I'm not sure I can give you the techincal aspects of it but Ms. Schneider had volunteered to host the site. I have been told that while it might not be ethical to remove the site from USGenWeb that, in all respects, no one could do anything about it. She will have to remove all references to the fact that it is a USGenweb site since she will no longer be affiliated with them. Someone else will now have the option to build and maintain a web site for Greene County...I'd hope it would be residents of the county so they could tap into the resources needed to do it. Ms. Schneider may have good cause for moving the information...she may not...we may never know. She will probably have to remove the re-direct page if she doesn't have permission to have moved the page. Rootsweb, basically, furnishes unlimited space for some of the networks such as the American Local History Network and the AGHP. USGenWeb has some of their own servers, although some sites were still on Rootsweb's servers. I think, in many ways, it depends on how she obtained the information she posted on the site. For instance, on our site www.rootsweb.com/~tnmcmin2 (an American Local History Network site) we are being allowed to tap into the resources of our local Historical Society's library/resources. If she did all the work she may feel justified in 'owning' the work. Our page is being maintained by us but much of the data is being completed by volunteers who are being kind enough to transcribe information. In this aspect I and my co-hostesses do not own that particular information....we simply maintain the site. On the other hand some of the information is our own work so who's to say that we should just 'give it away' to anyone who might take over the site. Perhaps it's an individuals decision. Frankly, and this is just my opinion, I think USGW's leadership could do better than what they are doing when it comes to determining what their website's hosts guidelines should be. There are people in our county, me for one, who was going to a lot of trouble to get information transcribed for the internet just to have the information ignored by the host for genweb. After about 9 mos. to a year of emailing the 'powers that be' I decided that they really didn't care if the county site improved or not so we applied for our county's ALHN site. It has been a success. We have had almost 6500 hits, on our links page, since April 22, '03. You can visit www.usgenweb.org to find addresses for the Board of Directors, etc. for USGW if you want to contact them with questions/statements. Joyce Gaston Reece ----- Original Message ----- From: ReynoldsWrites2@aol.com To: TNGREENE-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 6:18 PM Subject: [TNGREENE] Former Greene County page or Site This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ihB.2ACI/4302 Message Board Post: The former Greene County page or 'Site' which genealogy researchers were used to seeing for the past 7 years and which was hosted by Bridgett Schneider has been removed from Usgenweb.org and is now at the following URL: http://www.genealogyforyou.com/usa/tennessee/greene Bridgett told me that the site is exactly as it was before except that it is no longer with Usgenweb.org but another server. She also said the format for the Greene County Archives has been changed by someone else, making it more difficult to find things. Bridgett said that she has redirects on the main pages that folks usually visit on the site and claims the site is picked up by 90% of the search engines. She recommends book-marking the main page. Can anyone tell me how it is that a host of a web site can just leave and take the web site with her/him? Doesn't the information belong to the people of Greene County, since it came from their records???? And is the host of a county web site paid by Usgenweb, or does she act voluntarily? How is she/he selected to handle all material for a county? I know I should be asking Usgenweb these questions, but I want feedback from researchers in Greene County where the former host Bridgett Schneider did not even live. ==== TNGREENE Mailing List ==== Search the Greene County Website for your ancestors: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/surhelp-bin/srchsite.pl?site=TNGREENE