On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, MYRA V GORMLEY wrote: > David -- > > We love your story. Would you consider letting us share it with our > readers in either RootsWeb Review or Missing Links? Is your mail list > hosted by RootsWeb? > > Hoping to hear from you soon .......... > > Allbest, > > Myra > Sure Myra, you can use it. Jean Murphy is the lookup volunteer. I believe she originally contacted me because of the notice I put on TEXAHOMA-Roots about the new mail list for Jefferson county, hosted by Rootsweb. I have another e-mail I will be sending to the list shortly. It will tell a little bit more of the story. David dmorgan@efn.org --- David W. Morgan --- Honolulu Hawaii Barber Family --- http://members.xoom.com/barberfamily/ Beckham Co OK ----- http://www.rootsweb.com/~okbeckha/ Limestone Co TX -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/

David -- We love your story. Would you consider letting us share it with our readers in either RootsWeb Review or Missing Links? Is your mail list hosted by RootsWeb? Hoping to hear from you soon .......... Allbest, Myra ____ Myra Vanderpool Gormley, CG myra_gormley@prodigy.com Coeditor of: RootsWeb Review http://www.rootsweb.com/~review/ and Missing Links http://www.rootsweb.com/~mlnews/ My Home on the Web: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~gormleym/index. htm

Forwarded as requested. -------- Original Message -------- From: "Ginger" <gingerh@intrnet.net> Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] USGW Election Nominations To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com Please forward the message below to all county coordinators and special projects staff. Thank you! ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dear members of the USGenWeb Project, As you know a special election is being held to fill the positions of National Coordinator and Southwest/South Central County Coordinator Representative. Nominations will be open for the four week period commencing Dec 3, 1998 and ending at midnight CST Dec 31, 1998. Before you nominate someone please check to ascertain that your nominee qualifies according to the bylaws: Article VI Section 9. Nominees for National Coordinator shall have the following qualifications: at least one year (the twelve months immediately preceding an election) of continuous service and current activity as a member in good standing, and eligibility to vote within The USGenWeb Project. Qualifications of nominees for State Coordinator Representative, Local Coordinator Representative, and Special Project Representative are the same with the addition that their service shall have been as a State Coordinator, Local Coordinator, or one of the various positions associated with the Special Projects, respectively. "In good standing" is demonstrated by responding promptly to email, actively supporting researchers' efforts to find information, maintaining their website with appropriate, up-to-date content, and serving as a good example of the guidelines and standards of The USGenWeb Project. You may read this yourself at:http://www.usgenweb.org/official/bylaws.html The nominating committee will receive each nomination, and will make sure the nominated person meets the qualifications outlined in the bylaws for that position. If so, the nominees will be contacted individually and asked if they will accept the nomination. Please make sure you include your nominee's email address. Once a proposed nominee accepts the nomination his or her name will be posted at http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilhardi2/nomi.htm In a departure from the last election, because of complaints, the nominating committee will not be posting bios and pictures of the candidates. Each candidate will be responsible for putting up their own campaign/bio page. The nominating committee will place a link to the candidate's page beside their name, as soon as possible after the URL is supplied to the committee. Send your nominations to: nominate@usgenweb.org THE COMMITTEE WILL NOT ACCEPT ANY NOMINATIONS BEFORE DEC. 3, 1998. Thank you for your cooperation, Ginger Hayes gingerh@intrnet.net Chair - USGenWeb Nominations Committee USGenWeb Nominations Committee Members: Ron Eason Shari Handley Rita Maggard Roger Swafford

