----- Original Message ----- From: "Bosque Lover" <nana321@earthlink.net> To: <USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 05, 2005 1:38 PM Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] A Reminder & Message from our National Coordinator A reminder . . . . The logo contest is underway! We invite your ideas and designs for a new USGenWeb logo. For more information about the contest, please see http://usgenweb.org/volunteers/logo_contest.shtml . USGenWeb in the News . . . USGenWeb gets some very positive press in Nancy Hendrickson's article, "The Web's Greatest Hits" in the February 2005 issue of Family Tree Magazine: USGenWeb <www.usgenweb.org> If American genealogy were a swanky hotel, USGenWeb would surely occupy the presidential suite. The free, all-volunteer Web site houses marriage, obituary and tombstone transcriptions; church records; census images; and much more. You can search all these resources by clicking the links under Search Engines on the home page. In 2000, the Special Collections Projects (Click on Projects) started, with scanned images of out-of-print books journals, family letters, and photographs. The heart of USGenWeb though, is the network of state, county-level pages that allow researchers to post queries and connect with anyone climbing the same family tree or prowling the same locales. As reader Phyllis Stehm explains, "You can't beat the USGenWeb for finding people in an area who really know it and can help you with possible sources to check." Congratulations to each and every USGenWeb volunteer! Your dedication to the concept of free-access, grass- roots, online genealogy has given The USGenWeb Project a wonderful reputation as The Place to Go for free information and advice from friendly, knowledgeable, neighborly people. We should all be very proud of what we've accomplished so far, and excited about what we look forward to accomplishing in the future. Shari Handley National Coordinator The USGenWeb Project ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== To search the mail list archives, go to http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=USGENWEB-SW