Listers, I am sure that most of you remember Susan Pieroth, At one time she was the State Coordinator for the RIGENWEB and has made it what it is today, she also created and was the Mail list adminisrator for this mail list for several years, she is the County Coordinator for Newport county from which she is retiring If there is anyone on this list that would like to volunteer to replace her Contact Susan W Pieroth [email protected] and/or Susan Irish Nahas [email protected] Following is her announcement plus some of the qualifications and projects To Susan Irish, current State Coordinator for the RIGENWEB After ten years I have decided it's time to retire as the Coordinator of the Newport County RIGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~rinewpor/ Other projects are piling up, and I find I'm unable to get it all done. In particular, Barbara Austin and Letty Champion have taken hundreds of photos of gravestones in the county - see linked cemeteries on http://www.rootsweb.com/~rinewpor/cemeteries/ It's valuable information, but it turned out to be more than I can handle. Some pictures are easily added to websites, but the way this was sent, along with the volume (almost 1400 on my computer, but probably more by now that I have not been sent) is more time consuming. Rather than have the images not go up with the appropriate information (most information is from John Sterling's database) or be moved to another location, I would prefer that someone else take over the county. Naturally, whoever does take it over will need to be very familiar with creating web pages. I can send the person a CD with all the pages and my files (the cemetery images have all been renamed so they can be loaded on RootsWeb) as well as the original CD's from Barb Austin and John Sterling (he reworked the images) as backup. The queries for Newport County are few and far between. The Ancestry message board doesn't get much activity either. I would recommend discontinuing the queries and just have a link to the message board and information on joining the mailing lists. Susan Arlan Maguire... ********************************************************************* Administrator: RIGENWEB Mail List Email: [email protected] ********************************************************************* County Coordinator: Kent County Rhode Island http://www.rootsweb.com/~rikent/ Washington County Rhode Island http://www.rootsweb.com/~riwashin/ **********************************************************************