David, I noticed the same thing... Of course Kentucky was first... Officially Arkansas was second although I had Texas and Maryland up and running before there was an Arkansas page. I also had the Clark and Baxter County pages up before the Arkansas State page was up. Other state page were going up daily, but as you well know, there were no projects of this nature, at least on a state level, before the Kentucky site was up, and only a very few state pages were up before the US pages were posted. I don't know how many state projects were established before Tennessee was, but I know at least four states were up before it was established... And it did not originate as a result of any discussion group... Other than Jeff Murphy announced the project on that list... Edward -----Original Message----- From: David W. Morgan [mailto:dmorgan@efn.org] Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 1:41 PM To: STATE-COORD-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD] Re: TN History On Sun, 24 Aug 2003, MAK - Transcriber Only wrote: > Here is the URL for the history of TN - perhaps it > will help answer your questions. http://www.tngenweb.org/genweb.htm > > The TNGenWeb exsisted prior to USGenWeb - From the URL you pointed us to. Hosted by USGenNet A Little History of TNGenWeb It is impossible to discuss the history of the TNGenWeb project without discussing our parent project, USGenweb. ------------------------ [INLINE] began in 1996, as a group of genealogists who organized the Kentucky Comprehensive Genealogy Database Project, known as the KYGenWeb Project. It began as a discussion group on the mailing list, KYROOTS-L, hosted by the University of Kentucky and coordinated by Roseann Hogan of Frankfort, Ky. Roseann Hogan is the author of "Kentucky Ancestry." The KYGenWeb was designed to provide a single entry point for all counties in Kentucky where researchers could find Genealogical data. In addition all county sites would be indexed and cross-linked, so that a single search in the master index could locate all references to a given surname across all pages and databases associated with the project. The discussion quickly turned into a reality; by mid July all Kentucky counties were represented. The project was so successful that it was decided to extend the concept to all U.S. States and the USGenWeb Project was born. More information about USGenweb can be found on the USGenWeb page. TNGenWeb, Tennessee's branch of USGenWeb came into existence on ------------------------------ June 29th, 1996, when the first page was uploaded. TNGenWeb was created as an all volunteer project, under the visionary direction of its founding state coordinator, Billie McNamara. Space for the project was generously donated by US Internet. 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/ --- Incoming mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 8/19/2003 --- Outgoing mail is certified Virus Free. Checked by AVG anti-virus system (http://www.grisoft.com). Version: 6.0.512 / Virus Database: 309 - Release Date: 8/19/2003