Great going Charm!! >Date: Sat, 25 May 2002 16:55:13 -0500 >From: John Schunk <[email protected]> >Subject: [USGenWeb-SW] USGenWeb Virtual Tour - Site of the Week, Part 1 >To: [email protected] > >Permission granted to forward this e-mail -- > >This is the final week for the USGenWeb Virtual Tour in its current format. > The tour began last September on USGENWEB-SW (with Nacogdoches County >TXGenWeb), and it's fitting that the Tour returns to its SW/SC "roots" for >this last Site of the Week -- Cherokee Nation, OKGenWeb >(http://www.rootsweb.com/~itcherok/), coordinated by Chairmaine Keith >([email protected]). > >Please visit sometime this week, and then drop Charmaine an e-mail with >your comments, suggestions, questions, praise, etc. > >Now by way of introduction, here are a few words from Chairmaine about >herself and her involvement in USGenWeb: > > >My name is Charmaine Keith, Coordinator for the Cherokee Nation, Oklahoma > >the Virtual Tour site for the week of May 26 through June 1. > > > >I want to thank you for the opportunity to be part of the Virtual Tour Site > >of the Week. I consider this a wonderful chance to receive opinions and > >suggestions on improving the Cherokee Nation site, a great way of exploring > >sites and checking out sites I might never explore otherwise. > > > >I first started using USGenWeb late in 1998 as a researcher; by the middle > >of 1999 I was searching for information that I could submit to the counties > >that I was researching, and submitting everything I could find. 1999 was > >also the time I started thinking I would really like to adopt a county, and > >put my energy into one spot, but I'm slow, real slow, knew nothing about > >html or creating a site. Thanks to Marti Graham SC and Sharon Crawford Co > >SC of OKGenWeb, in 2001 they gave me the final little push needed to adopt > >my first county. Its been a fun journey ever since. My list grew from there; > >I now take care of Cherokee Nation, Atoka Co., Delaware Co. and Choctaw > >Nation all on OKGenWeb. > > > >As the census would say I'm a homemaker. Mother of three adult children, > >grandmother of two wonderful grandsons, and the wife of a man who > >understands the number of hours I spend at the computer or at least I hope > >he does. And sometimes total companion of this computer I set in front of. > > > >Thank you John for this opportunity and thank you Marti and Sharon for the > >little push I needed to get started. > > > >With Great Appreciation > >Charmaine Keith > > > >==== USGENWEB-SW Mailing List ==== >To unsubscribe, send a message to [email protected] >with the one word, unsubscribe. If you are subbed to the digest, >send it to [email protected]