There is a discussion on Board-L, that in part addresses providing resources to current and future USGenWeb Project Volunteers to assist them with html, graphics, ftp etc, etc. This 'outline' was prepared by the Publicity/Promotion committee that was convened last year. It is certainly not all inclusive, but as an outline provides a terrific start for discussion and input. http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwpub/help/ I would be very interested in all of your additions and comments on this outline. Tina Please feel free to share with appropriate project lists.

(**Please forward to all appropriate project lists**) The Bylaws Revision Committee (BRC) has completed a first draft revision of Section 3 of Article X. Local Projects. Section 3. The local website shall be created and maintained in accordance to all national and state guidelines. The website should include on the home page, a direct link to the state and national projects; an easily accessible area devoted to researcher's queries, the name(s) of the coordinator(s) with current email link(s), and any additional requirements specified by the state organization. Contents of the website should be updated at least quarterly and reviewed under the supervision of the state coordinator. All revision drafts may be viewed at http://home.mchsi.com/~sagitta56/ Members are encouraged to send comments or questions related to this or other revision drafts. Roger Swafford BRC - Chairman

On Sun, 13 Jul 2003, Linda Lewis wrote: > Tim wrote: > > > > > However, since I know of no such case, ever happening - if it takes > > 10 to do a county - say perhaps Cook County, IL (Chicago) or the > > various boroughs around New York City, the areas for Los Angeles, or > > even counties that have 250 to 350 years of history - who > > is the BRC/AB/EC to say it doesn't take this many folks to adequately > > cover these areas? If the state project can live with those numbers > > it is not the business of the National folks to question it and they > > should have the right to vote on national ballots. > > It has happened in the past. That's why we limited the number of votes > for each county. Our founding fathers saw this problem, too - TX vs RI. > > I'm still in favor of one voter per county, and in the Archives, one > voter per state. > > Linda > When did it happen in the past, and where? If you are talking about vote stacking in North Carolina, I believe the SC of that state at the time denied that it had happened. When did we limit the number of votes for each county? According to what I read from the Election Study Committee that Teresa so kindly posted to a web page somewhere (smirk), it was the goal of the ESC that ALL volunteers of this project be able to vote, <except transcribers & lookup volunteers) including all the county archivists, most of whom had no vote at all, and no limit on the number of CCs for a county. All could vote. Texas has 254 counties and 200 volunteers, and they are all eligible to vote. There are 4 counties that have 3 CCs. Things are a lot more democratic now, thanks to the ESC and the EC. The founding fathers were all dead before Texas became a state. When the constitution was passed, the largest state in population was Virginia. The Senate is made up of 2 senators per state, the House is based on population. Even the smallest state will have at least one representative, though. The smaillest state in land (I think), Hawaii, has 2 reps, while Wyoming, a much larger state in area, has only 1. Not sure what that has to do with the USGenWeb Project. Tim, thank you for responding. And I am glad that you have changed your mind about the numbers of voters per county. Roger apparently has a gag order on the committee. Candidates should be able to speak out on voters rights without violating the confidentiality of the committee. They don't have to say how they voted on the issue, but they should certainly have an opinion on a rule that will take away the right to vote for some of our volunteers. David David W. Morgan damorgan@nyx.net Honolulu Hawaii SC - TXGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgenweb/ FM - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm ** http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dmorgan/

Tim wrote: > > However, since I know of no such case, ever happening - if it takes > 10 to do a county - say perhaps Cook County, IL (Chicago) or the > various boroughs around New York City, the areas for Los Angeles, or > even counties that have 250 to 350 years of history - who > is the BRC/AB/EC to say it doesn't take this many folks to adequately > cover these areas? If the state project can live with those numbers > it is not the business of the National folks to question it and they > should have the right to vote on national ballots. It has happened in the past. That's why we limited the number of votes for each county. Our founding fathers saw this problem, too - TX vs RI. I'm still in favor of one voter per county, and in the Archives, one voter per state. Linda

