Mike, Do not give up your site. You and I have invested great hours into your sites. I have lived here all my live and your site and my site are the best county sites in the state of South Carolina. You and Bushy have don a great job with the Churches, Cemetaries, and the Wills. Yours In History, "The Huguenot" John J. Simons III ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Hartman" <MIKE_BUSHY@homexpressway.net> To: <SCBERKEL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2002 9:55 AM Subject: [SCBERKEL] The Need for New Berkeley County Web Page Coordinators? > Hello all, > Bushy and I were just contacted by someone just starting up another > Berkeley County web page. Please do not consider this flaming or criticizing > the owner or other owners of other Berkeley County web pages. This owner was > very nice and requested permission to post their page information on the > mailing list and didn't wish to step on any toes. We appreciate that, and > got > us to thinking to ask a question of the members of the list. > We have lived in Berkeley County since 1997. We have coordinated the > Rootsweb SCGenWeb county web page for several years now, just about as long > as we have been here. We do not have any family in Berkeley County. We did > this because when we first started doing genealogy online we found that this > county site was up for adoption. Our whole goal was to give back to the > genealogy community as we received from others in other states that our > families did and do live in. We recently spent many hours revising the page > and removing all data from the previous owner John Simons, who has his own > web page with the Berkeley County Historical Society, you can find a link to > his page from ours. We found that most of the Berkeley county web pages > focused on differing areas and if we all worked together we could all > intensively cover those areas in which we were most interested. Mike and I > enjoy photographing headstones and cemeteries in hopes of preserving the > images before the stones are gone. We also have started going to Charleston > and paying for copies of early wills by going through the microfilms and > pulling out all those that mention Berkeley County or her parishes. This is > somewhat expensive but we felt that it was worth it to provide a quality web > page since we were not receiving any submissions. We also just obtained > copies of the 1790 census from Charleston. > > Back to the purpose of this posting: > > 1. We would like to ask the subscribers of the Berkeley County mail list if > they feel that our web page is needed, since there are so many others? Here > are just a couple of examples: > > http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~tga/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~scbchs/index.htm > > 2. And/or would you like for someone else to take the SCGenWeb Berkeley > County web page over, possibly a native to the area vice persons recently > moved here? > > Only thing that we ask is for honesty, and that you make your responses to > the list. Please, let's keep it polite. Anyone that does not respond will > be considered as a vote for us to give up the web page to someone else. We > will be more than happy to honor the request of the > majority. > > Have a great genealogical day! > Mike & Bushy > > > > > ==== SCBERKEL Mailing List ==== > How to unsubscribe. Send a message to SCBERKEL-L-request@rootsweb.com > that contains (in the body of the message) the word "unsubscribe" (without > the quotes)and no additional text. > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 >