To Charles Harris and others on the list. About tourism / genealogy researching, and FINDING research sites on-line. Last year, a friend and I had 3 wonderful weeks from ME. to NYS. Visited 2 sites in New Haven ,VT ; crossed L.Champlain into a family connection at Whiteface Mt.;' toured my friend to Albany, down the Hudson as far as West Point; back through the Catskills to Cortland Co. [my home county], then toured the Finger Lakes area. Before leaving, I had tried to use various county websites looking for either local history resources or phone or address contacts to make use of. It seemed to me that many of these geared for tourists have NO idea that genealogists ARE TOURISTS AND SPEND MONEY when they travel and that if they could more easily find cemeteries, historical and genealogical societies, churches,etc.--through county site listings--more of this group of travelers would come and spend money in their area. My opinion is that many county sites are manned by young working people and ancestor - hunting is so low on their radar they do not think of people who do this as a source of revenue. In addition, some seemed to have been manned almost entirely be Chamber of Commerce or Real Estate people as those were the bulk of listings . Two counties listed a Historical society . Lake Placid had a lot on the connections to past Olympics and skiing--that kind of thing. It seems to me that if people in genealogy who know active business people could get to either individuals or to such meetings and 'talk up' what genealogy visitors need during a visit, this could often be remedied. Better yet, if various Genealogy Societies could make up a brochure of such material from its knowledgeable resources and just GIVE a copy to the correct persons producing a county website--the producers would be only too happy to include the genealogy resource information. Wouldn't this make a good community-service project for ANY Genealogy Society? I live in soggy southern CA. and cannot afford to come east often. But, anyone ,please feel free to use these suggestions anywhere it might be helpful. Thanks, Charlotte J.[SMITH] Sheldon from Cortland and Homer,NYS NY-CENTRA-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Part 1.1Type: message/rfc822 > > Part 1.2Type: message/rfc822 > > Part 1.3Type: message/rfc822 > > Part 1.4Type: message/rfc822 > > Part 1.5Type: message/rfc822 > > Part 1.6Type: message/rfc822