>Date: Fri, 11 Jul 2003 00:54:48 -0600 >To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com >From: Tim Stowell <tstowell@chattanooga.net> >Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD-L] Re: [TXGEN] Bylaws Revision -- News (fwd) > >At 09:00 AM 7/10/03 -1000, you wrote: > > > >I hesitate to forward this, as I am not sure that Roger is on this > >list. But he does speak for the Bylaws Revision Committee, and half > >of the members of that committee (6 + 1 NC ex officio) are candidates > >in the election this year. I can only assume that the candidates > >approve of taking the vote away from some of our CCs because they > >are listed as assistant CCs instead of CC or Co-CC, or because they > >are the third CC for that county (or the third ASC, for that matter) > >At one time I was for a limit on the number of voters for a county - >and in reality - if there were say 10 folks hosting one county and there >were several counties doing that - one would wonder for what purpose >within a particular state - if used for national elections. > >However, since I know of no such case, ever happening - if it takes >10 to do a county - say perhaps Cook County, IL (Chicago) or the >various boroughs around New York City, the areas for Los Angeles, or >even counties that have 250 to 350 years of history - who >is the BRC/AB/EC to say it doesn't take this many folks to adequately >cover these areas? If the state project can live with those numbers >it is not the business of the National folks to question it and they >should have the right to vote on national ballots. > >In places where there are 1200 people in a county - one person can >host several counties very easily for there won't be that much data >to add on line - ever. > >It appears just another effort by the BRC to control rather than enable >the CCs. > >Tim

Please forward to all appropriate lists. ----------------------------------------------- The Advisory Board of The USGenWeb Project has created a Special Committee to investigate and report to the AB regarding the proper use of the MNIGS (Member Not in Good Standing) designation at the State and National levels and related sanctions. The committee is charged to present and recommend to the AB specific procedures and definitions in regard to this subject. There are five open positions on the committee. Will those Project Members interested in the four open "Not A Current Board Member" positions and those Advisory Board Members interested in the one open "Current AB Member" position please send a paragraph briefly stating their position on the issue and reason for wanting to serve to the National Coordinator <IsaiahH@cox.net> -Isaiah Richard "Isaiah" Harrison National Coordinator The USGenWeb Project

