I will be using Rootsweb. I like the free part plus rootsweb will be around for a long time after my journey in this life is over. I have already obtained space for my counties, but the territories (district page plus American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the Virgin Islands). Charlie Vines charlie.vines@gmail.com 112 chickens for my birthday - https://www.mygfa.org/charliesbday/ -----Original Message----- From: tttp-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:tttp-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Gail Kilgore Sent: Friday, July 06, 2012 1:27 PM To: tttp@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [TTTP] New Member Not sure if Billie told you or not, you can host your sites on your own server, our server, and most of us use Rootsweb. Where will you be setting your sites up? Gail On Fri, Jul 6, 2012 at 12:36 AM, Charlie Vines <charlie.vines@gmail.com>wrote: > Thanks everyone for the warm welcome. I look forward to working with > you all. > > As far as who am I? I am a southern boy with southern roots dating > back to at least the early 1700's maybe the late 1600's. Either way, > my family was here before the rebellion against England. Same for my > wife. Both family groups came to Virginia and migrated south and/or west from there. > > I was born in VA and have lived in VA, AR, LA, and TX. We moved to TX > in 1969. Within TX I have lived in Jasper County (hosted), > Nacogdoches County (hosted), Collin County (hosted), Dallas County > (hosted), and Lubbock County (hosted). One of my wife's lines came > to Hunt County (hosted) in the 1840's. She also has ties to Fannin > County (hosted). Her maiden name, Vaden, has ties to Lamar County > (hosted) and Hopkins County (hosted). > > I have been doing family research for over 15 years. I have been > hosting websites for about four years. Before joining Trails, I > manages three county site (Dallas, Hunt, and Lubbock), a WW2 site, and > four surname websites (Lloyd/Loyd, Shoemaker (all spellings), Vaden > (all spellings), and Vine/Vines. > > I am married to my bride, Theresa, of 28 years. We have three > children and > 1 grandchild with one in the oven. I work full time and am active in > my church where I am the director of education and discipleship. I > also teach a Sunday School class geared mostly for young adults. My > biggest problem and frustration is not having the time I would like to develop everything. > > I left the previous group I was with and joined Trails because of > phylisophical (?sp) differences and because I really felt that the US > Territories (mainly American Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, and the US > Virgin Islands). I have been given the privilege to devolop these > sites. What I didn't know beforehand was the Puerto Rico is set up > like a U.S. state with > 77 counties, so I guess along with everything I volunteered for, I am > also the equivalent of a state host. This will be fun. > > I think I have rambled long enough. I have some webpages to develop > so I bid you all good night or good day. I will be redesigning my > 'cookie cutter' web design and hopefully have my first page online by > the end of the weekend. > > Blessings, > > > Charlie Vines > charlie.vines@gmail.com > 112 chickens for my birthday - https://www.mygfa.org/charliesbday/ > ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to TTTP-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message