For those of you with nothing to do tonight, like myself, figured we just start the chat right now, so come on in. http://www.rootsweb.com/~okchocta/chat/ Come in and schmooz with other Oklahoma CC's and if you need a lookup, holler. Type in a name for yourself, hit enter. If you don't go in to the chat room, type in another name, hit enter. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Friends. Fun. Try the all-new Yahoo! Messenger. http://messenger.yahoo.com/

Chat tonight? -------------------------------------------------------- Ron Henson Choctaw Co. Oklahoma GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~okchocta

Spring Hill Cemetery (also known as Eastern Star Cemetery) is now online at okchocta http://www.rootsweb.com/~okchocta Approx 109 listings along with 11mb of headstone photographs have been uploaded. This bring the online count at okchocta to 33 cemeteries with 27 of them complete with photographs. Information is supplied for most of the 80 someodd cemeteries (including abandoned and relocated cemeteries) in the county. Over 4,000 headstone photos are provided on the county site. In addition, nearly 2,000 obits are online. Okchocta is dedicated to free online genealogical information. But it takes all of working together to get the information online. As always, the county genweb site is looking for material. If you have anything to contribute (relating to Choctaw County) please contact the county coordinator at okchocta@yahoo.com -------------------------------------------------------- Ron Henson Choctaw Co. Oklahoma GenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~okchocta

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Marti, Sharon Crawford needs to be back on mailing list. Her email is okbit@cox.net Margie Etter Comanche CC

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Comanche county is the winner of the County of the Month Award for May. Congratulations to Margie Etter and Sharon Burnett Crawford, Co-Coordinators 1st Comanche county 3 votes 2nd Choctaw county 3 votes (winner last month) 3rd Jefferson county 2 votes There were 27 votes for 22 different counties. Ron & Elaine Long ~McIntosh County OKGenWeb <http://www.rootsweb.com/~okmcinto/index.htm> ~McIntosh County Archives <http://www.rootsweb.com/usgenweb/ok/mcintosh/mcintosh.html>

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Marti, I would like to train a local member of the Latimer County Historical and Genealogical Society as an assistant or co-coordinator. Must the individual be approved by any one? Hoyt

Judy - I will send it to you in a separate email. Marti > > From: Judy <jgood@cableone.net> > Date: 2004/04/14 Wed PM 10:53:05 EDT > To: OK-IT-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [OK-Coordinators] Attention Marti > > I have a slight problem. My harddrive is going to have to be torn down, > and for the life of me I can't find the letter that Redgie had sent me > with the password for the Ottawa Co. site. Could you tell me how I can > obtain it again.? Thanks. > > Judy > > > ==== OK-IT Mailing List ==== > USGenWeb Project Election Committee Web Site > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/ > >

Thanks Marti, info received. Yes I have my disks, only part was couldn't find the password stuff. I was luckier than most, that is for sure. Thanks again. Judy okgenweb@cox.net wrote: >Judy - I will send it to you in a separate email. > >Marti > > > > >>From: Judy <jgood@cableone.net> >>Date: 2004/04/14 Wed PM 10:53:05 EDT >>To: OK-IT-L@rootsweb.com >>Subject: [OK-Coordinators] Attention Marti >> >>I have a slight problem. My harddrive is going to have to be torn down, >>and for the life of me I can't find the letter that Redgie had sent me >>with the password for the Ottawa Co. site. Could you tell me how I can >>obtain it again.? Thanks. >> >>Judy >> >> >>==== OK-IT Mailing List ==== >>USGenWeb Project Election Committee Web Site >>http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/ >> >> >> >> > > >==== OK-IT Mailing List ==== >Oklahoma Mailing List >http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/usa/OK/ > > > >

