Disclaimer at beginning of SOBCT: The present information is being transcribed onto the site as published in 1988. Once the entire two volumes of text are posted, we will begin, with help from any and all descendents, to update the information. Cemeteries of Bell County: I have a copy of the elderly book, could I help you transcribe some of them? I am trying to get 10 more biographies up today so that we hit the 100 mark. I would like to see a note somewhere, in big letters, telling people I am doing these biographies in an effort to help build the sites for the celebration. I don't want anyone to think that because my name is plastered up there so much that I am the only one that can submit the biographies...and something to tell them where to send their updates or, if they submit an update to the site, who to contact to get the older one off. You guys know that if I had my way about it, I would put Klem K. Kadiddlehopper as the person submitting. I just hope that someday, descendents will find the biographies and update them replacing my posts with theirs. You might also consider a note on biographies about not putting up information about living people. Just asking: Would it be better if I didn't send you chapter material until I have typed up the whole chapter....or is it okay to send it in pieces like I have been doing. Let me know about the cemeteries......ohhhhhhh...could you please give credit to Mr. and Mrs. Cowsert of Austin for doing the update of the Bartlett Cemetery..and the Mayor, Bruce Swope, of Bartlett for giving permission to use the list. Mr. Cowsert left me a message the other day that he will be bringing an updated disk by for me to send you. I have offered to give him your addy but he seems to want me to send it to you. I don't know anything about making webpages...but I do know I am more likely to dive into the depths of a site if I can "go by links" rather than having to go back to the beginning and reinvent the search. Could maybe you talk a local server like VVM into donating someone that can do webpages to visit on a regular basis and then contact you to help you? Just a thought...is FrontPage the one from AOL??? -----Original Message----- From: Bill Bost <longwired@hotmail.com> To: TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com <TXBELL-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Tuesday, June 15, 1999 11:28 AM Subject: [TXBELL-L] Bell County Historical Commission Page |Howdy TXBELL Listers! |I've been working on the BCHC pages recently, and would like to get some |feedback from possible users. There are some links that don't work right |(Live Oak Cemetery photo is in the wrong folder at the moment, and "Back to |Top" isn't correct on some pages), and content for the Story of Bell County |(SOBC) is going on pieces at a time (with lots of help from MaryAnn |Barlett). | |I'd like to know what you think might help with navigation, whether the |navigation buttons help or not (some of them, like in Chapter XV of SOBC, |are WAY too busy), if the photo album is a good idea, and so forth. If you |find something not working, feel free to let me know now, or at some point |in future. FrontPage98 is new to me, as is HTML, and there's LOTS of room |for errors (me) and improvements (the page). A very basic idea is to make |the pages as user-friendly as possible, somewhat logical in flow and format, |and USABLE. Some things are experimental, in that I'm not sure how to make |them work, but over the long term, I think the BCHC page can become quite an |information source for researchers. | |Please try the hyperlink to the County Archives, and see if the new search |engine feature works for you. There are something like 33 cemeteries with |lists there, although very dated, and more are coming. We'll try to update |old lists in the very near future to be more current. | |When looking at the SOBC pages, please remember the book's publication date, |1988, and remember that much information is probably not current. We hope to |add some sort of in-text update feature, to provide more-current info. | |Thoughts? | |Bill Bost |Bell County Coordinator |TXBELL Listowner |BCHC webmaster |WBGS webmaster |Interim Museum webmaster | | |_______________________________________________________________ |Get Free Email and Do More On The Web. Visit http://www.msn.com | | |==== TXBELL Mailing List ==== |Hosted By The Fine Folks At RootsWeb, For Genealogy |Bell County Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~txbell |