Hi all, This conversation has raised a couple of questions in my mind. Are your, or whoever, suggesting that the information on our county pages also be stored in the archives? It just seems like a waste of space to double post. I realize that any conty coordinator can stop being a cc and pull down all the pages they have posted. I would be interested in knowing whether anyone knows if this has happened. I guess I just find it hard to believe that anyone who has been actively involved as a county coordinator would take down information if they decided they could no longer devote the time needed to maintain a county. <> I just realized that there could be other reasons for a cc to remove pages. Anyway, would be interested in knowing whether you think all the county info should also be posted in the archives. I believe that one reason cc's haven't done this in the past is that the "rules" for the archives said the information posted belonged to the archives and not the submitter. This particular "rule" was changed in the latest update to the by-laws, wasn't it? Or was it? Linnie Hoover Howell http://www.telepath.com/sysjer http://www.rootsweb.com/~okhaskel http://www.rootsweb.com/~arpolk http://www.rootsweb.com/~iafayett Linda Haas Davenport wrote: > Thanks for the questions everyone - Let's see if I can answer this simply. > > We who are county co-ordinators - each of us can put what we like on our > county web pages (well no links to sex sites) <g> but that doesn't mean the > info is permanent. If you leave your page and someone else takes it over > then they can, if they wished, delete your info and simply start over. I > don't know that that has ever happened, but I'm using it as an example. > > usgenweb maintains an archive for each county and one for the state. With > the permission of the person sending you info that info can go into the > archives and then no matter what happens to your page the info will be > there for anyone. Most CCs don't' even realize that there is an archive for > their county info. It takes a bit of time to put stuff in the archives - > we all work our fannies off writing html and then I, as the archive > manager, will turn around and ask you to change it to plain .txt The > reason for that is so that no matter what microsoft or anyone else does > plain old txt should always be able to be read. > > There is so little in the OK Archives, mostly census and cemeteries that > the usgenweb project group are doing with help from volunteers. But I > visited several of your sites today and found a ton of info. I'd like to > see all that info in the archives available to anyone who wants to search > usgenweb. > > Now did I make matters better or worse? And no just because you are a CC > doesn't mean you are automatically the archivist, although it really works > well when they are one and the same person. > > Let me know if I can help you in any way or explain further. > > At this time > 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 > > ---------- > > From: Sharon Crawford <scburn1@earthlink.net> > > To: OK-IT-L@rootsweb.com > > Subject: Re: [OK-IT-L] From the new Ok State Archivist > > Date: Sunday, October 25, 1998 5:48 PM > > > > I would also like to know the differences. I have a lot of pages like > > the ones you mention but they are already OKGenWeb sites and linked from > > OKGenWeb page. > > > > RRamsey113@aol.com wrote: > > > > > > Linda: > > > > > > I'm Becky and just picked up Seminole County. This probably sounds > like a > > > stupid question, but I'll ask it anyone. What is the definition of > Archivist? > > > I thought that the Archivist and CC were the same person? > > > > > > What type of material are you looking for? Marriage, birth/death > records, > > > etc.... or personal bio's? > > > > > > Becky Ramsey > > > Rramsey113@aol.com > > > > -- > > Sharon Burnett Crawford ICQ#18100823 > > "mailto:scburn1@earthlink.net" > > OKbits: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okbits/ > > Hosting Counties > > Garvin: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgarvin/garvin.htm > > Pittsburg: http://www.rootsweb.com/~okpittsb/pittsb.htm > > Researching Burnett, Wright, Underwood, Crawford and Gosser