The Oklahoma link has been added to our "What's New" page also. Be sure to write Joy for permission if you want to use one of her images. mg --- Joy Fisher <sdgenweb@yahoo.com> wrote: > Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2004 10:33:22 -0800 (PST) > From: Joy Fisher <sdgenweb@yahoo.com> > Subject: [USGW-Discuss] Use of the Penny Postcard Archives > To: USGENWEB-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com > > I am writing to wonder aloud why more USGenWeb > volunteers were not asking for permission to use my > postcard images for their project sites. > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/special/ppcs/ppcs.html > > To date I have received a grand total of 3 requests. > > On the other hand, I get dozens of requests a week > from others. I have provided custom scans for folks > like > > Smithsonian Institution > National Register of Historic Places > National Park Service > State of Arkansas > Many Urban Renewal Projects > Poster for the Cambridge University Orchestra > > Even advertising campaigns for businesses > > All you need to do is come up with a page that will be > enhanced by my scan and write for permission. > > For example: A class list for a local school along > with my postcard of that school. > > I have many disaster postcards (fires, floods, > tornadoes, train wrecks) - and account from the local > newspaper would help explain the image. Train wrecks > after May 1911 are a slam dunk because all of the > investigative reports are on-line. They list crew > members who died, but not passengers or local > citizens. It would be nice to include a newspaper > story with a list of victims. > > So.... why aren't more of you writing for permission?? > > __________________________________ > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Mail - More reliable, more storage, less spam > http://mail.yahoo.com > > > ==== USGENWEB-DISCUSS Mailing List ==== > --Celebrate the USGenWeb Project! -- Can you identify? > Livery House, Germantown [there are 5 Germantowns in PA] > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/pa/mystery/postcards/livhse.jpg > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

This info has also been added to our "What's New" link on the main OKGenWeb page. --- Linda Haas Davenport <lhaasdav@cox.net> wrote: > From: "Linda Haas Davenport" <lhaasdav@cox.net> > Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2004 04:07:03 -0500 > To: USGENWEB-SW-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] New Veterans Affairs web site and cemetery locator > > VA has made it easier and faster for the public to get answers about family > history, old war buddies or famous war heroes. The agency put on the Web 3.2 > > million records for veterans buried at 120 national cemeteries since the > Civil War. > > The VA's Nationwide Gravesite Locator, at http://www.cem.va.gov, also has > records for some state veterans cemeteries and burials in Arlington National > Cemetery since 1999. > Joe Nosari, VA's deputy chief information officer for Memorial Affairs, said > the records used to be on paper and microfilm. Private companies have put > some of the information online and charged for it, but the VA information is > free, he said. > Naporlee, of Spokane, Wash., also learned her grandfather served with the > Army's 161 DB unit, enlisting June 24, 1918. He was honorably discharged > December 17, 1918. > The VA's gravesite navigator includes names, dates of birth and death, > military service dates, service branch and rank if known, cemetery > information and > grave location in the cemetery. The VA will withhold some information, such > as > next of kin, for privacy purposes. > The site will be updated daily. Annually, about 80,000 veterans are buried > at > national cemeteries. > The VA also hopes to add records for veterans whose families requested grave > > markers from the VA. Those markers may go to private cemeteries or > cemeteries > overseas. > > Search site > http://gravelocator.cem.va.gov/j2ee/servlet/NGL_v1 > > This site was really busy yesterday and people reported it timed out off and > on. > > Linda > homepage: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~haas > MarionCoAR: http://www.rootsweb.com/~armarion/ > TulsaCoOK: http://www.rootsweb.com/~oktulsa2 > > > > > > ==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== > The CC representatives for the SW-SC region are currently Phyllis Rippee > & Bettie Wood. The SC representative is Larry Flescher. > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

