There has been a great deal of misunderstanding about resources available to Horry County researchers, and it is time to clarify, as best I can, what has happened and why. First, there is no "war" between SCGenWeb and The Horry County Historical Society. On the contrary, I personally applaud the generosity of the HCHS is making its data available to Horry County researchers on the Internet. Very few historical/genealogical societies are willing to share their resources in this fashion. There *is* a difference in philosophy between the standards of SCGenWeb and those expressed by Craig Smith as webmaster for the HCHS. We at SCGenWeb are committed to preserving the copyright of all data submitted to any of its county sites to the CONTRIBUTOR. Craig maintains that all data submitted to HCHS becomes the property of, and is copyrighted to, HCHS. As State Coordinator, I had several discussions with Craig about giving credit where it was due. Up until he moved all data to the new HCHS site, data contributed to the site was credited to the submitter. This is no longer true and it is why the HCHS site cannot be a part of SCGenWeb. I cannot, and absolutely will not, allow anyone to own YOUR data. It is yours to share, AND to withdraw, as you see fit. As for Lou (?)'s comments that the HCHS site is one of the best, I couldn't agree more. Between the HCHS contributions and your submissions, all Horry County researchers are extremely fortunate. However, the SCGenWeb site is NOT a "knock off" of the HCHS site and we do, and will, search for data to post for Horry researchers. For those of you who are new to the Internet, please bear in mind that the Horry County SCGenWeb site, hosted by Jim Farmer and assisted by Wanda Martin, existed for two years before Craig signed up as the new Horry county coordinator for SCGenWeb. There is no "knock off of the HCHS site"; on the contrary! Some of the material which you now see on HCHS was up on the Net two years ago and was the product of Jim Farmer's labors. Please show me, if you can, which of the HCHS pages were Jim's. I know, but do you? Perhaps it doesn't matter to you but it does to me. I believe quite strongly in doing the right thing and assigning copyright to individuals. There now exists at least two resources for Horry County researchers: the HCHS site and the SCGenWeb site. There are surely countless others. With regard to the Queries Board created for the SCGenWeb site, it is still intact and may be found at: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/SC/Horry Craig has created a second Queries board specificially for the HCHS (allowed by GenConnect), and I believe he maintains a link solely to this new board on the HCHS site. There is no reason why he could not link to both, if he wished to do so. It would certainly be helpful to all of you if he did, but it is up to him. The original source for the HCHS site was created by SCGenWeb volunteers so quit with the "OURS", I beg of you, and go about doing what we are all here to do--genealogy. Use all resources available to you and hope that one of them provides the link you need to carry your family history back one more generation. Wishing you the very best of luck in finding that "missing" ancestor, Victoria Proctor State Coordinator, SCGenWeb