This is a story I just have to share. I finally found a lookup volunteer for Jefferson county OK by starting a mail list, of all things. This is a letter I just got from my lookup volunteer, who lives in Ardmore. Her mother, who she mentions in this letter, is 84 years young and runs the Senior Citizen Center in Waurika. David On Wed, 2 Dec 1998, David W. Morgan wrote: > > On Wed, 2 Dec 1998 JM21539@aol.com wrote: > > > David, your Jefferson County site has resulted in a very nice (although a > > little sad) story. We've helped a young (young to me at least) gal in > > Zanesville, OH find her birth mother. The sad thing is the mother (Cora Mae > > Mayden) passed away in 1996 in Waurika. But, thanks to the efforts of my > > mother (Lucille Moore) we found her obituary and a sister who lives in > > Michigan has been located. There's more to the story, but enough for now. > > It's good enough to write a book or make a movie! > > > > (Oklahoma weather may not compare to "Paradise" but it surely has been nice > > lately. I'll bet you can't "walk in the leaves" like we can this time of > > year.) > > > Oh, I would love to hear more about it! > > The weather is lousy here today. > dmorgan@efn.org --- David W. Morgan --- Honolulu Hawaii Barber Family -- http://members.xoom.com/barberfamily/ Limestone Co TX -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/ Talladega Co AL - http://www.rootsweb.com/~altallad/

A while back I posted a message asking if anyone on the Oklahoma lists were USGenWeb Archivists and got back a lot of questions. So I've set up a small page of FAQs that should help you understand how the archives work. And the OK USGenWeb Archive page has had a major face lift also. Stop by and see what's in the Archives now. Thanks a million. FAQ http://www.avana.net/~lhaasdav/ArchivistJob.html OK Archives http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/okfiles.htm Linda lhaasdav@avana.net Home Page: http://www.avana.net/~lhaasdav/Haas.html County Coordinator and Archivist: Marion Co AR http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion State Archivist for Oklahoma for The USGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/ok/okfiles.htm

done! Mike -----Original Message----- From: David W. Morgan <dmorgan@efn.org> To: OK-IT-L@rootsweb.com <OK-IT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, November 29, 1998 6:13 PM Subject: [OK-IT-L] Beckham County -- New URL > >Please change your links for Beckham County to: > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~okbeckha/ > >Thanks! > >And thanks Harold! > >David > >dmorgan@efn.org --- David W. Morgan --- Honolulu Hawaii >Barber Family -- http://members.xoom.com/barberfamily/ >Limestone Co TX -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/ >Talladega Co AL - http://www.rootsweb.com/~altallad/ > >

Please change your links for Beckham County to: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okbeckha/ Thanks! And thanks Harold! David dmorgan@efn.org --- David W. Morgan --- Honolulu Hawaii Barber Family -- http://members.xoom.com/barberfamily/ Limestone Co TX -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/ Talladega Co AL - http://www.rootsweb.com/~altallad/

Marti Graham wrote: Thanks Marti! The Card is wonderful, Happy Thanksgiving to all of you on OK-IT Kathy -- Kathy Welch Heidel ~ mailto:kheidel@tri.net ~ ~ ICQ# 10547674 ~ AOL I/M heidelhaus ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Missouri in the Civil War: http://www.tri.net/~kheidel/mowar/index.html USGenWeb Missouri Civil War Links Central http://www.tri.net/~kheidel/mowar/USAlinks.html The Potawatomi Tribe Of Oklahoma: http://www.tri.net/~kheidel/nativeamer/index.html Clay County Kansas: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/clay/index.html Dickinson County Kansas: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/genweb/dickinso/index.html NEW! Missouri Civil War List To subscribe or unsubscribe from the list,send a NEW e-mail message to: MO-CW-L-request@rootsweb.com or MO-CW-D-request@rootsweb.com

Marti: You have really out done yourself with this one. This is a riot!!! LOL. Ruthie -----Original Message----- From: Marti Graham <marti@myfamily.org> To: OK-IT-L@rootsweb.com <OK-IT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Wednesday, November 25, 1998 5:23 PM Subject: [OK-IT-L] Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!!! > ><a >href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/special/turkey.htm">http://www.root sweb.com/~okgenweb/special/turkey.htm</a> > >-- >Marti Graham, OKGenWeb State Coordinator >http://www.usgenweb.org/ok OKGenWeb >http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcreek/creek.htm OK Creek Co. >http://www.rootsweb.com/~okleflor/leflore.htm OK LeFlore Co. >

And a Happy Thanksgiving to all!!! ...too, too funny! LaRae In a message dated 11/25/98 4:26:34 PM Pacific Daylight Time, marti@myfamily.org writes: << <A HREF="http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/special/turkey.htm"> http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/special/turkey.htm</A> -- Marti Graham, OKGenWeb State Coordinator >>

<a href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/special/turkey.htm">http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/special/turkey.htm</a> -- Marti Graham, OKGenWeb State Coordinator http://www.usgenweb.org/ok OKGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcreek/creek.htm OK Creek Co. http://www.rootsweb.com/~okleflor/leflore.htm OK LeFlore Co.