--- "Tina S. Vickery" <tsvickery@adelphia.net> wrote: > From: "Tina S. Vickery" <tsvickery@adelphia.net> > Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 12:20:54 -0400 > To: USGENWEB-DISCUSS-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [USGW-Discuss] Call for Temporary Volunteers - Election Committee > > To USGenWeb Project Members - > > **Please forward to all USGenWeb Lists** > > The USGenWeb Election Committee is in need of > temporary helpers for the upcoming National Elections, > for a period of approximately 12 weeks beginning May > 1, 2004 and continuing through the completion of the > USGenWeb Project National elections. > > Responsibilities include assisting with nominations, > and handling bounced email addresses. Volunteers will > be required to be responsive to email, check email > daily, and to participate fully in Election Committee > activities for the time period specified. Three to > five temporary members are needed. > > Advisory Board members and USGenWeb Project members > considering running for office are ineligible. All > other individuals are encouraged to apply. Please > contact the EC Chair, Ellen Pack > e.j.pack@natchezbelle.org > > Thank you, and please consider helping out the Project > during this important time! > > The USGenWeb Election Committee > > > ==== USGENWEB-DISCUSS Mailing List ==== > --Celebrate the USGenWeb Project! -- Can you identify? > The H. C. C. Co. Office - Someone has written "Wiscon." on the back > [post-1907] > http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/wi/images/postcards/hccco.jpg > __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - File online by April 15th http://taxes.yahoo.com/filing.html

I have a slight problem. My harddrive is going to have to be torn down, and for the life of me I can't find the letter that Redgie had sent me with the password for the Ottawa Co. site. Could you tell me how I can obtain it again.? Thanks. Judy

A big, big thank you to Harold and to Marti for posting about Autism Awareness! Wendy CC - Johnston, OK; Love, OK; White, AR OK State Manager FGS Project Evaluator for OKGenWeb PLEASE DO NOT SEND ME HOAX WARNINGS, JOKES OR CHAIN LETTERS.

I have updated my sites with the graphics. Wendy Barry wrote: >Dear fellow CCs, >April is Autism Awareness Month and as you may or may >not know, our son Max is severely autistic. There are >so many people out there that do not know about >autism. >I know this partially to the silly comments made to me >about my son or the nasty comments made on the sly, >out loud in public about my son by strangers that do >not understand. Max is almost 6 and he does not talk, >he is having a very hard time with communication and >sometimes I have some very hard days with him. I wont >sadden you or bore you with my home-life details but I >am emailing this to the list to ask a favor. >The favor would be for all of the CCs to please put up >something on your websites home page regarding April >being Autism Awareness Month. > >The graphics seem to be plentiful thank goodness for >you to use on your websites. I have some links below >for those if you want them. I have linked my graphics >to autsim.org - for education purposes. You dont have >to link the ribbon to anything, just want to get the >word out to people. >I have made envelope seals even, I put them on bills, >anything I mail out. >Anyways, I thank you so much for reading this and >appreciate the help. >Wendy - Maxs mom and your fellow CC. > > >==== OK-IT Mailing List ==== >OKGenWeb Resources >http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/resource/index.htm > > > >

Did you look into Direcway? The first year is rather high but after that it gets down to a livable amount. The equipment cost is what kills you the first year. About $800, which they spread out over the first year. We tried it and I liked it better than the DSL we have now, but Tracie didn't like it so....................... (o:]>*HUGGLES*<[:o) Billie Walsh The three best words in the English Language: "I LOVE YOU" Pass them on!

To those who made suggestions this week about better-than-dial-up services -- I do appreciate your ideas. After chat, I conducted another search for providers in my area [which I normally do every few months anyway]. The best deal I found was still almost $90 a month, plus tax and unspecified equipment charges. Regardless of what those equipment charges are, the 90 bucks base price is too rich for my blood! Of course, I'll continue watching for better deals. In the meantime, I hope that the 80% of you who live in urban areas with access to economical DSL or cable do enjoy that prerogative. I'll suffer a few pangs of envy -- but take consolation in watching my tame cottontails, resident hummingbirds, and various birds that come to the window to let me know that their seed supply is getting low. It's hard to put a price on watching a mama quail parade her babies within a few feet of the guard cat, with full confidence that no predator can threaten them while he is on duty! Sharon McAllister

Congratulations Mr. Ron!!!!! A very well deserved award! :)