Thanks for letting us know, Debbie, and for all your hard work. My sympathy to you and your family in the loss of your brother. I and many others appreciate the effort you put into the list, especially at this time of personal hardship. Shelby Ruch ----- Original Message ----- From: "Debbie Noland Nitsche" <[email protected]> To: "Washington Co LIST" <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2008 2:46 PM Subject: [OHWashin] Everyone Please Read - IMPORTANT! > Just a note to let everyone know that Hometown AOL is discontinuing their > websites and will no longer be available as of November 1, 2008. Eliz > Hanebury sent the List an email about this a few days ago. (Thanks Eliz) > > This is the place that I use for the LINKS site and the photos of old > PEOPLE, PLACES & HEADSTONES of Washington County, Ohio. > > Starting today, I am working to save everything that I can on these pages, > by backing things up on CD's. One thing for sure is that I have my work > cut > out for me. > That's ok because it will keep my mind busy because of the sudden death of > my brother, we still don't know much. > > All the work that I ever did as far as transcriptions is safe for now > because I have them stored on my family tree maker site. > > I'm asking that if you ever submitted anything to me to put online for > historical and genealogy purposes to please go to the site and retrieve it > by saving it to your computer. There is several genealogy sites where > you > can donate your work. And there is one GREAT fairly new website out there > that you can submit your things to. This site "guarantees" that whatever > you submit, "you will still own the copyright" and it is dedicated to > keeping genealogy FREE. Below is the link to the Washington County, Ohio > Genealogy Trails History Group. > http://genealogytrails.com/ohio/washington/ > After I get things backed up, I will submit some (not all) of my personal > transcriptions to them. > My friend, Henry Burke is also allowing me to use his site for some of my > work. I'm also going to call Ernie Thode and ask him what space is > avalible > on the WCCOGS website for my transcriptions. If there is space avalible > there, he will be the one who decides what is put online there. (That > is......"IF" there is space available) > > But never fear! Sometime in the future, this LINKS site will be back up > and > running. Only on a different server. It will just take time for me to do > research on my options about which ones to use and which ones are the > best > as far as space and cost. > > Thanks..... > Debbie Noland Nitsche > [email protected] > > Washington Co., Ohio Historical & Genealogy Links > http://hometown.aol.com/debnolandnitsche/index.html > > Historical Marietta, Ohio on MySpace > http://www.myspace.com/historicalmariettaohio > > Dedicated to keeping history & genealogy free. > > PLEASE FORWARD THIS ON TO ANYONE THAT YOU KNOW WHO DOES RESEARCH IN > WASHINGTON COUNTY, OHIO. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > To contact the OHWASHIN list administrator, send an email to > [email protected] > > To post a message to the OHWASHIN mailing list, send an email to > [email protected] > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >