So sorry to hear your state is dead or dying. Arkansas and Texas are both going strong. We do have a few openings most of the time, but we are still getting volunteers. Arkansas has more at the moment because a volunteer is retiring who had 7 counties. She will be missed as she has done a great job! However, other volunteers are already stepping up to take over her counties. I fought against having a FB page for my county and another volunteer set one up. Was I ever wrong! We have a lot of followers and lots of posts. It generates lots of referrals to the website, too. I personally have information on my counties that is NOT on familysearch or ancestry and will never be there. There is still a need for USGenWeb and it is not dead, especially where the people care about keeping it alive. Betsy At 04:37 PM 8/8/2012, you wrote: >I have posted to county mail lists and the State mail lists numerous times. >While this has always been a good source to advertise, it has not been >lucrative. I think that basically except for the BIG lists, they are near >dead. Most people now use the message boards. This morning I used our FB >page and so far haven't received a response. People really are not >interested in doing sites now that we have familysearch.org, Ancestry, >Seekingmichigan. Sorry to say, but I believe that the projects have been >let go for to long and they are a dying breed. Essentially, I think we are >just waiting for the last one to turn out the lights. So sad, but so true. > >Jan > > >-----Original Message----- >From: Pat Asher >Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2012 3:48 PM >To: state-coord@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [STATE-COORD] Texas Counties Available > >At 03:14 PM 8/8/2012, Shirley Cullum wrote: > >The TXGenWeb Project has several counties available for adoption and is > >looking for volunteers to maintain them. Please pass this on to your state > >mail lists. > >Shirley, > >I know Arkansas is also looking for volunteers. I wonder if posting >to the Rootsweb mailing lists for the specific counties might be a >way to enlist new (and enthusiastic) volunteers for the >organization. I know it would take some extra effort on the part of >the SC. They would have to subscribe to the specific county lists in >order to post -- but it might be one way to generate new members for >the USGW as those who have done excellent work for years start to >scale back, or think about retiring. > > >Pat Asher >SWSC CC Rep > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >STATE-COORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >STATE-COORD-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >the quotes in the subject and the body of the message