I hesitate to forward this, as I am not sure that Roger is on this list. But he does speak for the Bylaws Revision Committee, and half of the members of that committee (6 + 1 NC ex officio) are candidates in the election this year. I can only assume that the candidates approve of taking the vote away from some of our CCs because they are listed as assistant CCs instead of CC or Co-CC, or because they are the third CC for that county (or the third ASC, for that matter) At any rate, I would like to hear from the candidates that are also members of the BRC if they approve of this change. I have already voted, so I can't change my vote. Maybe the list-admin of USGenWeb-Discuss could open this up for discussion on that list. Hopefully, the candidates are all on that list. I can read it thru archiver. LOL David ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 17:54:18 -0500 From: Roger Swafford <sagitta56@mchsi.com> Reply-To: TXGEN-L@rootsweb.com To: TXGEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TXGEN] Bylaws Revision -- News Resent-Date: Wed, 9 Jul 2003 17:08:31 -0600 Resent-From: TXGEN-L@rootsweb.com In order to provide for fairness and equitable treatment project wide a limit must be implemented. Without limits there is too much potential for abuse of the election process. The XXGenWebs will still be free to provide voting privileges to as many persons as the members of the state deem fit. Roger ----- Original Message ----- From: "David W. Morgan" <dmorgan@efn.org> To: <TXGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 08, 2003 2:18 PM Subject: Re: [TXGEN] Bylaws Revision -- News > > Roger, I object to denying people the right to vote. > > The election committee was set up with the goal to make sure > that ALL volunteers in this project could vote, excepting the > lookup volunteers and transcribers. > > Some counties have 3 CCs. It does not matter what they are called, > CC, co-CC or assistant CC, they should all be able to vote. > > At this time, they all have the right to vote, at least in the > national election. We should not be in the business of telling > people they can't vote because they are called an assistant CC > instead of co-CC. > > David > > On Tue, 8 Jul 2003, Roger Swafford wrote: > > > (**Please forward to all appropriate project lists**) > > > > The Bylaws Revision Committee (BRC) has completed review of Section 1 of > > Article X. Local Projects. No changes. > > > > Section 1. Each state organization shall provide local websites which > > reflect whatever divisional structure is appropriate for that state. > > > > The BRC also completed a first draft revision of Section 2. > > > > Section 2. Local Project Coordinators shall be appointed by the State > > Coordinator in accordance with national and state guidelines. > > In making Local Coordinator selections, consideration should be given to > > knowledge and interest in genealogy in the area, technical ability, > > activity in The USGenWeb Project, and existing workload. All Local > > Project Co-Coordinator and Assistant Coordinator appointments must be > > authorized and approved by the State Coordinator. Local Projects are limited > > to one Local Project Coordinator and one Local Project Co-Coordinator, if > > desired, who will each have full voting rights within The USGenWeb Project. > > Local Projects may have as many Assistant Coordinators as they wish, > > subject to authorization and approval by the State Coordinator. Assistant > > Local Project Coordinators shall not have voting rights. All Local > > Coordinators shall be subscribed to the state mailing list. > > > > > > All revision drafts may be viewed at http://home.mchsi.com/~sagitta56/ > > > > Members are encouraged to send comments or questions related to this or > > other revision drafts. > > > > Roger Swafford > > BRC - Chairman > > > > > > ==== TXGEN Mailing List ==== > > The TXGEN-L/TXGEN-D mailing list is for announcements and the > > discussion of issues concerning the volunteers of The TXGenWeb Project. > > To unsubscribe, send a message to TXGEN-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > > David W. Morgan dmorgan@efn.org Honolulu Hawaii > SC - TXGenWeb http://www.rootsweb.com/~txgenweb/ > FM - http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgenweb/tx/txfiles.htm > ** http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~dmorgan/ > > > > ==== TXGEN Mailing List ==== > Rootsweb Help Desk > http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/mail.cgi > ==== TXGEN Mailing List ==== The TXGEN-L/TXGEN-D mailing list is for announcements and the discussion of issues concerning the volunteers of The TXGenWeb Project. This is NOT the proper list for posting genealogical research queries.

In my post yesterday, I said that the "League of USGenWeb Voters" was also known as "USGenWeb Project Votes!". Actually, these are now two separate and distinct entities. They started out together, but the "LUV" group and the "USGWPV" group came to a disagreement and went their separate ways. It is the LUV group that is responsible for the mass message I wrote about yesterday. If you remove from my message the line which says, "(also known as "USGenWeb Project Votes!)", the rest of the message should remain as is. Thanks, Shari

I posted the following note to my CCs today. If anyone would like to utilize it, feel free. Shari Handley =================================== Early this morning, a group calling itself the "League of USGenWeb Voters" (also known as "USGenWeb Project Votes!) sent out a mass mailing to USGenWeb members. In the message, this group bills itself as an impartial service for you, the USGenWeb voters, claiming "no political slant or favoritism". The trouble is that, for most USGenWeb volunteers such as yourselves, who like to pretty much tend to your sites and not get embroiled in the politics of the project, the LUV looks like something akin to the League of Women Voters, which would have been a nice thing to have in the USGW. Unfortunately, though, it is pretty clear that's not what we've got there. Even a quick look at the message they sent out, with language such as, "You Have A Choice; More Of The Same, Or Change", hardly seems impartial, and at least one of the "webmasters" of the LUV is someone who has had a history of political agitation within our project. I urge you to exercise your right to vote in this USGenWeb election. Don't let anyone with a political agenda or axe to grind tell you who you should vote for. Here are some tools that may help you make educated choices: - Take a look at the candidates' campaign pages (http://www.rootsweb.com/~usgwelections/candidate.htm). - Look over the Advisory Board meeting minutes to get an idea of the ideas and voting patterns of the incumbants (http://www.usgenweb.org/official/vrecords.html) - Visit the list archives of the BOARD-L list to see how the incumbant candidates conduct themselves during Board meetings (http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=BOARD-L) - Visit the list archives of the USGENWEB-DISCUSS mailing list (and/or the now-defunct USGENWEB-ALL list) and do a search on the candidates' names to get a feel for what they stand for and how they conduct themselves (http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=USGENWEB-DI SCUSS) (http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=USGENWEB-AL L-L) Shari

(**Please forward to all appropriate project lists**) The Bylaws Revision Committee (BRC) has completed review of Section 1 of Article X. Local Projects. No changes. Section 1. Each state organization shall provide local websites which reflect whatever divisional structure is appropriate for that state. The BRC also completed a first draft revision of Section 2. Section 2. Local Project Coordinators shall be appointed by the State Coordinator in accordance with national and state guidelines. In making Local Coordinator selections, consideration should be given to knowledge and interest in genealogy in the area, technical ability, activity in The USGenWeb Project, and existing workload. All Local Project Co-Coordinator and Assistant Coordinator appointments must be authorized and approved by the State Coordinator. Local Projects are limited to one Local Project Coordinator and one Local Project Co-Coordinator, if desired, who will each have full voting rights within The USGenWeb Project. Local Projects may have as many Assistant Coordinators as they wish, subject to authorization and approval by the State Coordinator. Assistant Local Project Coordinators shall not have voting rights. All Local Coordinators shall be subscribed to the state mailing list. All revision drafts may be viewed at http://home.mchsi.com/~sagitta56/ Members are encouraged to send comments or questions related to this or other revision drafts. Roger Swafford BRC - Chairman

Sorry, I did not look to see that the message went to Ellen, instead of the whole list. Edward

Ellen, For the State of Louisiana, the former CC, Carolyn Henderson cjbh@charter.net (it did not bounce, but she recently resigned as CC) Needs to be removed from the voter list. This was an oversight from the last revision. If there is a better person to report this to, especially in the future, please just let me know. Thanks, Edward Hayden, SC - LAGenWeb -----Original Message----- From: Ellen Pack [mailto:e.j.pack@natchezbelle.org] Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 10:02 AM To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] Appeal from EC Hi, Folks - Voting passwords are currently being sent out, and thus far we've received close to 50 bounces. Approximately half or better of those are "chronic" bounces. They have bounced previously, some all the way back to at least April in the SEMA Poll.

From: "Laura Gottesman" <lgot@loc.gov> To: "Multiple recipients of list" <web4lib@sunsite.berkeley.edu> Sent: Thursday, July 03, 2003 4:27 PM Subject: [WEB4LIB] National Digital Library: The Stars and Stripes: The American > Greetings: > > This announcement is being sent to a number of lists. Please accept > our > apologies for any duplicate postings: > > The Library of Congress' Serial & Government Publications Division is > pleased to announce the release of a new addition to the National > Digital Library - the online collection The Stars and Stripes: The > American Soldiers' Newspaper of World War I, 1918-1919, available on the > American Memory website at: > http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/sgphtml/sashtml/. > > At the direction of General John J. Pershing, The Stars and Stripes > newspaper was published in France by the United States Army from > February 8, 1918 to June 13, 1919. By early 1918, American forces were > dispersed throughout the western front, often mixed at the unit level > with British, French and Italian forces. The primary mission of The > Stars and Stripes was to provide these scattered troops with a sense of > unity and an understanding of their part in the overall war effort. The > eight-page weekly featured news from home, poetry, cartoons and sports > news, with a staff that included journalists Alexander Woollcott, Harold > Wallace Ross and Grantland Rice. On borrowed printing presses, using a > delivery network that combined trains, automobiles (including three > Cadillacs) and one motorcycle, the staff produced a newspaper with a > circulation that peaked at 526,000 copies. This new online collection > presents the complete run - 71 weeks - of the World War I edition. > > The collection also includes special presentations that discuss the > newspaper's content: its illustrations and advertising, its publication > of soldiers' poetry, its coverage of women. Brief biographies of > editorial staff members and their later careers hint at the level of > journalistic talent within The Stars and Stripes. A timeline and map > place the newspaper within the greater historical and geographical > context of the war. > > The collection was processed with optical character recognition (OCR) > software to allow users to search the full text of the newspaper for a > word or phrase. This feature expands the collection's usefulness to > historians and genealogists researching names and details that do not > appear in the headlines. The Stars and Stripes collection served as a > pilot project in the development of search and display capabilities to > be utilized on future releases of historic newspapers. > > Please direct all general inquiries to: > http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-contactus2.html

That long-awaited vacation has finally come, but so has the hot weather in our part of the country. I'll be gone until the 15th and the ASC, Bill Oliver <wnoliver@worldnet.att.net> will be watching over NEGenWeb. Pam, could you change the email address for me on the national page to <cjsnyder@alltel.net>? Thanks Connie

To All USGenWeb Members - *Please pass on to all members and appropriate lists. Thursday, July 3 - There is a computer outage at IU, where the election software is housed. Everything is down for the day. The problem will hopefully be fixed by this evening, but no one will be able to vote until possibly tonight. Thank you, Ellen Pack Chair, Election Committee

--------------050500090906050408020800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In Florida, I try to work closely with the Genealogical Societies. This year the Florida State Genealogical Society is teaming up with the The Federation of Genealogical Societies to host a National Conference in Orlando, FL. They have put a lot of hard work into this conference, it should be a really great one. I would really appreciate it if you could find a way to pass the following along to your CCs and other Volunteers. I hope to see you there. Thanks and have a great day, Jim Jim Powell Jr Dear USGenWeb State Coordinators, Would you be so kind as to share the following message your Volunteers? It has been 12 years since there was a national genealogy conference in the Southeast. So, we want to make sure that everyone knows about it. If you have any questions feel free to contact us. Thank you. Countdown to Discovery - A World of Hidden Treasures Have you ever been to a genealogy conference? No. Well now is the time. In the heart of Florida and close to Walt Disney World, genealogists from all over the country, Great Britain and Europe will be attending the Federation of Genealogical Society Conference, hosted by the Florida State Genealogical Society. Why Should you attend? 1) Over 200 LECTURES and over 95 top-of-the line SPEAKERS. Track descriptions are as follows: Charting a Course to the Old World (British Isles & Europe) Exploration in the New World (United States & Canada) Riches in the First Colony (Focus on Florida) Diverse Voyagers (Ethnic & Religious Research) Tools for Successful Navigation (Skills & Strategies) A Wealth of Hidden Treasures (Records Research) Just Over the Horizon (Technology & the Internet)! For more detailed information about each lecture, visit http://www.fgs.org <http://www.fgs.org/> 2) A TREASURE HUNT is currently in progress. You can win grand prizes such as free conference registration, room nights at hotels in Salt Lake City, tuition at the Institute of Genealogy & Historical Research in Birmingham, Alabama, registration and boarding at a conference in England and so much more. Check the latest issue of the FGS FORUM for more details about the great Treasure Hunt or the above web site. You can also learn more about the conference and the treasure hunts if you subscribe to the E-zine.To subscribe to the E-zine, send an email message (no text or subject is necessary) to fgs2003-announce-on@lists.csc.cc.il.us <mailto:fgs2003-announce-on@lists.csc.cc.il.us>>. You will receive a confirmation message to which you must reply within 24 hours. 3) Over 100 VENDORS or 150 booths will be in the exhibit hall. See a list of our current exhibitors at http://www.fgs.org/2003conf/conf-exhibitors.asp 4) All under ONE ROOF. The complete conference and your hotel room are in one building. There is no need to walk outside in the heat or rain. All food functions and restaurants are also located in the same building. Hotel rooms are huge and you can register up to four people for one price. 5) Fun for the FAMILY. SeaWorld is right across the street from the conference hotel. Visit Walt Disney World, which includes the Magic Kingdom, EPCOT, Animal Kingdom, and Disney-MGM Studios, as well as Universal Studios, Kennedy Space Center, and many, many other wonderful places! 6) SOCIETIES CAN WIN $200 worth of genealogy books from Betterway Books. If you advertise the conference in your newsletter, send us a copy and we will add it to the drawing to be held at the conference. We have made it very simple for you. Use the media kit at http://www.fgs.org/2003conf/conf-media.htm Hurry, the EARLY CONFERENCE registration deadline for the lower price is July 15th. HOTEL registration deadline is August 4th. 1-800-327-6677; 407-351-5555 Jim and Pam Cooper FGS/FSGS 2003 National Conference Co-Chairs Countdown to Discovery - A World of Hidden Treasures 3-6 September 2003, Orlando, Florida http://www.fgs.org <http://www.fgs.org/> or http://www.rootsweb.com/~flsgs/ <http://www.rootsweb.com/%7Eflsgs/> P. O. Box 7066, Vero Beach, FL 32961-7066 --------------050500090906050408020800--

Congratulations to Angie Rayfield, our North Carolina SC as of yesterday. Our ASC's are now Kimberly Taylor-Morgan at kmorgan7@nc.rr.com , Denise Woodside at seek4fam@earthlink.net , and I. We thank our outgoing SC, Derick Hartshorn for his service and our outgoing ASC, Nola Duffy, for her "interim" service that turned into several months! And Isaiah, could you add Kimberly and Denise to the State Coordinators list? Regards, Paul Buckley

Congratulations to all in NC!!! Gail SC Iowa ----- Original Message ----- From: Paul Buckley To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, July 02, 2003 4:03 PM Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] NCGenWeb Changes Congratulations to Angie Rayfield, our North Carolina SC as of yesterday. Our ASC's are now Kimberly Taylor-Morgan at kmorgan7@nc.rr.com , Denise Woodside at seek4fam@earthlink.net , and I. We thank our outgoing SC, Derick Hartshorn for his service and our outgoing ASC, Nola Duffy, for her "interim" service that turned into several months! And Isaiah, could you add Kimberly and Denise to the State Coordinators list? Regards, Paul Buckley --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.489 / Virus Database: 288 - Release Date: 06/10/2003

I would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Gail Meyer Kilgore on her promotion to IAGenWeb SC and Sharyl Farrell on her election as IAGenWeb ASC... ...and... ...Jan Cortez on her election as MIGenWeb SC and Pat Hamp on her appointment as MIGenWeb ASC... ...and... "Welcome to the State Coordinators' List" to those who weren't previously subscribed! I am currently trying to update and validate the list. It is not an easy task. All RootsWeb supplies is a list of the addresses that are subscribed to the list—and that's not even in alphabetical order. People are often subscribed with different addresses than appear on the list of State Coordinators on the National website or on their State websites. Anyone who can forward information to help me sort out this puzzle will have my eternal gratitude. -Isaiah

Congratulations to all in IA and to Jan Cortez as the new MI SC. Tina Vickery SC WIGenWeb Project http://www.rootsweb.com/~wigenweb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gail Meyer Kilgore" <gkilgore@globalcrossing.net> To: <STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 01, 2003 12:21 PM Subject: [STATE-COORD-L] Iowa > Today, July 1 starts a new year for the officers in the State of Iowa. > > Mark Christian who has served for three years moves to the Advisory Board for Iowa. Don Kelly moves to the Past SC position, Gail Kilgore is now the SC and Sharyl Ferrell is the newly elected ASC. > > Gail > > > --- > Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. > Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). > Version: 6.0.489 / Virus Database: 288 - Release Date: 06/10/2003 > >