Happy Turkey Day to you and your too. From Tammie Bob and J'Koa Chada Marti Graham wrote: > > <a > href="http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/special/turkey.htm">http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/special/turkey.htm</a> > > -- > Marti Graham, OKGenWeb State Coordinator > http://www.usgenweb.org/ok OKGenWeb > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcreek/creek.htm OK Creek Co. > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okleflor/leflore.htm OK LeFlore Co. -- Thanks!! Tammie Chada tchada@flash.net List owner for Bearden, Broome, Brumfield and Parks, McClain & Cleveland County, Oklahoma Mailing Lists. Co-host for the Logan County, Oklahoma Mailing List. Stop by the Logan County Genealogy Society, Inc. web site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~oklcgs/lcgsmain.htm Stop by the McClain County OK GenWeb page http://www.rootsweb.com/~okmcclai/okmclain.html Click here to see the MANY surnames I am researching http://www.rootsweb.com/~oklcgs/sur.htm PROUD ROOTSWEB SPONSOR!!

Hi all - forwarded as requested. Congratulations Kathy!! Following three are Oklahoma CC's and on the Advisory Board. Kathy Heidel - Potawatomi pages Yvonne James-Henderson - Ellis, Garfield, Major Co. Debbie Wafford - Delaware Co. Marti -------- Original Message -------- From: Trey Holt <holt@txcyber.com> Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] SW/SC SC's please forward this note Resent-From: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com State Coordinators for Arizona, Arkansas, California, Hawaii, Kansas, Louisiana, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, and Utah please forward this announcement to your state volunteers. Based upon the large amount of support that we received for Kathy Heidel from the cc's in the SW/SC region Betsy and I recommended, and the Board approved, that she be appointed to fill the vacant position of CC rep for the SW/SC region until the next scheduled election as required in Art VI, Sec 8 of the Bylaws. Kathy Heidel has accepted the appointment and is the new SW/SC CC rep. The next scheduled election will be held in or about January 1999 for the purpose of electing a new National Coordinator. This CC rep position will also appear on the ballot as required by the bylaws. Imformation concerning nominations will be available in the near future. Everyone that sent us input I would like to say thank you. Thanks Trey Holt _ Bryan,Texas holt@txcyber.com | ICQ 5191379 The TXGenWeb Project State Coordinator | http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgenweb/ The Brazos Genealogical Assoc | Brazos Co TXGenWeb Site | http://www2.cy-net.net/~bga/ "The views expressed here are that of Trey Holt and not of The USGenWeb Project Advisory Board"

On Tue, 10 Nov 1998 10:24:40 -1000 (HST) "David W. Morgan" <dmorgan@efn.org> writes: > >Please change the URL for Cotton County on your pages to > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcotton/ David: Sorry it took me so long to get this change done. Mark Adkinson - madkinson@juno.com --------------------------------------------------------- OKGenWeb: Roger Mills Co - http://www.rootsweb.com/~okrogerm/rmcindex.htm Stephens Co - http://www.rootsweb.com/~okstephe/stephens.htm TNGenWeb: Tipton Co - http://www.rootsweb.com/~tntipton/tipton.htm ___________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com/getjuno.html or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

Anyone ever heard of a town called Mankato, in either OK or KS??? Mike http://freeweb.pdq.net/mike_in_katy/mikeshouse.htm <--My Homepage http://www.rootsweb.com/~okpontot/pontotoc.htm <--Pontotoc Co, OK GenWeb

