I agree with Nancy. The idea of having a Special Project is just that, it should be treated differently than a regular County Project. Special Projects in their name alone tells me that it is something that may have a limited amount of material because of the subject that it is pursuing. If it has been authorized long ago and has as much material as is included on it such as the Orphan Train Riders, for instance, it should be grandfathered in before any rules to the contrary, and any State which has the vast amount of materials such as this, ought to be proud of it and accept it for what it is. It seems pretty foolish to completely "decommission" a special project when it is understood from the beginning that it is not one that is going to necessarily always have materials added. How many of you have such Projects included in your States which have not been updated in some time? For that matter, how many of you have Counties in your States that have not been updated in some time? Deloris Williams NCGenWeb-ASC -------------------------------------------------- From: "Nancy_Janyszeski" <nancyjanyszeski@yahoo.com> Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 1:05 PM To: <state-coord@rootsweb.com>; "usgenweb-discuss" <usgenweb-discuss@rootsweb.com> Subject: Re: [USGENWEB-DISCUSS] [STATE-COORD] Fwd: Orphan Train Riders inIowa project > Frankly I can't believe what I am reading. We have a project that has > offerered invaluable information by a long standing volunteer to the > USGenWeb. The scope of the project is such that because of the hard work > of this volunteer all most all of the available data has been found, > submitted and posted. > > The result of which is see words like... > > decommissioning the project > Project Rules > violated > go against the rules > > In addition - if I understand correctly the USGenWeb rules trump state > rules (I am not the expert on this, so I don't need to be hit on the head) > > This is sad and a very bad example for our record of what can happen to > someone or the results of their hard work. > > Very, very insensitive. > > ~ Nancy >>>PA SC >>> >>> > > >>________________________________ >> From: Tina Vickery <tsvickery@gmail.com> >>To: state-coord <state-coord@rootsweb.com>; usgenweb-discuss >><usgenweb-discuss@rootsweb.com> >>Sent: Saturday, January 5, 2013 10:19 PM >>Subject: [STATE-COORD] Fwd: Orphan Train Riders in Iowa project >> >>---------- Forwarded message ---------- >>From: Tina Vickery <tsvickery@gmail.com> >>Date: Sat, 5 Jan 2013 21:41:06 -0500 >>Subject: Fwd: Orphan Train Riders in Iowa project >>To: iowa-l@rootsweb.com >> >>The State Coordinator of IAGenWeb Project is more interested in rules >>and bylaws than a period in history that is extraordinary in IA and >>other states. Gertrude Bell, I am sorry. >> >>http://iagenweb.org/iaorphans/ >>http://iagenweb.org/iaorphans/logo.shtml >> >>Thank you all for your support. >> >>Tina Vickery >> >>