Congratulations on your position from me, too. I'm among those who would like to have a more active list but delete the gatewayed messages. It's just way too awkward. Whoever had the bright idea to tie them into the list doesn't get any brownie points from me. Nancy Edwards wrote: > Congrats, Don, on your new position as VP of Development for OGS. > > Like you, I find the lack of activity on the LawCo List disappointing. > There is so much history in this area plus there is such a cross-over > with so many families having connections with several surrounding WV > and KY counties as well as other OH counties, so it would seem this > would generate a lot of postings. The gatewayed messages seem to be > more frequent on a number of Lists, but I often find that clicking that > link and going back and forth is just not to my liking, so it isn't > unusual for me to just delete those messages. Not saying that's > particularly useful to others or to me, but it does happen. I'd much > prefer to see the postings direct to the List. > Wish I had a solution to increasing the List activity. I sometimes > wonder how many locals are active in the various Gen. societies but not > online. > > Nancy Edwards > - Georgia - > > On Apr 30, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Lawcoloreman@aol.com wrote: > > >> Welcome to the list for any new subscribers. I have been the list >> admin. >> for several years now, and all of you nice folks have made it an easy >> job. >> The biggest problem I have is that so few of you post info or queries. >> Most of the posts coming thru are gate-wayed from the Lawrence County >> message >> board. >> I attended the Ohio Genealogical Society 2010 Conference at the >> Seagate >> Center in Toledo last week. I had been an OGS Trustee for 5 years, >> and at >> the annual business luncheon, I became the Vice President of >> Development. >> I'll know more about what exactly this position will entail as I get >> to meet >> with the committee chairs who report to me. I welcome comments and >> suggestions from any of you, either OGS members or not. The Lawrence >> County >> Genealogical Society is the 74th Chapter of OGS. OGS is in the final >> stages of >> building a new 18,000 sq. ft. library, on Ohio Rt. 97 (exit 165), >> about a >> mile east of I-71, in Richland County. We'll be moving about 40,000 >> books, >> microfilms, manuscripts, etc. to that new building in June, with an >> official Grand Opening in July. Any of you who are interested can go >> to the OGS >> web site at www.ogs.org >> There is info about the organization and its operations, access to >> members >> only databases, applications for the four lineage groups, and a link >> to a >> photo history of the construction, from the groundbreaking in late >> May 2009 >> up thru last week. >> >> Donald R Clark, ohlawren list admin. >> OGS VP for Development >> Corresponding Sec. and Newsletter Editor for the Lawrence Co. Gene. >> Soc. >> PO Box 1035 >> Proctorville, OH 45669-1035 >> Lawcoloreman@aol.com >> Ph. 740-886-7230 or 886-6671(thru mid Aug.) >> Cell 304-521-3917 (doesn't work at home) >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> OHLAWREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to OHLAWREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >