On Sat, 11 May 2002, Sharon wrote: > So David does that mean you feel what is place on a usgenweb archives site > belongs to the archives BUT what is place on a usgenweb county pages belongs > to the person that is hosting the county. Did you consider Beckham Co. > Archives your web space also or is this feeling only for the site you host > for usgen/okgenweb? > You say if you get mad and quit your county page you will not leave any > records there for the county nor allowed them to be harvested by google, > just wondering, when you resigned from your archives site did you leave the > information you added on that site?? It is all there in the archives, except for the archived queries that some jerk deleted as soon as I left. Linda said we could archive queries on the html side of the archives and so I did. My heart and soul is in the Beckham county archives. My book that I spent a few years working on, traveling across the south, and published in 1975, is there, along with my uncle's diary that he was keeping until he was killed in action in World War II, along with several articles about him, including the Captain's log of the flight he was killed on. And my grandmother's autobiography that she finished while still living in Erick, before moving to the nursing home in Hobart, where she died in 1989. Everything that was sent to me for Beckham county, I put in the archives. It is all there. > I think the archives is a great thing but no more important than the > usgenweb county pages and deserves the same respect Then don't make "busy work" rules for the county web sites. Some of us keep pretty busy as it is. I just asked for and received permission to upload six years worth of death notices and obits from the San Angelo Texas newspaper. I keep busy without having to put put my name, e-mail address and last updated thing at the bottom of every page. That is why almost every thing on the county site is now plain text and in the search engine. And not in plain site. > It's hard for me to understand how, when we ask for volunteers to HOST a > county site they claim ownership of the site and own all information Rootsweb says we own the sites. Individuals own the county web sites, not the state project. Those are the Rootsweb rules. As long as we keep it to genealogy, we can keep it. > submitted to the site. It is all in the archives. I did not make a difference between the county site and the archives. I thought it was all the same project. That is what I get for thinking. > When I see counties stripped of all info submitted after a CC resigns makes > me wish we could protect the county pages the same way Linda protects the > archives. > Sharon C She is very good at it. LOL The rules were that way from the very start. The archives has always been a top-down organization, and is run very well. The USGenWeb Project started with the emphasis on the county web site, with the CC as the most important person. (I think. Before my time) Maybe that is the reason you get so much resistance when you come up with new things. David > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "David W. Morgan" <[email protected]> > > > As for the county web site, I have my data in the archives, plus I > > have it in the the search engine on the county web side, plus I have > > Google blocked from archiving my site. Just in case I get mad and > > leave, nobody is going to harvest it, except for the queries, which > > were there before I was (1997) and the others which are on the > > GenConnect/Ancestry boards. I also got a password change for my > > Rootsweb site, so it would no longer have one of those easy to > > guess passwords. It is my web space, and I plan to keep it. > > > > I haven't done all this for my county web space in TXGenWeb. I > > am under no pressure there, and we let the SC in Texas know that > > we want NO NEW RULES loud and clear! LOL What is more, he listened > > to us! > > > > David > > > [email protected] David W. Morgan Honolulu Hawaii http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dmorgan/ http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm

----- Original Message ----- From: "David W. Morgan" <[email protected]> > > Everything that was sent to me for Beckham county, I put in the archives. > It is all there. And was this actually submitted to the archives or to the Beckham Co. County Coordinator?????