OKGenWeb IRC Chat has been changed from 3pm to 7pm CST http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/chat.htm for instructions and download links to obtain the IRC software Today's chat is open to anyone with an interest in Oklahoma Genealogy. Look forward to seeing you there. Marti -- Marti Graham, OKGenWeb SC http://www.usgenweb.org/ok OKGenWeb http://www.geocities.com/heartland/flats/6878 Genie Angels

-------- Original Message -------- From: Bob Bamford <essxbook@citrus.infi.net> Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] National Coordinator Annoucement Resent-From: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com In as much as the SC list is the only way to reach all volunteers, I would appreciate your passing this on to your CCs, TCs and any other interested parties in your states. Thank you for your cooperation. Bob ____________________________________ Hi, Call me a 90 day wonder, lame duck or whatever. I will be your NC until replaced by a newly elected NC in approximately 90 days. I would like to begin by telling you that I have absolutely no intention of running for the office of USGenWeb National Coordinator. Therefore any decisions I make will not be politically motivated. In my view the National Advisory Board MAKES the rules, policies and procedures. In short the USGenWeb Project is governed by YOUR elected board whose duty it is to represent their respective constituencies consistent with the best interests of the project as a whole. I see the USGenWeb Project National Coordinator as the person who OPERATES the project consistent with the policies established by the National Advisory Board. The volunteers on the National Advisory Board have a number of tasks ahead of them and some (an NC election for example) need to be addressed immediately. For your information, below is a list (not necessarily prioritized or complete) of the things we will be addressing over the coming days. 1. Temporary Replacement of SW/SC CC Rep 2. Election of NC 3. Establishment of a Grievance Procedure 4. Establishment of a By-Laws Review Committee 5. Selection of a Board Secretary There are many other issues we will be confronting in the coming weeks and we trust that we will receive your support and cooperation. We, like you, are volunteers. We are not here for the glory but, like you, to help the genealogical community, let's show that community the USGenWeb Project's solidarity of purpose. Thanks, Bob Bamford USGenWeb National Coordinator (Acting) ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ ESSEX BOOKS ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ "Tools for the New England researcher" VISIT US AT:http://www.hertge.com/essex e-mail: essxbook@citrus.infi.net P.O. Box 811 Lecanto, FL 34460-0811 Phone (CC) Orders: 8 AM - 3 PM - Mon-Fri (352) 527-2270 Fax 24 hrs. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Done! Mike -----Original Message----- From: David W. Morgan <dmorgan@efn.org> To: OK-IT-L@rootsweb.com <OK-IT-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, November 10, 1998 2:29 PM Subject: [OK-IT-L] Address change for Cotton County > >Please change the URL for Cotton County on your pages to > >http://www.rootsweb.com/~okcotton/ > >David > >dmorgan@efn.org --- David W. Morgan --- Honolulu Hawaii >Barber Family -- http://members.xoom.com/barberfamily/ >Limestone Co TX -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~txlimest/ >Talladega Co AL - http://www.rootsweb.com/~altallad/ > >

Index for these names added ARCHER-AXTON DEAN-DIXON MOBLEY-MORRILL PADEN-PATTY WYATT-ZMETONY http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/pioneer/pioneer.htm -- Marti

Forwarded as requested -------- Original Message -------- From: Betsy Mills <betsym@1starnet.com> Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] Resignation of National Coord. To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com Please pass this on to your County Coordinators: The board has adopted the following resolution accepting Nancy Trice's resignation - RESOLVED that it is with deep regret that, after days of discussion regarding the National Coordinator's resignation, Nancy Trice has advised us that she will not rescind her resignation. Please join with us in thanking Nancy for her past and continued service to the USGenWeb Project. Your National Advisory Board will now move on to selecting a temporary replacement and setting up an election for a National Coordinator to serve the balance of the NC's term. Concurrently we will be addressing the many issues that have not been addressed for the past two months. Please bear with us during this most trying time. We have always had the best interests of the volunteers at heart and will now proceed with those interests and those of the project as our continuing goal. Thank you, Betsy Mills Acting Chair