission for us to use it and has threatened legal action against anyone continuing to use it. The deadline for removal of the eagle logo is November 1, 2004. Please see the full text of the announcement about this matter, copied below. Thanks, Shari Handley National Coordinator The USGenWeb Project ============================================ From: "Shari Handley" <srh@tyaskin.com> Subject: USGenWeb Millenium Eagle Logo Date: Sat, 23 Oct 2004 18:24:50 -0400 PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ALL USGENWEB STATE CC LISTS AND OTHER INTERNAL USGENWEB LISTS: Ginger Cisiewski, the creator of the "Eagle Millenium" USGenWeb logo, has revoked permission for use of the logo on any site connected with The USGenWeb Project. She has threatened legal action against any site using or displaying the logo if it is not removed within 10 days. Please remove this logo from your pages within this 10 day period and replace it with another of the approved logos located at http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/logos.shtml . The "Eagle Millenium" logo is no longer an official or approved logo of The USGenWeb Project, effective immediately. I'm also going to initiate some Advisory Board discussion about perhaps updating the logos and offering some additional or improved choices, and how me might go about that. Stay tuned! Shari Handley National Coordinator The USGenWeb Project

Betty would like to know about the land that her family supposedly gave to the Native Americans, does anyone know anything about it? Is there a place she can look? Gina Betty and Don Gedrose wrote: > > I have been busting my brain to find information on my family. This is what > I know. My great great grandfathers name is Pedro Carrera. He married > Evangelista Perea, Nov.30,1859, Santa Genevieves Las Cruces, Dona Ana, New > Mexico. They had 2 children, Reymundo and Pedro. Pedro is my great > grandfather. He was born July 1,1878 in Hatch N.M. and died Nov.18, 1952 in > Denver, Colorado. He married Manuelita Lucero in Hatch N.M. She is the > daughter of Manuel Lucero and Maria Silva. They had 9 children and Carlos > is my grandfather. I have been told that the Carrera family came to N.M. > from Lisbon, Portigal, went to California. Some of them stayed for the gold > rush and my family went to New Mexico. They were some of the first settlers > there before it became State or territory. I was also told that one of the > women were from an Indian tribe from Texas who went to New Mexico. My > family had a lot of land and it was said they gave some land to the Indian > tribe to live on. I don't know where this is. I was told that a women > named Agripina Carrera was a teacher in California, retired and moved back > to the reservation where they were from. She lived in the adobe where she > was born. I don't know if she is still alive or not. My great grand father > messed up on the census when he put their names down but added an "s" on > Carrera to mean all. So now we are known as Carreras and his brothers > family are Carrera. > I learned about my family about 8 yrs. ago and was told bits and pieces. My > real Dad, Reymundo, was killed in 1961 by a guy in a bar fight. His > siblings have told me a few things but it's like they are hiding something. > I want the information so I can make a book for my daughters and > grandchildren so they know about their ancestors. > > Hopefully you can help me with this. > Sincerely, > Betty Gedrose > 22831 co.rd.22 > Sleepy Eye, Mn. 56085

FYI--book copyrights ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joy Fisher" <sdgenweb@yahoo.com> To: <STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2004 4:35 PM Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD] Copyright Renewal Search Engine Project Gutenberg has the full text of the copyright renewals from 1950 to 1977 on-line. You can download the entire file and search it from your favorite word processor. The file is 32 Megs (10 Megs zipped): http://gutenberg.org/etext/11800 --- Robert Sullivan <rsullivan@sals.edu> wrote: > Can't tell if the book you want to put online is in > the public domain? > Michael Lesk, a professor at the Rutgers School of > Communication, > Information and Library Studies, has created a form > which searches U. S. > copyright renewal records. If a book published > between 1923 and 1963 is > in the file, it is still under copyright. More > details are available > at: > > http://www.scils.rutgers.edu/~lesk/copyrenew.html > > Bob Sullivan <rsullivan@sals.edu> > Schenectady County Public Library (NY) > <http://www.scpl.org/> > Schenectady Digital History Archive > <http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/> > > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail Address AutoComplete - You start. We finish. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail

Here is an interesting looking event. You can attend without leaving home. The following is an announcement from the Family Link Network: Salt Lake City, Utah--- (Oct. 19, 2004) With the continued widespread use of the Internet in family history research, the Family Link Network is announcing today the opening of registrations for their first online genealogy Expo to be held November 16 - December 16, 2004. The theme of Family Link Expo I is, "Now is the Time…This is the Place, for Genealogy Training to Come to You!!" The Expo contains 15 online presentations by genealogy professionals ranging from British research to using animated maps. Also included is a very entertaining presentation called, "Hookers, Crooks and Kooks, Aunt Merle Didn't Run a Boarding House" which shows some of the surprises you may find in your family history closet Admission to the Expo amounts to just over $3.00 per presentation at $49.95 and includes 24 hour / seven days a week accessibility to the online presentations for the 30-day length of the Expo as well as printable handouts on the material prepared by the instructors. Discounts are available for early registration up to November 4, 2004. Family Link Expo I also offers an online Exhibit Hall that the general public can enter and view booths with information on the latest family history products and services. The Family Link Network will also be giving away a prize each day for the 30-day length of Expo I. For a complete list of the presentations and registration information, go to www.familylinknetwork.com About Family Link Network The Family Link Network is a company that provides a combination of exciting genealogy products and services that assist you in successfully connecting to your family history. Connecting means going beyond names and statistics to an actual link between your family and your ancestor's achievements . . . beneficial and enriching information you will treasure! So Get Linked. . .and find out what you've been missing!!! Sally Rolls Pavia sallypavia2001@yahoo.com “We have not inherited the world from our forefathers, we have borrowed it from our children.” . Kashmiri Proverb List Owner: GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES-L-request@rootsweb.com Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/GENEALOGYBITSANDPIECES

----- Original Message ----- From: "Karen Mitchell" <km1109@aculink.net> To: <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 4:31 PM Subject: Re: [USGenWeb-SW] USGenWeb Millenium Eagle Logo That's not exactly how Ginger explained her position on this: To Whom It May Concern: As a direct result of the cavalier and abusive treatment of the volunteers of The USGenWeb Project as well as the blatant disregard for the Bylaws of The USGenWeb Project by the USGenWeb Advisory Board, I hereby revoke all permissions heretofore granted to the USGenWeb Project to use and/or display the logo commonly referred to as the Eagle Millennium Logo, said logo being offered as an approved logo on the national website at: http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/logos.shtml . All copies of these logos shall be removed all pages associated with The USGenWeb Project within ten days of the date of this notice, or I shall seek legal remedy. Permission is hereby granted to forward this message in its entirety. Virginia A. "Ginger" Cisewski ----- Original Message ----- From: "Shari Handley" <srh@tyaskin.com> To: <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 4:24 PM Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] USGenWeb Millenium Eagle Logo PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ALL USGENWEB STATE CC LISTS AND OTHER INTERNAL USGENWEB LISTS: Ginger Cisiewski, the creator of the "Eagle Millenium" USGenWeb logo, has revoked permission for use of the logo on any site connected with The USGenWeb Project. She has threatened legal action against any site using or displaying the logo if it is not removed within 10 days. Please remove this logo from your pages within this 10 day period and replace it with another of the approved logos located at http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/logos.shtml . The "Eagle Millenium" logo is no longer an official or approved logo of The USGenWeb Project, effective immediately. I'm also going to initiate some Advisory Board discussion about perhaps updating the logos and offering some additional or improved choices, and how me might go about that. Stay tuned! Shari Handley National Coordinator The USGenWeb Project ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== To browse the mail list archives, go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/USGENWEB-SW/ ==== 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

----- Original Message ----- From: "Shari Handley" <srh@tyaskin.com> To: <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, October 23, 2004 4:24 PM Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] USGenWeb Millenium Eagle Logo PLEASE FORWARD THIS TO ALL USGENWEB STATE CC LISTS AND OTHER INTERNAL USGENWEB LISTS: Ginger Cisiewski, the creator of the "Eagle Millenium" USGenWeb logo, has revoked permission for use of the logo on any site connected with The USGenWeb Project. She has threatened legal action against any site using or displaying the logo if it is not removed within 10 days. Please remove this logo from your pages within this 10 day period and replace it with another of the approved logos located at http://www.usgenweb.org/volunteers/logos.shtml . The "Eagle Millenium" logo is no longer an official or approved logo of The USGenWeb Project, effective immediately. I'm also going to initiate some Advisory Board discussion about perhaps updating the logos and offering some additional or improved choices, and how me might go about that. Stay tuned! Shari Handley National Coordinator The USGenWeb Project ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== To browse the mail list archives, go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/USGENWEB-SW/

Hi everyone, I am forwarding the below story that just came in on another list. This is precisely why I have worked so hard to film all the stones I can. If the sexton of this cemetery had photos of the broken stones, they could at least try to repair them. Things like this just make me sick. If ANY of you have a digital camera I beg you to get out in your own area and film and read all the stones you possibly can. It is imperative that we get these cemeteries filmed. And even if it's not one of my Counties, I will personally see to it that your photos are preserved and put online. Just once I'd like to have the opportunity to deal with people that do this kind of destruction. Guess you can tell I'm pretty upset by this. Karen ************************ i received this and thought our group might be interested in reading it too, vandals damaged another cemetery OAKDALE CEMETERY RAVAGED DURING VANDALISM SPREE By Cheryl Welch Staff Writer cheryl.welch@starnewsonline.com Stark white, jagged pieces of granite and marble littered the tree- lined lanes. Decapitated angel statues rested in azalea bushes. Two dozen Ice House beer cans lay crumpled on the grass. It was this scene that met Oakdale Cemetery Superintendent Eric Kozen as he arrived Sunday morning at the cemetery's ornate iron gates. "It was very, very, very heartbreaking for me today," Mr. Kozen said later in the afternoon. "This is just devastating ...." Described as the worst vandalism in Wilmington's Oakdale Cemetery history, he estimated 75 to 100 headstones were toppled or smashed sometime in the wee hours of Sunday morning. The gates were closed and locked at 5 p.m. Saturday, he said, but the vandals must have scaled the fence. The damage was scattered throughout the cemetery, with the heaviest toll in the oldest section. "It's like leaving bread crumbs," Mr. Kozen said, describing the path taken by the vandals - a group he estimated was five to 10 people strong. "They leave a trail of damage going through the cemetery." The majority of the desecrated graves were those who were buried in the mid- to late-1800s and are among the earliest residents of the peaceful city of the dead called Oakdale Cemetery. Garden-like lanes lace through the cemetery's 165 acres, home to more than 26,000 people since its first burial in 1855. Considered a historic landmark by locals, Oakdale Cemetery has been the final resting place for many of Wilmington's distinguished citizens including Edward B. Dudley, the first elected governor of North Carolina, and Henry Bacon Jr., architect of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C. The graves desecrated include those of: Civil War Col. Champ T.N. Davis who fought and died in the Battle of Seven Pines, Va. in 1862; MaryAnne Murphy who lived through epidemics and the turmoil of Civil War occupation to die at the age of 77 in 1889; and little Henrietta "Etta" Murphy who died in 1858 at the age of one year and two months. Names, dates and scripture etched on the front of graves tell the story of those who reside in the cool soil beneath dozens of toppled monuments. Some of the gravestones hit in the rash of overnight vandalism can't be read due to more than a century of braving the elements. "Oakdale Cemetery is truly an outdoor living museum of Wilmington history," Mr. Kozen said. "They destroyed a good part of history." Wilmington police are investigating the incident and ask anyone with information to come forward. "It looks like a bunch of kids or somebody went out there and had a party and got carried away tearing up tombstones," Lt. B.L. Maultsby said. "It seems to get a little worse this time of year." He said the culprits face felony charges. Mr. Kozen said security at the cemetery will be increased significantly to prevent this from happening again. Margaret McCall, 89, said she believes whoever is responsible for the damage should be horsewhipped. "I'm horrified," she said while visiting the unharmed graves of family members dating back four generations. "Lord have mercy. This is a sacred place." Her daughter, Marion Danforth, said it was family tradition to spend days at the cemetery, picnicking beneath the towering oaks and tending the graves of friends and family. "It's painful," she said, her gaze sweeping across the toppled monuments. "It's such a disrespectful act. It's not something you can quite restore." Due to the age of most of the stones affected, Mr. Kozen doubts he'll be able to locate family members to repair their elders' monuments. In May, 18 gravesites in the older section of the cemetery were vandalized in a similar fashion and he could locate only two of the families. "It really falls upon the family," he said. "The stones are not part of our responsibility but we do take it upon ourselves to do what we need to do." Police estimate the damage at $50,000 but Mr. Kozen said it's hard to put a price on irreplaceable statues and monuments purchased in memory of loved ones. He is asking the community to pull together and give the non-profit cemetery a helping hand to repair what has been destroyed. Cheryl Welch: (910) 343-2315 cheryl.welch@starnewsonline.com Contributions may be mailed to the Oakdale Cemetery Company at 520 North 15th Street, Wilmington NC 28401. For further details, please contact cemetery superintendent Eric Kozen at (910) 762-5682. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> $9.95 domain names from Yahoo!. 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The RAL results have been announced. Susan ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ellen Pack" <e.j.pack@natchezbelle.org> To: <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 11, 2004 10:30 AM Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] RAL Poll Results **Please forward to all USGenWeb members and lists** The USGenWeb Election Committee is pleased to announce the results of the Advisory Board Preference Poll for the vacant RAL (Representative At Large) Seat on the Advisory Board: Charles Barnum 19 Scott Burow 53 Jason Mendenhall 14 Betsy Mills 76 Phylis Rippee 50 Mike St. Clair 64 Sharon Tabor 30 Denise Wells 38 Total votes: 344 The EC declares Betsy Mills winner. With this posting, the EC declares the USGenWeb RAL Poll closed. The results will be posted on the EC website within 24 hours. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/ The EC would like to extend sincere appreciation to all candidates and voters, and especially to Larry Stephens for his invaluable assistance! If you have questions please contact EC Chair, Ellen Pack <e.j.pack@natchezbelle.org.> The USGenWeb Election Committee ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== To browse the mail list archives, go to http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/USGENWEB-SW/