Dear Pyle cousins, Eastman's is having a contest for who has the best genealogy site. I am very partial to the Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants site because: I think it is a great website, I belong to that organization, Joy Gilchrist, the executive director, is also a member of our Pyle list. If you haven't visited the HCPD site, please do so and give it your consideration. After reading what follows and when you are ready to send your e-mail to cast your vote, remember to put http://www.rootsweb.com/~hcpd in the subject line of your e-mail. If you have any questions about any of these, please don't hesitate to ask. Sara The following is from Eastman's: - Who Is The "Best of the Web"? What site is the "best genealogy site on the World Wide Web?" Do you have an opinion? If so, you can make your opinion heard. I am pleased to announce that the readers of this newsletter now have the opportunity to honor a genealogy Web site with a "Readers' Choice Award" to be issued by this newsletter. The readers of this newsletter will pick the site to be named "Best Genealogy Site on the World Wide Web." What qualifies as "best site?" That is strictly up to you. You can nominate a site because it is interesting or because it has nice graphics or because it has excellent maps or is full of valuable genealogy reference materials. I would suggest that you should nominate a site because it is the one genealogy Web site that you go back and visit time and time again. However, even that guideline is optional. The choice is yours to make. When you cast your vote, you might write a couple of sentences about why you think this site is best, although that description is not absolutely required. I have set up an "electronic voting machine" that you can use to cast a vote for this "best of the Web" award. The voting machine will tabulate the results, and I will announce them in the November 29 newsletter. The winning World Wide Web site will then be allowed to post the results on the site. That Web site also will be entitled to all the fame and notoriety that is included with this Online Genealogy Newsletter's Readers' Choice Award. Enough said! To cast your vote, you must follow the following instructions EXACTLY. If you do not send your vote to the right e-mail address or if you do not use the proper message title, your e-mail will disappear into the Internet dark hole. To cast a vote for "Best Genealogy Site on the World Wide Web," send an email to: bestsite@rootscomputing.com The title of the message must contain the full Web site address and nothing else. For instance, any of the following would be proper message titles: http://www.ancestry.com http://www.rootscomputing.com http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock/ http://www.acs.ucalgary.ca/~dsucha/schuetz.html http://ynot.netgrp.net/~tursky/ Insert your favorite site's address in the message title space. Note that the message title must begin with "http://" as the electronic tally software looks for those letters. Please list the address, but do not add any other words in the title. Do not say "My vote is..." or anything like that in the title, simply list the actual URL beginning with the letters "http://". You can write descriptive text in the body of the e-mail. The automatic vote tally software will ignore the body text. However, once the votes are tallied, a human will go through the messages that nominated the winning site and will look for any comments you may have about the site. Some of those comments may be published in the November 29 announcement. Only one vote per person is allowed. All votes must be received on or before November 25, 1997. Again, do not send your vote to my e- mail address. You must send it to: bestsite@rootscomputing.com OK, which site is "the best genealogy site on the Web?"